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Is Life Significant?
Number of Words: 849 / Number of Pages: 4
... uses "a". Why is this do you think? "The" shows a distinct moth and a distinct death, it shows a significance for both. Yet "a" leaves both fairly ambiguous, showing that neither death nor the moth is very significant. In my mind this shows something of Dilliard's feelings about life. From this title alone I deduce that Annie Dilliard doesn't think much of anything in life is very important. However, Woolf shows a sort of respect or understanding of death and the moth in her title by using the phrasing that she does. Woolf says "The Death" and "The Moth" rather than leaving them undefined as Dillard d ...
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The Generation Gap In The Joy Luck Club
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to keep any family members' promise. Instead of their daughters, who "can promise to come to dinner, but if she wants to watch a favorite movie on TV, she no longer has a promise" (p. 42), "To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn't real gold ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden; A Teenager With Definite Moral Values
Number of Words: 517 / Number of Pages: 2
... wall. He was
infuriated because he knew all the children would see it. He said, “
Somebody'd written ‘Fuck you' on the wall. It damn near drove me crazy”
(201). Holden wiped it off because he wanted to protect the children form
seeing it. In fact, the title of the book deals with Holden wanting to
protect kids. Holden told Phoebe, “...I have to catch everybody if they
start to go over the cliff... I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all”
(173). I believe the cliff represents innocence, and Holden wants to keep
the kids from falling off and losing it.
Salinger stresses Holden's feelings ab ...
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The Hobbit: Fantasy World Comparison To Our World
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... out of it suddenly very drowsy and forgetful of previous events. All of these examples of happenings and objects found in Middle Earth are physically impossible in a world such as ours.
Several of the charecters in the book are not known to exist on Earth. Hobbits, of course, are fictional characters, as are dwarves, elves, goblins, and trolls. Many species of animals are able to talk with humans and dwarves in the book, which is not possible in real life. Beorn, a human who is able to change into other creatures at an instant, is an excellent example of such fiction. The dragon, Smaug, is ...
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Like Water For Chocolate: Summary
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... close to Tita. Tita was practically raised in the kitchen and she
communicates her love for Pedro through the dishes she prepares, and he in
turn shows his affectionate gratitude. Tita's quest to be with Pedro is
shared only with Nacha, the main cook and helper in the ranch. Nacha
understands Tita's pain and consoles with her. Nacha dies from sorrow of
loss of her love and throughout the story appears as a kindly ghost.
Pedro and Rosaura move away from the ranch leaving Tita alone. She then
discovers her love for a local doctor, John Brown, who cares for her
deeply. Tita realizes her love ...
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Macbeth Imagery
Number of Words: 824 / Number of Pages: 3
... shine only twice. The first is in the passage when Duncan sees the swallows flirting round the castle of death. The second time, at the end, when the avenging army gathers to rid the earth of its shame. Therefore, the reader can conclude that Shakespeare uses darkness to establish the evil parts of the play. On the other hand, daylight is employed to define victory or goodness in the play.
In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the design of the witches, the guilt in Macbeth’s soul, and the darkness of the night to establish the atmosphere. All of the remarkable scenes take place at night or in some dark ...
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The Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 1929 / Number of Pages: 8
... Caufield's character can be attributed to his judgment of people. Holden Caufield, a character who always jumps to conclusions about people and their phoniness, can be labeled as a hypocrite because he exemplifies a phony himself.
Holden Caufield the 16 year old protagonist and main character of narrates the story and explains all the events throughout three influential days of
his life. A prep school student who has just been kicked out of his second school, Holden struggles to find the right path into adulthood. He does not know what road to follow and he uses others as the scapegoat for his puzzle ...
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Frankenstein: Morality
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... 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 can potentially ...
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Oedipus Rex 3
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... I measured out the stars to put all heaven in between the land of Corinth and such a damned destiny.” That free will act must have been invoked by fate, for the very land he fled to was the land of Thebes, the land where his real parents rein as king and queen. It would seem that fate not only controls people’s lives, but their own free will! His plans to disrupt his destiny played right into those of fate’s. A great example in the book where Sophocles illustrates his belief that know one is able to out run their true path in life.
Now, the prophecies begin to be fulfilled. En ...
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Is Huckleberry Finn A Racist Book?
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... friendship was not acceptable in the days when this story took place. A white person could have been prosecuted if caught trying to escape with slaves. Mainly what they are trying to put across here is that how could Mark Twain be a racist when all of his characters (with the exception of a few) are kind and loving towards their slaves?
“Because of his upbringing, the boy starts out believing that slavery is part of the natural order; but as the story unfolds he wrestles with his conscience, and when the crucial moment comes he decides he will be dammed to the flames of hell rather than betray his ...
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