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Antigone Essay
Number of Words: 623 / Number of Pages: 3
... enough to stand in my way,”(pg.750 line 35). Not even the threat of death is enough to make Antigone afraid of Creon. At this point in the book she is stubborn and self-righteous. Antigone then goes out at night and buries Polyneices. That makes Creon very mad, so he unburies Poylneices and posts guard around the body. The next day a whirlwind kicks up around the guards and Antigone starts to bury Polyneices again. Unfortunately the whirlwind died before Antigone could finish burying him, so she is captured and brought to Creon.
Antigone boldly admits to burying her brohter despite the ...
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Enders Game--enders Empathic A
Number of Words: 1538 / Number of Pages: 6
... put to a more peaceful use, when Ender becomes a "speaker for the dead".
From the very beginning of the novel, Ender's extraordinary empathic abilities are quite conspicuous. The first time the reader encounters Ender, in fact, he is making a very perspicacious observation about the way adults lie to children. A woman in charge of the maintenance of a monitor attached since birth to the back of Ender's head had told him that it was at last time for the monitor to come off, and that "it won't hurt a bit." Ender's response is a clear reflection of his empathic abilities. He ruminates, "It was a lie ...
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House Made Of Dawn: Religious Names
Number of Words: 2277 / Number of Pages: 9
... killing of the white man. While the Bible portrays Abel as the sympathetic victim of a vicious crime of jealousy, in Momaday's story, Abel seems at first to have taken the position of the aggressor in killing the white man. However, despite Abel's violent crime, he still seems to mirror his Biblical namesake more so than the violent image of Cain.
However, unlike Cain, Momaday's Abel has valid personal reasons for slaying the white man. We first see him as the victim of the white man. At the feast of Santiago, we see the white man brutally beating Abel. The narrator says, "Again and again the wh ...
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The Pearl: The Curse Of The Oyster
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... like a snake and she
stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before a
butcher. (742)
Juana saw through the outer beauty of the pearl and knew it would
destroy them, but Kino's vision was blurred by the possible prosperity the
pearl brought. The malignant evil then spread to a secret cult known only
as the trackers. This corrupt band of ruffians attacked and destroyed
Kino's life. The very night that the trackers learned of Kino's pearl,
they tried to steal it. The next night, Kino was attacked twice, which
resulted in Kino committing murder. After the fina ...
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Catcher In The Rye - A Sequel
Number of Words: 457 / Number of Pages: 2
... say, “We will get you a train ticket for the earliest
train out of Central Station.” I stormed out, knowing that I was
defenseless against them I went straight into my room and packed, thinking
of ways to get back at them. I thought then I realized that I shouldn't
even bother wasting my time, I knew that it would be a small time before I
would be kicked out anyhow.
Bags outside the door at 5:00 A.M. So your father can put them on
the car. A couple days went by, as boring as any other days. I mostly sat
around on my bed thinking about those phony people I will be stuck with.
Hopefully I can be stuck ...
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Morality In Frankenstein
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... the companion you bestow I will quit the neighborhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor, if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that the monsters will not keep their promise and stay in Europe evoking fear into townsfolk.
The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever they please. "A race of devils would be propagated,"(pg. 163) thinks Frankenstein to himself in his study. The monsters, if pow ...
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Away
Number of Words: 1083 / Number of Pages: 4
... and passionate about their causes; they are bound together through generations of going . They leave their surrounding environments in an inner search for peace, compassion, beauty and love. Each woman connects to the other through her uncontrollable passions. The women in the novel are connected throughout each generation by their experiences of the past and present.
The women, in the novel , are connected by their experiences of being . They are connected genetically. Mary is Eileen's mother and Eileen is Esther's grandmother. The common characteristic of this family is going . The wo ...
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Risen From The Ashes Of Earthl
Number of Words: 2661 / Number of Pages: 10
... for almost every major work he created and he viewed her as his savior, first temporally and later spiritually (Fergusson 165, Inf. II, 109-114). His La Vita Nuova is a collection of poems and prose commentary inspired by Beatrice and collected after her death in 1290. Dante's love, however, was unrequited, as he himself says in a conversation with a lady recounted in La Vita Nuova:
"What purpose have you in loving this lady, when you cannot bear her presence? Tell us about it, because surely the purpose of such love must be very strange." And when she had said this, not merely she but all the ladie ...
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The Tower Of Babel
Number of Words: 908 / Number of Pages: 4
... and cultural
conflicts to narrate a story about a kidnapped boy, named David, who,
through his growing cultural tolerance and open-mindedness, matures from a
naive adolescent to a young man capable of dealing with crisis and
accepting his role in the culturally divided world.
Despite extensive cultural differences, the Highlanders and
Lowlanders represent two halves of a society that must intermingle in order
to reach their summit of individual and group possibilities. These two
definitive cultures of Highlanders and Lowlanders are represented
respectively by Alan and David. In the story, Davi ...
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A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... Gene "a maimed son-of-a-bitch," Gene surfaces from the Naguamsett
feeling grimy, dirty and in desperate need of a bath (71). Much like the
clean, refreshing water of the Devon and the ugly saline water of the
Naguamsett, Gene's carefree attitude of the summer session vastly differs
from the angry, confused attitude of the winter session.
Likewise, the two sessions, the summer and winter, give a different
sense of feeling toward school and life at Devon School. The summer
session allows Finny to use his creativity. Finny invents blitzball and
founds the Super Suicide Society of the Summer S ...
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