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Red Badge Of Courage - Henry Fleming
Number of Words: 768 / Number of Pages: 3
... Henry
started to think about the battles in a different way, a more close and
experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle
when duty calls. He felt like a servent doing whatever his superiors told
him.
When the regement finally discovers a battle taking place, Jim gives
Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that this will be
his first and last battle. The regiment managed to hold off the rebels for
the first charge, but then the rebels came back like machines of steel with
re-enforcements, driving the regement back. One man started to flee, then ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The Symbolic Scaffold
Number of Words: 411 / Number of Pages: 2
... Here, we find that the Reverend’s guilt over his sin becomes too much to bear alone. Dimmesdale goes to the scaffold to confess to God. Soon after, Hester and Pearl arrive, and join Dimmesdale on the scaffold. A meteor that appears and leaves an image of the scarlet A across the sky illuminates the three. This scene is symbolic because it shows how the Reverend wishes to confess his sins and overcome them. The final scaffold scene takes place at the end of the novel. Once more, Dimmesdale joins Hester and Pearl on the scaffold. Hester’s lover confesses his sins to the townspeople and revea ...
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The Adventures Of Huck Finn: Jim Is A Hero
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... to Jim about the dead man, but Jim will not allow it since he does
not want to reveal the truth about Pap to Huck. This is a second and more
direct approach that is used in the story in order to show this same point.
Jim is also basically a good person. Although he is ignorant, he
knows that it is a good thing for him to show Huck that he has worth so
that Huck can think of him as an equal. This is a tough idea for Huck to
realize because at this point in time he still thinks of Jim in terms of
being a slave, and not on equal footing with him. This is shown by Jim's
statement of his own self wort ...
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Les Miserables: Jean Proves That He Is Trustworthy
Number of Words: 611 / Number of Pages: 3
... In another incident Jean Valjean, receives a exclusive letter from
Marius, a young man that is in love with Cossete. The letter is addressed
to Cossete, and even though Jean Valjean regrets the possibility of Cossete
leaving him, he turns the letter over to her. Jan Valjean proves that he
does not have a mind of a criminal and could be trustworthy.
Jean Valjean shows that he does not care about himself, and that he
has only a dedication on helping others. When Jean Valjean first enters
the city of M____ sur M____ he goes to drastic measures by pulling two
children from a burning house. Througho ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird - Class
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... farmers who struggled to make ends meet. The
Cunninghams, Dolphus Raymond, and the mysterious Radley family represented
this group. The third class of Ma ycomb County were the " white trash".
The Ewells, who lived at the dump, and relied on welfare for survival, were
members of this group. It is important to note that the difference between
the second and third class was not a financial one. Both w ere "poor".
The difference, however, was in the way they interacted in society. The
Cunninghams, unlike the Ewells, refused to accept charity and paid back
their debts with what little they h ...
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Analysis Of "A Raisin In The Sun"
Number of Words: 365 / Number of Pages: 2
... can't get ahead in this world.” He also believes it is so much
harder for black people to get anywhere that he would lose all of the money
Mama had given him, trying to spread it around getting the businesses going.
The predominately white workers are trying to keep it predominately white.
The Black Americans are predominately the most prejudice ethnic
group in the story. They are not only prejudice against each other, they
discriminate against each other's gender, business affiliation, and beliefs.
Walter also talks about Bennie becoming a doctor, and being a woman. Bennie
is Prejudice agains ...
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Candide
Number of Words: 1513 / Number of Pages: 6
... name Voltaire, which later became synonymous for horatian sarcasm towards the aristocracy of France, whether it was truly his work or not. This is how Voltaire once again found himself in the Bastille. Falsely accused of the authorship of a politically abrasive poem, he was imprisoned. Once released Voltaire was forced to travel to England, but returned to France three years later, in 1729, and began his prolific career. One of Voltaire’s most notable pieces is , published in 1759. It is a satire of many things, especially war, religion and those who hold optimism through a life of tereble hardships ...
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The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber
Number of Words: 849 / Number of Pages: 4
... his stomach hollow feeling, wanting to find the courage to tell Wilson to
go on and finish off the lion without him." As the men enter the tall grass,
the lion came charging at them. The next thing he knows, Macomber is "running
wildly, in panic in the open, running towards the stream." Wilson finishes the
lion off with two shots from his rifle. Unfortunately for Francis, his wife has
seen the whole ordeal. Later that night, as Macomber lies on his cot, he knew “
it was neither all over nor was it the beginning. It was exactly as it
happened…and he was miserably ashamed of it.”
About thre ...
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Fallen Angles
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... they have a weekend pass and it grants them 48 hours of freedom. They go to Saigon and have a few drinks and generally have fun, before they have to report back to their unit, which is stationed in the northern highlands of South Vietnam. When they return, they are happy that they made good use of their weekend passes in Saigon.
The next day, Peewee and Perry are sent on another patrol, but this time they are sent in by helicopter. They are sent to an area known to have active Vîet Công troops in the vicinity. It does not take long for the patrol to run into a huge unit of Vîet Công in a rice pad ...
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With The Guest By Andrew Camus: Daru
Number of Words: 840 / Number of Pages: 4
... him untied, even
though there is a chance that the Arab could try to do Daru harm. When Daru
lets the Arab eat at the same table as him, we see that he does not think
himself to be superior to the prisoner (pg-207). Near the end of the story we
can tell that Daru is a generous man. He gives the Arab food and money and the
choice for freedom or for prison. Overall we could say that Daru is a kind man
which could be considered very rare for that day and age (considering his
nationality also).
Daru is dramatized, consistent, motivated, and plausible. He is
dramatized because the author shows hi ...
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