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To Kill A Mockingbird - The Maturing Of Jem Finch
Number of Words: 1016 / Number of Pages: 4
... (11). As the novel
progresses, Jem no longer plays with his sister Scout, but he is doing so
at this point and he would appear to anyone as one child playing with his
sister. Lastly, Jem has childhood fears like most any child does. All
children have their fears or monsters. In Jem's case it i rthur Radley,
commonly known as Boo:
" Let's try and make him come out..."
Jem said if he wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up
and knock on the front door...
" It's just I can't think of a way to make him come out without him
gettin' us."... When he said that I knew ...
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The Little Prince, Siddhartha, And The Monkey God: Journey
Number of Words: 1256 / Number of Pages: 5
... heard of. Starting from the comfort of his
home on Asteriod-612, he left to travel far and wide to seek the meaning of
love. Having the opportunity to meet many people, he learns something from
each and one of them. The king represented the evil of totalitarianism,
the conceited man represents one of the evil aspects of human, the tippler
showed the sorrow and pain a person can hold, the businessman showed how a
person can possess greed, the lamplighter represents loyalty, one of the
good sides of human being, finally meeting the geographer, the Little
Prince learns curiosity and hard work. But me ...
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Pride And Prejudice, Sense And
Number of Words: 2662 / Number of Pages: 10
... her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent.” (Austen, pg5). Marianne was only seventeen and behaved as such. She was unable to hold back her feelings even in a social setting with friends. Mrs. Dashwood’s disposition was similar to Marianne’s. They were similar in the expression of emotions. After Henry Dashwood died Marianne and Mrs. Dashwood, “encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction.” (Austen, pg 5). The phrase misery loves company comes to mind to explain how they ...
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A Worn Path
Number of Words: 984 / Number of Pages: 4
... skill, and patients. Even people whom are twice as young as Phoenix have trouble doing such things. Not many other emotional force other then love is strong enough to give power to an old woman who is living only for one reason. She realizes that if she were to die then the fate of her grandson would be damned.
There are also mental obstacles that obstruct Phoenix’s journey. She has to triumph over her weariness because of her old age and her mental fatigue. As she is walking her mind plays tricks on her, such as the time when she is in the field and mistakes the scarecrow for a dark my ...
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Stranger Than Fiction Brave Ne
Number of Words: 2140 / Number of Pages: 8
... more popular the person is. A person is discouraged from having along term relationship with one person. If they have a long term relationship their loyalty to the government and Ford is in question.
And you know how strongly the DHC objects to anything intense or long and drawn out. Four months of Henry Foster without having another man - why, he’d be furious if he knew...
Sex is discussed openly in Brave New World, it is not seen as dirty, shameful or something to be discussed behind closed doors. From a young age children learn about sex and contraceptives. Children are taught to us ...
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The Yellow Wall Paper
Number of Words: 1819 / Number of Pages: 7
... no writing. They believed (along with society) that this was the best thing for people suffering from insanity. John never came out and said she was going insane. He just said she was stressed and needed rest. He actually told her not to think about her condition; it would only make things worse. So for the few weeks they were on vacation, she tried to follow his prescription except for when she would secretly write. It was a favorite passion of hers that gave her a break from society’s daily stresses. On a daily basis she was stuck in her house with no one to talk to because John would g ...
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An Analysis Of The Wretched Of The Earth
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Disalienation of Blacks." Fanon defined the colonial
relationship as one of the non recognition of the colonized's humanity, his
subjecthood, by the colonizer in order to justify his exploitation.
Fanon's next novel, "The Wretched Of The ` ``Earth" views the
colonized world from the perspective of the colonized. Like Foucault's
questioning of a disciplinary society Fanon questions the basic assumptions
of colonialism. He questions whether violence is a tactic that should be
employed to eliminate colonialism. He questions whether native
intellectuals who have adopted western methods of tho ...
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Summary Of All Quite On The Western Front!
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... it is the martyred creation wild with anguish, filled with terror and groaning." It is very loud, also, with constant bombardments and frequent attacks. "At that moment," Paul says, "it breaks out behind us, shells, roars, thunders." The screamhs of injured people is even worse then the blaring explosions and the earsplitting sound of machine gun firing because they know that the wounded soldiers could have easily been them. He says, "This appalling noise, these groans and screams penetrate, they penetrate everywhere."
The effects this place has on Paul and his fellow soldiers are devastating and ...
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The Devil's Shadow
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... and warlocks. They believed that such individuals had
the power to perform "black magic" that caused some kind of trouble. Every time
something bad happened they would blame it on witches and witchcraft.
Main Characters: One of the main characters in this story was Tituba, an
African slave woman from Barbados. She was purchased in Barbados by a merchant
named Samuel Parris. She lived in Barbados until Samuel Parris brought her to
Salem to work as his servant. She was known to practice Obeah, an African cult
sorcery. People who performed or practiced Obeah were said to be able to
predict the fut ...
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Scarlet Letter - Pearl
Number of Words: 843 / Number of Pages: 4
... to Pearl, "Child, what art thou?" Hester sees Pearl as a reminder of her sin, especially since as an infant Pearl is acutely aware of the scarlet letter A on her mother’s chest. When still in her crib, Pearl reached up and grasped the letter, causing "Hester Prynne [to] clutch the fatal token so infinite was the torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl's baby-hand" (Hawthorne 66). The torture Hester felt was reflected by the significant reminder of the sin that brought Pearl into life. Hester feels guilty whenever she sees Pearl, a feeling she reflects onto her innocent chil ...
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