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Comparison Of Conroy's "Prince Of Tides" And "The Great Santini"
Number of Words: 1172 / Number of Pages: 5
... present.
" I betray the integrity of my family's history by turning everything, even
sadness into romance. There is no romance in this story; just a story"
(p.75).
The narrator paints a very good picture for the reader and therefore gives
the reader a good sense of Tom's difficult family life, and sees how it has
made Tom into the man that he is (a loving father and husband).
In the novel The Great Santini, Pat Conroy also uses first-person
narration. Bull's son tells the story about how his father treats him and
the rest of the family. Ben talks about how his father is very dedicated
to the M ...
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Summary Of The Old Man And The Sea
Number of Words: 1431 / Number of Pages: 6
... the boy's boat does not let
him carry anything, yet Santiago let him carry things when the boy was just
five years old. That is how young the boy was when he first started his
"classes on fishing" as I would call them.
The boy loved Santiago with all of his heart. To prove this one
day the boy bought some minnows for the old man. That same day he also
bought him a "can" of coffee. That day he wanted to go fishing with the
old man, but the old man refused to let the boy come with him. He said,
"You are with a lucky boat, stay with it." The boy was heart broken but
soon got over it and went fishi ...
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Good Country Irony-good Countr
Number of Words: 862 / Number of Pages: 4
... Hopewell and her daughter Joy/Hulga. Joy/Hulga treats her mother with disdain, and does everything she can to emphasize her own individuality. She professes to believe in nothing. She is a proud intellectual and has little doubt of her belief in “nothingness.” However, ironically in the end she is proven to be very much like her mother in that she falls prey to the same naïve stereotypes as her mother.
She believes Manley Pointer to be “Good Country People,” and is shocked to find out that he is not the good Christian bible salesman she thought him to be.
As we first meet Ma ...
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Summary Of Walden Pond
Number of Words: 745 / Number of Pages: 3
... that rich refers to having the opportunity for spiritual and intellectual gains and afford refers to the self-actualization rather than to cash in the bank. Those are just some of the materialistic terms that Thoreau uses to refer to non-materialist values, making fun of the capitalist in the process.
Thoreau uses the opportunity of the first chapter to discuss the issue of how we spend our time and energies. It is obvious that his townspeople are not as economical as they spend many hours working very hard to accomplish very little, showing a false sense of economy. Thoreau believed that all ...
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Symbolism In The Glass Menagerie
Number of Words: 923 / Number of Pages: 4
... a symbol of Laura--
delicate,sadly different,an anomaly in the modern world.The glass motif
recurs throughout the whole play in many other forms.When Laura dropped
out of college she constantly visited the zoo,a glass house of tropical
flowers that are as vulnerable as she is.During Laura's and Jim's brief
romantic encounter,Laura is gaining more confidence about herself.It seems
as if she is starting to escape her world of illusions.When they started
dancing together,Jim accidently knocked the little glass horse over.
Laura,who usually worships her glass collection more than anything
else,replied t ...
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Cry, Our Beloved Country
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... From the pictures of jesus and lincoln on his wall, james discovered the admiration arthur had for these two men. These were men of action, who showed love for their friends, and at the same time, their enemies. These two men suffered and died for their beliefs, as did arthur in a way, this is showing arthurs' father what a great man his son was by comparison, and similarity to others. This revelation shows arthurs concern for humanity.
After the discovery of his sons views through all of his writings, james begins to realize the problem, and starts to think of the problems of others before his own. ...
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Rip Van Winkle As A Folktale
Number of Words: 1060 / Number of Pages: 4
... of his long, endless journey to a mysterious future...
Two of the elements in folklore is the use of supernatural and journey. Rip went on a adventure up the Kaatskill Mountains. The adventure consisted of some unusual happenings especially meeting up with the supernatural. The first element of a folktale, journey, ties in the second element, the supernatural. Irving displayed this when Rip met up with a ghost. The images of Henry Hudson’s crew displayed this. Rip and a stranger met up with the crew while they were playing nine-pin. He began to drink with all of them and by the time he realized ...
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The Pardoner: Chaucer's Religions Diction
Number of Words: 550 / Number of Pages: 2
... and self-indulgence with money (724,730). The first impression of "gentle" and "noble" allow the Pardoner to seem humble and nice, while he is actually his greedy, sleek nature as he sells fake relics (728).
Next, Chaucer focuses the description of the Pardoner on his head and the relics he sells. The "hair as yellow as wax," "no hood upon his head," "a little cap," "bulging eyeballs," and "no beard" reveals the particular details of the Pardoner’s head, expressing the importance of his intellect in his life (695,700,703,704,709). The detailed depiction of the relics, "a pillowcase / … [of ] Our La ...
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Heart Of Darkness 3
Number of Words: 440 / Number of Pages: 2
... started out, which was seemingly the Garden of Eden. Reading the section of the story that I did consider the Garden of Eden, I felt quite empty, as if it was a place where only Marlow and his companions were. Conrad used detail in this section which really made me pick up on this feeling of loneliness.
When we finally arrive to the “inhabited devastation,” the feeling that Marlow along with his companions are the only people there, evaporate. Immediately, the mountainous scenery strikes me. The details that Conrad gives of this specific places, gives me a very cold feeling. All arou ...
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The Touch Of Magic By Lorena Hickok
Number of Words: 1706 / Number of Pages: 7
... deathly ill. The doctor'
s couldn't do anything for him and unfortunately he past away. Annie took this
unbelievably hard for she had realized that Jimmie was the only thing she had
ever loved.
Annie's attitude then worsened even more because she felt she had
nothing left. She would throw hissy fits at the nurses and kick and scream.
Believe it or not, this is one of the character traits that I most admire about
Miss Macy. She was aggressive and didn't let anyone tell her what to do. Even
though she could hardly see, she lived her own life in her own little world.
Another trait that I adm ...
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