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Belove Analysis
Number of Words: 1610 / Number of Pages: 6
... her guilt. She removes herself so completely that her
neighbors, already upset at her crime, isolated her because she seemed to feel no remorse
for the awful deed. Sethe's stoic resolve continues until Denver loses her hearing, which
was caused by Denver not being able to deal with hearing what her mother had done.
Only when her mother's conscience manifests itself as the ghost of the baby does
Denver's hearing return.
Denver, having as a child suckled her sister's blood with her mother's milk,
attaches herself to this ghost, the manifestation of her mother's guilt. She makes friends
with it, bec ...
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“The Cariboo Cafe”
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... not even the neighbors. The parents of Sonya and Macky gave them a set of rules which were “Rule one: never talk to strangers, not even the neighbor who paced up and down the hallways talking to himself. Rule two: the police, or “polie” as Sonya’s popi pronounced the word, was La Migra in disguise and thus should always be avoided. Rule three: keep your key with you at all times-the four walls of the apartment were the only protection against the streets until Popi returned home.” All these rules made them frightened because they felt that the migra was going to get them. Since they had just ...
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A Separate Peace: An Analysis
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... this was hard for me to understand. I think this concept requires and older persons maturity to understand.
Jumping off a tree into the river once is an adventure, continually attempting this act is crazy. Finney was in control of this situation. Gene hated this ritual. He continued to do it because Finney said so. It seems that Gene disliked the fact that Finney had this control over him. Could this possibly be the reason that Gene shook the branch that day? Now Finney would no longer have such control over him. Could these have been the intentions of Gene that day? This scenario needs the mat ...
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Harrison Bergeron
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... handicaps imposed there would
not the breakthroughs that are needed to improve the population's way of life.
Suppose someone did not have the ability to invent the automobile. It would be
difficult to commute to school or work. Imagine if you had to walk to work
every day no matter how bad the weather is. Now-a-days people complain about
having to simply walk out to their car in the morning and wait for it to warm up.
Many jobs would have never been created if there were not any cars. Without
technological advancements, the economy would also come to a stand still.
If new goods and services were ...
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The Influence Of God In The Characters Of The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 1849 / Number of Pages: 7
... and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made more effectual to salvation, I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer" (67). Chillingworth's first reaction is one of shock, but he quickly suppresses it (61). Since his first sight of his wife in two years is of her being punished for being unfaithful to him, he is naturally surprised. It does not last for long though, because it is his nature to control his emotions (61). Pearl's very existence in this scene is the largest immediate effect of her parents' crime (52). She obviously would never have been there ha ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Women In Society
Number of Words: 864 / Number of Pages: 4
... this way the house still is the cocoon for her transformation. It does not take the form of the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that she is kept in the house.
One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizes not only her potential but also her trapped feeling is the window. Traditionally this symbol represents a view of possibilities, but now it also becomes a view to ...
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"Miss Brill": Emptiness In One's Life
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... She noticed the way the gentleman ignored the woman and then just walked away. Miss Brill imagined that the band knew what the ermine toque was feeling and played softly as the drum beat "The Brute! The Brute!" over and over. Her tendency to notice these things shows that she is melancholy with her own life and can find no other way to fill in her emptiness other than with the lives of other people.
A good quality Miss Brill has is her imagination. She imagines that the whole setting at the park is like a play with no audience. She feels that everyone is involved including herself. Miss Bril ...
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Where The Red Fern Grows
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... his grandfather told him that he had seen an ad in the newspaper for some hound dog pups. That’s when Billy finally had decided to do something about this “not having a pair of hound dogs” problem. So he went and got an old tin can and started putting money in it that he made from working in the fields.
Over the next year he had saved up enough money to buy his hound dog pups. He hiked over the mountains to the nearest town post office because that’s where his dogs where going to be until he picked them up. He got to the post office and put them in a potato sack bag and headed for home. His gran ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 1149 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the society to his advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society. This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his arrogant behavior, he is exiled. The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's fame (and folly) is an outsider known as the Savage. Bernard brings in the Savage from outside of the utopian society as an experiment. He faces "civilized society" with a bright outlook, but eventually comes to hate it bitterly. Lenina, the supporting role of the novel, is the most ...
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Macbeth - An Analysis Of Lady
Number of Words: 566 / Number of Pages: 3
... acts differently when she
is alone than when she is around him.
Another example of her being two sided is the role she talks about
playing in Duncan’s death, and the role that she actually does play in it.
There are a few times in the play, mostly when she is attempting to persuade
Macbeth into committing the murder, that she says he should just leave the
murder to her. Throughout the play she gradually decreases her role in the
murder until it becomes Macbeth’s job to kill Duncan, not hers. This is
another very large trick on her part, but one that Macbeth also fails to see; ...
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