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In The Skin Of A Lion Essay
Number of Words: 1080 / Number of Pages: 4
... This sense of excitement is also shown in the pace of the passage. As the loggers are skating the pace gets faster, and then starts to slow down when he goes back home to his routine life. By going against the night, the loggers are essentially breaking the rules: “Their lanterns replaced them with new rushes which let them go further past boundaries” (page 22). This idea of going past boundaries reminds us of a part later in the novel. Patrick goes past boundaries when he sets fire to the Muskoka Hotel on page 168. Instead of being an observer like he always is, he actually ste ...
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David Edding's Pawn Of Prophecy
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... years Torak is kept at bay because the orb is
protected by the Chereks, but somehow, a man known as the Apostate takes
the orb hoping to deliver it to Torak. Belgarath, his daughter Polgara, a
Cherek named Barak, a Drasnian named Silk, a Sendar named Durnik and a
young boy named Garion venture out into the world to try and recover the
orb. Garion is of the Cherek line and has the mark of the orb. The book
is only one of a series of ten books and the plot ends abruptly with
Belgarath and his band of wanderers setting sail for Camaar to continue the
search for the Apostate and the orb. The Pawn of P ...
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House Of The Seven Gables
Number of Words: 776 / Number of Pages: 3
... a subject it is much easier to convince our reader of the ‘experience’ or ‘story’ that is being written about.
Although Nathaniel Hawthorne’s allegory, The House of Seven Gables, was not entirely true, the incomparable part of it had to do with his personal history and his cultural background. His relation to the house was from his cousin Phoebe and the ideas about the witch trials were because he was living in the very time they were taking place. Therefore, I do think that the personal history and cultural background affect what the author writes about whether the book ...
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Sister Carrie: People Driven By Desire
Number of Words: 466 / Number of Pages: 2
... will to do what it takes to avoid change.
Drouet is born bachelor whose desire is flirtation and courting women. For him this is almost a natural instinct, as soon as he saw Carrie on the train he felt an obligation to introduce himself. “He loved to make advances to women, to have them succumb to his charms, ...his inborn desire urged him to that as a chief delight.” He is moderately wealthy and therefore can afford to support women periodically. Drouet constantly desires female companions, even if he is already engaged in a relationship. Towards the end he does proclaim true love for Carrie, but ...
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Response To Balck Bourgeoise
Number of Words: 347 / Number of Pages: 2
... the folk culture of “the black masses” in favor of shell of the middle class white world that rejected them. Therefore, the black bourgeoisie lives in what Frazier calls a cultural vacuum, disdainful of the culture of most African-Americans, dismissed by the white middle class culture. Finally, Frazier discusses the result of this displacement on the black middle class. Because the black bourgeoisie buys into the ideals of white America more and is simultaneously more exposed to its hostility, their sense of inferiority is compounded. They seek to fill this void in two ways. First, they look more t ...
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Macbeth - Supernatural Theme
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... measures and he could do nothing to abate it. Macbeth had risked his life to attain the throne and he had no choice but to employ Machiavellian practices to retain it. The appearance of Banquo’s ghost at the royal banquet horrifies Macbeth. Shakespeare brilliantly uses irony to make Banquo’s emergence very dramatic:
Macbeth: Fail not our feast.
Banquo: My lord, I will not.
(III, i, ll 28-29)
Banquo’s appearance provides insight into the character of Macbeth. It shows the level that Macbeth’s mind has recessed to. His morality is declining and although he is battling his conscience, the evil ...
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Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich": Satire
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... accompanies his moral message with ironic characters;
their exaggerated actions, and a constant comical tone to prevent readers from
being offended.
Leacock's utopian world is filled with humorous labels that represent the
"Plutonian's" personalities. "Ourselves Monthly"; a magazine for the modern
self-centered, is a Plutonian favourite. To fill their idle days, the Plutonian
women are in an endless search for trends in literature and religion. Without
the distractions of club luncheons and trying to achieve the "Higher
Indifference", the women would have to do something productive. Readers tha ...
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The Scarlet Ibis: Summary
Number of Words: 263 / Number of Pages: 1
... handicapped boy, is mentally developed slower and is
challenged to learn how to walk with the help of his brother, six years
older than he is. Doodle's brother didn't want to take Doodle everywhere
in a go-kart, so the both of them were determined to make Doodle walk by
his birthday, and he does.
Throughout the entire story Doodle and his brother are faced with
challenges that people believe he won't be able to accomplish, but they
show them wrong.
As Doodle grows older, his brother makes sure that he doesn't fall
behind the other kids and tries to keep Doodle ahead of, or at least at the
same lev ...
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Moby Dick
Number of Words: 3474 / Number of Pages: 13
... at an island of the Marquesas with another member of the crew. On this island they ran into a group of cannibals that, instead of harming them, would take them in. None the less, both the men would grow tired of the tribe and would escape, although Melville did remain slightly longer than is counterpart. When Melville did escape, however, he would board the Lucy Ann, a whaling ship that was temporarily docked on the island. This ship though, proved itself no better than the Acushnet, and Melville would escape to Tahiti, again with one crewmember to tag along. Eventually Melville ended up in Hawai ...
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A Rose For Remembrance
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... Mandell 80) showed a comparison of the past and present while also showing a representation of Emily herself.
“The house smells of dust and disuse and has a closed, dank smell.” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). A description of Emily in the following paragraph discloses her similarity to the house. “She looked bloated like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that palled hue” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). It notes in the story that she had not always had that appearance. In the picture of a younger Emily with her father, she was shown as frail and apparently hungering to take part in the ...
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