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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of Words: 764 / Number of Pages: 3
... time Henry started to think about the battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty calls. He felt like a servant doing whatever his superiors told him. When the regiment finally discovers a battle taking place, Jim gives Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that this will be his first and last battle. The regiment managed to hold off the rebels for the first charge, but then the rebels came back like machines of steel with reinforcements, driving the regiment back. One man started to flee, then ...
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Wuthering Heights
Number of Words: 1467 / Number of Pages: 6
... only after some degree of reading, when we realize what is happening at in conjunction with Thrushcroff Grange. Soon afterwards, Nelly Dean makes her appearance, while she herself is somewhat unpreceptible. Overall, content and structure is rather fractured, although a so-called Satanic hero begins to emerge as a creature of darkness as well as rebellion and passion. Conversely, pressures on Heathcliff are internal. Results of his life emanate from his orphan years in Liverpool and his horrific treatment at . The author underscores the violence and darkness of man...even to such a primal and unive ...
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Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
Number of Words: 2762 / Number of Pages: 11
... realm of power. There fore, this form of guidance
can only exist from the mind, and as product of thought, thus the ideas within
a philosophy.
The Ideals warp between the covers of, The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand's
philosophical revolution of Individualistic power, is her solution to society's
request for a cure. She believe that the highest order of power stands above
all alternatives as the power belonging to an individual and her mission is to
prove the greatness of individualist power within the hero she christain the
name Roark.
Rational thinkers, do not make decisions in a give or take scenar ...
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Sex In Ragtime
Number of Words: 1024 / Number of Pages: 4
... reference to this is at the very beginning
of the novel. Doctorow writes, "On Sunday afternoon, after dinner, Father and
Mother went upstairs and closed the bedroom door"(p 4). Their marriage is happy
as long as they continue to have a good physical relationship. Whereas in the
beginning of the novel Mother and Father's relationship was good, by the end of
the novel "He felt it had been stupid to leave his wife alone"(p 233). Mother's
disdain for Father is conveyed to the reader when he tells her that he will be
taking their boy to the Baseball game on the following day. Doctorow writes, "…
she ...
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Frankenstein: Roles Between Males And Females
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... women in the story occupy many of the same traits that distinguish them from others. Shelly's women are portrayed as "gentle and affectionate" (65) and they have features of an "angelic beauty" (144). Victor describes Elizabeth as "the most fragile creature in the world" (65) showing that he feels superior to her. Since the women are mainly confined to the home, they are naive and are not as prepared for the outside world as the men are. (Mellor, 276). This is perceivable in the opening letters from Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville. While Walton is far away from home on a "long and difficu ...
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... of
these good qualities. He had some moral sense because when "bought" the
prostitute Sunny for a throw he could not go threw with it, so he paid her
anyway and sent her away from him. Holden was charitable when he gave a
considerably large donation of twenty dollars to the two nuns. This action was
nothing other than an act of pure kindness.
Holden Caufield has a foil or an opposite in the story, The Catcher in
the Rye. This person is his younger sister, Phoebe. She has a positive outlook
on life, while Holden hated it and thought he was doomed. She was his "ray of
hope" in life and she wa ...
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Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 1502 / Number of Pages: 6
... Huck is more familar with busted chairs than sound ones, and he appreciates the distinction.
Huck is also more familiar with flawed families than loving, virtuous ones, and he is happy to sing the praises of the people who took him in. Col. Grangerford "was a gentleman all over; and so was his family"(116). The Colonel was kind, well-mannered, quiet and far from frivolish. Everyone wanted to be around him, and he gave Huck confidence. Unlike the drunken Pap, the Colonel dressed well, was clean-shaven and his face had "not a sign of red in it anywheres"(116). Huck admired how the Colonel gently rul ...
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Edgar Allan Poe And The Raven
Number of Words: 2113 / Number of Pages: 8
... repetitious, meaningless answers
torture him to the point of insanity (see Appendix R) (Decoder, Internet).
The feeling of lost love portrayed in the poem might have reflected the
death of Poe’s wife, Virginia, in 1847 (Qrisse, Internet). As it is read, a
definite rhyme scheme is present: internal rhyme in the first and third line,
and end rhymes in lines two, four, and five. All eighteen stanzas of the poem
are arranged like this, but Poe never makes it seems unexciting or
repetitious. Probably the most noticeable and most brilliant aspect of “The
Raven” is it’s sa ...
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Robinson Crusoe
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... how to make things
on his own. With nothing but his bare hands and a couple of hatchets, he
starts out building a shelter for himself. From acquiring these new skills,
he adds onto his house and learns to form his own tools. Out of new
experiences with these tools and his vivid imagination, he now has the
ability to build anything that he wishes for. Later, he builds a table,
chair, shelves, a summer home, canoe, and a boat. Robinson Crusoe shows us
that a person can fight against the odds and win because of pure
determination, even if he doesn't know how he will ever do it.
When Cruso ...
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Materialism - The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 1699 / Number of Pages: 7
... attitude of the 1920’s leads many to hopeless depression and how materialism never constitutes happiness. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, a character who spends his entire adult life raising his status, only to show the stupidity of the materialistic attitude. Rather than hard work, Gatsby turns to crime and bootlegging in order to earn wealth and status to get the attention of Daisy Buchanon, a woman he falls in love with five years earlier. "He [Gatsby] found her [Daisy] excitingly desirable. He went to her house… There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool th ...
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