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Summary Of Joyce's "A Portrait Of An Artists As A Young Man"
Number of Words: 2018 / Number of Pages: 8
... sets the stage for the rest of his life. Stephen
feels he should be the center of his family's universe, or the "baby
tuckoo". His family symbolizes the oppression that Stephen encounters
throughout his life. "Apologise, pull out his eyes, pull out his eyes,
apologise (Joyce 4)." Later the reader finds that this symbolizes how his
family will not accept his spontaneous outbursts, especially involving the
arts. Its also important to note that even at this early part of his life,
Stephen prefers his mother over his father, which shows later on in the
novel. " . . . he had a hairy face . . . his moth ...
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Zane Grey
Number of Words: 1468 / Number of Pages: 6
... cope with the problems the west posses. They gain inner peace and
become one with nature. In the novel The Vanishing American Marian is an
eastern girl who moves out west to be with her true love Nophie. Nophie is
an Indian she met and fell in love with. At first Marian struggles with
the harsh conditions and hot weather. She almost gives up but continues to
push on. Gradually she becomes stronger and able to deal with the climate
and the problems nature throws at her. This gains her a lot of respect
from the westerners who had previously looked down on her. She receives a
new understanding ...
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Salzman's "Iron And Silk": Losing Face
Number of Words: 480 / Number of Pages: 2
... infant child. Children
any older than five should not be kissed. The students explained that
showing affection was just not done, it wasn't normal. At the end of class
one student stayed, he confessed that he still kissed his children. Every
night after they have gone to sleep he sneaks into their room to kiss them.
The student could not admit to the entire class that he was different. Not
only did Mark meet plenty of people who were concerned with loosing face,
but the Chinese government was the same way.
I think the best example of trying to keep face was when Mark
killed a rat. Mark was in the ...
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Simon, Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... his seat.”(89) Just when he thought he had been accepted he embarrassed himself again, “When he bashed into a tree Ralph looked sideways impatiently and Robert sniggered.”(104) They were getting restless with his behavior.
In the end, he was trying more to tell the boys what he knew, but they just thought he was weird. He told Ralph, “You’ll get back alright.”(111) Ralph’s response was only that he thought Simon was “batty.” In another instance, he went to tell the others that he found out what the beast really was (the parachutist), but got ...
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Death Of A Salesman
Number of Words: 556 / Number of Pages: 3
... the
philosophy of business and comprises the dreams of man. Sometimes, this
can drive man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin.
Willy was driven to the latter. (Not his own greed for he was a simple
man with simple dreams, but by the greed of others.) The developers who
took away the sun and gave birth to shadows, his boss who reduced him to
commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure.
The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could
be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main culprit being big
business.
"I'm always in a race ...
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caulfield
Number of Words: 1043 / Number of Pages: 4
... and has learned quite well how to be on his own. This tendency of teenagers took place in even in ancient history, where the freshly developed teen opts to leave the cave and hunt for is own food. Every teenager tries, in his or her own way, to be independent. Instead of admitting to ones parents of a wrongful deed, the teen tries covering up the mistake or avoiding it in hopes that they won't get in any trouble. They feel that they have enough intelligence to think through a problem without going to their parents for assistance. When Holden hears the news that he has been expelled from Pency, he co ...
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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... who
are we to judge when the United States has had a long history of racial and
ethnic discrimination and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has simple
changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much have we
changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England, we killed
people for conducting scientific experiments and believed this was against the
teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World is a mirror to our own
when we view the past. If a person from the present were to see the sacrifices
and ea ...
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Faust: An Elemental Romantic Work
Number of Words: 203 / Number of Pages: 1
... the
proud condition of human nature can be seen by the way Faust was willing to sell
his soul to better himself.
In Faust Mephistopheles makes a wager with God. The wager is that Faust,
a common doctor, will stray from the path that is true and fit. Mephistopheles
makes an agreement with Faust that if Mephistopheles satisfies Faust's desires
in this world, Faust will work as Mephistopheles servant. Faust lives a typical
romantic life full of passion, pride, and adventure. A turning point to Faust
after Faust lives his life with his desires fulfilled he decides to change.
Goethe is ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Rules In Society
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... masses deem it so, or because it is truly the right thing to do? The people who wear their shoes do not ask questions like this. They follow their fellow men like drone robots, good little servants of society.
There are those people in our society that do as they please when it comes to the unwritten rules of the world. They are decent folks who obey laws that doctrine civilized behavior, but they do so in their own unique way, which makes them seem uncivil to the rest of society. Perhaps they do not wear their shoes to dinner, or in more extreme cases know how to act in certain social situations, ...
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Hounds Of The Baskervilles
Number of Words: 702 / Number of Pages: 3
... Henry. As I read through the first 7 or 8 chapters of this Sherlock Holmes mystery, I noticed how well Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can describe the characters as well as the scenery in a few short paragraphs. He also introduced the plot of the story in the first paragraph. As I read on I realized how much I enjoyed this book. Im a fan of mystery books and that is most likely the reason I could stick with the book so well. At times though I felt that Doyle rambled on too much on one subject or a conversation between two people. It did take away a bit of my interest but not enough to bore me. The second ha ...
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