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1984: Lack Of Humanity
Number of Words: 1303 / Number of Pages: 5
... a human being can be stripped of its emotions, its freedom, and its identity if that human being allows a society like Oceania to rule him; therefore, anyone should never allow it to happen.
The Party controls people’s emotions by instilling basic codes of moral. It is insinuated that you should not feel emotions; and, if you do feel them, then you are a criminal. Therefore, the people of Oceania disregard their emotions. Every citizen has been emotionally crippled and they are incapable of having, expressing, or understanding their feelings. In Oceania, emotional love is a treacherous crime. ...
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The Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 667 / Number of Pages: 3
... pneumonia. But before he leaves this world he wants to visit his little sister, Phoebe, to say good bye. He admires her a lot and they communicate very well. Holden realises that there are things he cannot solve by him self, and decides to rejoin his family. The style of the book is very unusual because it is told by a sixteen-year-old boy. It can give you some problems because some of the things he tells about and observe might not be true, but extremely exaggerated. We are not even sure that he is mentally stabile since the writer of the book J. D. Salinger lets Holden tell the story from a hospital ...
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Dandelion Wine
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... knew each other like a big
family.
In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many
deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal,
which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas,
named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity for
his father. Also, Douglas got extremely sick and was dieing and there was
no information on what kind of illness he had. Douglas took these problems
hard. To many things where going bad in too short of a time. His family was
always there for him. He got well and soon for ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Thoughts And Feelings
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... Holden's excessive thoughts on death are not typical of most
adolescents. His near obsession with death might come from having
experienced two deaths in his early life. He constantly dwells on Allie,
his brother's, death. From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves
and misses Allie. In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the
pain of his loss, Holden brings Allie's baseball mitt along with him where
ever he goes. The mitt has additional meaning and significance for Holden
because Allie had written poetry, which Holden reads, on the baseball mitt.
Holden's preoccup ...
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The Day Of The Jackal
Number of Words: 2000 / Number of Pages: 8
... let it go without a few comments. This particular tale of an enigmatic assassin who agrees to take one last job -- the murder of Charles De Gaulle -- is one of the best suspense novels ever written, and Fred Zinneman's 1973 film, with the screenplay by Kenneth Ross, is the most faithful adaptation of any novel that I know.
The 1997 version? Well, I'm sure you know where I'm going with this. But you can read along anyway.
In the early 1960s, Charles De Gaulle -- war hero, leader of the French Resistance, and then-president of France -- did something a little controversial. He decided to give up Algeria ...
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Love And Marriage
Number of Words: 1018 / Number of Pages: 4
... it as a institution of status -- not love. This strongly pragmatic view of marriage is also shared by Mrs. Bennet. However, due to the intelligence, or lack thereof, displayed by Mrs. Bennet, it seems that her practical view of marriage results from a conditioning brought about by the society and times she lives in. In many instances, Mrs. Bennet demonstrates, however unwittingly, her belief that the marriage of her daughters is an achievement which every civil mother should aspire to, but that their happiness in that marriage is unimportant:
Not that I care about it, though. He is nothing to us, yo ...
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You Belong To Me By Mary Higgi
Number of Words: 496 / Number of Pages: 2
... though, and he is worried about something happening to Susan. He finds her in her office before she suffocates, and they are able to have the police arrest the bad guy before he does any more damage.
"You Belong to Me is a superb thriller from one of the genre's all-time greats, Mary Higgins Clark." (Book Browser 1) Almost all critics had only good to say about Clark's work. "No doube many readers have one or more Mary Higgins Clark novels set aside...and not just because she is one of the most popular large-print book authors or because her heroines always come out all right at the end. More l ...
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The Heart Of Darkness: Theme Based On Lies And The Good And Evil In Man
Number of Words: 893 / Number of Pages: 4
... about himself. "Every novel contains an element of autobiography-and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only explain himself in his creations."(Kimbrough,158) The story is written as seen through Marlow's eyes. Marlow is a follower of the sea. His voyage up the Congo is his first experience in freshwater navigation. He is used as a tool, so to speak, in order for Conrad to enter the story and tell it out of his own philosophical mind. He longs to see Kurtz, in the hope's of appreciating all that Kurtz finds endearing in the African jungle. Marlow does not get the opportunity to see Kurtz ...
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The Witching Hour
Number of Words: 1554 / Number of Pages: 6
... the press of the burden of his powers, he found himself
wanting to go back on the deck of the boat where he was rescued. He wanted to
talk to the woman who rescued him, for he thought that she would let him touch
the boat to recover images that night. He discovered that this neurosurgeon, Dr.
Rowan Mayfair, was the veritable love of his life. After he discovered how much
he deeply loved Rowan, he began to reminisce the images of his purpose; that
certain elements and images of his childhood hinted him to return to the house
he had been fascinated with in New Orleans as a child. Another major character ...
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Walker's Everyday Use
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... clear when she says, "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts," (698). This implies that her connection with the quilts is personal and emotional rather than materialistic.
Dee has always been ashamed of her family; she told her mother that she would manage to come to see them but wouldn't bring her friends. Just by saying that you can tell right off that she was ashamed to bring her friends over to the house. She never valued anything; everything to her was old and worthless. Until she came to visit all of a sudden, she appreciated everything. She said, "I never knew how lovely these bench ...
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