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An Analysis Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
Number of Words: 1212 / Number of Pages: 5
... The method used to develop the theme of the novel is through the
use of symbolism. There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the
turtle at the beginning to the rain at the end. As each symbol is
presented through the novel they show examples of the good and the bad
things that exist within the novel.
The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of the situation facing
the drought-stricken farmers of Oklahoma. Dust is described a covering
everything, smothering the life out of anything that wants to grow. The
dust is symbolic of the erosion of the lives of the people. The dust i ...
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Fahrenheit 451
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... a professor by the
name of Faber.
Guy and the professor end up together sharing and discussing their love
for books.
"Theory hell," said Montag. "t's poetry." (pg. 97)
This is actually what changed Guy's life. When Guy re-entered the room at
his wife's party he had a book in his hands. Mrs. Phelps, one of his wife's
friends asked him if he was reading up on fireman theory. He was so frustrated
with her because of her expression of false views that night about war, husbands
and children that he finally spilled it. He wanted her to understand that books
were a good thing and that they could te ...
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The Canterbury Tales: Tools Of The Trade
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... "The Pardoners Tale" personification is employed to make Death a
person instead of a process. Death is given human characteristics to make
him more real to us. This tool allows the main characters to focus their
feelings.With the use of personification the three men are allowed to
focus their feelings of vengence on a person instead of a biological
process.
Another tool that was heavily relied on was irony. There are many
examples used to show irony in the story. The old man sends the three
drunkards down a path where he says death is, however, a pot of gold
awaits them there instead. " ...
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Frank Norris' "McTeague": The Three Major Themes
Number of Words: 1353 / Number of Pages: 5
... viewed as a
"lost" soul and Trina as a proper young lady, yet they were both almost
exactly alike. Here are some quotes on greed. "Miser, nasty little old
miser. You're worse than old Zerkow, always nagging about money, money, and
you got five thousand dollars. You got more, an' you live in that stinking
hole of a room, and you won't drink any decent beer." "She don't care if I
get wet and get a cold and die. No, she don't, as long as she's warm and
got her money." Greed in the novel is one of the strongest point. Social
Darwinism's problem is having to keep on gaining in order to have the
things you ...
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An Analysis Of Gulliver's Travels
Number of Words: 645 / Number of Pages: 3
... the stupidity in the war between England and France and also every
war which starts over a stupid reason, he also points out the meaningless in
courtlife were they do nothing but waste the states money.
At he lilliputians he builds a raft which he uses to sail back to England. But
instead he finds himself shipwrecked and washed upon the shores of Brumbidang or
the giants land. there he was found by a farmer whom handed him over into his
daughters care. The farmer uses Gulliver for finical reasons and shows him up as
a side-showfreak at all the inns in the land. In the giants land there are n ...
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Irony In The Rocking Horse
Number of Words: 351 / Number of Pages: 2
... that she not know from whence it came. He is afraid that if she knew, she would take away his luck. In a frenzied search for another winning horse, Paul falls off the rocking-horse, mortally injuring himself. Before he dies, he tells his mother "... I knew [which horse], didn't I? Over 80,000 pounds! I call that lucky, don't you, mother? ... I'm lucky."
The story portrays what it must have been like to be raised in a family struggling to maintain status. The parents are too busy to be bothered with the tedium of raising their own child. The ultimate irony is that Paul's mother, who ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1029 / Number of Pages: 4
... Farm.
The pigs learned to read and write by looking at books in the farmhouse. They also learned
many other things. The animals had to work even harder than before. They had to harvest the
fields without any tools. The animals were still happy anyway because they were free from the
farmers rule. An old donkey named Benjamin was unchanged after the rebellion. They had sort of
what was like council meetings. Napoleon and Snowball were most active in the debates. They
made committees to teach the animals how to read and write. Napoleon found that two dogs,
Jessie and Bluebell, gave birth to six stur ...
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Summary Of Dracula
Number of Words: 780 / Number of Pages: 3
... takes fifty boxes of earth and a ship and escapes. Ironically, the ship lands in England where Harker's fiancée Mina lives. The Count then attacks Mina's friend Lucy while she is sleepwalking, and she eventually dies. Jonathan finally returns to England and marries Mina. Meanwhile Arhtur Holmwood, Lucy's husband, Dr. John Seward and Quincy Morris, both of whom proposed to Lucy but were rejected, and Dr. Van Helsing, learn the truth about the Count. The six of them first perform a service on Lucy who has become a vampire herself. They stab a wooden stake through her heart, cut off her head and t ...
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Savage Inequalities: Conditions Of Poor Schools
Number of Words: 1442 / Number of Pages: 6
... but in their everyday lives as well. By describing the deteriorating conditions of the schools in the selected areas against those in the more affluent districts, he implies that money is the short-term fix to the problem. Money may fix the roof or the walls but more then just money needs to be put into these schools. Kozol writes with the intention to shock his readers with graphic details, and push them towards change.
Kozol describes the enormous differences between poor schools, and affluent schools, usually located just minutes apart. When speaking of a North Lawndale kindergarten class of t ...
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Experiencing Can Be Corrupting
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... his experience is well depicted in the famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne illustrates how a person can go from a state of innocence to a state of experience, thus corrupting the individual.
As one reads the short story of Hawthorne, it is easy to observe that the overtone is one in which it displays the corruption of a man’s mind. The corruption of the protagonist, Young Goodman Brown, would not have been so clear if it wasn’t for the theme of his state of innocence being stripped of him by his experience. This them ...
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