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Literary Comparison Of A Clock
Number of Words: 1729 / Number of Pages: 7
... live in highly oppressive societies from which they feel alienated, and therefore decide to rebel against. The futuristic setting of A Clockwork Orange is one of a constructive, depersonalized society where the government has far too much control over people’s lives. They are forced to live in strictly regimented communities, and their daily life is dreary. “Alex’s England is a socialized nightmare.” (De Vitis, 106) It is because of this meaningless life that Alex chooses to rebel against his society, committing so many brutal acts of violence that he soon becomes des ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 3
Number of Words: 2678 / Number of Pages: 10
... law official.
Atticus tells his children: "I prefer you shoot tin cans, but I know you'll wanna shoot birds, if you can hit 'em. Shoot all the Blue Jays you want, but never shoot a Mockingbird. All they do for us is sing their hearts out for us. Remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird". The Mockingbirds in this story are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Mr. Radley is a mystery man and scary. Tom Robinson is Black and wrongly accused of crime.
To Kill A Mockingbird is told through Scout. Scout is much like a boy, 8 years old, and funny. Scout hated to be called a girl and she wore britches. She kne ...
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Catch 22
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... is a sort of mythical stumbling block to free will and reason. In the end, Yossarian defects and takes a stand against his situation by running away from it. The moral of the story seems to be that nothing is truly worth dying for, but there is plenty worth fighting for.
Yossarian is an antihero: the reader sympathizes with him despite, or perhaps because of, his unsavory beliefs and actions. It is easy to sympathize with him: he seems to be the only sane person in a crazy world, which may be why everyone keeps telling him he's crazy. Yossarian does battle with bureaucratic authority as personified ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 893 / Number of Pages: 4
... is a big theme in this story. Mark Twain was obviously against slavery because it is hypocritical. Throughout the book we see Huck interacting with Jim as human to human, while everyone else treats him like a piece of property. He was especially against the Christians who promoted slavery, since it is obviously wrong and against Christian ideals. Twain also shows the hypocrisy in another theme, religion. In one scene, the Shepardsons and the Gangerfords are listening to a sermon about brotherly love, and in the next scene they are shooting and killing each other. This is exactly the kind of behavio ...
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Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An
Number of Words: 2000 / Number of Pages: 8
... they do not adequately indicate the nature of this complex, paradoxical age that was a second English Renaissance. In science and technology, the Victorians invented the modern idea of invention -- the notion that one can create solutions to problems, that man can create new means of bettering himself and his environment. In religion, the Victorians experienced a great age of doubt, the first that called into question institutional Christianity on such a large scale. In literature and the other arts, the Victorians attempted to combine Romantic emphases upon self, emotion, and imagination with Neocla ...
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"Put Yourself In My Shoes"
Number of Words: 1319 / Number of Pages: 5
... when his wife calls to invite him to the office Christmas party. But he doesn't want to go, mainly because the textbook publishing company where she works is also his former place of employment. Like Marston in "What Do You Do in San Francisco?" Myers is feeling the guilt of the unemployed, which is intensified by the fact that he moves in a much more upscale setting that is typical of Carver's protagonists. Myers is also reluctant to pay a holiday call on the Morgan, although his wife, Paula, finally convinces him to go. The meeting does turn out to be quite an uncomfortable occasion, however. ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Oppression Of Women In Society
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (160) These two men -- both doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a summer in the country and weeks of bed-rest don't help, her husband refuses to accept that she may have a real problem.
Throughout the story there ar ...
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The Lady With The Pet Dog
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... Gurov did not like his wife and was unfaithful to her for a long time. When he meet Anna, I felt, she was the woman that he was looking for in his life. Anna is trapped between two men. One that make her feel like nothing and the other one that make her feel a live. Anna loves her husband but not in the same passion that she loves Gurov. Anna and Gurov Found love and passion in each other arms and feel like a husband and wife, both of them tried to let it go but they can not. Gurov himself tried to understand their relationship but he stop, “ he wanted to be sincere and tender.” She constantly ...
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Juror
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... in which he spews out his views of people like the defendant: “Human life doesn’t mean as much to them as it does to us…And they are-wild animals.”
10 is an impatient and uncaring/unconcerned person. It is made clear by viewing his lines that 10 does not take his part on the jury seriously and only wants to reach a consensus as quickly as possible. His reason is quickly found on page 22 when he states, “I got three garages of mine going to pot while your talking. Let’s get done and get outa here.” On page 34 he impatiently asks, “What’s the idea of wasting everybody’s time here?” Clearly he just w ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Everyone Is Not Prejudice
Number of Words: 208 / Number of Pages: 1
... of the things they do. Mr.
Cunningham showed up at the jail for Tom Robinson's lynching. After the
lynching Mr. Cunningham does not seem very prejudice as he did before.
"Get aside from the door Mr. Finch"
Likewise the Ewells are Prejudice because of the decisions that
they make. They accused Tom Robinson of Raping Mayella. Mr. Ewell spit in
Atticus's face at the court house. After Tom was dead Mr. Ewell told Mrs.
Robinson that she couldn't walk down the street anymore.
"You Niger Lover."
Furthermore the jury is also prejudice because of the way that they
treat Tom Robinson. They automatically be ...
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