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Rattle Bone
Number of Words: 1148 / Number of Pages: 5
... Another example of Clair’s use of this writing method is the experience of the divorce between Irene’s parents. This long-term process displayed Irene’s parents as being unforgiving. At first his wife forgives James Wilson for the affair that he enjoyed with October Brown, but after a period of time, Pearl also had her share of the fall in their relationship. At this time, neither one of Irene’s parents would forgive the other nor make up with the other. This example again shows the use of foreshadowing by Clair by evolving the event over several chapters with different nar ...
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Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
Number of Words: 1806 / Number of Pages: 7
... to Oscar Chopin by all accounts was a happy one.
Taking on the role of a high society lady as well as wife and new mother,
Chopin fit in well with the New Orleans culture. She enjoyed the Louisiana
atmosphere so well that most of her writings were based here. Chopin
continued living in Louisiana raising her six young children until the
sudden death of her husband brought her back to St., Louis (Skaggs 3).
Oscar Chopin died while their youngest child, Lelia was only three. Soon
after Chopin moved her family to St. Louis to be with her dying mother. In
the grief of her losses Chopin had to redisc ...
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Madame Bovary: The Origin Of Emma And Nora
Number of Words: 1194 / Number of Pages: 5
... the society in which they lived. Then it is possible to see why they
had certain viewpoints and how these viewpoints had an effect on the
personalities and actions of their characters.
Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, France to
a wealthy surgeon. As a boy he was well aware of the incompetence in the
medical profession, and the middle class “lip service” which he portrayed
through Homais in Madame Bovary. In his college years, Flaubert began to
despise the middle class even more as he became enthralled in the romantic
writings of Hugo, Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... appearance and mental capacity. During the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning’s speech to his students he tell them how by depriving certain embryos of oxygen will affect which class they belong to. “The lower the cast, the shorter the oxygen”(Huxley, p.9). It seems unfair that before you are born, your future is already written out for you. This is necessary to help keep this the perfect world. People in todays society feel threatened by what is different, so people face racism and stereotypes. First of all, each class is conditioned to love their class and to realize everyone is impo ...
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1984 3
Number of Words: 395 / Number of Pages: 2
... person or proletariats, "proles" are uneducated and overly trusting in the government.THey have no desire to improve themseves, thus they stay firmly under the first of big brother. In 1984 Winston Smith was the main character. He was a rebel who secretly was against the big brother and its dictatorial ways.His mistake was trusting his dangerous views to other people, thus causing his drawn out torture and eventual murder.The main character Winston did not use science to solve his problems in fact the modern science and technology of the day in 1984 was his problem. A "telescreen" was mandatory in ...
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Sphere
Number of Words: 1701 / Number of Pages: 7
... going to the bottom in a submarine.
The site is 1,000 feet under water which is shallow compared tot he rest of the pacific. At the site there was a huge grid on lights and a massive metallic fin sticking up out of the grid. It was part of the craft and it looked like nothing I have ever seen. We settled into he habitat it was more comfortable then I though it would be it had showers and beds and everything a house had. The only strange thing was your voice… The air down here had a more helium concentrate so it made your voice funny. To prevent this we use ' Breathers" a device that goes around you ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest And The Scarlet Letter: To Live With Fear
Number of Words: 623 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Chief tried to help another patient
who was being taken advantage of by orderlies, they were caught and
sentenced to electro-shock therapy (EST). The Chi usually blacked out in a
fog when confronted with problems; however, this time (he had endured over
200 EST sessions previously) he did not. However, McMurphy was
deteriorating, and the two seemed to be reversing positions. McMurphy
eventually was sentenced to a lobotomy, which left him as a helpless,
pathetic person, as the Chief had once been. The Chief now had the courage
to put McMurphy out of his misery, despite what the head nurse, Nur ...
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Morals
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... met Stark Wilson for the final showdown. By having Shane return to solving problems with a gun, Jack Schefer implies that a man can not
changed, there is no breaking the mold.
In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens expresses his belief on changing ones personality. The moral of A Christmas Carol is "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end." Charles Dickens shows the moral by haveing Scrooge change his personality. In the begining of A Christmas Carol Scrooge is a cold and almost heartless man, Scrooge doesn't like Christmas or anything to do wit ...
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The House Of Seven Gables
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... house” out of her mind. Everywhere she goes the house haunts her. Clifford lives in a world of illusions. Their hearts have become dungeons and each one of them is his/her own jailer. They have been “locked up” in that house for so long that they can longer “live” with the rest of society. This is made evident when Clifford and Hepzibah try to leave the house. On the train, thoughts of the house poison both the mind of Hepzibah and Clifford. The conversation of the two center around the house. Although they have physically fled from the house, emotionally they both keep themselves “prisoners” of the h ...
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Tom Sawyer
Number of Words: 832 / Number of Pages: 4
... love while talking with Becky. The two feud and do not speak. Meanwhile, the whole town is gossiping of the murder of Dr. Robinson and the prosecution of Muff Potter. A trail quickly forms and Muff is put on the stand. Tom knows he can not let the innocent Muff go to jail so as the trial comes to a close Tom testifies, proving Injun Joe guilty. This is the climax of the story. After the trial ends, the man hunt for Injun Joe begins. Tom is treated like a hero, but feels bad knowing that he broke Huck’s oath. Becky and Tom soon become friends again after Tom takes Becky’s punishment at school for bei ...
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