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The Color Purple: African-American And Racism
Number of Words: 1413 / Number of Pages: 6
... Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a good example of colored women's plight. Three obstacles black women had to overcome to be able to express themselves were Racism, the lack of education, and the stereo-type that women are inferior.
African-Americans have always experienced racism throughout their habitation in America. Slavery, is what caused most of the hatred towards blacks. African Americans were sold by their people and sent off to a foreign land. Colored people were used as work horses when they entered America. "It was acceptable for a white person to be lazy (in the South), and there ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Mr. Dimmsdale
Number of Words: 693 / Number of Pages: 3
... between God and himself.
Mr. Dimmsdale is also a coward. When Pearl, Hester, and Arthur are alone together and it is time to leave, Pearl asks him, "Will you stand up on the scaffold with us tomorrow?" (134), Later, she asks, "Will you go hand and hand with us out of the forest?" (185) And he replies that only on judgement day they will go hand in hand together. He is so afraid that if anyone finds out about his sin, he will be destroyed because he is a "holy" man. If anyone found out, then they would look down on him and he would be shunned like Hester. When the three of them were on the scaffold ...
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Edna's Suicide In The Awakening
Number of Words: 1707 / Number of Pages: 7
... the ability to create a model of her
own, Edna in the closing of The Awakening commits suicide by walking into
the ocean. Perhaps if there had been a more well rounded woman figure in
Edna’s life, she wouldn’t have felt the life she craved was, “...an
undefined, unexpressed, ineffable life that she cannot articulate or shape”
(Spangler). In witnessing other women achieve the articulation of a
complexly spirited life, she may have found a new life easier to attain.
Adele serves as the perfect "mother-woman" in The Awakening, being
both married and pregnant, but Edna does not follow Adele’s footstep ...
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The Fifth Child
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... off monster afraid of
antagonizing him.) (p. 47) At eight months she went into labor. Although she
had never gone to the hospital before for her other deliveries, this time she
insisted. This shocked everyone, especially her husband David.
Ben was not your typical baby. "A real little wrestler," said Dr. Brett.
"He came out fighting the whole world." (p. 48) Ben was eleven pounds at birth.
None of the other children were more than seven. He was heavy-shouldered and
hunched over. His forehead sloped from his eyebrows to his crown. Even his
hair pattern was erratic. His hands were thic ...
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Babbitt: Conformity
Number of Words: 1786 / Number of Pages: 7
... material possessions
and social status as ways to measure the worth of an individual. In fact
the readers first encounter with Babbitt sees him praising modern
technology. "It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively
produced alarm-clocks, with all modern attachments, including cathedral
chime, intermittent alarm, and a phosphorescent dial. Babbitt was proud of
being awakened by such a rich device."(Babbitt pg.3) Babbitt praises the
technology of his alarm clock only because it is a symbol of material worth
and therefore social status.
All of Babbitt's actions and thoug ...
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A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 1291 / Number of Pages: 5
... she had no
taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South didn't have to pay
taxes and since her father had made a contribution to the town of a generous
amount, Colonel Sartoris, mayor at that time had remitted her taxes, she felt
that that promise or rather gift still stood good. "After her father's death
she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw
her at all."(190). Miss Emily might have stayed out the public eye after
those two deaths because she was finally alone, something she in her life was
not used to. Emily's father never let her alone and ...
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Slaughter House Five: Time Travel
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... to get away from in all.
Billy's seems to have many unpleasant memories and each time one surfaces he goes back or forward in time. If someone died, or something didn't go the way it should have, he leaped. When the reader finally begins to understand what's going on and where he is at a particular time, Vonnegut changes the time period. . Why does Billy's time travel? He says it's because of the Tralfamadorians. They did this to him so that he would never have to face the real world. I believe that this is from the war and its's post traumatic stress disorder. It seems that he can't handle dissa ...
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Raymond Carvers Cathedral
Number of Words: 1247 / Number of Pages: 5
... to a simple name, he exhibits the precise indiscretion of a closed-minded bigot,
and then eventually reaches humility through his awakening. The narrator
possesses several other prejudices that also hinder his humility. Later on, for
example, the narrator sees Robert for the first time and the man's appearance
startles him: "This blind man, feature this," he says, "he was wearing a full
beard! A beard on a blind man!" (183) Later still, the narrator reinforces his
portrayal of an ignorant, presumptuous man when he notices that Robert doesn't
"use a cane and he [doesn't] wear dark glasses, [ ...
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Wuthering Heights: Edgar And Heathcliff
Number of Words: 271 / Number of Pages: 1
... each other because they are total opposites and in search of
the same goal, Catherine.
Edgar is the calm element contrasted by the stormy element of
Heathcliff. Edgar represents beauty with his "blue eyes and even forehead",
while Heathcliff is the ugliness as "the little black haired thing". Edgar
and Heathcliff both show love for Catherine but for different reasons.
Heathcliff loves Catherine because she is "wild and a free spirit" and
wants to be with her forever, yet Edgar loves Catherine because she is his
wife and he wants to protect her from the evil Heathcliff. Heathcliff who
is as "rough a ...
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Amazing Grace By Jonathan Kozol
Number of Words: 1931 / Number of Pages: 8
... and people who live here. Normal for them however is quite different than it is for most of us. Living with drug dealers, pollution, poor hospital care and an abominable education system not to mention the social system of the city, is the “norm” for these children. In his interviews with the children of this squalid neighborhood, we find that the children speak honestly and freely about their feelings. Forgotten, hidden, abandoned, are just some of the words that come to mind. One boy named “Malcolm X” wears his hair in a style referred to as “25 years to life”. His sister asks “Like in priso ...
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