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The Great Gatsby: Realism
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... endings. It is mostly thanks to Fitzgerald's descriptive,
poetic style of writing that allows him to realistically portray the many plots
of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's realistic construction and development of plot
is extremely dependant apon the setting of the novel in which it take place.
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses realism to clearly depict the setting of the Great
Gatsby. This incredible use of realism could be mostly due to the fact that
Fitzgerald lived during the time of the novel, and by using great detail, he was
able to reproduce his interpretation of the 1920's. At this time the Great W ...
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Reverence
Number of Words: 574 / Number of Pages: 3
... of
life that exists within the wonder of the universe with "reverence and awe".
Chambers was led through his own reverence back to his Christian roots. He
began working with Time magazine in 1939 and rose to the level of senior
editor. Over a decade later he was brought to court on account of his past
Communist connections. He identified former State Department official
Alger Hiss as one of the Communist who had supplied him with documents to
be turned over to Communist agents. Hiss was indicted and sentenced to
prison. Chambers showed reverence to God by not making his wife have an
abortion ...
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Rand's "Anthem"
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... could not guess." Later, Liberty follows Equality into the
forest, and the first sign of forbidden love is shown when "we bent to
raise the Golden One to their feet, but when we touched them, it was as if
madness had stricken us. We seized their body and we pressed our lips to
theirs."
Equality is excited with the joy of learning when he finishes his work
of building a light bulb. "WE MADE IT. WE CREATED IT. We brought it forth
from the night of the ages. We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone
and only. We know not what we are saying. Our head is reeling." The
emotion shown by Equality ...
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Big Two-Hearted River - Part I
Number of Words: 1188 / Number of Pages: 5
... the first person. It occurs in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story which completely immerses the reader in the actions and thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundings, which would have been much more difficult to accomplish using first person narration. Nick is seen setting up his camp in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" in intimate detail, from choosing the perfect place to set his tent to boiling a pot of coffee before going to sleep. The story is completely writ ...
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Book Report On "The Red Badge Of Courage"
Number of Words: 1263 / Number of Pages: 5
... a man with plenty of courage by the end of this book.
Stephen Crane brings the reader into his book, first with his power
of describing details so eloquently, and second by telling us very little
of the young soldiers' life, leaving him a mystery. Crane may have even
been generalizing all the young soldiers into one. Although he does tell
the reader his name, Henry Flemming, he usually refers to him as “The
soldier.” He also tells the reader parts of his life up until present, but
most of the character is left very much in the dark. It is known however
that Henry grew up on a small ...
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The World As Will And Idea And Young Goodman Brown: Symbols
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... an older man with a twistered staff, he learns that others have traveled the path before him. Sick at heart, he observes a witches' Sabbath and discovers the presence of his own wife. The next morning Goodman Brown returns to Salem a changed man, stern, sad and gloomy, he believes that all are cursed. It is difficult for the reader to determine if the events in this story actually took place of was it a dream 'Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?'
Hawthorne uses symbolism and imagery throughout the story. Browns journey entails leavin ...
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Essay On By The Pricking Of My
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... grave, and a caretaker of a church. She finds out a lot of information about the house and is planning on returning home the next day but, she finds the child’s missing grave and is about to uncover a secret she is knocked out and falls hard onto the concrete tombstone.
Meanwhile Tommy has returned back from his conference and is waiting for Tuppence to return home like she had informed their butler Albert. Tuppence does not return that night or the next day or the next. Tommy gets a call from at the ladies home who reveals a mysterious string of poisonous and unexplained deaths there. ...
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1984: Duty Or Desire
Number of Words: 1313 / Number of Pages: 5
... Winston everywhere. "On coins , on
stamps, on the covers of the books, on banners , on posters and the
wrapping of the cigarette packing-every where the eye is watching you and
the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake ,in bath or in bed -no
escape"(p-26).
If Winston does anything out of order, a voice barks out
instructions. The Party frowns on art, on sex, on the life of the mind.
Their posters warn: "Big Brother is watching you". Every Party member knows
the worst crime of all is "Thought crime": having evil thoughts against the
Party or Big Brother. Winston is also troubled by dreams and m ...
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Jurassic Park
Number of Words: 382 / Number of Pages: 2
... the art technology and entertainment. Until
everything goes wrong. The electric fences stopped working, and the dinosaurs
escaped. Ian Malcolm's opinion of this world is that it won't survive, or the
humans won't survive. The world has survived everything until now, it will
surely survive the dinosaurs once more. But us, the humans are the ones that
may not survive. "Our planet is four and a half billion years old. There has
been life on this planet for nearly that long. Three point eight billion. The
first bacteria. And later, the first multi-cellular animals, and the first
complex creatur ...
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