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Huckleberry Finn: Lack Of Education
Number of Words: 850 / Number of Pages: 4
... me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days (p.35).” Pap has no idea that he does anything wrong, even though he is such a horrible father to his son. By showing how uneducated Pap is, and what suffering it causes Huck, Twain argues his point. A speech that Pap gives early in the novel is one of the most affective parts of this story. Pap talks about the efforts that some citizens make in the courts to remove Huck from the care of his father. He criticizes saying, “ They call this a govment! Why, just look and see what’s it’s like. Here’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s own so ...
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The Satire Of Jonathan Swift Revealed
Number of Words: 800 / Number of Pages: 3
... the forces of nature call upon him
to relieve himself. Gulliver comments to the reader that before hand he, “was
under great difficulties between urgency and shame”, and after the deed says
that he felt, “guilty of so uncleanly an action” (Norton,2051). By revealing to
the reader Gulliver's shame in carrying out a basic function of life, Swift
comments on the self imposed supremacy of English society. By humbling their
representative, the author implies that despite the belief of the English to be
the most civilized and refined society, they are still human beings who are
slaves to the same forces a ...
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Summary Of The Call Of The Wild
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... club
and learned one of the two most important laws that a dog could know in the
Klondike. The law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a
dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck learned this law
after he was beaten half to death by the man who had the club. No matter
what he tried, he just couldn't win.
Buck was sold off to a man who put him in a harness connected to
many other dogs and eventually, he learned the way of trace and trail.
Buck had to learn many things if he was to survive in this frigid land. He
had to learn to sleep under the snow and to eat ...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Test Of One Knight's Chivalric Attributes
Number of Words: 1980 / Number of Pages: 8
... the knight as worthy, the author first shows Gawain's
loyalty to his king. The Green Knight challenges anyone in the hall to the
beheading game and no one takes him up on it. Arthur, angered by the Green
Knight's taunting, is about to accept the challenge himself when Gawain steps in
saying "would you grant me this grace" (Sir Gawain, l. 343), and takes the ax
from Arthur. This is a very convenient way for the author to introduce Gawain
and also to show Gawain's loyalty to Arthur, but it seems almost too convenient.
There is an entire hall full of knights, why does Gawain alone step up? Why is
i ...
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Frankenstein: Morality
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... could hurt or kill his family.
When and if Frankenstein commits the moral sin of creating another monster
he may be rid of both monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I
will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt
monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor,
if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that
the monsters will not keep their promise and stay in Europe envoking fear
into townfolk.
The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for
the good of the world. The monsters ca ...
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Invisible Man: The Voice Of The Dispossessed
Number of Words: 1768 / Number of Pages: 7
... he first has to fight in a battle royal. This scene is shocking and nightmarish, but serves to set the tone for the surreal delivery of his speech. After the battle royal his mouth is bleeding and his eye is swollen. He's having a hard tInvisible Mane seeing the crowd. We can make symbolic connections to his Invisible Manpaired vision and how he does not see his circumstance very clearly, as well as the blood he must swallow to continue his speech. The white men ignore hInvisible Man and only occasionally ask hInvisible Man to repeat something he has said, until he stumbles over the words soc ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Secrets. We Have Them, We Hide Them, But Can We Live With Them?
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... name of her lover, comments, ". . . but Hester, the
man lives who has wronged us both! Who is he?" When he says this, he is
hinting that he is going to do something to Dimmesdale. This is why Hester
makes Chillingworth promise not to kill her lover if he finds out his
identity. Chillingworth deserves to know who slept with his wife,
although Hester should not have had to tell him. I think that Dimmesdale
should have admitted that he was Pearl's father. Today, if a priest
admitted such a crime, he would probably be sent to jail. However, in the
novel, had Dimmesdale confessed, the townsfolk wou ...
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Like Water For Chocolate: Family Relationships
Number of Words: 698 / Number of Pages: 3
... purpose of Eriko and her life. His existence itself made Eriko like her own life and told her limitation of herself after Yuichi’s real mother died. “ I still went to my part-time job, but after that I would clean house, watch TV, bake cakes: I lived like a housewife.” Even though Mikage was not related to the Tanabe family, she became one of their members after she moved in with them. Her jobs at home were cooking and housework which Eriko used to take care of. Ever since Mikage had been living with them, the relationships worked out and their house had changed into a happier place that was for ...
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Catcher In The Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, And Violence
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... Studies show
that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use
alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it
once in the year.
In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic
beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets
depressed, he turns towards alcohol. in Chapter 12, Holden is at Ernie's
night club and he got served even though he was only a minor. In Chapter
20, Holden gets drunk. The way he acted when he was drunk shows how
pathetic you are when you can not function properly.
The next topic, ...
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