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Broken Wigwag
Number of Words: 605 / Number of Pages: 3
... when her sister, Rie, comes to visit from Japan, Satomi sees how maladjusted she is. While sitting at the dinner table at a chic Soho restaurant, Satomi recounts in her mind, “The age I live in, at this place, I was ill at ease. I felt I didn’t belong here at all. I could never act like I was accustomed to this type of demure place like some other people . . . I felt myself starting to hunch over more and more. But tonight’s dinner was in Rie’s honor, I kept telling myself to pull together.” Satomi encounters many situations where she feels like she doesn’t belong. In nearly every one she makes ...
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Chekhov’s “The Bet”: Metamorphosis Of The Lawyer
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... The lawyer demonstrates his impulsiveness when he replies, “I’ll take the bet, but I would stay not 5 but 15 years”(160). The lawyer does not even reason about what he has just committed to. Furthermore, he raises the stakes of the proposal as a result of his confidence in winning the bet.
Although he begins his confinement secure that he will be victorious, the lawyer gradually becomes very despondent over the course of his imprisonment. During his confinement, the lawyer is not able to interact with other people. He is only allowed to have an instrument, books, wine, and tobacco. In the beginning he ...
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Grendel: Queen Wealthheow
Number of Words: 414 / Number of Pages: 2
... for Wealththeow. Upon his attack of her he ripped her out of bed by her feet as if he was going to split her in half. He wanted to kill her but he was torn by his feeling for her, all the pain he wanted to inflict was sexual. He wanted to "cook the ugly hole between her legs, and squeeze out her feces with his fists". His motive for killing her was justified by wanting to teach the Danes reality, but he refrained because it would be "pointless pleasure". Grendel was clearly unhappy about his desire for Wealtheow, and was disconcerted. He contemplated killing her because he wanted to get rid of these fe ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird - Tom Robinson
Number of Words: 814 / Number of Pages: 3
... powerful shoulders rippled with his right hand on the back
of his chair. He looked oddly off balance, but it was not from the way he
was standing. His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right,
and hung dead at his side. It ended in a small shrivelled hand, and from
as far away as the balcony I could see that is was no use to him." Tom
Robinson couldn't have done the crime with the evidence provided, but still
racism decided the verdict.
The children just as much as Atticus believed in Tom's innocence. Just
by looking at Tom, they knew he couldn't have done it ""Scout," brea ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huck Finn
Number of Words: 1065 / Number of Pages: 4
... acceptable. Huck, who has
never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place
upon him constraining and the life with them lonely. As a result, soon after he
first moves in with them, he runs away. He soon comes back, but, even though he
becomes somewhat comfortable with his new life as the months go by, Huck never
really enjoys the life of manners, religion, and education that the Widow and
her sister impose upon him.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom is a
boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life of ...
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Jane Eyre: Ladies First
Number of Words: 1462 / Number of Pages: 6
... Eyre, Jane demonstrates a strong need to be herself, to
take responsibility for her action. She is put to the test by her daily
teasing and abuse from her cousins. When she is brought to a boarding
school she soon distinguishes herself through her classes. Eventually ends
up in Thornfield where she meets Edward Rochester.
While growing up in Gateshead Hall, Jane is treated less than a
servant. Her cousins John, Eliza, and Georgiana Reed remind Jane she has
no worth and is an unwelcome relative. Out of the three cousins John was
one of the meanest, not only of Jane Eyre but of all living creatur ...
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Different Changes In Different Characters Of Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 2305 / Number of Pages: 9
... understanding
of the cruelty possessed by some people. The ordeals of the three boys on
the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some
cases, made the false politeness that had clothed them dissipate. However,
the changes experienced by one boy differed from those endured by another.
This is attributable to the physical and mental dissimilarities between
them.
Jack was first described with an ugly sense of cruelty that made him
naturally unlikeable. As leader of the choir and one of the tallest boys
on the island, Jack's physical height and authority matched his arr ...
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Animals In The Eyes Of The Dragon
Number of Words: 1257 / Number of Pages: 5
... used to start fires, Frisky uses her keen sense of smell to
pinpoint exactly where Dennis, son of Brandon, has journeyed to from
PeynaÆs farmhouse. DennisÆs mission is to go back to the castle where
Thomas the Tax-Bringer and Flagg, the kingÆs magician, live and are at
high power. Peyna, who has just given up his Judge-GeneralÆs bench, has a
feeling that there is some reason why Peter has asked for the Royal
Napkins and his motherÆs dollhouse. Dennis is to find this reason by
sending a letter to Peter, who is imprisoned at the time. Dennis journeys
from PeynaÆs farm in the Inner Baronies ...
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Lord Of The Flies: About The Author
Number of Words: 566 / Number of Pages: 3
... society. The entire book is set upon
a beautiful desolate island located probably somewhere in the Pacific near
the first atomic bomb detonation. This land was pure and basic; it was a
Garden of Eden, that is, until man arrived. Upon the boys' arrival (a plane
crash), a scar was left on the island. It was a plane, an offspring of
man's creation, that disturbed nature's beauty. Golding continuously
showed how the setting was terrorized by man. Man was not even there for
one week and they have already destroyed half of an island that nature took
years to create, and these men were mere children. Just ...
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Beowulf - Hero
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... Herot mead-hall. This
strength is a key trait of Beowulf's heroism.
Another heroic trait of Beowulf is his ability to put his peoples
welfare before his own. Beowulf's uncle is king of the Geats so he is
sent to help the Danes of the evil Grendel. Beowulf risks his own
life for the Danes, asking help from no one. He realizes the dangers
but fears nothing for his own life. After Beowulf had served his people
as King of the Geats for fifty years, he goes to battle one last time to
fight a horrible dragon who is frightening all of his people. Beowulf
is old and tired but he defeats the dragon in or ...
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