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Essay On Jim In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... Tom arrived to his uncle's farm
Huck was already there and he stopped Tom before the Phelpses saw him. Tom hid
until that night when they planned to break Jim out. But being the one for
excitement that Tom was he derived a plan that would for sure get them caught.
He left a note on the Phelps's porch that something was going to happen. As
Huck and Tom freed Jim Mr. Phelps fired a shot and it hit Tom but Huck and Jim
didn't realize it until they got to the boat and floated to the island. On the
island, they decided to leave to leave Tom while Huck went to get a doctor and
Jim got away. But when the ...
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Trainspotting: A Novel By Irvine Welsh
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... on and off heroin, his good friend Danny Murphy, or
Spud (as everyone calls him) is a habitual thief. His friend Simone is nicknamed
Sick Boy for good reasons. When he is high he hears voices in his head willing
him to do evil things. He likes to shoot dogs as their masters are taking them
for a walk, and he enjoys using women for nothing but sex.. Rents' date on
occasion, Hazel, was abused by her father when she was young, and she chooses to
shoot up to solve her problems. Rab McLaughlin, or Second Prize, drinks himself
into oblivion every chance he gets. Davie, a cousin of Renton's has recently
be ...
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Lord Of The Flies : Summary Of Conclusion
Number of Words: 616 / Number of Pages: 3
... Jack is the kind of character who is defined as a psychotic person who
was refrained from his true genetic personality and yearning for violence
because of the standards to which he was born. He was a rich and went to a
private school where he could not be himself. The school was very strict
and therefore not allowing any of the boys to do things that they had
always wanted. So then, when faced with the idea of an island with no
adults where they can do as they like, they give in to the idea of being
hunters and playing a game of being a native, wearing war paint, killing
animals and getting their ...
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Wuthering Heights
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... name Edgar
and Isabel. The plot in this story starts off simple as the reader would think that
this story is just another one of those stories which the disadvantage guy falls in
love with the girl he loves and ends up getting married. True, but the plot that
built up this ending is what made this story truly special. The characters of Nelly,
Cathy (daughter of Catherine and Edgar), Hareton, and Heathcliff the villain
which we must all sympathize with is the most shining characters in this story.
Nelly, the constant character in this story, we all must admire because of her
morals and values, somet ...
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Pecola
Number of Words: 729 / Number of Pages: 3
... dirty torn dress, the plaits had come undone, the muddy shoes with the wad of gum peeping out from between the cheap soles……Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything” (p80)
Thus she thinks it is only the outside that counts. She thought that if she were able to change the colour of her eyes to blue, that being a symbol of beauty in a white culture, her life would change; she would be looked at, be respected, accepted and admired.
“if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say beautiful, she herself would be different” (p34)
The white cultures’ judgements were forced upon Pecola; sh ...
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The Themes Of Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 401 / Number of Pages: 2
... either Daisy or himself, he is so blinded by his dream. The only characters, who see, in the sense of “understand,” are Nick and Owl Eyes. The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg seem to reinforce the theme that there is no all seeing presence in the modern world.
The past is a central importance in the novel, whether it is Gatsby’s personal past, his affair with Daisy in 1917, or the larger past to which Nick refers in the closing sentence of the novel: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” The past holds something that both Gatsby and Nick seem to long for: a simpler ...
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The Effect Of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... Connecticut, was
the daughter, sister, and wife of liberal clergymen and theologians. Her
father Lyman and brother Henry Ward were two of the most preeminent
theologians of the nineteenth century. This extremely devout Christian
upbringing, focusing on the doctrines of sin, guilt, atonement and
salvation, had an undeniable impact in her writings. Each of her
characters displays some aspect of these beliefs. Although he is unjustly
and ignorantly vilified by contemporary Black society, the character Uncle
Toms is given a Christ like persona. Tom forgives his oppressors, turns
the other c ...
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A Comparison And Contrast In Both A's Worn By Hester And Dimmesdale
Number of Words: 582 / Number of Pages: 3
... the law that he is totally dedicated to and
supported by. Dimmesdale's interpretation of his sin is much more severe than
Hester's, it is a breach and direct contradiction of his own self consciousness
and physical existence. Therefore the appearance of his A, even though it is
never directly described in the novel, must be raw, jagged, and brutally crooked
(...a ghastly rapture; pg.95). Maybe Dimmesdale's self torture is so horrifying
or inconceivable that it is either indescribable, (...too mighty to be expressed
only by the eye of his figure; pg.95), or best left up to the reader's
imagination. ...
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The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... this novel. He
is left a very obscure individual and much is not known about him until he
reveals it to Nick. One thing Tom Buchanan finds out about Gatsby is the he is
a swindler and that is how he has amassed his fortune. The main character is
Nick Carraway a man who objectively stays the same through out the whole book,
keeping his friendship with Gatsby to the very end. This book wouldn't be the
same if not for the Giant house that Gatsby lived in.
Most of the novel takes place at Mr. Gatsby's grand mansion in East Egg,
New York. This mansion just adds to the mystery about Gatsby and were ...
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The Things They Carried 2
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... the human spirit is even greater. Acknowledging this, Tim O'Brien in his vignette, " The Things They Carried," which is about a platoon of soldiers and their experiences and emotions brought by the controversial Vietnam War, shows how soldiers become desensitized to the death of others, and acquire an induced violent nature while also making an effective anti-Vietnam War statement.
In his narration of the story, O'Brien consciously juxtaposes the emotional burdens the soldiers carry, as they march through the Vietnam jungle, with descriptive passages of the weaponry, its weights, and accouterments o ...
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