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The Pearl: Depictions Of Life
Number of Words: 855 / Number of Pages: 4
... The Pearl, another
inspiration from his past, originated from a legend about the misfortunes of a
poor boy who found a giant pearl that was told to Steinbeck while on a trip to
Mexico.
Kino, the protagonist in The Pearl, is an honest pearl diver that
discovers the sacrifices that come with the struggle for success. He dreams of
the education the pearl could provide for his son, but the pearl also makes Kino
more suspicious of the peaceful villagers around him. At one point, he tries to
sell the pearl in order to pay for a doctor Coyotito needs, but the pearl buyers
only try to cheat him of the s ...
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Native Son: Reviews
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... himself or somebody else." Fadiman then
goes on by criticizing Wright stating that he is too explicit, repetitive, and
overdoes his melodrama from time to time. Fadiman does not believe Wright to be
a finished writer just yet. However, he does think that Wright possesses the
two absolute necessities of the first-rate novelist, passion and intelligence.
He also understands that Wright must have been greatly affected by the labor
movement, which may have contributed to Native Son.
At the conclusion of his review, Fadiman once again compares Native Son
to An American Tragedy. He says that the two nov ...
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The Crucible: John Proctor
Number of Words: 979 / Number of Pages: 4
... not a partisan of the town, and shows a very strong sense of self-preservation. The first real conversation he has with another character is with Abigail Williams, where Abigail is trying to make John tell her that loves her, and that he will come again for her. John tells Abby that their affair is over with and Abby begins to plead for John’s love and he says “Abby I may think softly of you from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby.” John knows that he really did have an affair with Abby, but the fact that he denied ...
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The Old Man And The Sea: Santiago A Hero?
Number of Words: 399 / Number of Pages: 2
... for him because of the
fact that he was a feeble old fisherman that no one would ever expected to
have been able to catch such a fish as he did, skeleton or not. here is an
example of Santiago's determination, for which the people of the town
respected him for, “he took all of is pain and what was left of his
strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fishes agony and
the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill
almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat,
long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the
wate ...
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Beloved-water Motif
Number of Words: 1447 / Number of Pages: 6
... of about twenty on their porch. She claimed her name is Beloved. They took her in and she lived with them. Throughout the novel, Morrison uses many symbols and imagery to express her thoughts and to help us better understand the characters. Morrison uses the motif of water throughout the novel to represent birth, re-birth, and escape to freedom.
In Beloved, one of the things that water represents is birth. When Sethe was running away form Sweet Home, she was pregnant. In order to get to freedom, she had to cross the Ohio River. On the way to the river, Sethe met a young white girl named Amy De ...
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Comparison Of London's White Fang And The Call Of The Wild
Number of Words: 1154 / Number of Pages: 5
... gold rush. The name Call of the Wild comes from the
natural instinct that animals have to be free in nature. The main
characters in this story are Buck the four- year-old half Saint Bernard and
half-Scottish shepherd, John Thorton and the Scottish half-breed. Buck
was stolen from his home in California during the gold-rush in the Klondike.
Dogs were a necessity and considering the size of Buck he had the makings
of a great sled-dog. Buck, being thrown into a totally different
environment, encounters such problems such as, how to stay warm by
burrowing into the snow to sleep, how to survive the lack ...
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The Good Earth: Success In Wang Lung's Life
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... that he could do because is would be considered disrespectful for
one to be anything but considerate to an older generation. This was an
unfortunate occurrence, but Wang Lung was able to hook his uncle on opium,
thus making him a passive nuisance which could then be relatively easily
ignored.
A third thing to go wrong was when he had moved into the house of
Hwang. This was when his uncle's son returned to the city with his fellow
troops who were fighting in the war. This caused a major disruption in
Wang Lung's courts and many things got destroyed. This also caused a
second very bad thing to hap ...
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Battle Royale
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... is that blacks have to fight just to be heard in white society and that society is arranged to create conflict within the black community. The narrator states "In those pre-invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T. Washington." Booker T. Washington was known for advocating working within the white community, quietly and without protest to gain status in the white society. The view that makes this a possibility is discarded by the narrator later in his life, but it is important to note he believes in the theory at this point in the novel. The narrator, when speaking of the ...
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Who Is Amelia Sedley?
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... her family sinks
into financial ruin and George’s father refuses to countenance a union
between his son and the helpless daughter. However, inspired by his friend
Dobbin, who is himself in love with Amelia and always selflessly thinking
of her happiness, George rebels against his father and marries her.
George is killed in battle and she is poverty-stricken that she is
forced to hand her son over to her despised father-in-law. Dobbins remains
devoted to her but she cannot let go of George. Amelia’s willful
attachment to George’s memory leads her to abuse Dobbin’s genuine feelings
for her, and e ...
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Emma: All Human Beings Are Judging
Number of Words: 988 / Number of Pages: 4
... under his pen, was a totally tragic existence condemned by God. She
did not have the desire to break out of the repression of morality; instead,
she upheld the moral code that caused her miserable life. Only in the end
did Tess fight back and kill Alec, but she did not do it for her own
liberation but for the love of another man. Hardy implied the idea that
women were always subordinate to men. He applauded Tess for learning and
upholding Angel's believes and gave Tess no believes of her own
Like Flauber and Hardy, Tolstoy was a moralist. From the beginning
to the end, Tolstoy's heroine was consum ...
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