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The Cruicible
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... then followed by a special procession given by the town for the “minister whom they so loved.” However, these beloved church leaders were not the perfect devout workers of God that they professed to be. Reverend Dimmesdale, was an adulterer and father of an illegitimate child. Reverend Danforth of The Crucible, was a money hungry old man who appeared to be preaching for his own greedy, personal gain. Both men, however, were allowed to get away with their sins for a while because no one dared question the people who gave them their spiritual enlightenment. These men were, after all, the same ...
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Parallels Between Beowulf And
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold
wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruby light. (The Hobbit pg.206)” This sounds comparable to a “kings ransom. For some reason people, when they see the dragons treasure, have an uncontrollable urge to steal some of it. “The wretch was terrified! /Yet still he reached out for more disaster/ and clutched the cup (230,231)” An interesting parallel is also that it is a cup stolen in each story. “He grasp ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Ana
Number of Words: 631 / Number of Pages: 3
... her white cotton gloves and putting them up with her purse on the shelf in front of the back window.
The children's mother still had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collar and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace, and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once she was a lady.
The parent ...
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Themes Of Unity In The Grapes
Number of Words: 1506 / Number of Pages: 6
... Whereas the Joads start out as one family, by the end of the story their family becomes one with other families who are weathering the same plight of starvation and senseless violence. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck emphasizes the power of groups over the individual’s power to survive poverty and violence through character evolution, plot and the use of figurative and philosophical language.
Tom Joad begins the novel with self-seeking aims, but with the ex-preacher Jim Casy as a mentor, he evolves into an idealistic group leader. Tom first meets Jim on his way home from jail. There ...
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The Night Of The Hunter: The Preacher
Number of Words: 909 / Number of Pages: 4
... hears “God's” voice telling him not to bother
because “there were too many of them.” At the moment when this revelation takes
place, the woman of the night sees the preacher in the midst of taking out the
knife, and she screams. The shouting brings a Negro servant, and the preacher
is forced to kill both the servant and prostitute. In Powell's sick and twisted
mind, God had merely changed His mind when Preacher's life was in danger. There
is a contradiction in “God's words” and clearly the preacher is merely using his
“conversations” to aid in his own egotistical self-interest.
The fact that Prea ...
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Of Mice And Men: George And Lennie's Lonesomeness
Number of Words: 1378 / Number of Pages: 6
... has to kill Lennie for his benefit. Later he goes into town and abandons his dream by spending his money.
The main cause of George and Lennie's lonesomeness and that of all the people at the ranch was a lack of a home. The only thing that kept the two men going was their friendship with each other and the hope to soon get a place of their own. In the novel George and Lennie mention what their dream place is going to be like. "Someday we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house, and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs (Steinbeck 16). Throughout the book the reference ...
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Emma Jane Austen
Number of Words: 737 / Number of Pages: 3
... the development of a close friendship between the main character Emma and Harriet Smith. The character of Harriet Smith is described as being a young woman from a different social background to Emma, which results in Harriet idolising Emma because of her high social status. This type of relationship is similar to peer pressure seen in modern society.
Harriet in the novel allows Emma to dominate her life and is dragged through a number of problems in which the outcome always results in Emma's ideal conclusion. During this process Emma finds herself caught in her own crisis, but is so busy meddling in ...
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Beowulf
Number of Words: 1834 / Number of Pages: 7
... for people to read and serve as a reminder of their folklore. Not only to them, but to future people who come to read these documents. We have been lucky in the fact that over the last few hundred years, we have recovered many works from all over the world, dating back through years that had been long forgotten to many of us. In a great many of these works we have come into contact with many tales of heroism and the fight between good and evil. Just as the heroism in these stories may take on different faces, so does the evil present itself in many different guises.
This brings us to one work in specif ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... the leader
of her family's search. However Nanny realized this, and when she saw that Janie
was old enough for love she had her married. This guaranteed that Janie would
not continue a loss of identity.
Even as a young girl, living in the materialistic world of her Nanny and
her first husband, Logan Killicks, Janie chooses to listen to "the words of the
trees and the wind" (23-24). This is the first evidence of her searching beyond
her boring life. This then leads to her everyday life left empty, because she is
always looking farther than where she is at the time. So day by day she gets
more worked ...
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Moll Flanders: Themes
Number of Words: 1145 / Number of Pages: 5
... her as a prostitute.
Even though Moll is now married, she agrees to sell her body for profit. "I
found presently that whether I was a whore or a wife, I was to pass for a whore
here…" (Defoe 144). Moll's acts of prostitution show that she will carry out
illegal practices in order to get money.
Moll's many instances involving thievery also express the theme of greed.
At the end of the story, Moll gives her son a stolen watch. "… I stole it from
a gentlewoman's side at a meeting house in London" (Defoe 297). Moll says this
is the only thing of value she has to give him. One Christmas Day Moll
dis ...
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