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Catcher In The Rye - The Conte
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... world. He gets more and more sickened by the fakeness, and cruelty of the world. An example of this would be in the Catcher in the Rye, when he goes in to the museum “he notices an obscenity written with a child’s red crayon on the wall”(121 bloom). Holden says in the novel “That’s the whole trouble,” he realizes. “You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write ‘Fuck you’ right under your nose”(264 Salinger). He throws up because of the whole idea and from that point ...
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Murray Davis' Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology
Number of Words: 1712 / Number of Pages: 7
... sex
rather than the characteristics and feelings involved with sex. (Davis, p.
xix) Although Davis admits that the vocabulary of sex is changing (Davis, p.
xxv), he also states that hard-core pornography uses considerably more vulgar
terms that are associated with lower-class activity, such as, "prick, fuck, and
suck" (Davis, p. xxiii). Davis believes that hard-core pornography, induces
imaginative behaviours by using these lower-class, four-letter words. The
stories use phrases such as "First we sucked, then we fucked."(Davis p. xix,
1983), to allow the reader the tools to imagine the scene act ...
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I Am Joaquin Vs. The First Sev
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... people want an end to this tiring work they have done for years with no reward. Feld from “The First Seven Years” wants his daughter to marry someone
who will make the shoemaker’s next generation one that is not making shoes. Feld thinks that if his daughter marries a shoemaker, his dream will be ruined because she will not have a better life than her mother did. Therefore, what is wanted in both selections is not only a better life, but a new life as well.
Both works present different ways of realizing their similar versions of the American Dream. In “The First Seven Years& ...
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... a
character qualities of having an animal spirit. Madeline Usher is the
anima figure in the story Poe's use of symbolism in his gothic stories is
a guiding thread to his literary art. That he is not persistently a
symbolist is one of his strengths, for it means that he only turns to
symbolism when it has a distinct role to play. His symbolism generally
takes the form of allowing some object to stand for an abstraction or
personal attribute. Five persons figure into this tale, but the interest
centers exclusively in one-RoderickUsher.(Levine, 125, Buranelli 85)
Roderick, cadaverous eyes, large ...
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White Fang
Number of Words: 764 / Number of Pages: 3
... his life as a wild wolf-dog, but he was taken by an Indian as a pup, and was domesticated. He soon learned the power of his master and obeyed his laws, even though his wild instincts told him not to, as London notes:
Every instinct of his nature would have impelled him to dash wildly away, had there not suddenly and for the first time arisen in him another and counter instinct. A great awe descended upon him.....Here was mastery and power, something far and away beyond him.(London 64)
was later traded to a man who used him as a fighting dog. This fighting surfaced 's anger and caused him to ...
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Laidlaw
Number of Words: 1349 / Number of Pages: 5
... of society , threading his way through pubs and clubs trying to find the murderer of an apparently innocent girl. is such a memorable character who requires to be looked at and examined closely.
Jack is a universe apart from other examples of detectives , he examines the more intriguing issues of how and why people can commit the reprehensible crime of murder and the harrowing aftermath of crime and violence. Jack can deeply understand people more than anyone could ever imagine.
Jack is an odd sort detective, and this is an odd sort of novel. He lives and works in the gloomy, cheerless heart of ur ...
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A Violent Illumination Of Salvation
Number of Words: 1701 / Number of Pages: 7
... shocks her characters, illuminates their shortcomings,
and prepares them for redemption as seen in: "A Good Man is Hard to Find,"
"Revelation," "The River," and "The Lame Shall Enter First."
Walters reasons, "The instruction of pride through lessons of humility is,
in each story, the means by which the soul is prepared for its necessary
illumination by the Holy Spirit" (73). The grandmother in "A Good Man is
Hard to Find" and Rudy Turpin in "Revelation" is each convinced that she is
a lady of elevated status. When threatened by superior beings, their self-
imposed facades fall. Inherent hum ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Stereotypes
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... this was a sign from Boo to let the children realize what a kind and
pleasant man he really was. Also, Boo was considerate enough to save Jem from a
couple of whippings, because after all, if Atticus were to see the torn pants he
would have known Jem was the culprit in the Radley's yard. “You were so busy
looking at the fire, you didn't notice Boo behind you”(pg 76) This was also a
symbol which Boo shared to let the kids slowly realize the truth about him, that
he was an innocuous caring person hiding behind a fading shadow. Boo just
wanted to be seen as the real him instead of the horrid stere ...
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Dollshouse
Number of Words: 574 / Number of Pages: 3
... on page 1565 ‘Are your scatterbrains off again? What if today I borrowed a thousand crowns, and you squandered them over Christmas week.’ On the rare occasion when Torvald gives her money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry.
Nora asks Torvald what her most sacred vows are and he responds ‘And I have to tell you that! Aren’t they duties to your husband and children?’ Later on he states Before all else, you’re a wife and mother. Torvald states that her sacrifice for him was nothing. He states on page 1611 ‘I’d gladly work day ...
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An Analysis Of Hawthorne's Short Stories
Number of Words: 801 / Number of Pages: 3
... self-control, or faith to refuse the calling of the Devil. Even with the
emotional plea from her husband, “Look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one,”
(1590) Faith cannot resist the Devil's temptation and has “uncertain sorrow,”
(1587) after submitting to him. The character of Faith which Hawthorne
portrays is one of uncertainty and one which has a lack of self control. Faith
is a good example of how Hawthorne uses a woman to symbolize a deeper
significance, in this case, it is to evoke the hypocrisy of the Puritan people,
that is, Puritans are really not as pure as we all think, the ...
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