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Love Story By Segal: What Is Love
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... character’s personalities and feelings towards one another." (J.Leavitt) Segal’s original style of writing allowed readers to laugh as well as cry with the characters as though they were along with them.
Erich Segal begins his novel by informing the readers of the tragic death of a "twenty-five year old girl", who by the second page, readers can identify as Jenny Cavilleri, a "wisecracking Radcliffe music major". Even though well aware of the ill-fated destiny of this beautiful young woman, readers will still cry as the heroine of this book experiences her last days of life, and her unfortunate dea ...
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The Lost World: Summary
Number of Words: 1694 / Number of Pages: 7
... their class, because they were supposed to go on a field trip with him
that day. They go to a guy named Doctor Thorne, a guy that was making
specialized equipment for their trip. He said that he didn't know what was
going on. They contact Malcolm and they go to Levine's apartment. They go to
his computer room and see all this stuff on the wall about site B. They go onto
the computer and Arby gets all this stuff about site B on it. Malcolm then
finds out that the island that Levine went to was Isla Sorna. They plan this
whole trip to go there, just Malcolm, Thorne, and Thorne's assistant, Ed ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Evil Of Isolation
Number of Words: 665 / Number of Pages: 3
... walks through her town "a sort of magic circle [forms] itself around
her." Devoid of any social contact, save that of her daughter, Hester must
endure of lonely existence. "In all her intercourse with society, save that of
her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged to
it."; therefore, she turns to herself for reflection of her shame. When Hester
must walk through the town, she suffers "an agony from every footstep." Frequent
suffering does not inure Hester to her inner torment; instead, the same grows"
more sensitive with daily torture." Hester's ostracism from a stoi ...
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‘A White Heron’ By Sarah Orne Jewett
Number of Words: 1684 / Number of Pages: 7
... zest.”
This quote lets us know several things. Sylvia does not have any playmates; in fact, we get the impression that her best friend is her grandmother’s cow. The story soon gives us another piece of vital information about Sylvia.
“ “‘Afraid of folks,’” old Mrs. Tilley said to
herself, with a smile, after she had made the
unlikely choice of Sylvia from her daughter’s
houseful of children, and was returning to the
farm. “‘Afraid of folks,’ they said: I guess she
won’t be troubled no great with ‘em up to the old
place!” When the reached the door of the lonely
house and stopped to ...
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 430 / Number of Pages: 2
... to her appearance. Within the next seven years, Hester has gone through a change both physically and emotionally. The book describes to have absorbed all the rebellious and fiery qualities of Hester, leaving a cold and lonely woman, her tenderness “crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.” At the same time, Hester started “hiding” her beautiful rich hair in a cap, therefore practically eliminating her beauty and femininity. As Hester becomes less passionate internally, she becomes less passionate externally as well. The last example takes place during Hester’s talk with Art ...
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The Speckled Band
Number of Words: 317 / Number of Pages: 2
... Holmes now was in the room that Helen was suposed to be in and suddenly the light was lit in the stepfathers room, and then Sherlock jumped and hit the bellrobe under the air-vent. Then there was a little whistle and then a scream and Holmes ran to the other room and there was the stepfather dead and with a speckled band on him. It was no band it was a Indian snake that the stepfather used to kill Helens sister and was going to kill Helen with it to but Holmes saved the day once again .
Word Count: 323 ...
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Narration In Haircut And Cask Of Amontillado
Number of Words: 527 / Number of Pages: 2
... He tells his friend that he has some wine for him to try, even though there is no wine and he is leading Fortunato to his death. "‘I have my doubts,' I replied; ‘and I was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter. You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a bargain.'" Montresor tells Fortunato this lie to lure him into the cellar, but the reader doesn't realize his intention until later in the story when he shackles Fortunato to the wall.
Whitey is an unreliable narrator for another reason. The reader can guess by the end of the story what ...
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Moby Dick: Good And Evil
Number of Words: 1347 / Number of Pages: 5
... leaving what value judgements exist to the reader.
Ultimately, it is the dichotomy between the respective fortunes of Ishmael and Ahab that the reader is left with. Herein lies a greater moral ambiguity than is previously suggested. Although Ishmael is the sole survivor of the Pequod, it is notable that in his own way, Ahab fulfills his desire for revenge by ensuring the destruction of the White Whale alongside his own end. Despite the seeming superiority of Ishmael's destiny, Melville does not explicitly indicate so. On the contrary, he subtly suggests that Ishmael's survival is lonely and empty upon ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Themes
Number of Words: 1015 / Number of Pages: 4
... of the author's lesser
themes. For the purpose of portraying war as something terrible, though,
the nature motif is expressed most dramatically in the following passages.
These passages mark the three distinct stages of nature's condemnation of
war: rebellion, perseverance, and erasure.
The first passage occurs in Chapter Four when the troops are
trucked out to the front to install stakes and wire. However, the
narrator's squad is attacked unexpectedly by an English bombardment. With
no visible enemy to fight, the soldiers are forced to take cover and live
out the bombardment. In the process, the ...
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White Lilacs
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... be fired.
- Henry was mouthing off white people. This eventually led to
him being tared and feathered. His family had to find a place for him to hide
so nothing else would happen to him.
- The citizens of the black community (Freedom) had to find a
new place to go to school because the white people had burned the colored school
down. This happened because of the fact that no people were moving out of
Freedom.
- Rose Lee's parents had a harder time getting enough money to survive.
This is after they moved out of Freedom.
- Grandfather Jim had a hard time replanting his ³Garden ...
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