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Building Blocks Of A Family
Number of Words: 865 / Number of Pages: 4
... till he's finished his homework. But he tells us that he doesn't have any homework or he did it all in study hall. How are we to know what to believe?" (Schwiebert 287) The principal gives Daisy the idea to check his assignments everyday. This wears down on Daisy and she becomes less involved in her daughter's life, and short towards her husband. "By the time her husband, Matt, came home, she'd be snappish. She would recite the day's hardships… Matt would look surprised and confused, and Daisy would gradually wind down. There was no way, really, to convey how exhausting all this was." (Schwiebert 28 ...
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Candide By Voltaire
Number of Words: 1495 / Number of Pages: 6
... that all is right when all goes wrong " (Voltaire, p.86).
According to Rene Pomeau, "Voltaire-Candide...have made him [Candide] acquainted with the bad and the good side of human existence. The moral of Candide is born out of its style; it is the art of extracting happiness from the desolate hopping-about of the human insect" (Adams; Pomeau p.137). Pomeau explains that Candide shows both sides of humanity; how both great and terrible events are standard in a human life. Also according to Pomeau, the whole point of the story is to debate between good and bad; for example, as Candide becomes more indep ...
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The Rime Of The Christo-marine
Number of Words: 1732 / Number of Pages: 7
... everywhere,/Nor any drop to drink." And when the Mariner tries to pray for salvation, he hears a demonic voice, like Lucifer: "I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;/But or ever a prayer had gushed,/A wicked whisper came, and made/My heart as dry as dust." [ln 244] As the ghost ship approaches, "I bit my arm, I sucked the blood," in reference to Jesus' use of the wine at the last supper as his own blood. When the spirits move the ship, "Slowly and smoothly went the ship/Moved onward from beneath," the Mariner is, in a sense, walking on water. The ending is the more ironic to consider that the M ...
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No Loser, No Weeper By Maya Angelou
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... directed towards another female trying to steal her lover. Maya wants to make it clear to the woman not touch her Alover-boy." She explains her warning by stating that she hates to lose something Aeven a dime, I wish I was dead." We gather from that statement that losing something so small and worthless as a dime would make Maya wish she was dead is very serious and very threatening. This remark can be traced back to her background to when the trauma in her life made her think about suicide. Maya Angelo felt that if she did not speak that man who assaulted her would still be alive. She later ...
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Similarities And Differences Between The Bridges Of Madison County And The Storm
Number of Words: 1190 / Number of Pages: 5
... Franchesca, and Richard Johnson had two children, Michael, and Carolyn. “The Storm” involved one married couple, Calixta and Bobinot, they to had children but only one, named Bibi. In both of the stories, there was a man who interrupted the day to day life of the two wives. In “The Bridges”, the man’s name was Richard Kincaidj, a photographer for National Geographic, and in “The Storm, the man’s name man involved was Alcee’. In “The Bridges”, Franchesca was an educated woman, she had been an English teacher before she married Richard. In contrast, Calixta was portrayed as an uneducated woman. ...
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The Gift Of The Magi: A Continuation (Creative Writing)
Number of Words: 1358 / Number of Pages: 5
... thought, “will this be a useful gift, and I don't mean in a few years, this
time I want to get it right,” So Jim thought for two days straight. Finally he
came up with an idea, “I'll make it into a wig, a girl can never have to many
wigs.” So he went to the wig shop, which usually only made those white braided
wigs that all the important men wore, but the wigmaker made an exception because
Jim was a good friend and after all, it was for a girls birthday. The wigmaker
asked, "Are you sure Della will like this present, I mean it is rather odd, and
Della's hair has already grown twice as long as ...
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Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 346 / Number of Pages: 2
... attended the funeral. “. . . Only one man who gives his name to this book was exempt from my reaction . . .“ -- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." Regardless of this "scorn", Nick does not hold his past against him. Or at least, of what people assume his past consists. Once Nick fights through the rumors and sees the truth he realizes that Gatsby is not all that different from himself. In conclusion, Nick Carraway presents the facts and looks at all his options before deciding. Nick changed very much over the course of the novel. At first he looked at one vi ...
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Black Boy Essay
Number of Words: 1793 / Number of Pages: 7
... effected Richard’s early life.
Racial prejudice often leads to physical violence. Richard’s life was invariably surrounded by racial tension and had often seen as well as experienced the hate violence. When Richard had once worked at a cheap clothing store in Jackson, he had seen the boss and his son drag a poor black women into the back alley and had beat and whipped her. "The floor was bloody, strewn with wisps of hair and clothing. My face must have reflected my shock, for the boss slapped me reassuringly on the back. ‘Boy that’s what we do to niggers when they don’t pay their bills."(Pg. ...
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Change In Heart Of Darkness
Number of Words: 2201 / Number of Pages: 9
... treacherous, [and] concealed” (Karl 32). When the characters are unable to withstand the various temptations along this passage they helplessly sell their souls to corruption. In both the book and the movie, the various events along each individual journey help illustrate not only the physical deterioration of the environment and the characters’ health but also the psychological degradation of the characters’ conscience and consciousness.
In both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, the various dramatic shifts in the environment from the onset of the river journeys delineate a ...
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A Stranger Is Watching
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... the
antagonist.The protagonist,Steve is a successful man with a family and no problems;at least in the mind of
the antagonist.The antagonist has problems with females,a career he feels is going nowhere,and a lack of
good friends.throughout the story we find out that the antagonist is very jealous of the protagonist's lifeand
that's why he indirectly targets him.This contrast was an addition to the already excitng plot of the story..
In my opinion the best part of "A Stranger is Watching"is the end,chapter 52.this chapter contains
one of the greatest climaxes I ever read.The chapter begins at a fr ...
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