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Suffer The Little Children - S
Number of Words: 645 / Number of Pages: 3
... the ideal teacher, who is efficient at her job and knows how to keep her students quite in class, when actually she is the one who has a disturbing behavior and ends up surprising her colleague in school when she is found about to kill one more child. King also used an interesting style to introduce a new character to the story: Buddy Jenkins was his name, psychiatry was his game. As soon as we read it, we immeadiately know he will have a destiny such as Sidleys because that was exactly the way she was introduced (Miss Sidley was her name, teaching was her game). The writer also uses italic writing t ...
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Cry, The Beloved Country: John And Stephen
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... prison"(39), showing his view that while John
may speak for a cause, he will not go as far as to be put in jail for it.
Later, the narrator of the story says:
There are some men who long for martyrdom, there are those who know
that to go to prison would bring greatness to them, these are those who
would go to prison not caring if it brought greatness to them or not. But
John Kumalo is not one of them. There is no applause in prison. (185-186)
This further shows John Kumalo as a selfish man, acting for his own
good rather than the good of the people which he claims to represent. John ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Darkness Illuminated
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... words, we see the Governor's house as Hester sees it: "...though
partly muffled by a curtain, it [the hallway] was more powerfully illuminated by
one of those embowed hall windows..." (Hawthorne 101). One can envision the
brilliant sunlight streaming though the immense window, slicing through the
facade of the Governor's feigned sanctity. Is not simplicity one of the
fundamental tenets of the Puritan faith? Yet Bellingham, the very person that
passed judgment on Hester and her sin is laid bare to the reader's opened eye.
Here, light shows Governor Bellingham to be corrupt due to his improvident
l ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Analysis Of The Title
Number of Words: 1072 / Number of Pages: 4
... Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to
Scout's primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that
she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree.
She never gave anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout
escorts Arthur home and stands on his front porch, she sees the same
street she saw, just from an entirely different perspective. Scout learns
what a Mockingbird is, and who represents one.
Arthur Radley not only plays an important role in developing Scout
and Jem, but also helps in developing the novel. Boo can be divi ...
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Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood
Number of Words: 846 / Number of Pages: 4
... At the beginning of the story he speaks of how his
fathers "...wolflike independence..."(145) causes his family to depend on almost
no one. He believes that they live on their own because of his fathers drive
for survival. When Sarty mentions the way his father commands his sisters to
clean a rug with force "...though never raising his voice..."(148), it shows how
he sees his father as strict, but not overly demanding. He seems to begin to
feel dissent towards his father for the way he exercises his authority in the
household. As we near the end of the story, Sarty's compliments become sparse
and h ...
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"Haircut"
Number of Words: 535 / Number of Pages: 2
... his desire, Ms. Julie Gregg, had the hots for the new town doctor, Doc Stair. So in his eyes he had to make one of them look bad in order to boost himself up. He called Julie on the phone and impersonated the doctor, urging Julie that she had to come to his office at once, knowing the doctor was out of town, because he had something he needed to tell her at once. Julie bought into it and went to the office just to find no one there and to heed the abuse of Jim and his cronies as they made fun of her all the way home.
Jim also made fun of a boy in the town, Paul Dickson, that had an accident and i ...
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The Black Cat Literary Critici
Number of Words: 739 / Number of Pages: 3
... cat were I would say inhuman. No--at least I think-- normal human being would caught his own loved cat and cut his eye out. At this point reader can clearly see that narrator has some mental problems. But once again the story surprises us by shocking act of the narrator. In cold blood he takes his cat hung him on a tree.
The resolution to the conflict is very simple. Since the character got ride of the Pluto, he felt that he was missing something. He simply bought a new cat. Therefore instead of tranquilization he found his new pet even worse enemy than Pluto. Soon the cat becomes his obsession ...
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Loss Of Innocence
Number of Words: 1603 / Number of Pages: 6
... of these novels demonstrate that a is inevitable and is caused by a lack of care in a society to prevent the youth in that society from growing up not trusting the world. This is done through a child seeing his father beating his mother, a child who finds out Santa Claus is not real, a worker whose coworker takes credit for his ideas or even a child who is abused by someone.
The novel Montana 1948, revolves around David Hayden's life and his while growing up. David's continues until the end of the novel when he is in his late forties. David grows up being faced with many difficult situations. An ex ...
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Huck's Struggle Between Morals
Number of Words: 2219 / Number of Pages: 9
... their trust and
friendship for each other. However, at the same time he must leave behind
societies ways... getting “sivilized, money, and “family.”
Along Jim's and Huck's “adventure,” they have many conversations along the
way. These conversations consist about their freedom, money, and superstition.
In the story, they both have their own opinions about various things, like
Solomon.
"'Well, but he was the wisest man, anyway; because the widow she told
me so, her own self."
"I doan' k'yer what de widder say, he warn't no wise man nuther. He
has some er de dad ...
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Ma Joad - The Leader
Number of Words: 722 / Number of Pages: 3
... family openly
express their doubts or fears. Ma may be just as frightened as the rest of
the family, but she always maintains a front for the rest of the family.
When Ma had fears, "She had practiced denying them in herself." This
extraordinary self-control helps to keep the Joad unit together and alive.
Ma, like all leaders, must be forceful for things to work in her
favor. Numerous situations occur in which Ma must be forceful or
relinquish her role as the head of the family. Her forceful leadership
occurs once when the family, without Ma's consent, agrees to leave Tom and
Casey behind to fix ...
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