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A Farewell To Arms
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... that I know
many people see that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free
will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I
also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is,
though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't
always an explanation for everything."
War and love are obviously important themes in the book, and the relationship
between the two is explored by Hemingway and, somewhat, by Henry. In the first
two Books we are in the war and the war is overwhelming. In the last two Book ...
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The Lord Of The Flies 2
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... To the bigguns, Simon is just a silent and, “batty” kid who is called odd the entire story. Until he thinks he sees the beast everyone ignored him and when this happens he’s running to tell all the boys that he had seen the beast and when they see him coming they mistake him for the beast and stab him repeatedly until he is dead. Simon is really just misunderstood because Ralph thinks he is a big help. As he says in the story, “Simon, he helps.” Ralph is referring in this quote to the building of the shelters. The only people who work to get shelters from the ...
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Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury
Number of Words: 1596 / Number of Pages: 6
... daughter, Caddy, and allows one to crawl inside the minds of his deeply disturbed characters.
April seventh, nineteen-hundred-and-twenty-eight…or is it? Benjamin, formerly Maury, presents a disjointed account of his life between his early childhood just around the turn of the century and up until 1910, mainly focusing on his relationship with his sister, Candace. His sense of time is nonexistent: he confuses the past with the present. He is literal: he has no knowledge of connotation. His descriptions are that of a small child and represent the world as it might seem to a person who has been cut ...
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Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons": Reasons For A Person's Actions
Number of Words: 781 / Number of Pages: 3
... decision was asinine. The
reader may believe that life is the greatest value to man, and to place anything
above it would be asinine. More's behavior was bizarre even to his own time
period. His daughter, Margaret, pleaded for him to sign the oath, "Then say
the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise"(81). Her father could
not morally be satisfied by this. More believed that when an oath is taken, one
is placing his pledging his self and soul. " When a man takes an oath, Meg,
he's holding his own self in his own hands. And if he opens his fingers then-
he needn't hope to find ...
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Theme Of “Richard Cory”
Number of Words: 492 / Number of Pages: 2
... that Richard Cory was viewed as quietly arrayed makes the reader think
that he has no problems and that everyone wants to be like him. Also, the
poem states that he is “richer than a king” so the audience gets the
feeling that this is a happy man who is happy with his success in life.
When on the other hand he wants to kill himself. Moreover, the workers on
the pavement say that he is “schooled in every grace” which leads the
reader to believe that he is polite and would not think about doing
something so drastic.
Lastly, the author uses symbolism to illustrate his theme. The fact
that the work ...
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Biographical Influences In The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 916 / Number of Pages: 4
... dedication to achieving wealth, but also in the very vivid comparisons between Daisy Buchanan and Zelda Fitzgerald, and between Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald himself.
In many of Fitzgerald's stories he uses his real life experiences, and in The Great Gatsby he chose to use some of his wife's experiences to make the character Daisy Buchanan. Zelda Fitzgerald was an enormous part of her husband's life, as was Daisy to her fictional husband Tom Buchanan. Zelda was often viewed as a nuisance to her husband, as could be seen in "". Daisy, by being an interruption to her husband's affair with another ...
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Jack London's White Fang: Summary
Number of Words: 439 / Number of Pages: 2
... They
cherished him as he became a great fighter, fighting dogs. He became wise and
learned many tricks. His value to them was priceless except a man named Beauty
Smith found a way to buy him through liquor. Beauty Smith used White Fang as a
valuable fighter. He arranged fights and took in bets on them. White Fang
whipped everybody he fought until he fought a pitbull. The pitbull had White
Fang by the neck and was slowly going in to open the jugular. Then a man named
Weedon Scott punched Beauty Smith and pried the pitbull's teeth off of White
Fang's neck. Scott started to love White Fang a ...
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Getting Rid Of George: A Gothic Story
Number of Words: 834 / Number of Pages: 4
... element of aberrant psychological states of mind to add to his gothic story. An example of irrational behavior is shown when Laura becomes outraged and spontaneously murders George. We thought, as well, that when Laura suffers a fainting spell is also an example of this psychological state of mind. Evidence of this is found when Arthur writes: “Harry held Laura until the nausea within her subsided.” Lastly, hallucinations were also prevalent in the story as well. We thought a good example was when Harry and Laura were bringing George to the cabin to dispose of his body, Laura claims that George’ ...
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Frankenstein: The Forbidden Fruit
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... before he knew of man. Only after silently
observing a family for months did he learn of the ways of mankind. He
became self-aware and learned common knowledge. He tediously acquired a
written and oral language. Then he yearned to meet his benefactors. For
years after his creation, the Creature was innocent.
Throughout his bitter life, the Creature was dealt one blow from
humanity after another. After spending time in the cold, wet woods, he
sought more adequate shelter. He found the small house of a shepherd, who
ran in terror after beholding the so far harmless, yet hideous, Cre ...
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The Great Gatsby: “The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil"
Number of Words: 647 / Number of Pages: 3
... that might have been remarkable, are be ruined by money. It is extremely hard for a person to spend time with another who has grown up with everything that they ever wanted. While the more fortunate person may not be thinking about it, the less fortunate person feels inferior. The backgrounds of the people are so different that they just cannot comprehend how the other’s life works. If this barrier was not there, a friendship could have easily blossomed.
Greed is something that seems to come along wherever money is. Some people just cannot get enough money and they do not care who they hu ...
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