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Do You Have A Voice
Number of Words: 664 / Number of Pages: 3
... saying that Huck is trash for doing that to Jim. Then fifteen minutes later Huck goes into Jim’s wigwam and apologizes. This is showing that Huck does have a voice because any other white person from the south would not apologize to a slave. The slaves were thought of as being lower than any white person and Huck was showing that a slave as equal to him or even better than him because he went and apologized to Jim. By doing this Huck was different and developed a voice because if he had no voice he would have gotten angry with Jim for calling him trash and Huck would not have apologized.
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The Women Of The Grapes Of Wra
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... in numbers" however in this case it is "comfort" is replaced with survival. In addition, near the end of the book, when the boxcars have flooded and it seems all hope has been lost Ma leads the family to higher ground. Despite the despair she feels she overcomes it to do what must be done to insure that they survive to live another day. Her strength gives her the power rise above adversity and be the leader that she is. Ma's strength is what allows the family to hold up as long as they do.
Rose of Sharon on the other hand shows the sacrifice the Joads and the rest of the Okies had to endure. For e ...
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The Crystal Cave: Merlin
Number of Words: 717 / Number of Pages: 3
... others
are more effective because they set the foundation for the knowledge to
develop. The personage who is the most efficacious and who bestows the
true idea of knowledge on Merlin is Galapas. One day Merlin travels
through the forest and stumbles on what looks like an inhabited cave. In
the cave Merlin meets Galapas for the first time. Galapas teaches Merlin
an innumerable amount of information, but he, "hardly thought of [his] time
with him as lessons." (54). The information that Merlin receives is more
useful than the subjects of languages and geometry that he learns from
Demetrius, his fi ...
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To Be A Slave: Analysis
Number of Words: 1221 / Number of Pages: 5
... mothers even had a
chance to raise them. Slaves were sold and split away from families all the
time. Most slave mothers lost most, if not all of their children to
complete strangers who had fat wallets and no consideration. The children
would be raised into bondage and be kept in shackles most of their lives. A
slave named Charles Ball is a perfect example of this monstrosity. His life
was going well in Africa until marauders came and claimed him as their
slave. For most of his life, he would try to gain respect as a slave. Ball
did many unnecessary tasks to impress the master. Since he was a farmhan ...
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Flowers For Algernon
Number of Words: 863 / Number of Pages: 4
... and then a
teacher again. She liked the old Charlie, but when he starts becoming
smart she finds it harder and harder to keep up with him. Being with him
makes her feel strange, inadequate at times. She’s almost afraid of him.
She thinks she knows Charlie, but discovers she doesn’t.
The people at the bakery employed the retarded Charlie for years.
While working there, they stood up for him sometimes, and sometimes
played cruel jokes on him.
The doctors are overconfident and pretend to know what they are
doing when they do the operation. They are dealing with stuff they
don’t un ...
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Morrison's Jazz: Characters' Actions
Number of Words: 1760 / Number of Pages: 7
... Joe and her search for self-satisfaction. Even though the history
that is recounted in this novel is more gossip than fact, it presents a
more accurate story than the one depicted in the “offical story” located at
the beginning of the novel. Toni Morrison attempts, through these three
characters to illustrate how the narrator's perception of each character's
history can alter the reader's understanding of a character's actions.
Through this technique, she is able to demonstrate that circumstances and
events are not always as simple or truthful as they seem.
The first impression of Violet is pre ...
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Love In The Time Of Cholera
Number of Words: 1209 / Number of Pages: 5
... finally, more than 50 years later, he was given the chance to renew his fow for Fermina at the Dr. Urbino's wake.
But Fermina is offended by his ill timing and throws him out of her life once again. But by proving his love for her as a person rather than just being a shadow, Fermina eventually accepts him back into her life and they decided to escape all of lifes problems by heading down the river with no hopes of ever returning.
Social criticism plays a role in Florentino's life. One of the main reasons that he was not allowed to be with Fermina during his days as a youth is that he belonged to a ...
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The Parable
Number of Words: 691 / Number of Pages: 3
... declines and turns to another acquaintance, Lee Pai, for help. Lee Pai tells Rosemary he is sorry but he can't help her. Not knowing what else she can do, Rosemary goes back to Sven for help. She spends the night with him and the next day he takes her across the river. Rosemary and Hernando are then together at last. The evening before their wedding, Rosemary feels the need to tell
Hernando what she had to do to get across the river. When she tells Hernando, he is very hurt and upset. He calls the wedding off and "banishes Rosemary as a soiled woman" (). Rosemary is very distraught over t ...
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Billy Budd By Herman Melville
Number of Words: 1336 / Number of Pages: 5
... and beauty. Tales of his prowess [are] recited. Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost”(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude, Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is accepted for his looks and happy personality, “…hardly here [is] he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship’s companies of the merchant marine”(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-arm ...
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The Mayor Of Caterbridge: Important Characters
Number of Words: 509 / Number of Pages: 2
... contact was quite a long time later when Henchard was leading a renewed life and was doing well. This time the furmity woman made her presence felt was in court one day when she was charged with misconduct for urinating in the street. Henchard happened to be filling in for someone else as judge that day. When Henchard charge her, the furmity woman told the court room about Henchard selling his wife and also said that he wasn’t fit to judge her when he was no better. Because of this, Henchard lost some of his glory in the eyes of the townspeople.
The third and final time the furmity woman shows ...
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