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Arugumentative Essay On The Gl
Number of Words: 932 / Number of Pages: 4
... they had become. "Sounds to me like a fairly responsible job you would be in if you just had more get-up." (Act 1, Scene V, pg. 54.) Amanda could never show any
recognition for what her children had achieved. After Laura had dropped out of business school, Amanda was very pessimistic about her future, and was sure she
would become an "old maid." Amanda did not even think of the
possibility that Laura could be successful on her own, she failed to recognize
that maybe both Laura and Tom would be happy and successful if they were only given the change to chose what they wanted to do for themselve ...
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Catcher In The Rye And Of Mice And Men: Go West Young Man
Number of Words: 847 / Number of Pages: 4
... “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.”(Steinbeck 13) George has been saving up money to buy a piece of land for Lennie and him to live on. He finally has enough money for the land when Candy decided to join them and use his money to help pay for the land. George’s dream died when Lennie died because without Lennie, George would have too much freedom and he would spend his money carelessly instead of saving it. The death of Lennie symbolizes the death of George’s dream.
Lennie shares the same dream as George ...
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The Infinity Mirror
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... adopts Pancho's demon, and Tularecito transforms into a
disadvantaged who has been gifted with talent. Tularecito becomes a man at
the age of six, "The boy grew rapidly, but after the fifth year his brain
did not grow any more," To Franklin, Tularecito is grace, and graceless.
He is talented in all things of any physical strength, and well proficient
in the creation of beauty, and an artist in the care for life of nature.
The touch of Tularecito brings beauty, and life, and love to the world,
until he becomes enraged, (should anyone endanger what came from the touch
of his hand). Fran ...
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Juanita Platero's "Chee's Daughter": Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal About Personality
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... if he "Take care of the land and
it will take care of you."(81) Chee cared and respected the land and in
turn the land gave him food for which he would to barter back Little One
from Old Man Fat. Chee treats the land as an equal. "he felt so strongly
that just now this was something between himself and the land."(82) Chee
treats the land as an equal, respects it and it respects him by giving him
the food he needs. Where he lives is pure and real, like the earth.
The setting Old Man Fat chooses to live in reflects his
personality and values. Old Man Fat owns a small store one the side of the
highwa ...
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Summary Of 1984
Number of Words: 838 / Number of Pages: 4
... but he knew there was nothing he could do. He had heard
of an anti-Party organization called the Brotherhood, but there was no way
of knowing if it really existed. He didn¹t know if anyone felt the same way
he did, but he was sure there must be.
The Party was reconstructing society as a whole, and no one seemed
to notice. it was done so systematically and effectively, it was hard to
believe the world had ever been otherwise. Children were raised to love Big
Brother (the human face the Party took on). They were taught to turn anyone
in who showed signs of deviation from the Party, even their own pa ...
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Hesse's Siddhartha: Siddhartha's Character
Number of Words: 1087 / Number of Pages: 4
... amongst his
elders, and he was right. He chose to follow another path in life, a path
that would show him another part of how people in his world lived.
Siddhartha did not allow himself to stick to something that he could not
feel to be right, thus he could not stay and worship the gods his father
worshipped. He, as discontent people long for, set out to search for the
internal happiness that he had not redeemed yet.
As Siddhartha wandered through his multiple phases in life, he
learned overwhelming aspects. He seemed so above the common people, yet he
discovered that he became more and more ...
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The Great Gatsby: Morals And American Idealism
Number of Words: 760 / Number of Pages: 3
... and
they had a thing going. After a while they separated and Gatsby went into
the Armed Forces. Now, at the time when this story takes place in the
spring of the 1920's Daisy and Gatsby still have a thing for each other and
their growing romance develops throughout. Taking what he has got going
with Daisy for granted, like almost everything else he's got going for him,
he begins to loose what he wants the most, Daisy.
While Daisy and Gatsby are having their little affair Tom is having
one of his own with Myrtle, the wife of an auto garage owner. Theirs too
develops throughout the story.
These ...
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Irony Of The Setting In "The Lottery"
Number of Words: 1100 / Number of Pages: 4
... comfortable about the surroundings as if there was nothing wrong
in this quaint town.
Upon reading the first paragraph, Shirley Jackson describes the town in
general. The town is first mentioned in the opening paragraph where she sets
the location in the town square. She puts in perspective the location of the
square "between the post office and the bank" (196). This visualizes for the
reader what a small town this is, since everything seems to be centralized at or
near the town square. This is also key in that the town square is the location
for the remaining part of the story. The town ...
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A Separate Peace, Symbolism Wi
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... events of the trial eventually leads to his own death as he storms out into the corridor.
As Finny runs down the corridor, the marble staircase that he approaches is symbolic. Finny storms out of the Assembly Hall in which Gene's trial is being held and begins running down the corridor. At this point, Finny fully realizes that Gene intentionally shook the limb, which made Finny fall out of the tree. Finny is in denial, thus causing him to storm out of the room. When Finny reaches the marble staircase, he falls, breaking his leg once again. This injury kills him due to the doctor's mistake while sett ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Insight About Life And World
Number of Words: 921 / Number of Pages: 4
... as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." (pg.
150) Holden tried all he could to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life
in general to make it seem he was very knowing of these habits. I myself have
found me doing this at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a
group and do things similar to what others do in order to gain acceptance by
them. I smoked a cigar once with two friends of mine because they kept going on
and on about how great cigars were, but that was only once. Holden and I both
place people on levels other than our own for amount of knowledge and likeness
to our ...
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