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Helpless Before The Iron In Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing"
Number of Words: 655 / Number of Pages: 3
... instead chooses to go by the book (p. 169). With just one line in the story, this statement packs powerful reasoning into the mother's helplessness, showing how her immaturity and lack of knowledge is working against her and to no fault of her own.
Closely related is the narrator's single status in a time of male dominance and no charitable family organizations. The mother is acquitted from any wrong doing because her husband abandons her and Emily early in the story because he " could no longer endure" (p. 169). This act causes the mother to have to raise Emily on her own and with no experience. T ...
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Fifth Business: Search For Self Identity
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... so many people felt
for his mother - dislike for the queer and persistently unfortunate - they
attached to the unoffending son," (Davies' 40) illustrates how the town treated
Paul because of his mother's actions. Paul leaves his past because of the
actions displaced by his mother and the guilt he feels because his "birth was
what robbed her of her sanity," (Davies' 260) explains why Paul left Deptford.
However, while Boy merely tries to ignore his Deptford past, Paul tries to
create a completely new one and Paul asks Dunstan to write an autobiography that
"in general terms that he was to be a child o ...
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Inside The Character’s Of The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 850 / Number of Pages: 4
... stood publicly on the scaffold of sham to face her criticism and punishment alone. Forced to tell who fathers her child, Hester denies the town of the knowledge and replies, “Never, it is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure this agony, as well as mine. I will not speak.” The love within Hester was so deep for this man, she would basically had been willing to face any consequence put forth to her, just to keep his identity between them. Now that is what you call true love.
Unlike a bright yellow beam of sunlight, Hester is tormented form the “A” branded upon ...
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The Hobbit: Differences And Similarities Of Their World To Ours
Number of Words: 808 / Number of Pages: 3
... drank out of it suddenly very drowsy and forgetful of previous
events. All of these examples of happenings and objects found in Middle
Earth are physically impossible in a world such as ours.
Several of the organisms in the book are not known to exist on Earth.
Hobbits, of course, are fictional characters, as are dwarves, elves,
goblins, and trolls. Many species of animals are able to vocally
communicate with humans and dwarves in the novel, which is not possible on
our planet. Beorn, a human who is able to morph into other creatures at an
instant, is an excellent example of such fiction. The dragon ...
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The Right Stuff
Number of Words: 615 / Number of Pages: 3
... atmosphere and land on a dry lake bed at Edwards like any other pilot in the X series." This sentence shows many technical aspects about the craft. The sentence did not seem overloaded with details because they are spaced out. Tom Wolfe’s writing helps the reader better understand the technical aspects.
Another device used to keep the reader's attention was the intertwining plots. In the first part of the book, the life of a typical pilot is portrayed. The rest of the book is a mixture of the four primary characters. The style is as follows: first, there is an interesting action sequence followe ...
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Call Of The Wild
Number of Words: 1178 / Number of Pages: 5
... thinking about Judge Miller. He would’ve sent out a message or an investigation in order to find Buck. Because Judge Miller had a big house to live in, the book implied that he was wealthy. The trip to Seattle must of taken days and by then, Judge Miller would’ve been worried sick about his inseparable companion. As the story goes on, Buck’s first experience of snow left him feeling pretty stupid. When the train got to the station in Seattle, two men named Perrault and Francois bought him. Then, they put him on a ship called the Narwhal. At this point of the book, I was thinking about the cruelty of ...
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Social Reform In Charles Dicke
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... making this simple request, “the master aimed a blow at Oliver’s head with a ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle” (16, ch. 2). This pain and neglect caused a change in Oliver. He realized that he must rebel against the society that wishes to oppress him, in order to truly start living. In Great Expectations, Pip receives a great deal of abuse at the hands of his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery. On one occasion “I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small of the back, and having my face ignominiously ...
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"Beware Of The Fish" By Gordan Korman: A Review
Number of Words: 300 / Number of Pages: 2
... Fish'. A sturgeon is a kind of fish.) It all started when Elmer
Drimsdale, school genius invented somethingthat is sort of like a television
broadcaster. He didn't know it really worked!!!!
When Bruno and Boots found out their school was broke and needed more
money, Bruno began to think up schemes to put their school on the map.All his
attempts seemed to fail, so he vented his anger on the television broadcaster,
not knowing it actually worked. He accidently broadcasted many announcements,
declaring 'The Fish' will seek his revenge. During these broadcasts, the video
camera was focused on ...
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A Sword In The Stone
Number of Words: 868 / Number of Pages: 4
... how and when to use it. Merlyn had a very interesting philosophy, which I agree with, he told Arthur "The way to learn it's by listening to the experts." This quote leads to another of the many experiences Arthur had, the one with the hawks. This one was only so that Arthur had a chance to see other's point of view and to see what these experts (the hawks) did different.
What Merlyn tried to accomplish with these real life experiences was to show Arthur the bases of values and morals. Arthur was getting so used to learning that when he was punished in his room for three days, he wanted Merlyn to ...
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A Separate Peace - Inflouence
Number of Words: 762 / Number of Pages: 3
... and his habit of always coming up with strange things to do just for fun. Inside he is suffering with the anger and hurt of being excluded from the one thing that he wants to do most, fight in the war. This is an excellent example of how the war suddenly made the boys grow up into men. They had to face adulthood, and in order to do that, they had to become adults. Another boy in the story who was made to grow up by the war was Leper. When he sees the movies about the ski troops, he thinks that it looks fun, so he surprises everyone by enlisting. Leper did not quite know what he was getting into wh ...
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