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Billy Budd
Number of Words: 1392 / Number of Pages: 6
... Even his shipmates had noticed his flawless appearance. In the following text, Billy is appropriately named for his attributes by the narrator: "The moral nature was seldom out of keeping with the physical make. Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn the sort of honest homage the Handsome Sailor in some examples received from his less gifted associates" (6). When the text of is read through a Christian interpretation these attributes of purity and perfection point towards another person in Christi ...
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Janies Quest In There Eyes Wer
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... done spared me...a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life.”(p.14) Nanny instilled a sense of needing a man to be safe on Janie that she keeps with her all through her life. After
Nanny’s death, Janie continued to stay with Logan although she disliked him. She would have left if she didn’t need him to depend on.
Next is Joe Starks. He is a kind of salvation to Janie. He is a well-dressed black man who has worked for “white folks” all his life and has earned enough to travel to a place where black people run the town. Janie meet Joe while she was still married to Loga ...
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Shielded Consequences
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... with townspeople. He holds grudges tries to acheive revenge with people: “He was a man with many grievances…The motif of resentment is clear here. Thomas Putnam felt that his own name and the honor of his family had been smirched by the village, and he meant to right matters however he could”(14). Putnam’s background is a backdrop for all of his actions. By presenting that problems seem to find their way to him, Putnam is readily recognizable as one who would look to take advantage of the ensuing mayhem that engulfs Salem. So, Putnam accuses people of using his land and stealing his oak: “I’ll ...
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Things Fall Apart
Number of Words: 693 / Number of Pages: 3
... and all others who wanted to, to attend his school. At first everyone was reluctant to explore this new option for education. Those that chose to attend Mr. Brown’s school would not only learn how to read and write, but they would also learn how to fight back against those that would come in and try to conquer them. With this insight and the kind “gifts of singlets and towels” (pg.181) from Mr. Brown, more people flooded into his school. Mr. Brown’s school not only taught them how to speak and read in another tongue, but “from the very beginning religion and education went hand in hand” (pg.182). M ...
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Symbolism In Ethan Frome
Number of Words: 463 / Number of Pages: 2
... the end and the escape of two lives. Even though Mattie an Ethan were not killed by the sled crash, that was their purpose. The Elm tree also symbolizes strength and courage. After the crash, the Elm tree was still standing, while Ethan and Mattie were terribly injured. If Ethan was a stronger person he would not have crashed into the tree with Mattie. He would have had the strength to say “no” in the first place. Zeena who was once a hypochondriac, recovered, and now she takes care of Mattie and Ethan.
“It was a miracle, considering how sick she was-but she seemed to be r ...
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A Portrayel Of Women In The Or
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... was held in high esteem for such craftiness, yet intelligence and wit, while exulted in a man, are threatening characteristics in a woman. In the kingdom, Clytaemnestra has been having an open affair with Aegisthus. The chorus, who acts as the voice of the common man, and therefore the voice of morality, condemn her for this affair even though it is common practice for men in ancient Greece to have many extramarital affairs themselves. In this way Aeschylus condones the double-standards thrust upon the women of the time, but he also, perhaps unwittingly, sets up Clytaemnestra as the antagonist o ...
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Brave New World Summary
Number of Words: 2680 / Number of Pages: 10
... In fact, the functions of the Hatchery are hard to understand because Huxley has the Director throw large amounts of "scientific data" at you without giving you time to figure out their meaning. Huxley thereby undermines one of his intentions here- to use the Director as a cartoon character who expounds some of the scientific ideas that the author wants you to think about. He also wants to satirize a world that makes such a know-it-all important and powerful. Sometimes the real world gives such people power, too. You may meet scientists like the Director in college or businesspeople like him at work ...
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Beloved
Number of Words: 848 / Number of Pages: 4
... she has a permanent smile frozen on her face. Robbing the slave of the power of speech is a powerful way to make him or her feel like a beast. Paul D feels even less than the rooster that struts around him as he sits, mute and chained. Baby Suggs recognizes the importance of speech. She often tells her parishioners to love their mouths. Throughout , speechlessness defines the former slave's reaction to her and her past. For Sethe, the past is an unhealed wound that haunts her like the ghost of her dead daughter. Her daughter, Denver, lives resentfully in the social isolation of 124. Her knowledge o ...
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Animal Farm: Allegory Of Stalinism
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... and, as in all revolutions, the planning begins in euphoria and idealism.
No voice is raised to ask relevant question or call for a considered debate.
The appearance of rats at the meeting raises a question: ”Are rats comrades?” A
democratic vote results in a ringing ”Yes!”. And Old Major proclaims, ”No animal
must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are
all brothers. All animals are equal!”
It was however generally understood that the pigs were the cleverest of the
animals, so the work of organising for the Rebellion fell naturally to them.
Especially two pigs take ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 1065 / Number of Pages: 4
... Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life,
finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with
them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs
away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable
with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of
manners, religion, and education that the Widow and her sister impose upon
him.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom
is a boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life
of a ...
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