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The Summer Of The Falcon
Number of Words: 816 / Number of Pages: 3
... the river, he grows matured
has been well trained. At the same time, June also has been trained by her
mother and, watching the things happen to Zander, June becomes mature too. She
helped her mother by carrying suitcases and boxes and walked carefully up the
stairs to her room, holding her head high as she had been taught in the dance
class.
Everybody is supposed to have their own freedom. Without freedom, one
will not live like a human being but like a toy. But, too much freedom for a
ungrown child will cause danger rather than help him grow, because he will not
know how to handle the free ...
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Siddhartha: Overcoming Misfortunes Of The Past
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... with this situation, the distance between father and son would
never be reconciled. Thus the situation Siddhartha had with Brahmin would be
repeated.
The quote can also be interpreted as a metaphor for time. Obvious
recurrences can be noted in time, suggesting that time repeats itself. Instead
of a river, another symbol can be used for time, perhaps a pool. According to
this quote, things repeat themselves in time. In a pool objects float around
until they finally make their way to the outlet. Events swirling around in time
without reconciliation are “trapped” until they are dealt with. The entire ...
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A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
Number of Words: 808 / Number of Pages: 3
... for them.
No hope for advancement prevails throughout the story. Sarty, his
brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must
spend their time working in the fields or at home performing familial
duties. Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room
where they would presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-
afternoon meal” (PARA. 55). As a consequence, poor health combined with
inadequate opportunity results in low morale. A morale which the writer is
identifying with the middle class of his times “that same quality which in
later years would caus ...
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The Stranger: Mersault
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... at her funeral, henever cries. He is, further, depicted enjoying a cup of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a smoke with a caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes to the beach and meets a former colleague named Marie Cardona. They swim, go to a movie, and then spent the night together, Later in their relationship, Marie asks Mersault if he wants to marry her. He responds that it doesn't matter to him, and if she wants to get married, he would agree. She then asks him if he loves her. To that question he responds that h ...
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Roles In Frankenstein
Number of Words: 1629 / Number of Pages: 6
... held accountable for a murder she didn't commit. Judgment is passed on her prematurely. I'll admit there was evidence against Justine, and we have the advantage of knowing that she didn't do it. Justine was not exactly a pillar of the community, so some reasonable evidence and the fact that human behavior tends to view people that are in the lower-class as being guilty of something, was all that was needed. The ideology of a being a monster is different the n looking hideous and revolting.
The characters of the Doctor and the monster act exactly opposite then would be expected of them. The lab ...
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Hamlets Impractical Thinking A
Number of Words: 1169 / Number of Pages: 5
... 14-18]
The message is clear: if the prince is to truly ease the suffering of his father’s spirit, he must avenge the murder immediately.
Hamlet initially meets his challenge with zeal, promising the Ghost that he will produce quick results:
Yea, from the table of my memory
I’ll wipe away all trivial, fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, by heaven! [1.5: 105-111]
Yet despite this stirring vow to ...
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Tom Jones
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... is actually Jenny Jones who is Tom’s mother. He sleeps with Mrs. Waters not knowing this. Fielding does not unveil this secret until the end of the novel. The major problem in the book is simple. There is a deceitful man named Blifil. He and Tom are going after the same woman, Sophia Western. Blifil is a kaniving person and besmirches the reputation of Tom. He makes up lies that hurt Tom’s chances with Sophia. Tom is also a bastard and Sophia's father does not want her to marry a bastard. But he does want her to marry Blifil because he is in line to inherit a large estate. After arguments and many ...
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Number of Words: 853 / Number of Pages: 4
... time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in love with him and begins to paint the picture.
Basil begins painting the picture, but does not tell anyone about it, including Dorian, because he knows that there is too much of himself in it. Lord Henry discovers the painting and asks Basil why he will not display it. Lord Henry thinks that it is so beautiful it should be displayed in a museum. Basil argues that the reason he will not display the ...
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Analysis Of Maltese Falcon
Number of Words: 1130 / Number of Pages: 5
... Mike from ‘The House of Games.’ Why I think Mike and Spade are similar? For one thing Brigid O’Shaughnessy gave Spade a talk/speech about him using her pretty much the same thing Ford asked Mike in the airport. Brigid’s comment (p. 211-212) “You’ve been playing with me? Only pretending you cared-to trap me like this? You didn’t-care at all? You didn’t-don’t-I-love-me?” Ford’s “You used me...” speech is strikingly similar to Brigid’s including the reaction from Mike/Spade. The two men both refused to show sympathy ...
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The Island Of Dr. Moreau
Number of Words: 1642 / Number of Pages: 6
... the humans by a large margin, believed everything their “Masters” would utter, and, therefore, followed a code of law. These laws consisted of the following: they were not to walk on all-fours, they were not to suck up their drink, they were not to eat flesh of any kind, including fish, they were not to claw the bark of trees, and they were not to chase other men, for “that is the Law”(Wells 121). The punishment of these laws was the “House of Pain,” which most brutes feared. These laws attempted to make the beasts act as if they were human being. Although, some creatures didn’t want to obey thes ...
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