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Memoirs Of The Geisha
Number of Words: 1743 / Number of Pages: 7
... with his business associates. He takes notice of her and goes up to see what is the matter with her. As he lifts her chin up and looks into her eyes, he is marveled by the beauty her eyes posses. All he can do is stare. He gives her a handkerchief and a few compliments and tells her not to worry because everything will be fine. The Chairman then leaves but he never leaves Chiyo’s thoughts or dreams. He is the only person who has been kind to her all her life and for the past years, all she dreams about is meeting this wonderful man again and getting to know him. To make a long story short, the ...
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The Crucible 3
Number of Words: 985 / Number of Pages: 4
... this candle, that they believed they could use to expose the heretics and eventually remove them from their society. The darkness that supposedly befuddled good and evil would be eliminated, and everyone and everything in their society would be seen as it truly was. This was a very hopeful idea for most of the Puritans, for a rapid decline in church participation was simultaneously taking place. And as ministers tried as they could to convince “sinners” in New England to repent, they couldn’t, and believed the devil was behind the loss of religious fervor that was so important whe ...
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A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
Number of Words: 497 / Number of Pages: 2
... who don't conform to social
norms just for the sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are
not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people
conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II.
The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as conformity
becomes more popular. I haven't met any real individualists, so I can't say
whether or not Knowles exaggerates Lepillier's lack of stereotype.
In modern society, there is pressure on individualists to conform to
the most prominent subculture in the local area (I t ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol Of The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 1371 / Number of Pages: 5
... letter, it
was still her own choice to make it in a vivid scarlet, "so fantastically
embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom." Hester chose red as the color
of her brand of shame, to declare to the rest of the townspeople that she
is prepared to acknowledge her sin, instead of denying it; she could have
chosen to wear her "A" in a plain and nondistinct color, to escape the
townspeople's disdain. By displaying her guilt however, she is granted the
opportunity to face her punishment bravely, thus through her public
humiliation, she achieves freedom from the personal guilt of not suffering
enough f ...
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The Optimist's Daughter: Summary
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... opponent feel sorry or inferior. This
makes her extremely hard to get along with since she is always demanding
and never giving. Laurel McKelva is the complete opposite of Wanda Fay.
She is kind hearted, nice, caring, and intelligent. Laurel has a air of
maturity and understanding around her due to her experiences in life.
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In "The Optimist's Daughter" Judge McKelva will soon enter eye surgery to
fix a slipped retina. Judge McKelva, his daughter, Laurel, and his new
wife, Fay, are all anxious about the surgery and what might happen.
Laurels mother died from cancer that started with her eyes ...
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"Paul's Case": Willa Cathers
Number of Words: 1090 / Number of Pages: 4
... naked walls".
Paul's uplifting arena was either glaring up at the actors, divas,
or performers at the Schenley Hotel or at the works of art at Carnegie
Hall. Even though he had spent numerous days fantasizing at masterpieces
and stage plays, Paul "had no desire to become an actor, any more thatn he
had to become a musician. He felt no necessity to do any of these things;
what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of
it, to be carried out, blue league after blue league, away from
everything." At the Schenley Hall he was able to see "all the actors and
singers of the bette ...
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Billy Budd
Number of Words: 666 / Number of Pages: 3
... he may be experiencing is not accounted for. This is not the behavior one would expect from someone who had just accidentally killed someone else. On trial Billy has this to say for his actions: "I did not mean to kill him. But he foully lied to my face and in the presence of my captain, and I had to say something, and I could only say it with a blow, God help me!" This statement illustrates Billy's emotional response to his crime; He shirks the full weight of his action by pointing to his accidental nature. Billy is sorry that Claggart was killed, but he states the utterance as a response without t ...
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To Kill A Mocking Bird Essay
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... social justice is not always easy to achieve. It tells the story of one Tom Robinson. Tom is a black man in a racist town who is accused of a crime that he didn’t commit. Atticus believes and tries to show others that all people are created equal, at least under the law. Bob Ewell accused Tom of beating and raping his daughter and only the black families, and a handful of whites (including Atticus) seem to believe in his innocence. Therefore his chance of a fair trial was slim. The jury’s racism cuts short an innocence man’s life. Unfortunately, the small southern town’ ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage
Number of Words: 1077 / Number of Pages: 4
... However, when Henry heard that his regiment was going to battle he started to wonder if he would run. He was afraid to tell anyone of this because he thought they would think he was a coward. When he was returning to the regiment, shortly after he ran, he wondered and cared about what they would say to him. "He wondered what they would remark when later he appeared in camp. His mind heard howls of derision... Where's Henry Fleming? He run, didn't 'e?" (97) After no one brutally questioned him, he thought, "He had performed all of his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man." (111) Since n ...
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Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
Number of Words: 2161 / Number of Pages: 8
... merely an introduction
to the history of Sutpen based on what Miss Rosa heard as a child and her brief
personal experiences.
The narration of Absalom, Absalom!, can be considered a coded activity.
Faulkner creates the complex narration beginning at chapter 2. It ironic that
one of Faulkner's greatest novels is one in which the author only appears as the
teller of the story in one brief section; The details of the hero's arrival,
Thomas Sutpen, into Jefferson in chapter 2. Although Faulkner sets the scene up
in each section (The omniscient narrator), most of the novel is delivered
through a continu ...
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