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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Father
Number of Words: 545 / Number of Pages: 2
... if he wishes to
remain alive. As a result of his concern, Huck makes it appear as if he is
killed in the cabin while Pap is away, and leaves to go to a remote island
in the Mississippi River, Jackson's Island.
It is after he leaves his father's cabin that Huck joins yet
another important influence in his life: Miss Watson's slave, Jim. Prior
to Huck's leaving, Jim has been a minor character in the novel--he has been
shown being fooled by Tom Sawyer and telling Huck's fortune. Huck finds
Jim on Jackson's Island because the slave has run away--he has overheard a
conversation that he will soon be sol ...
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A Clean Well Lighted Place
Number of Words: 2031 / Number of Pages: 8
... is an artificial one, and its serenity is fleeting and deficient. Maybe the old man hides in the shadows of the leaves because he recognizes the shortcoming of his sanctuary. Perhaps he is drawn to the shadows so that the darkness of his own age will not be so visible as it would be in the full force of the electric light. His body is dark with effects of illness. Even his ears bring him a sort of shadows as they hold out the sounds of the world. The old man's deafness is a powerful image used in the story. Deafness shuts the old man out from the rest of the world. The old man knows this and recogniz ...
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George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
Number of Words: 2930 / Number of Pages: 11
... the leaders of the Soviet Union as animals on a farm. The second novel is 1984, a story of dictators who are in complete control of a large part of the world after the Allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. This is the gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism. This paper will show how George Orwell wrote 1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism.
1984 is about life in a world where no per ...
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... what he had wanted in its acquisition, respect. Everyone except
Simcha, Mr. MacPherson, and Uncle Benjy thought he was going to be a nobody.
He wanted so much to prove them wrong and he has. We may say he has
gained self assurance, restating the fact he was a somebody important.
Since his days at Fletcher's Field High School, he ran a gang based on
respect, not friendship. Things do not change when he becomes an adult.
Virgil is just one of the people Duddy uses to get money for his land. He
feels no grief for hurting his so called friends because he has never
experienced true friendship. His pur ...
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The Plague
Number of Words: 466 / Number of Pages: 2
... Paneloux’s second sermon he says “my brothers, a time of testing has come for us all we must believe everything or deny everything. And who among you, I ask, would dare to deny everything”(Camus p.224). He believes that is a test of faith. He wants the people to still believe in God. Through all that he has been through Paneloux has not lost his faith. “Since it was God’s will, we, too, should will it”(Camus P.225). Paneloux believes that if is God’s will then it should also be the will of the people of Oran. This shows how is faith is getting stronger and stronger as a result of his pain a ...
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Another 1984
Number of Words: 1057 / Number of Pages: 4
... telescreen. The
owner told Winston the he never had one because, “Too
expensive. And I never seemed to feel the need of it
somehow.”(82) In truth their was a telescreen behind the
etching, which leads to the capture of Winston and Julia. The
apartment was a huge symbol of the past to Winston. The
apartment is decorated with relics of the past: a double bed,
a metal etching of a church, a bookshelf filled with ancient
tomes. Winston and Julia use these items as constant
reminders of the past they are longing for. They believe that
they can safely enter this world, separate from the one of the
Party a ...
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The Great Gatsby As A Satire
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... huge soirees, decides to continue the party in the massive, expensive fountain in Gatsby’s lawn. They just jump right in and begin to dance without concern for their health, much less concern for the well being of the fountain. After the galas had died down, most of the participants went home, leaving a monstrous mess and sometimes even their clothes or shoes.
Although Gatsby himself did not seem as dissolute as his guests, he did have flaws. On outward appearance, Jay Gatsby seemed to be a rich, well-rounded man who was always very poised and eloquent. But when turned inward, this confiden ...
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All Around The Town By Mary Hi
Number of Words: 1246 / Number of Pages: 5
... had a lot of curly hair. He was a very domineering person towards Opal and Laurie. Opal had long stringy hair and had a plain face. She was passive and did whatever she was told. They were con-artist who fooled everyone they met. They were mean and didn't care about anybody else but themselves. Justin Donnelly was the psychiatrist who helped Laurie with therapy and helped find the real person that was within her all along.
The story begins when Laurie Kenyon was abducted by Bic and Opal when she was four years old. They abused her sexually and mentally when they had her for those two, long, ...
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Critiscisms Of My Antonia
Number of Words: 1334 / Number of Pages: 5
... the narrator's idea of what and to what point Jim Burden remembers. Miller also states that the novel "lacks focus and abounds in irrelevancies." (Wells 1) This is due to the fact that Cather didn't provide and consistent character portrayal throughout her novel. Another critic, Kim Wells, asserts Miller's opinion on the novel. Because as he states the novel has many "variations from a theme." (Wells 1) For instance the section about the hired girls and also the part when Peter and Pavel, two lonesome Russian Settlers, tell Jim and Antonia a tragic tale that horrifies and fascinates the children. ...
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Of Mice And Men: Insight Into The Life Of The Characters
Number of Words: 1121 / Number of Pages: 5
... do. Lennie gets
frightened and uses his strength to hold on to objects. Lennie is just like
a child. He will do what ever George tells him to: "Curley was flopping
like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's hand.
George slapped [Lennie] in the face again and again and still Lennie held
on. Through Lennie's actions we can see that Lennie is very similar to a
child. Lennie's first instinct when he is scared is to hold on. Just as a
little kid holds on to its mum or dad when they become frightened, Lennie
holds on to objects.
As of Lennie's low intelligence to understand his ...
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