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Things Fall Apart: The Loss Of A Tribe's Livelihood
Number of Words: 1550 / Number of Pages: 6
... down was the village's spirituality, which was led by the arrival of the Christian mission. Second, this mission acted as a channel to allow a new government to infiltrate Umuofia and challenge the laws and customs that held together the former Igbo way of life.
Igbo spirituality weakened in two waves. First Christianity provided answers that the inhabitants of Umuofia and Mbanta were seeking. At the end of Part One Obierika's thoughts are expressed:
Obierika was a man who thought about things. When the will of the goddess had been done, he sat in his obi and mourned his friend's calamity. Why shou ...
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Snow Falling On Cedars
Number of Words: 1415 / Number of Pages: 6
... lived on the same property and attended the same school. "Is Kabuo home ? ". The two often spent time together "Look at this, Kabuo loaned it to me". Kabuo had lent Carl a bamboo fishing rod made by his father. Though this friendship was condemned by Etta Heine, it continued until such a time that the "real world" of maturity and prejudice and cultural differences removed was brought into their lives by the war.
Hatsue and Ishmael also shared a very close friendship for many years, from the time of childhood till their teens when the two became extremely close, to the point of sexual contact. "I want ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
Number of Words: 948 / Number of Pages: 4
... book Scout and companions tried to meet
Arthur (Boo) and get over their fear of him. They did not succeed. But he showed
affection for them by leaving them gifts in a tree. Finally at the end of the
book he proves he is a good person by saving Scout and Jem's lives. In this
instance Scout may have found that to negatively prejudge someone is wrong. She
also learned compassion.
Scout also learnt about the ugliness of life. About death and pain.
This lesson occurred while her brother had to read to a sick and dieing old lady.
This lady's name was Mrs. Dubose. She had been a morphine addict and ...
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Alice Munros Boys And Girls
Number of Words: 1121 / Number of Pages: 5
... with identity and is to become a master. This stereotyping in names alone seems to suggest that gender does play an important role in the initiation of young children into adults. Growing up, the narrator loves to help her father outside with the foxes, rather than to aid her mother with "dreary and peculiarly depressing" work done in the kitchen (425). In this escape from her predestined duties, the narrator looks upon her mother's assigned tasks to be "endless," while she views the work of her father as "ritualistically important" (425). This view illustrates her happy childhood, filled with dr ...
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The Last Unicorn: The Character And Nature Of Molly Grue
Number of Words: 934 / Number of Pages: 4
... known outlaws. Molly is extremely faithful to these men
because she could leave at any time but she didn't. She stuck with them
and served their every need. She feels so loyal to them that even though
she complains she will still do the job. Molly has been with these men for
such a long time that she has picked up some of their bad habits, and she
acts like a man. Still she changed to fit in, and is still faithful to the
men. When Schmendrick told the band of men how he got to their camp, "She
spat on the ground." (Beagle 56) This helps us picture the rugged type of
person she is, yet Captain C ...
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The Double Life In The Importa
Number of Words: 1338 / Number of Pages: 5
... of frivolity. It concerns the problem of recognising and defining human identity. The use of earnest and Earnest is a pun, which makes the title not only more comic, but also leads to a paradox. The farce in The Importance of Being Earnest consists in the trifle that it is important not only to be earnest by nature but to have the name Earnest too. Jack realizes "the vital Importance of Being Earnest"(53) not till the end of the play. Algernon calls the act of not being earnest Bunburying which gives the plot a moral significance. Bunburying means inventing a fictitious character by which one can ...
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Fahrenheit 451: Predictions
Number of Words: 465 / Number of Pages: 2
... three wall television type devices. Probably the biggest difference and the strangest is how Guy’s wife Mildred and the rest o f the country related to them as their “family.” Also how all the characters in the books could interact with the televisions by being in plays or shows. The TV could quite possibly be a way for Mildred to try to escape her unhappiness and reality, rather than dealing with her husband she would rather give her attention to her “relatives.” Television is a very big part of U.S. culture but not quite in the way that Bradbury portrayed it to be.
Furthermore, a very significa ...
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Chrysalids 2
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... On page 134). The help
that the sealant woman promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot
is greatly influenced, David learns more things as the time goes on. He
discovers who is the Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them
and learn what it is like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman
rescues David, Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city
like the one in David's dreams. Because of the telepathy David discovers
that such a city really exists but most of all through Petra they establish
contact with a more civilized people than they ...
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Beowulf 3
Number of Words: 905 / Number of Pages: 4
... king of his homeland: Geatland. Even in his old age, his code of honor still obligates him to fight against an evil, fiery dragon. For fifty years he has governed his kingdom well. While Beowulf is governing, the dragon "...kept watch over a hoard, a steep stone-barrow" (Norton 55). Under it lays a path concealed from the sight of men. Over centuries no one had disturbed the dragons kingdom until one day when a thief broke into the treasure, laid
Hand on a cup fretted with gold this infuriated the dragon. "The fiery dragon had destroyed the people's stronghold, the land along the sea, the heart of the ...
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Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 807 / Number of Pages: 3
... story, is one character who longs for the past. Surprisingly, he devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Gatsby had a love affair with the affluent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (p83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his par ...
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