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Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation"
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... an emotional one by preventing Jake from ever
consummating his love with Lady Brett Ashley. Emotional suffering can take
its toll on the Code Hero as it did with Jake Barnes. Despite the deep
love between Jake and Lady Brett, Jake is forced to keep the relationship
strictly platonic and stand watch as different men float in and out of Lady
Ashley's life and bed. No one other than Jake and Brett themselves ever
learn the complexity of their relationship because Jake's hopeless love for
Brett and the agony it entails are restricted to scenes known to themselves
alone. Therefore, Jake suffers in sil ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Where The Blame Falls
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... Pearl was picked upon by the other children often. Hester was
no longer accepted by the Puritans.
Dimmesdale has had as much punishment as Hester for their sin.
Dimmesdale is putting the blame upon himself. Dimmesdale is the minister,
and he should know better than to commit a sin. Dimmesdale is dying inside
ever since he had committed the sin with Hester, by the guilt and
eventually collapses. Throughout the book, he is reminded of his sins by
Chillingworth, and the other Puritans. Dimmesdale is rotting up inside and
giving himself his own punishment. He is a roll model, and he feels that ...
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The Awakening: Public Controversy
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... their family problems, they were expected to
endure and stay faithful. [ In fact, ] " the nineteenth century's message of the
supremacy of motherhood was so strong and so intense that it was absorbed into
the systems of it's women - even women like Edna [ ,a character in Chopin's book,
] who were not maternally inclined." ( ? ) You could almost say that women were
considered symbols of everything that is pure in the society in which they lived.
Anything short of that was considered unacceptable.
Because of the time that Chopin lived in: " The Appearance in print of
her most recent work had brought her ...
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Fahrenheit 451: Insignificance Of Life And Death
Number of Words: 1127 / Number of Pages: 5
... thoughts and feeling are elsewhere. Montag will not turn on the lights in the bedroom and will not open the window to let in outside light, even though he feels as if he cannot breathe in the room with the windows closed. Mildred suffers from a hidden melancholy which she cannot consciously accept and which leads to her overdose on sleeping pills without knowing she is doing it; this same inner pain which manifests itself in unconscious acts of self-distruction affects much of the population of this world. One late night Mildred gets up out of bed and goes to the bathroom to take some sleeping pills ...
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Yanomamo
Number of Words: 1351 / Number of Pages: 5
... as many wives as he possibly can in order to demonstrate his power and masculinity. As polygamy in American Culture is referred to as bigamy which is against the law.
Besides, polygamy, the practice of infanticide plays a role in the lack of women in their society. prefer to parent a male child rather than a female child, so in case a female is born she is killed at birth. This again proved their sexist beliefs that women are inferior. Many women fearing their husbands kill a female infant to avoid disappointing their so-called “better half”.
To the people of American culture certain pro ...
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Jurrasic Park
Number of Words: 518 / Number of Pages: 2
... to the island are stuck in the middle of nowhere, with an escaped T-Rex. Everyone flees and is scattered through the park. The animals begin attacking the control building, while they are search for food. Since all the power is out there is no way to stop them, or containing them. In the hysteria a scientist , Wu, discovers that the dinosaurs have been mating, which they thought wasn't possible, because they were only cloning females, but the dinosaurs have adapted and have found a way to reproduce. They think they got the power back on so they try to put all the animals back in their holding a ...
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Surfacing: A Summary
Number of Words: 625 / Number of Pages: 3
... in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform” (69). The relationships she forges later on will be greatly influenced by these images of youth.
The narrator’s first relationship with a man turns out to very detrimental to her well being. The man is married and unavailable yet she describes her feelings for him as “unique, the first, that’s where [she] learned.” (150). She goes on to say that she “worshipped him” and refers to him as a “non-child bride idolater” (150). The feelings of un-reciprocated adoration that she had towards her first love go to greatly influence la ...
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Old Man And The Sea 2
Number of Words: 737 / Number of Pages: 3
... the man goes alone on his skiff out to the sea, doing the most he possibly can with his weathered and deteriorating body. The man going alone with no help from the boy is an important factor in the story which is based upon independence of spirit and the drive of one man against nature.
Life brings challenges and obstacles and seem to be a large problem to an individual at the time they occur, but in the reality of the big picture the problems are not that important. We see this demonstrated in the old man's past experiences. He shows that he is a humble man who has had greatness in the past through b ...
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Fahrenheit 451: The Meetings Between Montag And Clarisse
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... rubbing it under his chin. Clarisse
explains " If it rubs off, it means I'm in love "(22). Clarisse rubs the
dandelion under Montag's chin and Clarisse remarks "What a shame, you're not in
love with anyone " (22). Montag thinks that he is in love, but realizes that he
is not in love and not at all happy.
In the third meeting, Montag begins to feel that he has known Clarisse
forever. Montag states " You make me feel very old and very much like a father
" (28). Clarisse remarks " Now you explain why you haven't any daughters like
me, if you love children so much? " (28). Montag realizes that it is ...
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Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea": An Analysis
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... The sea was like a
second home for the man, who fished every day. La mar provided the man with
food, a living, an enemy, and a friend.
When he was out on the sea fishing, he was at home. The sea, la mar,
was like his mother. The fish in the ocean were like his brothers and sisters.
When he heard the dolphins playing in the night he thought, "They are
good...they are our brothers like the flying fish." (p.48) He had almost reeled
the giant marlin in when he realized what he was doing. "You are killing me,
fish. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more
beautiful...thi ...
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