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The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the woods. Back then the woods where known to everyone as the place where the Black Man lives. In this book, Dimmesdale is the dominant character that shows how guilt can rip you apart at the limbs.
People could say that Pearl really was possessed ...
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An Analysis Of The Glass Menagerie
Number of Words: 1592 / Number of Pages: 6
... that are used to express a particular
theme, idea, or character. One symbol that is used over and over is the
fire escape. This has different meanings to the characters. For Tom, it
is a place where he can escape to. It is where he goes to escape from his
mother's nagging. He is open to the outside world when he is on the fire
escape. It is his way out. For Laura, it is where the gentleman caller
enters and where the outside world is brought inside to her. But to
Amanda, the fire escape is not only where the gentleman caller enters, but
where he will come in and rescue her daughter from b ...
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An Interpretation Of Franz Kafka’s Parable “The Trees.”
Number of Words: 479 / Number of Pages: 2
... parable. It may not hold true for each individual that is reading the parable, yet it seems to be reflective of the experiences of the narrator and no one else.
These interpretations, though complicated and seemingly apparent, do not portray the atmosphere of the parable as adequately as I felt after I read it over and over again. Perhaps in the Parable’s simplicity I could be able to interpret something a little more simple and relative to the human viewpoint. Or rather than relating to human viewpoint, it might be easier to relate the parable to changes in human character. The trees could possibly ...
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Findley's The Wars: Analysis
Number of Words: 860 / Number of Pages: 4
... soldier in the First World War by another name. He went through many of the same problems and was faced with many of the same dilemmas all soldiers went through in that time. Robert had to frequently deal with the death and mutilation of his friends and fellow soldiers. He also experienced the horrors on the battlefield, for example when “chlorine and phosgene”(p.75) was used at the beginning and “mustard gas”(p.75) was unleashed on the soldiers at the end of the battle of “Ypres”(p.73) and the witnessing of men dying before your eyes. Robert also felt almost constant uncertainty about what was go ...
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The Odyssey: Telemachus And His Development
Number of Words: 891 / Number of Pages: 4
... not do anything about it. Telemachus foolishly
hopes that his father will come and clean up the mess that the suitors are
to blame for. Telemachus knows that his father would handle the situation
with the suitors in a much more aggressive manner than he does. Odysseus
would kill all of them for being treacherous beings, while Telemachus does
nothing but whine. Telemachus says "how his noble father might come back
out of the blue, drive the suitors headlong from the house, and so regain
his loyal honors, and reign over his own once more"(The Odyssey, Homer,
1980 Oxford University Press, W. Shewrin ...
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Native Son...what Does The Nov
Number of Words: 895 / Number of Pages: 4
... is evidencing enough of this fear. As bigger thinks, they are fearful of losing control. I cannot help but think about a zookeeper putting himself in danger to imprison an animal of the wild. It is basically the same thing. The zookeeper has captured some wild animal and tried to tame it but in the back of his mind he knows that he cannot. The whites in this time, in this novel, have tried to keep the blacks in a certain area and maintain control over that area, but they realize through Bigger that they are losing that control and will use his death as a model of what could happen.
The second passag ...
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Book Report
Number of Words: 1734 / Number of Pages: 7
... Digory saw someone stand up from the chair, it was uncle Andrew.
He told Polly not to touch the rings, but it was to late. She disappeared into
the air. Digory was confused. He wondered what the rings did. Did Polly just
disappear or did she go to some distant land? Uncle Andrew explained how that
one ring would take you to this land and that the other one would bring you back.
Uncle Andrew was not sure that it worked yet because the only things that
entered before were guinea pigs.
Digory put two rings in each pocket with gloves(so he would not
disappear). Two were for Polly and two f ...
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The Jungle
Number of Words: 1359 / Number of Pages: 5
... two first met. Jurgis met Ona at a horse fair, and they fell in love. They were too poor to have a wedding because Ona’s father had died. In hopes of finding freedom and fortune, they left for America, bringing several members of Ona’s family with them. As soon as Jurgis and his family arrive in America they are faced with a problem. They do not speak English and get lost. Finally, they get a cab. They are let off at the yards and bump into Jonas’s friend. He finds them a place to stay in Packingtown. It is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry is centralized. Jurgis tours the plant a ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Pearl - The Living Symbol
Number of Words: 694 / Number of Pages: 3
... of spirit, the right to keep her. It was meant, doubtless, as
the mother herself hath told us, for a retribution too; a torture to be
felt at many an unthought-of moment; a pang, a sting, an ever-recurring
agony, in the midst of a troubled joy! Hath she not expressed this thought
with the garb of the poor child, so forcibly reminding us of that red
symbol which sears her bosom?'"(110-111).
Pearls gestures, and the essence which her presence pours forth,
insinuate to the child's evil roots and the effect there of.
"the child could not be made amenable to rules. In giving her
existenc ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities Of Life
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... mortal lips more evidently than it did through his" (167).
Dimmesdale had risen through the ranks of the church and had the utmost
respect of the people of Boston. Dimmesdale's "eloquence and religious
fervor had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession"
(48). Hawthorne pointed out that Dimmesdale was a very influential and
powerful speaker, whose soft spoken words, "affected them [the townspeople]
like the speech of an angel" (48). Dimmesdale also had the ability to
preach unmatched sermons, containing messages that could touch souls. This
was the case during a service ...
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