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Enduring, Endearing Nonsense Of Fairy Tales
Number of Words: 668 / Number of Pages: 3
... for the heroine.
Dodgson eventually sought to publish the first book on the advice of
friends who had read and loved the little handwritten manuscript he had
given to Alice Liddell. He expanded the story considerably and engaged the
services of John Tenniel, one of the best known artists in England, to
provide illustrations. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel
Through The Looking Glass were enthusiastically received in their own time,
and have since become landmarks in childrens' literature.
What makes these nonsense tales so durable? Aside from the immediate
appeal of the cha ...
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The Stone Angel: Hagar Shipley
Number of Words: 971 / Number of Pages: 4
... father scolded her for
telling a customer that there were bugs in the barrel of raisins. She
refused to cry before and after the punishment: "I wouldn't let him see me
cry, I was so enraged" (p.9). She continued to build a wall around herself
to hide her emotions. Her pride interfered with many relationships in her
life. When her brother Dan was dying, her other brother Matt asked her to
put on her mother's shawl and pretend to be her to comfort Dan. Hagar
refused: '...however much a part of me wanted to sympathise. To play at
being her- it was beyond me" (p.25). Hagar was to proud to pretend t ...
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The Life And Death Of The Mayor Of Caterbridge
Number of Words: 1165 / Number of Pages: 5
... Saul from the Bible is also described as "as a handsome young man" who "stood head and shoulders above the people." (1 Sam 9:2) While both men were accompanied with someone of inferior status, Henchard with his wife and Saul with his servant, they were in search of something, Saul of his asses and Henchard of work, when their lives were altered. Mr. Henchard and Saul both fell asleep in a dining establishment and awoke to find that their lives had changed perpetually. Spouseless and childless Mr. Henchard moves and spends the bulk of his life in Casterbridge. It is later revealed in the story tha ...
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The Use Of Symbols In Steinbec
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... here, Elisa does not feel appreciated by her husband and so she takes care of her chrysanthemums, symbols of how beautiful she really is. Early in the story, Steinbeck uses little symbolic phrases to let the reader know that the chrysanthemums are an extension of Elisa.
Her gardening area could be described as a “cage” to protect herself from anything harmful. Knowing that her husband does not show interest in her chrysanthemums, gives her the thought that he does not have interest in her. The flowers and Elisa have interchangeable meanings that are explained later on in the story. ...
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Views Of The Church In The Canterbury Tales
Number of Words: 433 / Number of Pages: 2
... follow the basic ways of the church.
The next character is the Parson. Chauncer depicts the Parson as a smart man who is into studying. He is one of the few people Chauncer portrays an a good manner. Pardons is also is a holy minded man who is a person who can priest and praise Christ who is really the only devout Christian in this story. He doesn't look down on any men he doesn't think he is higher than anyone else. Chauncer likes this character and only has praise this is a good depiction.
The final character is the Pardoner. The pardon is a money collector and gives people pardons for their si ...
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Why Is It Called The Bean Trees?
Number of Words: 647 / Number of Pages: 3
... about the real world she never knew existed outside of Kentucky.
The idea of “beans” is irrelevantly brought up several times. When Taylor is searching for a room to rent, she interviews a group of hippies who tell her that “…[they] eat mainly soybean products”(78). Soon after, when Taylor and Lou Ann become friends, they make fun of the hippies and call them, “bean turds”(79). The first words Turtle speaks are not the usual “mommy” or “daddy”, but rather when gardening, Taylor shows Turtle beans and tells her what they are, and Turtle repeats the word “bean” but then says “humbean”(108). In a much ...
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Windflower
Number of Words: 538 / Number of Pages: 2
... that in giving life to her child she had
restored her own life to herself.
Although Jimmy is a joy and a blessing to Elsa, he also creates a
conflict for her. She does not know whether she should raise him as an Eskimo
like herself, or white like the father. Elsa takes advice from a lady she once
worked for, named Madame Beaulieu, the only white woman she knew. Elsa is soon
dressing Jimmy as the white do, and is keeping her hut clean and tidy. The
people from the Eskimo society are in awe at the beautiful baby with blond,
curly hair, and the ways in which Elsa is raising him. They always want ...
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Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur: Myths And Legends
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... been handed down through many generations. Though there are many parts in the book that stray away from the legend, this is a novel that lets the reader use his or her imagination and wonder in far off places. This book “remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose.”
The fact that this is a myth allows the reader to be prepared for some strange occurrences. Obviously most of these events did not take place, but Malory makes them convincing by mixing them with some facts, for instance this is a novel based on the customs of the E ...
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Silas Manner
Number of Words: 1679 / Number of Pages: 7
... a poor barmaid who was addicted to d rugs .Eliot describes their marriage as " an ugly story of low passion delusion and waking from delusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey's bitter memory."(33). The marriage was one that Godfrey did not think much about before acting on his impulse. His brother Dunstan had trapped Godfrey in a position where Dunstan could blackmail him Dunstan saw the marriage as a way "of gratifying at once his jealous hate and his cupidity."(33). For reasons not stated in the book Dunstan has a deep-seated hate towards his brother. Godfrey soon acq ...
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Billy Budd
Number of Words: 1047 / Number of Pages: 4
... John Claggart. Claggart is extremely jealous and holds considerable amounts of contempt for him. At first he tries to be nice to Billy but soon his true jealousies surface. He begins to scold Billy for insignificant lapses and tries to degrade him. In one instance when Billy spills a bowl of soup, Claggart sardonically says to Billy, “Handsome is as handsome did it.” Deep inside Claggart also thinks that Billy is secretly plotting against him.
When his madness really begins to take over, Claggart starts thinking of ways to prove Billy to be a traitor. Finally his chance cam ...
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