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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 551 / Number of Pages: 3
... washed away at the Front, where they came to realize that order is what matters. One of the men responsible for this was their drill sergeant, Corporal Himmelstoss, who was a short, mean man. He would force the men to do unnecessary work and torture them with pointless assignments. Paul, Tjaden, Kropp, and Westhus were especially picked on by Himmelstoss, but they were secretly defiant. The training that they received was especially harsh, but it is what has saved them in the trenches. We now see the background that has shaped the men’s ideals so far.
Paul goes to visit Kemmerich at his hospital. ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Mobs
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... men came with an intent of charging
Tom Robinson guilty. No where did it say the bias jury initially had a
guilty verdict in mind, but with the attitude towards blacks in Maycomb
County, Lee made it bluntly obvious that they had no intention of
pronouncing Tom innocent. In the book Atticus made it very clear, "In our
courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man
always wins." Just as in the horde outside the jailhouse, another member
of the Cunningham family played the outsider of this group. Atticus later
referred to the unnamed Cunningham, "You might like to know ...
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A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... calls Gene "a
maimed son-of-a-bitch," Gene surfaces from the Naguamsett feeling grimy, dirty
and in desperate need of a bath (71). Much like the clean, refreshing water of
the Devon and the ugly saline water of the Naguamsett, Gene's carefree attitude
of the summer session vastly differs from the angry, confused attitude of the
winter session.
Likewise, the two sessions, the summer and winter, give a different
sense of feeling toward school and life at Devon School. The summer session
allows Finny to use his creativity. Finny invents blitzball and founds the
Super Suicide Society of the Summer ...
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John Updike Aandp
Number of Words: 1222 / Number of Pages: 5
... The girls were ignorant of Sammy's local culture as they seemingly had spent the day at the beach, and had not lived in his town nor spent much time in it at all.
"The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it"(79). John Updike has Sammy describe these girls in such great detail in order to point out there untouched nature. These girls did not wear any make up, and they barely had any clothes on at all. They had nothing to hide themselves from tho ...
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The Importance Of Dreams In Th
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... up a crowbar and battered out by brains- than go back mornings. . . For sixty-five dollars a month I give up all that I dream of doing and being ever!” This statement itself proves that Tom believes all of his dreams are lost because of his situation. Tom wishes for nothing more than to quite his job, and live a life of adventure. “I go to the movies because I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.” Tom does eventually leave home at the end of the play to join the Merchant Marines.
To further the point that this is ...
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The Pearl Greed And Its Abunda
Number of Words: 775 / Number of Pages: 3
... triggered Kino’s breakdown. Because Kino was exceedingly possessed by the prosperity the pearl might possibly produce for him, he even assaulted Juana, as a result of her recognizing that the pearl and the greed it caused was gradually diminishing Kino and her community’s lucidness. Although Kino assumed that selling the pearl would improve his family’s level of affluence; his dreams, and goals entirely counted on the infinitesimal detail that the pearl would bring opulence. His ravenousness blinded him to the actuality that he would be defrauded of his wealth, which would inev ...
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Courage In Individuals In "On Being Seventeen", "The Most Dangerous Game" And "Giving Blood"
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... elementary school it was not
easy....In high school I made honors and even won a letter on the cross
country team.Ó He put his fears aside to do what had to be done. To learn
the best he could in school for later life. The next story deals with
courage in another way. Physically.
Mr. Rainsford from The Most Dangerous Game is a sailor who is
shipwrecked on an island inhabited by only one person. A bestial hunter.
During Rainsford's stay he becomes the hunted. He has to put his life on
the line in order to escape. ÒHe stopped, held his breath. The baying of
the hounds stopped abbru ...
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Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
Number of Words: 469 / Number of Pages: 2
... was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18).
The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine whose perverse similarity to a trained killer-dog. It was improves by a refined technology that allows it to inexorably track down and capture criminals by stunnning them with a tranquilizer. This hound would be very useful in today’s society.
The novel reflects censorship because the people can not read books or express themselves. Instead ...
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Goethe In Faust And Shelley In Frankenstein: Still The Wretched Fools They Were Before
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... or physical relationships with the outside world. As Faust strives to
become the "over man" through knowledge, he realizes that books will not
satisfy his curiosity and that maybe sensual pleasures will. Therefore, in
the process of creating his new life, Faust, becomes distant and unconcerned
with all reality and humanity around him.
Do not fancy anything right, do not fancy that I could
teach or assert what would better mankind or what might
convert. I also have neither money nor treasures, nor
worldly honors or earthly pleasures; no dog would want
to liv ...
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Grapes Of Wrath 5
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... As the turtle is walking down the highway, a truck approached him. The driver saw the turle, and deliberately swerved to hit him. The driver of the truck symbolizes the owners, who deliberately try to strike down the migrants. The turtle continues steadily on westerly; the same direction of the migrant people.
Good is personified by the poor people. When Ma Joad was talking to the storekeeper who had lent her money she said "If you're in trouble or hurt or need-go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help-the only ones" (Steinbeck 514). It is ironic in order to get something someo ...
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