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The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her
intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's
favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will
recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To
Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) "And she was
gentler here [the forest] than in the grassy-margined streets of the
settlement, or in her mother's cottage. The flowers appeared to know it"
(194) Pearl fit in with natural things. Also, Pearl is always
effervescent and joyous, which is definitely a negative t ...
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An Analysis Of “Roses, Rhododendron”
Number of Words: 445 / Number of Pages: 2
... with her friends Emily and Harriet. Her mother is having a hard time making money and writes letter to John asking for financial help. Jane spends most of her time with her friends. Often she does not even hesitate to spend the night over. they keep in touch even when Jane moves to San Francisco to live with her dad along with her mother. She never loses contact with her friends. It was so ironic to see Harriet to move to Rome. But even in Rome they write to each other.
The main character of the story is Jane. She has a dynamic character because from a little blond girl the story reaches to a point whe ...
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Character Willie Stark In Jack Burden's Novel
Number of Words: 1637 / Number of Pages: 6
... he has always been a person who needs little sleep, one who has the drive to use every waking hour profitably.
Another of Willie Stark's primary characteristics is his ability to hold a crowd spellbound, to move them emotionally as he wishes them to be moved. He does just the right things in the drugstore in Mason City in order to make sure that the crowd's allegiance to him is reinforced. When he makes a speech in the Town Square a little later, he makes sure of two things: that he has this crowd spellbound by his oratory and that his speech makes good copy (or sound bite) for the newspapermen who hav ...
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Black Boy
Number of Words: 2 / Number of Pages: 1
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The Riders: Summary And Analysis
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... in Ireland and from then on peter has become a good friend of
scully, bringing him his telegrams, having a social chat and helping
scully with his home. (34).
Since the first greeting between peter and scully, peter has schown great
enthusiasm to help scully recondition his home on page 24. This even meant
putting off his daily post. “Haven't you got the post to do? Diversity, Mr
Sculy thats my motto.”
Peter Keneally is one of the characters which help reveal scully, his
family and general detail of his wife to the readers. For example on page
16, we see the nationality of scully revealed. ...
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Femininity In The Odyssey
Number of Words: 538 / Number of Pages: 2
... who has an encounter with him in Hades. She tells her son of how his absence resulted in her death and how the zest for life that his wife once had is disappearing with time. All these women managed to have an impact on Odysseus, whether it was as a result of their innocence, kindness, or death, each's femininity contributed to the safe return of Odysseus to Ithaca.
There are also the threatening women of this epic. On of them was Kalypso, a sea nymph, who's only hope is to make Odysseus her husband and in return offers him immortality. With her presence she manages to show us that despite a mans ...
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Chronicle - Life And Times Of
Number of Words: 1467 / Number of Pages: 6
... was originally cultivated my Nel. The period in history and the mentality of the people in their immediate surroundings played an impressive part in the formulation of the friendship between Sula and Nel. When they first met at school, it was as if they were always destined to be friends. Each one complimented the other and it was as if they were two halves of one whole. Like many things in life, they each secretly enjoyed the immediate surroundings of the other. As much as Nel regarded the neatness of her house with dread, Sula felt the house to be comfortable and relished the neatness. On the same to ...
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Antigone 4
Number of Words: 760 / Number of Pages: 3
... to challenge Creon's love for power and accepts the punishment given to her. She bows to death because she is aware that she has done a good deed and she will inhale her last breath in honor. Whether Creon thinks of her as a traitor or not, Antigone knew the gods would reserve their judgment in favor of her. She never once regrets burying her brother which makes her character all the more admirable.
Although their personalities drifts down opposite paths, Creon's background is much like Antigone's. In the beginning of the play Creon characterizes himself as a loyal king, who wants to prove his wor ...
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Jane Eyre: A Critical Evaluation With References By McFadden-Gerber
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... the decision to flee from comfort. Instead, Jane disciplined
and developed herself in the course of the novel. Setting changes varied
vastly from section to section, but McFadden-Gerber noted the constant
stability of Jane's character the exemplified fortified morals made by her
own constant and stagnant conscience.
Margaret McFadden-Gerber claims that Jane has little mental
mobility, though she is self-reliant as well as strong willed. There
appears to be a slight contrasting difference distinguishing the emotional
and mental development of Jane. I believe that the two go hand in hand as
t ...
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Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui
Number of Words: 1009 / Number of Pages: 4
... Queen of Colonus. When he grows up, unknowing of his adoption, he discovers his doomed fate from an Oracle. Seeking to escape it, he flees from Colonus. Once upon the road, Oedipus discovers his path blocked by a man, whom he perceives to be a robber. He kills this man, who turns out to be his father, and unknowingly fulfills the first part of the prophecy. Soon, he comes to Thebes, which is being terrorized by a terrible monster, the Sphinx. The Sphinx wanders the streets surrounding the city, asking travelers an unanswered riddle. Oedipus encounters the Sphinx, and answers its riddle, causing ...
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