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The Deerslayer: View Of The Native Americans
Number of Words: 2277 / Number of Pages: 9
... from two men who had lost their way, and were searching in different
directions for their path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is
symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again
through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest
into the little clearing we are face to face with... two opposing moral visions
of life which are embodied in these two woodsmen" (cited in Long, p. 121).
Critic Donald Davie, however, disagrees. His contention is that the
plot is poorly developed. "It does not hang together; has no inte ...
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Hiroshima
Number of Words: 1094 / Number of Pages: 4
... many innocent civilians are killed. Proponents of nuclear armament argue that one massive show of force results in fewer casualties overall compared to prolonged ground war, but the use of the bomb is still inhumane. In the case of Hiroshima, staticians said that “at least 100,000 thousand people had lost their lives” and 37,245 had been injured(81). The bombing of Hiroshima also produced radiation over a widespread area. Twenty percent of the victims killed died from radiation exposure. It was reported that 25% died from direct burns caused by the bomb and 50% died from other bomb related injur ...
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Analysis Of The Epilogue Of Th
Number of Words: 580 / Number of Pages: 3
... most interesting part of this monologue is what Shakespeare himself is saying. "Now that my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own" means, now my plays are over, and it's no longer my characters speaking. The "Island" or stage Shakespeare is on is now "bare" and it is time for "you" the audience to release Shakespeare and his actors from this play with the "help of [y]our good hands." Shakespeare was not only being released for the performance of the play, he was being release from his career as a playwright. But there are more reasons to clap besides the obvious reason that ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
Number of Words: 497 / Number of Pages: 2
... of all civilized life.
The most important symbol which is carried throughout the novel is
undoubtedly the scarlet letter A. It initially symbolizes the immoral act of
adultery but by the end of the novel the "A" has hidden much more meaning than
that. The "A" appears in many other places than on the chest of Hester Prynne.
It is seen on the armor breastplate at Governor Bellingham's mansion. At night
while Dimmesdale is standing on the scaffold he sees a bright red letter A in
the sky. While Pearl is playing near the bay shore she arranges some grass in
the form of an A on her own b ...
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An Analysis Of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" And "The Devil And Tom Walker
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... they
take place in remote areas.
Next we have the husband wife relationship in both cases. Now Rip
was sort of a say nothing do nothing when it came to his house and wife.
His wife would bad mouth him and yell at him, but Rip wouldn't do much
anyway. He would just go off and sleep. Now Tom and his wife on the other
hand would battle to the death. Tom would yell and scream and so would his
wife. Tom would hide money and so would his wife. In both of the stories
they wife husband relationship would be a turning point in both cases.
And last the way they both got what they wanted. In Rips case he ...
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Canterbury Tales 3
Number of Words: 689 / Number of Pages: 3
... where the powers of both dominance and submission are absent. She believes that her relationship can be successful with out these two characteristics. Yet, she is leaving out another important quality of a wonderful relationship: giving. This aspect of a relationship is also evident with the knight and the hag. When they are first wed to each other, neither one is happy. They are living together separately. They are indifferent to each other. A happy relationship will never result from a situation where spouses are not willing to give and become dependent on one another.
It is only with the fi ...
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The Sun Also Rises: Thoughts Of The Lost Generation
Number of Words: 1068 / Number of Pages: 4
... with Brett Ashley, he loses his previous ideas of romanticism being absurd. Since their previous relationship of being lovers had failed they now tried a relationships of being best friends. As this new relationship develops, Jake and Brett draw back when the other becomes too emotional. “The street was dark again and I kissed her. Our lips were tight together and then she turned away and pressed against the corner of the seat, as far away as she could get. Her head was down” (Hemingway). The reader thus concludes that Jake contains an internal conflict between his behavior around his frien ...
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The Outsiders
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... because Soda could have any girl he wanted. Steve Randle was seventeen years old. He was tall and thin.
Then there was Two-Bit Mathews. His real name was Keith and he couldn’t remember Two-Bit was the oldest of the Greasers. He is six feet tall and was very proud of his long sideburns. Two-Bit never stopped making wisecracks or funny remarks. He wasn’t big with the cops. Keith, a.k.a. Two-bit loved to shoplift. AT eighteen he was still a junior and had not learned anything.
Ponyboy’s idea of a real character in the gang was Dallas Winston, also known by the name as Dally. He did not like hair ...
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1984: The Party Has Many Slogans
Number of Words: 1818 / Number of Pages: 7
... of humanity as the citizens that it governs. The people are supposed to
feel more comfortable with a ruling party that is just like them. The billboard
is also found on every landing and every streetcorner. The overbearing number
of posters is a way for the Party to continuously remind its citizens of its
presence and ingrain the message into the people's conscience and subconscience
minds.
"Big Brother" is another name for the Party. It's an ironic choice of
words for the Party's second name. First, the notion of a “big brother”
connotes a child's big brother. One thinks of comfort and pro ...
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The Glass Menagerie: Amanda Wingfield Is Annoying
Number of Words: 380 / Number of Pages: 2
... a young woman. She kept talking
about having 17 gentlemen callers at one time. How she would set each one
and talk to each one about the important issues of life.
Amanda wants to know what each one of her children are doing each
minute of the day, in scene III, where Tom and Amanda are having
dissolutions about his books, and he can not have certain things kept in
her house; not realizing it was he who was paying the rent, and she wanted
to keep him under her shirttails, and she hated him going to the movies;
she thought he was lying to her, saying, “ Nobody goes to the movies night
after ni ...
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