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To Kill A Mockingbird: Childhood Experience
Number of Words: 1562 / Number of Pages: 6
... reading the two
novels. The novels show that the childhood experience of a person has a great
positive influence on his personality, behaviour, and ways on dealing with
others. This idea has been shown by the authors in both novels.
From the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, one could discover that innocent
behaviour and misunderstanding can lead a child to view a person or thing
incorrectly and incompletely. This behaviour can also lead a child to a wrong
perspective. In the first part of To Kill a Mockingbird, the main characters
Scout, Jem, and Dill thought that the Radley family and their member, ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 612 / Number of Pages: 3
... of World War I. As soldiers they know not what awaits them on the battle field. Many of their comrades will die before their very eyes. And for what? They don't know what their fighting against, they're fighting a war that isn't their own. But rather the war of the political leaders of several countries, whose arrogance cost the lives of so many young men. A war can never be fully justified, how do you justify the loss of human life? They know nothing of life but despair, death, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. The war has destroyed them, before they had a chance to l ...
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Comparing 'Casablanca' To '1984'
Number of Words: 914 / Number of Pages: 4
... Casablanca is a touching movie, and probably one of the best ever made. 1984 on the other hand, is a deep psychological thriller. In the world of utter thought-control, we find that even a strong hero such as Winston, is struck down by the party, for simply being alive, and that the virtuosity within humanity will eventually be overcome by our greed and lust. Their struggles are that of man against the oppressor. Both 1984 and Casablanca deal with a world gone mad, and the struggles of not-so-ordinary people. Oftentimes, parallels can be made between characters in the two. Renault can ...
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Sounder: Like Father Like Dog
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... but rather because he has a family to support. When his punishment comes he takes it like a man and goes off to prison. Sounder demonstrates his own courage by taking a shotgun blast to the face while trying to prevent his master from being taken away to prison. Wounded and approaching death, Sounder treks off into the wooded marsh to heal himself with the acid from the oak-tree leaves. The heroic actions of both the father and Sounder perfectly demonstrate the strength they possess to carry on in a life of hardship, day after day.
Armstrong utilizes the boy’s thoughts to exemplify not only the ...
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The Advantures Of Huck. Fin
Number of Words: 417 / Number of Pages: 2
... rest of society would object to his decisions during this period of time. You can also see Huck’s distress and sorrow for the fact that Jim has to buy his family back in order to see them again. This absolutely breaks Huck’s heart.
Back in the 1800s, blacks were considered property, and whites were always the superior race. In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain purposely makes Jim the best character in the book, in that he is the most compassionate, caring, and most appreciated by Huck, the main character in the book. At the same time he makes Pap, the white dead-beat father of Huck, the most detested, disre ...
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The Jungle: Character Analysis
Number of Words: 1871 / Number of Pages: 7
... to Packingtown to find work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable efficiency and speed at which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked, packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The tour guide specifically says "They use everything about the hog except the squeal," (The Jungle, page 38).
Jurgis’s brawny build quickly gets him a job on the cattle killing beds. The other members of the family soon find jobs, except for the children. They are put into school. At first, Jurgi ...
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The Huckleberry Finn Controver
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... then they won’t truly understand where racism comes from.
In the book there is much violence. "It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy naked, too. He’s been shot in de back."(pg. 50) The book is better with violence because it becomes more interesting to the reader. It becomes more of a real life situation than just a fairy tale world where nothing goes wrong, because in real life things do go wrong and people do get shot and killed. It is hard to read these kinds of things with death that are gruesome but it helps form feelings for the characters. Also it was necessary for them to find ...
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The Culture Of Censorship In F
Number of Words: 462 / Number of Pages: 2
... These material things gave people happiness. A good example of someone who was brain-washed by the material possessions was Guy Montag's wife Mildred. She was so convinced by the people on the television that she was unable to think for herself. When Montag eventually questioned the mindless pleasure seeking, his wife was too wrapped up in her life to think twice.
The mindless pleasure seeking and materialism may have been most entertaining and powerful for firefighters such as Montag, until he began to question this destruction. Montag was entertained with his line of work for a while. There wa ...
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A Meeting In The Dark: A Loss Of Priorities
Number of Words: 1248 / Number of Pages: 5
... "And he had been saved. John must not tread the same road" (99) means that his father was afraid that John would make the same mistake, which he has. Perhaps that is why he is so strict on his son.
John was a very selfish young boy. He is concerned more about himself and what he is losing than what is important. He sneaks out of his hut to go to the Makeno Village to see the mother of his unborn child, Wahumu. As he walks along the path, he passes a woman. They engage in idle conversation, and he continues down the path. He feels proud for speaking to her and others noticing, until he realizes [conce ...
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Death, Rebirth
Number of Words: 2231 / Number of Pages: 9
... the motif, the setting and the characters. While it is obvious that James Joyce’s title for the his work, “The Dead” refers to the death the story portrays, Joseph Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness, expresses death through its title in a more subtle way by depicting it as a journey to death. The central motif of death which protrudes to the surface in “The Dead” is a circle. It symbolizes how everything in life moves in a cycle: birth, age, . It is this circle which symbolizes death, for everything that lives, dies and the only thing able to stay on are the memories by others. The circle is represented s ...
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