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A Picture Of Dorian Gray By Os
Number of Words: 868 / Number of Pages: 4
... each other for the first time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in love with him and begins to paint the picture.
Basil begins painting the picture, but does not tell anyone about it, including Dorian, because he knows that there is too much of himself in it. Lord Henry discovers the painting and asks Basil why he will not display it. Lord Henry thinks that it is so beautiful it should be displayed in a museum. Basil argues that the reaso ...
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Tyler's "Accidental Tourist" And "Searching For Caleb": Individualism And Belonging To The Family
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... into the unchanging past (Reisman 1980).
Then Macon met a woman, Muriel, and "he felt content with
everything exactly the way it was. He seemed to be suspended, his life on
hold." (161) With Muriel he was isolated from his family. He is an
individual who does not need family to rule his life. However, Macon
finally returns to his wife and family. He returns because of his desire
for attachment to his sister and brothers who live in a tight family unit
(Magills 1976).
Several other characters in The Accidental Tourist move back and
forth between individuality and the family. Rose Leary, Macon' ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict With Social Authority
Number of Words: 1178 / Number of Pages: 5
... of Huck, Mark
Twain question humans and their relationship with social authority and the
hypocrisy in their actions.
Huck has a "desire" to turn in Jim a few times in the book. One
instance is when they are on their way to Cairo and they think they see it.
Huck takes the canoe by himself to talk to this "police" boat that patrols
the area. He plans to turn in Jim, but Jim keeps on saying how much Huck
means to him. Huck says, "I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on
him; but when he says this, it seemed kind of take the tuck all out of me…I
warn't right down certain whether I was glad I s ...
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Sandra Street: Home
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... of his home. Steve recognizes the finer aspects of his neighborhood and sees beautiful features that he had never notices before. By the end of the story, it did not matter what others said about his neighborhood because he was proud of living on Sandra Street.
In the story "Sánchez" written by Richard Dokey, home is seen as a emotional place where people are happy. The story is about a man named Juan Sánchez who is in search of a home throughout most of the story. His wife died when she gave birth to their child, and he was truly hurt by that. After that, he spent most of his time sear ...
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Jane Eyre: Analysis Of Bronte's Work
Number of Words: 1199 / Number of Pages: 5
... first use of realistic characters. Jane's
complexity lied in her being neither holy good nor evil. She was poor and
plain in a time when society considered "an ugly woman a blot on the face
of creation." It challenged Victorian class structure in a strictly
hierachal society. A relationship between a lowly governess and a wealthy
nobleman was simply unheard of. Bronte drew criticism for her attack on the
aristocracy who she deemed as hypocritical "showy but ... not genuine." She
assaulted individual's already established morals by presenting a plausible
case for bigamy. Notions which should have ev ...
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Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
Number of Words: 947 / Number of Pages: 4
... to them. Along with fantasy novels, Catherine (at age eight) feels she would be fond of music lessons. She tries them for one year and of course does not like them. Her mother is not one to hold her child to something they do not like, so she allows Catherine to quit. The day that Catherine left her music teacher was "the happiest day of her life" (22). It is not that Catherine despises music, she just does not prefer the lessons. She does, however, enjoy drawing, although it does not rank the highest of her fancies. Her supply of paper is not plentiful, so she draws on "any other odd pieces of paper" ...
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Summary Of Beloved
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... upon the life of a former slave named Margaret Garner, who tried to kill all of her children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arrives, he chases away the ghost, but soon a young woman named Beloved comes to Sethe's home. This woman is strangely similar to Sethe's dead daughter, which is ironic because the word "Beloved" is the only word engraved on her baby's tombstone, though ...
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The False Monk
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... Chaucer describes the Monk as wearing a coat of fine gray fur, garnished sleeves, and a gold pin. Actually we are told the pin he wears is in the shape of a lover's knot, which leads the reader to believe that he has or has had a lover in the past, again violating a ministerial principal and moral. In conclusion, the Monk's appearance among other things shows how he is hypocritical of his position as priest.
The second reason the Monk is hypocritical is because of his actions. Primarily, Chaucer depicts the Monk as not liking work of any kind, but especially having no love for reading books ( ...
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1984 Reading Journal
Number of Words: 3000 / Number of Pages: 11
... a couple more minutes before going back to work. He remenbers a dream where O'Brien tole him he would meet him in a place wher there is no darkness. He washes his hands and hides the diary
Reaction
Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth has changed, into 3 main contenients. we are also introduced to the main character and how he fits into the new world. Also we are shown how the computer age has taken over peoples minds. The language is easy to understand, it has not really changed much over time. Seems like nothing left after nuclear war, just ruins remainin ...
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Character Analysis: Holden Caulfield
Number of Words: 329 / Number of Pages: 2
... but he tries to act normal about it. From the time Maurice asks him if he’s “innarested in a little tail t’night?”(91) he feels uncomfortable but he still gets the prostitute. He then tries to act tough when Maurice is asking for five more dollars for the prostitute but Holden, unfortunately, as the prostitute takes five more dollars from his wallet “All of a sudden starts to cry”(103). This shows how he is insecure about his actions.
Holden is a boy who keeps to himself too much. He suffers too much mental anguish that he keeps it inside and has random breakdowns. These traits do make him u ...
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