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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... their life fly further and further away. The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join the military. “ While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already that death-throes are stronger.... And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.R ...
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Racism In Wright's Black Boy
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... race. Instead he assumed that the white man was the black
boy's father. When Wright learned that this was not true, and that the boy
was beaten because of his race, he was un able to rationalize it. Even as
he got older he didn't see the color of people. In one instance Richard and
a friend are standing outside a shop when some white people pass by,
Richard doesn't move to accomodate the white people because he simple
didn't notice that they were white.
As a child, Wright ultimately learned to fear white people.
However, he still did not understand the social differences between the
races. ...
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Metamorphosis2000
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... and tastes different for Gregor. The world's perception of him drives him away, and now his perception of the world drives him away even further. Alienation feeds upon itself. With the taste of moldy cheese in his mouth and the sight of nothing but a desolate gray
expanse in front of him, Gregor's leisurely activity of snacking and staring out the window has been reduced to a sentence of feeding and suffering.
As his senses dwindle and alter, he also finds that his comfort zones do the same thing. Unlike a normal person who lies upon a couch or bed and fears what may lie under it, Gregor resid ...
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Female Power In The Odyssey
Number of Words: 1026 / Number of Pages: 4
... cunning manipulation and plotting three women stand their ground in individual protests to get what they want; Penelope’s trickery in evading the impatient marriage proposals by suitors, Helen’s deceit over Menelaos during the Trojan War, and finally the control that Nausicaa seems have upon first meeting Odysseus each illustrate power possessed by females of the epic.
At the Epic’s beginning the reader finds Penelope, Odysseus’ wife in Ithica facing the pressure of suitors who wish her hand in marriage. Despite the fact that her husband has been gone for twenty years, she hol ...
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Their Eyes Are Watching God
Number of Words: 3045 / Number of Pages: 12
... a gourd and yelled bass like a gator". When Hurston was thirteen she was removed from school and sent to care for her brother’’s children. She became a member of a traveling theater at the age of sixteen, and then found herself working as a maid for a white woman. This woman saw a spark that was waiting for fuel, so she arranged for Hurston to attend high school in Baltimore. She also attended Morgan Academy, now called Morgan State University, from which she graduated in June of 1918. She then enrolled in the Howard Prep School followed by later enrollment in Howard University. In 1928 Hurston ...
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Oedipus 2
Number of Words: 568 / Number of Pages: 3
... pride rose to a new level. He was praised by the people of Thebes, resulting in his marriage to Jocasta, Queen of Thebes. Oedipus also shows his determination when in search of Laius’ murderer. He stated that he would avenge the King’s death as if Laius were his own father. He cursed the murderer, announcing “May he drag out an evil death-in-life in misery.” These characteristics of pride and determination, which Oedipus emanates throughout the play, may appear to be positive attributes to one’s personality. However, Oedipus’ actions, based on these cha ...
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Night: A Summary
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... sacrafice to God. Originally Abraham was to sacrafice his son Isaac by fire. But God stopped him. I'm sure that as Elie moved forward in the line that he thought that the Nazis were using fire for something God hadn't intended. He was also angry at God for allowing them to use fire in such a horrible way. God daved Isaac, why couldn't he save them? Although Wiesel doesn't make note of it, several other Holocast survivors say that although the fire was awful due to the smell of the burning bodies, it kept them warm in the frigid cold even at a far distance. Fore represented not only death but a ...
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The Sound And The Fury Essay
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... on time is Mr. Quentin. Many of the Compson family members have had some connection with time itself.
The Compson family hold fast to time and signifies loss. They are more focused on the old south rather than the new. In the Dilsey section there is the sermon about the resurrection that Reverend Shegog gives on Easter day. The resurrection is a rebirth of God coming back from death just as the south is trying to move forward from their "death" in the past. During the Reverend's sermon he says," I tells you, bredden, en I tells you, sistuhn, dey'll come a time. Po sinner sayin Let me lay do ...
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The Light In The Forest: Analysis
Number of Words: 774 / Number of Pages: 3
... while such oneness with nature is almost non-
existent.
As an author, Conrad Richter appears to be a skilled writer. I found
numerous strengths and only two weaknesses. One strength was his use of strong
visual images. "What he hungered for most was the sight of an Indian face
again-his father's, deep red, shaped like a hawk's, used to riding the wind,
always above the earth, letting nothing small or of the village disturb him-his
mother's, fresh and brown yet indented with great arching cheek wrinkle born of
laughing and smiling, framing the mouth, and across the forehead, horizontal
lines like t ...
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The Allegory Of Young Goodman
Number of Words: 895 / Number of Pages: 4
... young man seized it and beheld a pink ribbon. ‘My Faith is gone!’ cried he, after one stupefied moment. ‘There is no good on earth; and sin so but a name. Come devil! for to thee is this world given.’ ” (Hawthorne 196) The ribbon Brown seized from the branch was one of the things Hawthorne had used to describe Faith in the beginning of the story. Brown apparently lost Faith when he lost his faith in god represented by the ribbon falling through the air.
The traveler represents the devil. “But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as remarkable was ...
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