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The Surprising Aspect Of Sex In Heller's Catch-22
Number of Words: 878 / Number of Pages: 4
... expecting. This level is almost in a way more humanistic than the level I thought it would reach. The typical war story of courage and bravery seem to have disappeared from Heller's depiction. It shows that while there is a traumatic World War, and these soldiers are fighting for their country and more importantly to them, their lives, these soldiers have a life outside of the war to which they want to keep. Most of the soldiers are not there by choice. To be considered sane is to save your life and prevent yourself from having to fight. In a way, the excess of sex takes their minds off the war and als ...
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Fahrenheit 451 - A Charred Exi
Number of Words: 3555 / Number of Pages: 13
... appreciation of literature, the defiance of censorship and conformity, and most importantly, change.
Bradbury’s inspiration to convey the themes involved in the novel resulted mainly from the social situation of the time. First of all, the novel was written shortly after World War II and increasing numbers of authors began writing about serious topics. Also, the invention of the atom bomb had aroused the Cold War and the use of technology as a form of destruction (Touponce 124). Seeing technology as a potential threat to the well-being of mankind, Bradbury uses Fahrenheit 451 to state his distru ...
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Lord Of The Flies Response
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... he had
started to rebel. He wouldn't do what Ralph said, and tried to get everyone to
disobey him. If the boys do not work together on anything, it's never going to
work. While Jack and others were rebelling, Ralph was trying his best to keep
the island together.
One example of how not working together hurt their the civilization severely was,
when they were building the shelters. Everyone was supposed to help, but only
two people (Ralph and Simon) could honestly say they helped build all the houses.
The first house looked great with everyone helping to make it. The second
house looked oka ...
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Ellen Foster
Number of Words: 381 / Number of Pages: 2
... is. After Ellen’s mother died, she is unwillingly left with her alcoholic father who mistreats her. Ellen spent a lot of time at her friend, Starletta’s house and at the house of her grandmother. Life with her grandmother was no better than life with her father. She did not want to be in either situation. After living with her grandmother, Ellen’s struggle to find a suitable, comforting home comes to an end. For the second time in her life, a family member has died right next to her, basically in her arms. Ellen is able to overcome this, even as a young child, by finding a foster home that gives her ...
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Jack London Stories, The Red O
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... either neglected the fact that they are mere mortals, or they humbled themselves as being only a solitary one being on the earth. His stories satisfied the civilized American readers yearn for knowledge of what awaited them over the horizon, with either promise of prosperity or demise with a manifestation of dismay.
Jack’s stories have to do with as much from the unknown as it does in dealing with personal experiences. At the young age of thirty-two, London set sail for Hawaii and then the South Pacific. Where he encountered cannibals and inspiration for the later to be, “The Red OneR ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Character Analysis Of Piggy
Number of Words: 625 / Number of Pages: 3
... ship passing by to see them. Piggy mimicked adults, he did not run about in a savage nature, he was good. Being the only boy that wasn't violent, shows how diverse Piggy was from the other boys on the island. "I got the conch I tell you" Piggy screamed in attempt to gain the boys' lost attention, "I tell you I got the conch."
Good finally prevailed and Piggy gained the boys' attention. Never once did Piggy resort to violence, even when his glasses were stolen, he proved he was above violence. Unlike Jack, Piggy never killed. Piggy never hunted or kill a pig, let alone hurt another human being, ...
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Comparison Of Herbert's "Dune" And Asimov's "Foundation Series": Effects Of Technology And Belief Systems On The Individual
Number of Words: 1722 / Number of Pages: 7
... and how it affects the individual or society.
Religion is the main idea in the book Dune. The author states the
different types of religions that come to pass since the beginning of this
age. Before the coming of Muad'Dib (a savior), the desert people on the
planet of Arrakis practiced a religion whose roots came from an
undetermined source. Many scholars have traced the extensive borrowing of
this religion from other religions. Many people were confused to find that
so many ideas in one religion easily reflected another. From this confusion,
the people of Arrakis formed a committee known as ...
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Frankenstein: Rights And Responsibilities
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... everything about it. Science is also about adding on to what already exists; this was a problem. When Dr. Frankenstein decided to introduce a new being into the world, he didn't have to consult anyone, answer any questions or think into the future. With no monitoring, one scientist not only caused four unwarranted deaths, he endangered the lives of many more. "The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend; my father even now might be writhing under his gr ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Social Injustices
Number of Words: 1368 / Number of Pages: 5
... see the hypocrisy of society. The first character we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn’t understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she was going to live so as to go the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it." (3) The comments made by Huck clearly sho ...
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Number of Words: 1063 / Number of Pages: 4
... miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." He claims he is the victim of his wrongdoing and affirms: "You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in detail which he gave you of them, he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions." He then goes on to express his feelings of guilt and hideousness because after all the beast is supersensitive.
"But it is true that I am a wretch, I have murdered
the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled t ...
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