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Big Two-Hearted River
Number of Words: 1185 / Number of Pages: 5
... 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 written the in
third pers ...
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The Theme Of Fear In "Lord Of The Flies"
Number of Words: 1344 / Number of Pages: 5
... fear spreads through the group. Ralph,
the current leader of the group, tries to convince the boys that their fear
of a beast is absurd. Ralph is unsuccessful in deterring the fear of the
boys. Several of them tell of monsters they have heard of, like the giant
squid, and ponder the fact that beasts and ghosts may be roaming the island.
Ralph observes all this and is powerless to control the situation. He calls
a vote to decide if the ghosts are real. This is the climax of a series of
futile attempts to hinder their fear. The sanity that is left among the
boys is disappearing rapidly. The fear of t ...
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Native Son: Bigger
Number of Words: 865 / Number of Pages: 4
... While he worked for the Daltons, "his courage
to live depended upon how successfully his fear was hidden from his
consciousness"(44), and hate also builds on top of this fear. Once he is
in contact with Mary, his fears and hate pour out in a rebellious act of
murder, because to Bigger Mary symbolizes the white oppression. In
addition, he committed the act, "because it had made him feel free for the
first time in his life"(255). At last he feels he is in control of his
actions and mentality. He rebels against the burden of the white man's
torment. He had "been scared and mad all . . . [his] ...
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Alice In Wonderland
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... her, but she finds that she is more mature than the creatures in
Wonderland.
Alice is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of
Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits
house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fan, "I'd
better take his fan and gloves- that is if I can find them", since Alice is
a guest, uninvited, she follows the owners orders. When Alice runs into
caterpillar she calls him "Sir", here is an excerpt from the book , " I
can't explain myself myself, I'm afraid, Sir", this shows that she respects
the creatures of ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Background
Number of Words: 1055 / Number of Pages: 4
... is the writing of mysterious events such
as the adultery of Hester, the birth of Pearl and the return of her husband
Roger Chllingworth.
The uses of the "theory of Romance" by Hawthorn follows an order.
The order is initiated by Hawthorn looking for to write on a serious topic.
The topic is the adultery of Hester, Pearls birth, the revenge by
Chillingworth and the hypocrisy of Dimmesdale. Then he chooses the setting
of his characters "On the outskirst of town, within the verge of the
peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a
small thatched cottage."3 The ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Sin Affects
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... only sin that she committed is that she had not told the community who the father of Pearl is. It was her choice not to tell whom the father was and she regretted every moment of it. She was suffering because she was not strong enough to come out and tell the town that Dimmesdale was the father. It is stated in the novel that she “was patient, -a martyr, indeed, -but she forbore to pray for her enemies; lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse” (Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Scarlet Letter Pg.108). Hester feel ...
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Intensity : What An Understatement
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... already. As mentioned in a book review by Mark Harris, Chyna doesn’t act like a horror-movie teenager and run into the hall. She does like most of us would do; she hides under the bed. Koontz really makes it feel like you could be the one squished under that bed. When the killer leaves the room Chyna searches the house undetected and finds her friend and everyone else had been brutally but quietly murdered. With revenge burning inside her, she rides undetected with two corpses on Edgler’s motor home. On the ride she witnesses two more killings and learns of a girl captive in his basement ...
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The Little Prince: An Analysis
Number of Words: 430 / Number of Pages: 2
... adult would find meaning.
In the desert when the pilot is fixing his plane, there is a time when the
little Prince is about to embark to an unknown well of water. The pilot
sees the Prince wondering off and says, “Where are you going?” The little
Prince replies, “to the well”, with great contentment. An adult might pass
that off as simply just part of the plot. If they would ask, “why?” and
read on they find that there is a curious Prince with and open mind
clashing with the pilot who's database of so called impossibilities tells
him that there is no way a well could exist somewhere out in the deser ...
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Billy Budd 2
Number of Words: 638 / Number of Pages: 3
... Melville even portrays him almost into a non-human being, an “alien eyes of an uncatalogued creature.” Furthermore, as opposed to his initial image, Melville compares the man to a “hungry lurch of the torpedo-fish.” Melville deliberately transforms Claggart’s demonic trait to a more extreme level.
Billy Budd plays a role of a good-hearted and simple peacemaker. His winsome looks and innocent nature wins the loyalty of many sailors except for John Claggart. During Billy’s brief moment of his stay in Captain Vere’s cabin, one can see that his angelic image m ...
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More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
Number of Words: 2387 / Number of Pages: 9
... would rid society
of greed and social ambition. Most of all, he wants to curtail pride, the
evil he believes is at the root of all evils -- "the infernal serpent that
steals into the hearts of men, thwarting and holding them back from
choosing the better way of life." Likewise, in Aldus Huxley’s Brave New
World, crime and greed have been eliminated and everybody is satisfied with
their social status. This similarity between the two novels suggests that
the authors may have seen a link between social status and crime. Indeed,
in western civilization, it is evident through statistics that a large
am ...
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