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Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 1068 / Number of Pages: 4
... a fire-watcher stumbles in to try and disband the idea of the monster. Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. The climax of the novel is when the hunters are confronted by the fire-watchers. The hunters had stole Piggy’s (one of the fire-watchers) glasses so that they may have a means of making a cooking fire. One of the more vicious hunters roles a boulder off of a cliff, crushing Piggy, and causing the death of yet another rational being. The story concludes with the hunters hunting Ralp ...
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Smee
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... they all decided to played . The rules of the game are simple. "Every player is presented with a sheet of paper. All the sheets are blank except one, on which is written "". Nobody knows who is "" except "" hims! elf-or herself, as the case may be. The lights are then turned out and "" slips from the room and goes off to hide, and after an interval the other players go off in search, without knowing whom they are actually in search of. One player meeting another challenges with the word "" and the other player, if not the once concerned, answers ….The real make no answer when challenged, and ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Conflicting Desires Within A Doctrine
Number of Words: 865 / Number of Pages: 4
... Eileen. Stephen gets his first
sensual experience from Eileen when she puts her hand into his pocket and
touches his hand. Stephen gets quite confused with the terms of the Litany
of Our Lady so he starts to associate the "Tower of Ivory" and "House of
Gold" to Eileen. The way James Joyce describes the scene, "She had put her
hand into his pocket where his hand was and he had felt how cool and thin
and soft her hand was."(43) gives the reader the idea that Stephen enjoyed
the feeling. The only problem with Eileen was that she was a Protestant and
Stephen was a Catholic. Stephen also associates women ...
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Like Water For Chocolate And Master Harold: Oppression
Number of Words: 1346 / Number of Pages: 5
... he was younger. He
realized that where he lives white people have certain rights over black people.
Hally owns a cafe and he has got two black men working for him, one of which is
Sam. Hally walks in one morning and finds Willie and Sam dancing, preparing for
a dance contest. "Hally- Think you stand a chance. Act your bloody age! (Hurls
the rag at Willie) Cut out the nonsense now and get on with your work. And you
too, Sam. Sop fooling around " (Athol Fugard, Master Harold and the boys 18).
Hally criticizes Sam by asking him sarcastically if he really thinks that he is
good enough to win a dancing cont ...
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Social And Personal Ethics: The Subject Of Abortion
Number of Words: 447 / Number of Pages: 2
... She argues that genetic part is not necessary or sufficient for personhood and she argues that are not persons in the moral part does not have characteristics that are central to personhood. She has six concepts that define central personhood and they are sentience, emotionality, reason, the capacity to communicate, self-awareness, and moral agency. She also argues that fetuses are people or part of the moral community. She thinks that if there are laws passed to deny women the right to have an abortion it will go against the moral law and deny them of their conditional rights.
I agree with some ...
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Hughes' "Black Voices Oby The Tales Of Simple": Jessie Semple
Number of Words: 854 / Number of Pages: 4
... wisdom and incredible insight. And although he maintains a
seriousness for all his wisdom to come through; his presentation of the
facts is given in a humorous manner. In Bop, "That's why so many white
folks do not get their heads beat just for being white. But me --- a cop
is liable to grab me almost anytime and beat my head- just for being
colored " (105). This side to Semple is an example of Hughes attempt to
give simple facts or actual truth but instead of telling these things
harshly and angrily he tries to sweeten them with a little sarcastic humor.
At times, Simple is full of pa ...
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
Number of Words: 1310 / Number of Pages: 5
... to a fatherless child. After her husbands death many of the other women on the street offered Lucia Santa help, but soon after the pity and condolences they turned their backs on her, except for one, Zia Louche. As a pregnant widow Lucia Santa with her new wiser eyes got past her misfortunes and married her second husband Frank Corbo. Frank was an older man that had never been married; he had a good job and was willing to care for Lucia Santa and her children. Together they had three more children; Gino, Salvatore, and Aileen. Lucia Santa’s second marriage seemed to be going fine, but soon after, F ...
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The Lottery: Theme And Irony
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... to win a prize.
Tessie’s death is seen as another irony. Tessie could not restrain from stoning another person but when she found out she was to be stoned she threw a fit. Tessie could not wait to go to the drawing. It was a major event and tradition in their village and many other villages. When Tessie remembered it was the twenty-seventh she ran to the village. Ironically she was running to her death.
The theme of “The Lottery” is that people do not care when something does not, immediately or personally, affect them. Before Tessie was chosen she looked forward to the lottery but since s ...
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A Literary Analysis Of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... situation shows that he is a master in the use of imagery.
The main contributor to this imagery, however, is Kerouac's use of extensive, though necessary, detailed description. The magnitude of the imagery in this story could never have been attained without the use of the vivid details that brought every place and situation to life. Sal's experience in Mexico, for example, uses wide ranges of description to let the reader know just how Sal is feeling through everything that happens to him. This kind of description is showcased in many places thoughout the book. Kerouac's stunning use of des ...
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In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And The Poem Cafe: Natural Laws Over Man Laws
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... message of natural laws over man laws. He uses characterization to show the different kinds of morals people had. Huck lived with the Miss Watson, he did not live with his parents because his father was an alcoholic and we do not know where his mother is. His father was in and out of town. Nobody really knew where he was and if he was alive or not. Huck has an imagination, yet he is very level headed. He knows what is right and wrong but he is also very impressionable. What people say influence him a lot. An example of this is when he knew that Tom’s plan for attacking the Sunday school picn ...
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