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The Adventures Of Huck Finn: Satire
Number of Words: 471 / Number of Pages: 2
... very superstitious with a rattlesnake skin. Earlier in the book, Huck touches a rattlesnake skin, and Jim stops him from handling it before he gets bad luck: "And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet, He said he druther see the new moon over his left shoulder as much as a thousand times than take up a snake skin in his left hand." (53)
Chapter XXV, All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle spotlights the use of satire in grief. Here, the Duke and the King pretend to be William and Harvey Wilks, the deceased Peter Wilks's brothers, so they co ...
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King Lear
Number of Words: 848 / Number of Pages: 4
... executes this "living will." Before he allots the shares, Lear asks each daughter to make a profession of her love for him in order to receive her entitlement. Goneril and Regan waste no time professing love for their father, but Cordelia is speechless. She loves her father as any daughter should, no more and no less. Lear is outraged by what he sees as her lack of devotion. He cuts Cordelia out of her share and banishes her. Her share is divided between Goneril and Regan. Lear gives them everything but keeps a retinue, a following of 100 knights who will accompany him as he alternates monthly visit ...
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The Great Gatsby's Theme
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... never succeeds in her attempt to find a place for herself in Tom's class. When it comes to a crisis, the rich stand together against all outsiders.
Myrtle's condition, of course, is a weaker reflection of Gatsby's more significant struggle. While Myrtle's desire springs from social ambition, Gatsby's is related more to his idealism, his faith in life's possibilities. Undoubtedly, his desire is also influenced by social considerations; Daisy, who is wealthy and beautiful, represents a way of life which is remote from Gatsby's and therefore more attractive because it is out of reach. However, social co ...
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All The King's Men: Man As A Slave To Knowledge
Number of Words: 1344 / Number of Pages: 5
... stench of the
shroud. There is always something (49).” He is saying that everyone has
something to hide, a skeleton in the closet. Stark knows that everyone has
some bit of knowledge to hide, and that the knowledge makes man a slave as
he tries to hide the bit of knowledge. Stark often wields the power of
knowledge to enslave others to do his bidding. He finds the dirt on someone,
the secret bit of dark knowledge, and then has them do his bidding. When a
certain Byram B. White tried to get rich, Stark had him sign an undated
resignation form to hold him in his power. Willie said himself, “Well, I
fixed ...
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Catcher In The Rye 3
Number of Words: 581 / Number of Pages: 3
... got ready for a good night sleep, until Holden woke up to Mr. Antolini petting his head! This freaked Holden out. " I wondered if I was wrong about Mr. Antolini making a flitty pass at me " (194).
Holden met a friend who always kept her kings in the back row, what he loves about her. Jane to Holden she was a Goddess! It seemed like every guy wanted her. Stradlater wanted Jane and Holden hated it. He got so pissed off when he found out that the two of them went and sat some where a little too comfortable for Holden's liking! " Give her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car!" (43). Then it really got to Hol ...
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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation
Number of Words: 1323 / Number of Pages: 5
... disgust filled my heart"(56). He
overlooks the seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when
something is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he
thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.
Another physical aspect of the monster which shows a fault in Frankenstein is
its immense size. The reason that Frankenstein gives for creating so large a
creature is his own haste. He states that ,"As the minuteness of the parts
formed a great hinderance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first
intention, to make a being gigantic in stature ... ...
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Hester Prynne Sanction
Number of Words: 1443 / Number of Pages: 6
... ideals have been implanted in us, as the
famous biblical “eye for an eye” concept seems to be society's manner with which
we punish criminals. This is an interesting case though, because corporations
don't simply have one individual they can place the blame upon. Rather, they are
comprised of hundreds or even thousands of people, and therefore there is no
extensive punishment prosecutors can place upon everybody who is employed by a
corporation. In a famous case in Indiana involving Ford Pinto whose “cost
benefit analysis regarding the redesign of the gas tank on the Pinto” cost a
person hi ...
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The Color Of Water: When Tragedy Strikes
Number of Words: 1188 / Number of Pages: 5
... white folk, because it didn’t sound so Jewish ”(80). Ruth’s attempt at acceptance is in vein, however; it never stops the children from teasing her.
When Ruth leaves Suffolk and moves in with her black, soon- to- be husband Dennis, intolerance follows her like a hungry dog following the scent of a steak. Dennis and she live in a predominantly black neighborhood in which Ruth is less than welcome. Many black people dislike her simply because she is white. Once, when Ruth is in the hallway of her apartment building, a black woman punches her so hard that she falls to the floor. When Dennis c ...
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Farwell To Arms
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... place too long. It had a very good story line, which was a love story that ended up in a tragedy. The main character's wife got pregnant and she was off to have her baby when problems started occurring. They had to have a caesarean, and the baby dies, and when the mother of the child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it was over for his wife and he was right.
From the beginning of the book until the end, the action was up. Ever since the front page Henry was traveling around to different towns so it was not boring for the reader. That made it very interesting for the reader because it was al ...
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Similarities And Differences Between The Odyssey And Oedipus The King
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... Penelope, Odysseus' wife. In Oedipus the King, a wild plague has been
killing a big population of the city-state of Thebes . This was a big
conflict that the people in Thebes turned to King Oedipus to solve. He
helped the city before by solving the riddle of the Sphinx and they needed
help from him once more. During this plague, blight on the crops was
present, children stillborn, women dying after giving birth, and cattle
were sickened.
The main characters in both epic poems were also very similar. Both
King Oedipus and Odysseus were well-respected leaders of their cities. This
respect is shown ...
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