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A Review Of The Jungle
Number of Words: 1540 / Number of Pages: 6
... a black smoke that pours all day long from the big
factories. The streets are not paved and the working conditions are
terrible. The setting is a perfect place for a man to struggle from one
problem to the next without ever finding the solace of comfort and
relaxation. The time is important to the novel because it is before any
laws on working conditions and food quality have been established. The
novel takes place in several time sequences where Sinclair briefly stops
to explain the new problem that the main character must overcome.
The main Characters on the novel are Jugus, the man of which ...
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
Number of Words: 878 / Number of Pages: 4
... the scaffold in the market place. The scaffold itself is another symbol Hawthorne uses. Like the prison, it also symbolizes sin and guilt. “The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made
manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron” (60). It provides the setting of several important scenes in the novel. It is where Hester is forced to stand for three hours as punishment, where Dimmesdale, Pearl, and Hester stand in the night, and where Dimmesdale reveals himself and dies. It is also a symbol of truth because Dimmesdale’s great revelation occurred there.
The second setting is the f ...
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The Scarlet Letter: A Review
Number of Words: 2198 / Number of Pages: 8
... the same idea better than I: "Keeping the live process of the
literary experience before us, I shall attempt to look more deeply into the
nature of the literary experience, and to explore implications for problems
of literary theory. . ." I think that Rosenblat would agree with me that
it might not be literature in my own sense, but on the larger scale,
literature it is.
II. At the beginning of the second semester, each individual in our
English class with Dr. Taylor wrote a small definition of what literature
was; it is this that I refer to for most of this section. Literature is
ideas and ...
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell
Number of Words: 2473 / Number of Pages: 9
... by his personal
beliefs about Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and by
the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the
time of his writings.
George Orwell was a Socialist2 himself, and he despised Russian
Communism3, and what it stood for. Orwell shows this hatred towards
Communist Russia in a letter he wrote to Victor Gollancz saying, "For quite
fifteen years I have regarded that regime with plain horror."4 Orwell
wrote this letter in 1947, ten years after announcing his dislike of
Communism. However, he had thought a great deal about Communism a ...
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Killer Angels
Number of Words: 668 / Number of Pages: 3
... reviews that litter the front and back covers drew me to it, but Shaara's powerful writing style and stunningly human characters drew me into it. Shaara has an amazing ability to portray the major players of the battle, whose real personalities must have since been lost over a century of historian analyzation, as real people. Shaara portrays the terrible butchery of the four days' fighting through the vividly rendered thoughts and emotions of such great men as General Robert E. Lee, Major General John Buford from the South and from the North, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, and Colonel Joshua Cham ...
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The Themes In Of Mice And Men
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... novel. Their dream turned into a cliché of a line in Robert Burns’ poem where he writes that “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” Their dream seemed it would become a success until a tragic event brought failure.
The novel brings about the question of whether or not human life has a purpose. The reader may ask himself if a person’s purpose in life is only to kill and be killed. One may question if Lennie’s character had a purpose in life. Some may say that because of Lennie’s inadequacies and inability to survive that he had no purpose in life. On the other hand, many believe ...
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Imagery And Parallelism
Number of Words: 1632 / Number of Pages: 6
... level. Shortly after his sister's death,
Roderick's friend is reading him a story. As things happen in the story,
simultaneously the same description of the noises come from within the house.
As Usher tries to persuade the narrator that it is his sister coming for him,
and his friend believing Roderick has gone stark raving mad, Madeline comes
bursting in through the door and kills her brother. The narrator flees from the
house, and no sooner does he get away than he turns around and sees a fissure in
the houses masonry envelop the house and then watch the ground swallow up the
remains. ...
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Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal Dreams": Alice
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... which reminded him of
Alice resulted in an unorthodox childhood for Hallie and Codi. Homero was more
of a child mechanic than a father. Retaining only his technical aptitude after
Alice died all he could do was provide his kids with orthopedic shoes and the
correct medicine. When not fixing Codi or Hallie's present or future ailments
Homero took photographs of natural objects and slyly transformed them into man-
made devices by doing what he seemed to be best at, distorting images.
Codi, similar to her father mentally blocked out her past. Her
childhood remained within her as only a series of ...
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A Review Of Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"
Number of Words: 790 / Number of Pages: 3
... with several impressions in my mind. The young and innocent
portrayal of the narrator seemed to be a powerful influence on my emotional
reactions to the poem. I was left with a sense of helplessness and
frustration that I was not able to help the boys out of their oppressed
state, and because I possess some knowledge of this period of history and
culture, I know that the events described in the poem actually took place,
and thus the poem becomes even more emotionally moving. It is the value
system of the people of England in the 1790s which comes into sharp
opposition with my own, especially with t ...
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Great Expectations: Life Story Of Phillip Gargery
Number of Words: 1487 / Number of Pages: 6
... was a scary looking kind of guy, and he was very demanding. He ordered me around to get him things. And from the chains on his feet, I could tell he was a convict. I did what he said anyway, because I was afraid he would kill me, or hurt me very badly. So I got him what he needed. The next night, the town soldiers came to my house, and asked Joe to fix the handcuffs for them, because they found the escaped convict. I have never told on him, and that was the last time I’ve seen of the convict for a long time.
A couple months after that, I was invited to play with the wealthiest woman in the town, ...
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