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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 1206 / Number of Pages: 5
... than romantic child's-play. Raiding a caravan of Arabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday School picnic, and the stolen "julery"(12) is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he quits the gang. Still, Huck ignorantly assumes that Tom is superior to him because of his more suitable family background and fascination with Romantic literature. Pap and "the kidnapping" play another big role in Huck's moral development. Pap is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the bad things t ...
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"The Gift Of The Magi": Theme Of Love
Number of Words: 413 / Number of Pages: 2
... for Della's hair. They each wanted to give a gift
related to each other's most prized possession and they both were willing
to sacrifice their most prized possession. Neither gift was useful at the
time but it was a sign of their love.
This theme not only relates to this short story but it relates to
life. For example, Mother Theresa gave her love for the world, but she was
not rich. She had more to give in the way of love. Another example was a
family who adopted many children, regardless of their handicaps, and loved
them, which was something that money cannot buy. Finally, there are many
peo ...
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Joshua And The Children
Number of Words: 505 / Number of Pages: 2
... children, and not the adults.
Once Joshua started to communicate with the children, and got to know them better the adults were amazed at how Joshua related to the children so well. He knew their names right from the second he met them, he played their games, and he even let himself lose at them too. Eventually the adults in the town began to realize that whoever this Joshua really was, he was a role model for each and every one of them.
The Muslim boy was a very important character in this book. He and one
his friends went down to the square where Joshua met with the children every day. His frie ...
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A Summary Of The Plot Of The Iliad
Number of Words: 3209 / Number of Pages: 12
... Troy without Achilles' help, is conscious of the low morale of his army resulting from the plague and from Achilles' defection. He therefore resorts to a stratagem of reverse psychology. He will propose to his soldiers that they return home. He communicates this plan to the chieftains in council, with instructions that they should prevent the men's return, if the proposal is accepted. He assembles the troops and proposes that they return to their homeland. They all eagerly accept his proposal and hasten to their ships. Odysseus has to intervene. He chastises Thersites, an insolent soldier, who attempt ...
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Forrest Gump
Number of Words: 1013 / Number of Pages: 4
... of an idiot and did not fit in with the mainstream. When he was about sixteen, a guy stopped him on his way home from “nut school” and asked him why he had not seen him around before. The next week, he was taken out of that school and placed in a public high school so he could play football. He was six foot six and weighed 245 pounds. Forrest led his team to a state championship and made the All State Football team. In addition, Forrest always says, “I got to pee.” whenever he is in front of an audience such as at the All State banquet and in front of the President when he accepts his Congressio ...
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Shoot The Teacher
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... he is.
Adam's relationship to his father seemes to vary a lot. At first Adam looks at
his father as if he was a perfect stranger.And he has all rights to do that
since they practicly hadn't seen each other att all since Adam was born. Then
some kind of a father-son friendship evolves, but I get the feeling that it's
only because they feel they have to. When Simon is accused of murder, Adam
starts to hate him. Perhaps stop caring about it, is a better way of describing
Adam's feelings towards his dad.
The author used a technique with many enviromental descriptions. He didn't use a
lot of fancy words, ...
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“A Raisin In The Sun”: Struggles
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... to sacrificing their time into working endless hours to keep the house. Ruth says, “Lena—I’ll work… I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to—but we got to move….” Through the struggle of poverty, one can still achieve success by keeping their pride and confronting the problem.
Walter often struggles with his identity and individuality as a person. He feels as if an empty life lies ahead of him with no future. Walter encounters his problem and comes up with a ...
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The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
Number of Words: 2618 / Number of Pages: 10
... is a general in Pancho Villa’s Revolutionary Army and an old American journalist, on a quest for adventure and death. The climax is reached at the death of the old gringo and the Mexican general. The story then ends with the return to the United States made by Harriet Winslow.
This story reminds me very much with the story of Pocahontas. The old gringo and the general, Tomas Arroyo, both desired Harriet Winslow’s love. In the story of Pocahontas, John Smith and Kokoum also had such feelings towards Pocahontas. In The Old Gringo, Harriet has a passionate love affair with Tomas Arroyo, ...
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In Cold Blood: Summary
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... and
enemy the next. Perry is the other charecter that I will talk about. Perry
wasn't as bad as Dick but yet he still struck me as having a bad character for
what he did to the family. It took me awhile to get a good impression of Perry.
Perry was a really nice guy and I think that he just got mixed in with the wrong
crowd. At the beginning, when they first started to kill all of the family
members, they had them tied up and Perry didn't want to kill the family but he
thought that if he acted like he was gonna kill Mr. Clutter then Dick would stop
him. Then they would let them all go but when Dick ...
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