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Edith Whartons The House Of Mi
Number of Words: 2133 / Number of Pages: 8
... not choose to spend their money on luxury. When Mrs Bart died, she died, “ ......of a deep disgust. She had hated dinginess, and it was her fate to be dingy”(page 35). But Lily’s mother alone is not solely to blame for this want, Lily says of her need for luxury,
..I suppose (it was) -in the way I was brought
up, and the things I was taught to care for. Or-no I won’t blame
anybody for my faults: I’ll say it was in my blood (page 226)
Although Lily felt that she should not blame anyone else for her high tastes she does not blame herself. She uses the excuse that it w ...
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Visions Of The Future
Number of Words: 1193 / Number of Pages: 5
... mathematical formulas,
brought about more sense of thinking. Great thinkers and mathematicians
such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, etc., are
just of the few who expanded ideas. They began to use the inductive
method as a step-by-step to their understandings. The new outlook
generated by the Scientific Revolution served as the foundation of the
Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution gave thinkers great confidence in
the power of the mind , which had discovered nature’s laws, reinforcing the
confidence in human abilities expressed by Renaissance humanists. In time
it wa ...
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Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
Number of Words: 1647 / Number of Pages: 6
... He has recently been released from prison and seems to be
concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for
money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many
lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy,
a man representative of Jesus Christ in both his initials "J.C." and in his
beliefs. The preacher is the one character that throughout the novel always
knows what he must do: to help those less fortunate fight in anyway
possible in order to get what they deserve. Tragically, Jim Casy is killed
by a police officer w ...
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The Importance Of Learning Your Heritage
Number of Words: 661 / Number of Pages: 3
... had almost waited her entire life to connect with her heritage and her family. She was willing to visit China and meet with her two half-sisters only out of respect for her mother's wishes. Jandale should have been delighted to have the opportunity to visit China and get to know her roots and her family. The theme to this story was effectively treated in that the reader could see the reunion of the sisters, but yet could feel pain and sorrow inside of themselves.
Having the story take place in China, helped it to become more realistic for the reader. The reader can feel as Jandale traces her Chines ...
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Irony In "The Pardoners Tale" And "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... each other over
it. Even more ironic, is how they end up killing each other. After
finding the money, the men plan to stay with it until it becomes dark and
they can safely take it away. To tide themselves over until then, they
send the youngest one out to get food and wine, and while he is away they
plan to kill for his share of the money. Ironically, the youngest one is
planning the same thing so he slips poison into the drinks of his
companions. When he returns, he is attacked and stabbed to death by the
other men Then, in probably the most ironic action in the whole story, the
murderers, to c ...
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Never Ending Story
Number of Words: 1460 / Number of Pages: 6
... Story while Atreyu characterizes an immortal hero living out struggles inside the book. Their separate worlds are furnished together to bring a united conclusion, but with the reality and truth of their past, they are again separated; but in a resolving mood. This coming together of reality and fiction associates with the reader’s mind because it justifies and gives a reason to connect with The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Thus, this book deserves to be a significant part of the canon because it deepens the realistic illusion that stories come from other stories, it is identical in many ways ...
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How Women Are Portrayed In Hom
Number of Words: 664 / Number of Pages: 3
... picture of a perfect, devoted Greek wife.
Homer also portrayed the loyal daughter type using Naussica, the young princess of Scheria and daughter of King Alcinous. Like most daughters from the Greek civilization, she thought the world of her parents, and they thought the world of her as well. We see that she thinks highly of her father because she refers to him as her "excellent father" and tells Odysseus about everything her father can give to him. Her father seems to be wrapped around her finger. I got this impression because when she asked if she could use a big wagon, her father immediately repli ...
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The Great Gatsby: Structure Of Novel Influenced By Foreshadowing And Flashback
Number of Words: 1105 / Number of Pages: 5
... clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at
the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling
fingers and set it back in place. 'I'm sorry about the clock,' he said. 'It's
an old clock,' I told him idiotically." (Fitzgerald, pg. 92) This quote is the
first use of foreshadowing which is in chapter five. It pertains to all of the
trouble Gatsby causes as he tries to win Daisy back. The past is represented
by the clock and how Gatsby wants to repeat it with Daisy. (Eble, pg. 963)
This quote foreshadows to the end of the novel when Nick is left to tell the
story of the dre ...
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An Analysis Of The Novel Candide By Voltaire
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... every place Candide goes something unthinkable
seems to happen to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all
have their own interesting story of misfortune and the inhumanities of mankind.
Candide ends up on a small farm, married to Cunegonde and living with two
philosophers. He argues with others at the end of the book if this really is
the best of all possible worlds and they conclude the we must "work without
reason" and "must cultivate our garden".
In this novel Voltaire is extremely influenced by his frame of reference
and mindset. He finds room to include almost all of his pol ...
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The Effects Of Setting On Character In "The Masque Of Red Death" And "The Shawl"
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... Yet in the end Prospero had to face death while Stella
did not, even though she was in the camp. The attitudes of the two
characters and the setting probably are what kept them alive.
In comparison of the way the setting affected character, we see
they were quite alike also. Prospero's morbid lifestyle was quite unusual.
His room of black with scarlet panes of glass, his ebony clock with a low
dull monotonous chime and the bizarre masquerade party all show he was
unusual and fascinated with the bizarre. Stella's description of ravenous
black hair, the cold weather, and her unfeeling for others ...
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