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A Rose For Emily: Fallen From Grace
Number of Words: 824 / Number of Pages: 3
... designed by men to give an impression of wealth to onlookers.
Emily was regarded by her father as property. Her significance to him was
strongly ornamental, just as their overly lavish home was. As the plot
progresses, the reader is clearly made aware of the physical decline of both the
house and Miss Emily. Just as the house is described as "smelling of dust and
disuse," evidence of Emily's own aging is given when her voice in similarly said
to be "harsh, and rusty, as if from disuse" (70-74). Ultimately, at the time of
Emily's death, the house is seen by the townspeople as "an eyes ...
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The Great Gatsby: Nobody Is Really Happy
Number of Words: 659 / Number of Pages: 3
... forgotten…(39,40)
Gatsby did all of this for a woman he knew years ago. “…he half expected her [the woman he loved] to wander into one of his parties, some night.” (80) Finally, he arranged to meet this woman, named Daisy, at his neighbor’s house next door. They were excited to see each other again for it had been almost five years. Later in the novel, Fitzgerald explains that Gatsby had bought this mansion which was right across the bay from Daisy just so he could be close to her. Gatsby had been waiting for his long lost love for almost five years.
Throughout the last half of the novel Daisy and Gats ...
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The Power And The Glory: The Whiskey Priest A Saint?
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... forgives and even prays for the Mestizo
who betrayed him: “The priest waved his hand; he bore no grudge because he
expected nothing else of anything human...” (P. 198) This shows that that
whiskey priest is a forgiving man and this indeed helps to validate that
the whiskey priests statement is inaccurate.
Graham Greene portrays to the reader that the whiskey priest thinks
of others before himself. This is clearly evident when he goes to help the
child's dyeing mother even though he knows that he will miss his boat:
But the stranger got up as though unwillingly he had been summoned ...
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Antiheroism In Hamlet
Number of Words: 834 / Number of Pages: 4
... and Guildenstern with such phrases as, That I can keep your counsel and not, mine own. Beside, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son of a king? (IV, ii, 12-14) The reference to the sponge reflects the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are easily ordered by the king and do not have minds of their own. Hamlet does not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern since they are servants of the Claudius, Hamlet's mortal enemy. The reader does not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern either which causes the reader to side with Hamlet.
Another incident of Hamlet's high inte ...
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Critique Of "Death Of The Author"
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... sense outside of the
literary world. If he wrote in a more simple, to the point modern style I
would have read the story, absorbed its content, and would not have
given it a second look. The story could be summarized into 3 lines and
thus reduce the amount of paper it is replicated on the amount of
bandwidth required to transmit it, the space it takes, and the time it
takes to read it. I came to this conclusion after reading "The Death of an
Author" for the fourth or fifth time. I began to wonder why does this man
write this way? What caused him to have so much distrust toward the
critics? Those a ...
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Lord Of The Flies: How Anyone Can Regress Into Savagery
Number of Words: 518 / Number of Pages: 2
... was personified by the statement “By the time
Ralph had finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded.” Which
shows how even early on, the group let the conch shell have power.
The assembly moved towards dictatorship when Jack started to
discredit Ralph and the conch. “And you shut up! Who are you anyway?
Sitting there - telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing-
.” I think that this statement stayed in the boys' heads throughout the
rest of the story. Jack finally broke off by himself and invited people to
join him. However, nobody went with him at first because they were ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Coming Of Age
Number of Words: 1923 / Number of Pages: 7
... a mean old lady who carried a pistol in her shawl and never had a nice thing to say about either of them. Mrs. Dubose would make snide comments to them because she assumed that they were trouble and were always up to no good. She would point out Scout’s unlady-like appearance with, “What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! You’ll grow up waiting on tables if somebody doesn’t change your ways . . . ” (101). Jem and Scout never liked Mrs. Dubose, but with Atticus’ prompting they could deal with her. However, she made one comment that went too far. ...
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Mark Twain's The Adventures Of HuckleBerry Finn
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... the river, they find themselves drawn to get as far as possible from their home. Their journey down the river sets the stage for most of Mark Twain's comments about man and society.
It is when they stop off at various towns along the river that various human character flaws always seem to come out. Examples of this would include the happenings after the bringing on of the Duke and King. These two con artists would execute the most preposterous of schemes to relieve unsuspecting townspeople of their cash. The game of the King pretending to be a reformed marauder-turned-missionary at the tent meeti ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Connection To The Title
Number of Words: 924 / Number of Pages: 4
... is made happy by the
little boy's singing unless one has an idea of what the song means to Holden.
The little boy is described by Holden in gentle caring terms: "The kid was
swell. He was walking in the street, instead of on the sidewalk, but right next
to the curb. He was making out like he was walking a very straight line, the
way kids do, and the whole time he kept singing and humming." (Page 115).
Holden notes that the child's parents pay no attention to him. To Holden this
child represents innocence and youth unspoiled by adult immorality.
Holden wishes to serve humanity by safeguarding the ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of Words: 631 / Number of Pages: 3
... only a few expensive headstones, with most graves merely outlined by broken glass. A further degradation occurs during the rest of the week, when the church building is used by whites for gambling.
A majority of the black community is illiterate because there are no schools for blacks in Maycomb County. Their only way of learning is from their parents or another elder. For example, Mrs. Buford taught Cal, and Cal taught her son, Zeebo. Consequently, only four blacks in the whole church can read.
In Tom Robinson case, he has virtually no chance of winning strictly due to his race. During his trial ...
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