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The Sky Is Gray
Number of Words: 1144 / Number of Pages: 5
... that black hat.”
The story takes place during a war, which contributes to the overall gloomy setting of the story. “I wonder when us go’n see him again…Look like he ain’t ever coming home,” James laments, showing that his father went into the war and most likely is dead. The father’s absence leaves his family without adequate food, money, or manpower.
The family’s poverty (which is partially due to the father’s absence) makes their future seem hopeless. The family lives in a poor, rural area, which was typical of black persons of their time. The family is crowded into a small, shabby home, so th ...
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Night 3
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... The line moved on past another pit where adults were being burned. After seeing these tragic events, Elie could no longer sleep. He could not believe this was happening and nobody was doing anything to stop it.
After surviving the first concentration camp, Elie and Mr. Wiesel were sent to Buna, a work camp. At Buna a Overlap (a prison guard) was tortured for sabotaging a power station. A young boy under him, called a Pipel, was also to be tortured for information on the Overlap’s accomplices. The Pipel was hung because his he would not reveal the Overlap’s accomplices. “For m ...
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The House On Mango Street
Number of Words: 496 / Number of Pages: 2
... Mango Street is also a book about a culture—that of Chicanos,
or Mexican-Americans—that has long been veiled by demeaning stereotypes and
afflicted by internal ambivalence. In some ways it resembles the immigrant
cultures that your students may have encountered in books like My Ántonia,
The Jungle, and Call It Sleep. But unlike Americans of Slavic or Jewish
ancestry, Chicanos have been systematically excluded from the American
mainstream in ways that suggest the disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
Although Cisneros uses language as a recurring metaphor for the gulf
between Mexican-Americans and th ...
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Animal Farm Comparison
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... and plain animals 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 ...
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A Dolls House 2
Number of Words: 1033 / Number of Pages: 4
... crime as that of Nora and although their motives were different, the law still regards their actions as fraudulent. In all of his ruthlessness and selfishness, Krogstad represents the desperation that Nora experience’s throughout the play as she tries to figure a way out of her desperate situation. She had gone to him in her time of need and now he has approached her in his time of despair. However, she is unable to assist him because it would mean that she would have to involve Torvald and that is the last thing she wants to happen. Thus, Krogstad retaliates by explaining to her that if he ...
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Animal Farm: Animalism Vs. Marxism
Number of Words: 1597 / Number of Pages: 6
... capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave
speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared
with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that
received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the
people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because
the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the
power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168).
Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He
represents the symbol of the Czar Nicholas i ...
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A Woman Mourned By Daughters: An Analysis
Number of Words: 448 / Number of Pages: 2
... rises in our
throats like the food you prodded in”) as they think about how they used to be
treated.
After the mother dies, the daughters are left with several
responsibilities which are discussed in the next section (Lines 22-28). These
responsibilities are not ones which the daughters would be happy to take care of.
They are so hateful toward their mother and the problems she left are only a
burden to them. They feel that they are still being pushed around even after
she is dead. Even the thought of taking care of their sick and dying father is
thought of as a chore instead of a blessing.
Th ...
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Humanity's Fall In "The Garden Of Eden"
Number of Words: 1139 / Number of Pages: 5
... that Satan is hell and that evil is his good because good has
been lost to him. (Bk. 4, lines 75, 108-110). Satan's moral state further
decays in Book nine as detailed in a soliloquy at the beginning of the book
by Satan. Satan recognizes his descent into bestiality after once being in
contention with the gods to sit on top of the hierarchy of angels. He is
unhappy with this "foul descent" and in turn wants to take out his grief on
humanity. Despite recognizing that revenge eventually becomes bitter,
Satan wants to make others as miserable as he is. It is i n destruction
that he finds comfort fo ...
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The Many Faces Of Love In Arth
Number of Words: 5113 / Number of Pages: 19
... love’s definition to the point where the only true love is the love and service of God. In order to clarify this development of the concept of love from simple human desire to a sublime commitment to the almighty, let us examine in detail the works of these perpetuators of Arthurian Legend.
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain contains an account of the events that lead up to the birth and reign of King Arthur. Geoffrey tells of Uther, the King of Britain whose longing for Queen Igerna culminates in Arthur’s conception. When Uther sees Igerna at his Easter festival, an overwhelming ...
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