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The Catcher In The Rye: Phoniness - The True Face And The False Face
Number of Words: 687 / Number of Pages: 3
... behind the false front to obtain the approval. In the meantime, he
tries to find the meaning of his existence. There's Holden's false front,
a rude and without standard teen, but what's behind it are important. A
decent, sympathetic and mature teen lies behind the mask. The only time
he reveals these distinctions is when he comes to some points and some
people, especially children. For example, when Holden decide to go to the
west, he wrote a note to Phoebe to tell her that meets him at the museum.
While he was waiting, there's two kids that came up and asked Holden where
is the mummies, he stat ...
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Civil Disobedience
Number of Words: 493 / Number of Pages: 2
... and arguing that he should be the only person to pay his own taxes. This indicates he wanted his disobedience justified.
For acts of to be justified, those acts need to be acts of protest. Thoreau desired a change in the law and the political system, so he attempted to change a flaw in the governmental law. He demanded to stay arrested and protest in hopes of a change in the law. He was not concern that he was released, but that his disobedience had an affect. This further justifies his disobedience.
Nonviolence is a requirement for an act to be an act of (10). Nonviolence is a defining characteri ...
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My Son's Story
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... himself in a relationship with Hannah, a young woman working for a
human-rights organization. “It was then that it began, that it was
inescapable. Needing Hannah”(53). Sonny and Hannah share the same fierce
drive to end apartheid. They are fighting the same battle. She is his
understanding. With Hannah, Sonny feels “the ultimate joy of making love
with someone who, too, is in the battle, for whom the people in the battle
are her only family, her life, the happiness she understands”(67). Sonny's
wife Aila cannot possibly grasp what this cause means to him because she
isn't involved in the movemen ...
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Burmese Days
Number of Words: 1351 / Number of Pages: 5
... to the Burmese. They feel that it is their duty to rule over the less intelligent “niggers” of Burma. Through the description of the characteristics of both the British and Burmese, Orwell helps us understand the value system through which the British have come to the conclusion that they must rule over the Burmese. An example of such a description is that of Maxwell, them acting Divisional Forest Officer. Maxwell is depicted as a “fresh-coloured blond youth of not more than twenty-five or six – very young for the post he held.” (Pg. 22) This description lends ...
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Compare And Contrast Of The Me
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... or have anything to do with her. The two characters are similar in the way that they do not believe in God and will both die lonely and abandoned.
Kafka creates a very lonely and abandoned world for Gregor Samsa in his short novel Metamorphosis. Gregor is an existentialist character who mutates into a giant bug without reason and no longer has any control over his life. He becomes completely uninvolved in the way that he does not talk or have any interaction with anyone inside or outside of the family. He is dehumanized. Gregor’s mother is disgusted by the looks of him and refuses to see or tal ...
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The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis Of The Characters
Number of Words: 1504 / Number of Pages: 6
... want to find the guilty
party, leads him to disguise his identity, and he becomes, Roger
Chillingworth. Hester agrees to keep his secret. The novel takes us
through the seven years that Hester keeps quiet. A reader of the novel
finds out early that Arthur Dimmesdale is the man Hester is trying to
protect.
One notices, that even in the beginning, there is deep inner
conflict affecting Dimmesdale. On the scaffold stands his parishioner, and
his lover, Hester. She is publicly paying for her sin of adultery, and
although she has the opportunity, she does not reveal Dimmesdale to the
public. Dimmes ...
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Silas Marner
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... for and loved her for sixteen years. The lack of love that Godfrey has given Eppie can not be replaced with wealth, and Godfrey’s life must remain incomplete. was once incomplete and unhappy also when he was “cut off from faith and love,” (602) and lived only to collect a hoard of gold. He shut out the rest of the world and any love he had for anything with it. “His life had reduced itself to the functions of weaving and hoarding” (602). In this life with only gold, and without love, Silas was an unhappy and lonely man. Later in his life when he is happy, he recalls counting his gold every night and ...
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Lost Heritage In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
Number of Words: 821 / Number of Pages: 3
... calf straight in the brain with a sledge hammer and
had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. (Walker
289)
And Maggie is the daughter, "homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms
and legs," (Walker 288) who helps Mama by making "the yard so clean and wavy"
(Walker 288) and washes dishes "in the kitchen over the dishpan" (Walker 293).
Neither Mama nor Maggie are 'modernly' educated persons; "I [Mama] never had an
education myself. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-
naturedly She knows she is not bright" (Walker 290). However, by helping Mama,
M ...
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The Sound And The Fury: Caroline Compson Focused Directly Upon Appearances
Number of Words: 834 / Number of Pages: 4
... now, Caddy said. How come it is,
Dilsey said. He aint wore out the name
he was born with yet, is he. Benjamin
came out of the bible, Caddy said. It's a
better name for him than Maury was."(Faulkner 58)
Mrs. Compson felt that Benjy did not deserve the family name of Maury. In her eyes he was not her son. She found it impossible to love a feeble child.
Caroline Compson's fixation upon sound and appearance led to the death of Quentin. She forced Harvard upon her son. Mrs. Compson felt that she would be looked upon as an important person if she could say her son a ...
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Review Of: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou
Number of Words: 510 / Number of Pages: 2
... this point the only ideas that intrigue me, are being crippled
like Uncle Willie and what Uncle Willie would have to do if the Klan was
coming. The reason why what Uncle Willie would have to do if the Klan was
coming intrigues me, is because it makes me think about what I would be
feeling if I were in his position. I would be very scared and nervous if I
would have to get into a bin and were covered with potatoes and onions and
just wait hoping I wouldn't be found.
I really have no idea why my class is reading this book. The only
thought that comes to mind when I am asked that question, is that we a ...
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