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A Tale Of Two Cities: Characters Are "Recalled To Life"
Number of Words: 464 / Number of Pages: 2
... instance of someone being "recalled to
life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has recently
switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine.
While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I
do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I
have ever known." Through these words Sydney recognizes that by sacrificing
his life for Darnay, a loved one of Lucie, he will be doing the best thing that
he has ever done and can do. Sydney is finally satisfied with himself, he is
no longer a drunken ...
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A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote
Number of Words: 1027 / Number of Pages: 4
... a deposit or a ten-cent
withdrawal on Saturdays. She allots Buddy ten cents to go to the picture show
each Saturday. Sook has never visited one before, but asks Buddy to go instead
to come back and tell she the stories of the picture show. After dinner, Sook
and Buddy retire to a room in a faraway part of the house where her sleep's at
night, to count their treasure. When finished counting, Buddy declares the
total was thirteen dollars. Sook, being a very superstitious person, throws a
penny out of the window. The next morning Sook and Buddy go to town to purchase
the necessary ingredients fo ...
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Of Mice And Men: Stereotypes And Discrimination
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... not wanted at all, Which roots to loneliness.
Lennie is not so much stereotyped, but rather trapped because of his size. Because Lennie is so big, Curley thinks he has to prove something by beating up Lennie. Lennie gets on Curley’s bad side when he didn’t do anything wrong. Lennie is then forced to fight. " ‘I don’t want no trouble,’ he said plaintively. ‘Don’t let him sock me, George.’ " p.32. This is not an everyday discrimination like racism. It’s one of those circumstantial incidents that was described in quote in the introduction. This is an excellent example of how John Steinbeck uses ...
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How Huck Uses His Creativity, Luck, And Wits To Get Rid Of The Pits
Number of Words: 957 / Number of Pages: 4
... them into a canoe. After that, he went into the
woods and caught a wild hog. He brought the hog in the Cabin, and
slaughtered it, making sure that it left behind a pool of blood on the hard
packed dirt ground. He disposed of the dead hog by throwing it in the
river to float downstream. Huck also opened a sack of corn and left a
trail leading to a shallow lake nearby. Before leaving the cabin, he
filled another sack with rocks, and made a path toward the river. This was
done to simulate the trail of the robbers dragging their bounty to the
river bank. Huckleberry hoped that pap would think he ...
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Charles Dickens' Hard Times
Number of Words: 618 / Number of Pages: 3
... she soon returned. Her returning made the “blackpool” started by Stephen’s co-workers, accept him even more. She was nothing like when they first married. She was now a drunk whom he did not care for anymore. The woman he did care for, Rachael, was the women he wished to marry now.
Rachael, who, “showed a quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes”, was Stephen’s dream. he wished to marry her and she wished to marry him but two problems stood in the way. In order to marry Rachael he had to divorce his wife. Stephen went to Bounderby to ask for help on gett ...
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Moby Dick
Number of Words: 10442 / Number of Pages: 38
... peculiar view of things? The Greek and Elizabethan dramatists or Racine or even the poet of Job could count on an audience culturally predisposed through myth, theater, or racial view to accept at once a drama of direness. Hawthorne had to make his own audience, to lead it by easy stages, as it were, into the dark idea. Hence the familiar, reassuring tone of the Custom House introduction, where the only dire events involve a certain goose of tragic toughness and the routine political loss of a job not worth holding. Hence the whimsical apology, in advance, for the "stern and sombre aspect" of Hester's ...
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The Awakening: Edna's Path Through Life
Number of Words: 2222 / Number of Pages: 9
... wanted her to doshe got married and left her fantasies and dreams
in the depths of the shadows. "The acme of bliss, which would have been a
marriage with the tragedian, was not for her in this world. As the devoted
wife of a man who worshiped her, she felt she would take her place with a
certain dignity in the world of reality, closing the portals forever behind
her upon the realm of romance and dreams." (P. 24) After marriage, hidden
around the curvatures of the path, were the expectations of motherhood and
being a devoted mother, after all "if it was not a mother's place to look
after child ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
Number of Words: 535 / Number of Pages: 2
... to do by an adult, Joe. She does it without even questioning
herself, which is why I think that she loses the part of her voice that she has
discovered by running away from Logan. At times, she has enough courage to say
no to Joe, but he always has something to say back that discourages Janie from
continuing her argument. But, in my opinion, Janie does not lose her will to
find herself and it might have even become stronger because the reader can see
that Janie is not happy with the way things are now and that she will probably
want to change them in the future.
When Joe dies and Janie marries T ...
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What Makes Up A Work Of Literature
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... that Dimmesdale
was the father of Pearl, Hester's daughter. But he wants to torment and
take revenge on the Reverend Dimmesdale, who suddenly became sick.
Chillingworth uses his knowledge of the human mind and of medicine to
deduce that Dimmesdale's sickness lay not in his body, but in his mind: He
was holding a secret, a deep, dark, secret, that was destroying him. By
asking Dimmesdale if he were hiding something, Chillingworth angered
Dimmesdale and tried to torment him. This insight into human behavior,
that one's physical attributes can be determined by a mental condition,
makes The Scarlet L ...
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The Other Side
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... that she is still a very able lady at her age.
When the woman crosses the river she begins her jaunt to the house she once lived in. There are a few lines in the story that clue the reader in that it has been a very long time since she has been back here. She explains, " The road was much wider than it used to be but the work had been done carelessly (358)." She also says as she approaches the house, " It was strange to see a car standing in front of it (359)." These couple sentences make appear that she grew up here a long time ago and is quite old by now.
The last line of the last paragraph is ...
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