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A Tale Of Two Cities - Charach
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... would make those talents work to his own advantage instead
of others that he helps. He always use to be satisfied with faling into his rank and never did
anything to attempt to change his life. He further destroys himself with drinking and
although he is not satisfied with his life now, he feels that he cannot do anything to change
it.
Sydney’s love for Lucie Manette changed him greatly in a positive way. One day
when Sydney visited the Manette residence he called on Lucie and pledged his love to her.
After hearing this, Lucie feels nothing but compassion for Carton. He asked nothing more
of Lucie t ...
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Great Expectations
Number of Words: 1949 / Number of Pages: 8
... for the rest of his life.
Many of the events from Dickens' early childhood are mirrored in , which, apart from David Copperfield, is his most autobiographical novel. Pip, the novel's protagonist, lives in the marsh country, works at a job he hates, considers himself too good for his surroundings, and experiences material success in London at a very early age. In addition, one of the novel's most appealing characters is a law clerk named Wemmick, and the law, justice, and the courts are all important components of the story.
is set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweep ...
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The Heart Of Darkness
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... wherever they go) and a crew of cannibals on a long, difficult voyage up the river.
They come across a hut with firewood stacked and a note saying it is for them but to approach cautiously. Natives attack them and the helmsman is killed before Marlow frightens the natives away with the steam whistle. They come to Kurtz's Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a Russian trader there assures them everything is all right and reveals that he is the one who left the wood. The Russian claims Kurtz has enlarged his mind and cannot be subjected to the same moral judgments as normal people. Kurtz has es ...
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Grapes Of Wrath 3
Number of Words: 7173 / Number of Pages: 27
... repossession by the large corporations another example in Tom's life how the larger are trying to control the less fortunate. This land had been his family's source of pride and livelihood throughout his life with them and it's loss was the first sizable impact on Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awakening. After visiting the land the Joad family had lived on for many years Tom and Jim traveled to his uncle John's house nearby. There Tom meets his family as they are making preparations to leave for California. Tom's family has already sold off every valuable possession they own while l ...
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Great Expectations 2
Number of Words: 551 / Number of Pages: 3
... mannered and respectful to Mrs. Havisham yet he begins to see that he will never get ahead in life just being nice. Mrs. Havisham uses Pip as sort of a guinea pig to feel her passion of revenge against men. She does this by using her daughter Estella to torment Pip.
Pip’s first and only love is Estella. Estella is very mean and nasty to Pip. Although he receives verbal abuse from Estella, he continues to likes and will not stop liking her, he sees the good inside of her and will not stop until the good comes out. In contrast to her treatment of Pip as a child when she had called him a common la ...
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"The Problem Of Place In America" And "My Neighborhood": The Breakdown Of Community
Number of Words: 617 / Number of Pages: 3
... anyone. These is due partly to consumerism,
which keeps people indoors. Reed was feared because of the color of his skin.
Dogs would bark at him as he walked by, cops would enter his own home to harass
him, people would yell racial slurs, and he was even watched closely to make
sure that he did not abduct a child off the street. These fears are a result of
the media and our society telling us to fear certain types of people.
Television often portrays the black man as a dope dealing slander who hangs out
on corners with a forty of "Old E." Soon people begin to believe all that they
hear and begin t ...
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Chaucer's "The House Of Fame": The Cultural Nature Of Fame
Number of Words: 2299 / Number of Pages: 9
... want their
subjects to remain fresh in the minds of their audience. Chaucer, while
neither totally praising the written nor the oral, reveals how essentially
the written word is far more likely to become eternal as opposed to the
oral. The relative "fame" of any work is dependent on many factors. Many
traditional and classical ideas result in the formation of the English
canon, yet as Chaucer indicates, the "fame" of these works can easily
become annihilated. The arrival of new readers with different ideals and
thereby changing tradition, can reject classical or "canonical" work and
their "fame" wi ...
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Chronicle Of A Death Fortold B
Number of Words: 392 / Number of Pages: 2
... right, girl,’ he said to her, trembling with rage, ‘tell us who it was’. . .’Santiago Nasar,’ she said"(53). Whether or not Santiago Nasar was the reason behind Angela Vicario’s lost honor, his death shapes and defines her life afterwards. Many in the town describe her as being a woman half in mourning and the narrator is amazed at how she ends up understanding her own life despite how much she was made to die in life(101).
Chronicle of a Death Fortold makes us look at life and death and face uncertainty about our future. Because it questions death and our belief in religion, it depreciates, in a sens ...
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The Reaper's Image
Number of Words: 1141 / Number of Pages: 5
... the reader in suspense, and keep them wondering.
Here There Be Tygers
This story is about a little boy named Charles who is in elementary
school. He has to go to the bathrrom really bad, but he is afraid to ask
because the teacher does not like him. Finally the teacher sees him squirming
and asks him if he needs to use the restroom. He says yes and is very
embarassed in front of the class, so he leaves quickly. When he steps into the
bathroom, he sees a tiger lying in the corner, and it looks hungry. He goes
back outside and sits there for a while wondering what he should do. His friend ...
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The Great Gatsby: Nick Carroway Was A Good Narrator
Number of Words: 812 / Number of Pages: 3
... instinctively and without hersitation. But
she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear
observation.
However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything
happen and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss
about something at a time, he does not believe it is true. After he proves
it, he will accept the truth.
Moreover, when Nike went to Gatsby's party, there is a drunk
lady telling everyone Gatsby killed a man before. ...
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