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The House On Mango Street: Esperanza
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... big rock through the window.
Then he is sorry and she opens the door again. Same story ” ( pg. 85 ).
Minerva finds herself forgiving without truly seeing that her husband is
sorry. She used marriage as a way out from her undesirable life, yet her
married life still carries the same characteristics. And so, without
fighting for a satisfactory life she settles with the hand she is dealt.
Furthermore, Sally, an innocent friend of Esperanza, tries to escape her
father’s cruel beatings through marriage, but her circumstances do not
change, her husband still treats her as her father has in the past. “ ...
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"Hoops" Vs. "He Got Game"
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... on memories of his fathers inspiration. I feel it is important that an athlete have someone to inspire them, so they don't quit when they get frustrated.
Lonnie, from "Hoops," was a very good basketball player, and Jesus from "He Got Game," was streetwise and a good player also. They each caught an opportunity to rise above the rest in their games, and were recognized by colleges as prospects. They both had their share of trouble to get out of and were tempted to take bribes on "throwing" their game, especially Jesus. Lonnie got caught up in his friend's problems in the ghetto, and he struggled with ...
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Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... not like, so she allows Catherine to quit. The day that Catherine left her music teacher was "the happiest day of her life" . It is not that Catherine despises music, she just does not prefer the lessons. She does, however, enjoy drawing, although it does not rank the highest of her fancies. Her supply of paper is not plentiful, so she draws on "any other odd pieces of paper" that she can get her hands on. She is taught lessons by each of her parents, but she gets out of both whenever she can. Though her qualities are not near ladylike, Catherine keeps a pleasurable personality. She is not often stu ...
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The Functions Of Setting In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
Number of Words: 846 / Number of Pages: 4
... night it was quiet and he felt the difference” (141). He quickly establishes the fact that it late at night and most people have either fallen asleep or have at least headed home for the night. From this one sentence it is also evident that the café is lit by an electric light that is bright enough to casts a crisp shadow over the last, lonely occupant of the establishment. One old man was remaining at the café and was keeping the two late night employees from closing up. The old man is deaf and it is noted that he takes pleasure in the late hours at the café because he can escape the rushing crow ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Critique
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... travel along the Mississippi river, in the southern region of the
United States, they undergo many extraordinary adventures.
Analysis
One of the most predominant themes in this novel is that of deception.
Deception, in one form or another, is used with an avid consistency throughout
the story. Two personifications of deception were the characters, King and Duke.
They were "entrepreneurs" of deception (which is a polite way of saying
hustlers). Samuel Clemens writes about them so ingeniously, that after a while
the reader is able to understand the true nature of these tricksters, and that
most of ...
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Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... is satirized, so are the Houyhnhnms,
whose voices sound like the call of castrati. They walk on two legs instead
of four, and seem to be much like people. As Gulliver says, "It was with
the utmost astonishment that I witnessed these creatures playing the flute
and dancing a Vienese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the greatest
humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the Lord Edmund Burke"
(162). As this quote demonstrates, Gulliver is terribly impressed, but his
admiration for the Houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful.
For instance, the leader of the Houyhnhnms cl ...
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The Pardoner
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... their sinfulness; they give him money to benefit from his pardons. All the money he gets he seems to regard as his own, he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After a coffin passes by the inn, the three learn that the dead person was a friend of theirs, killed by somebody named Death. The three men decide to find this Death and exact revenge for their friend. While looking, they come across an old man. The man, commenting on how old he is, states that not even Death ...
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Of Mice And Men: Friendship And Loyalty
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... work hard for
there dream why can't I. It showed me that it does not matter were you come from
or what you do, it is okay to dream and work as hard as you can to reach it .
For all it shows for friendship and loyalty it also shows how sometimes you have
to do things you never thought you would do. For example in the end when George
is forced to shoot Lennie in the head you would never have thought he would do
that, but you can see that under the circumstances he had no other choice. He
only had two choices let the other people get to him first and watch them
torture Lennie while he died a long horribl ...
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Medea: Guilty As Charged
Number of Words: 1054 / Number of Pages: 4
... progeny to be brothers to his children by marrying the daughter of our great king Creon (595-7). Medea refused to accept all that Jason offered and labeled him disloyal for seeking another wife. However, our great society allows men to pursue other relationships when they grow tired of their current companion. Therefore, Jason did not act beyond his given rights. He actually showed Medea additional loyalty when he went out of his way to ensure her well-being by calling on the gods to witness that he wished to help her and the children in every way (619-20). Medea responded selfishly. “Her hear ...
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Chaucerian Commentary
Number of Words: 1901 / Number of Pages: 7
... was born into the upper middle class, a social strata that was mostly unacknowledged. The Medieval middle class was neither aristocracy nor Plebian; however, the middle class was increasingly important to medieval society and culture. As the son of a well to do wine merchant, Geoffrey Chaucer lived in close proximity with the lower classes, no doubt becoming quite familiar with the culture and attitudes of the commoners. Perhaps most vital to Chaucer’s ascension into poetic greatness evolved because of his unusual access and acceptance into the upper world of aristocracy. As an adolescent ...
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