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The Joy Luck Club: The Gap Between Mother And Daughter
Number of Words: 1065 / Number of Pages: 4
... to a bad man who left her after a short time. Her love turned to hate, and she killed her unborn baby. This made her think she is a murderer. Ying-Ying lived in her past for a long time; she can hardly forget the pain of her unsuccessful marriage. Actually, in real life, Ying-Ying wants to hide herself, her tragic past and her pain. Ying-Ying also wants her second husband believes she was from a poor family, and he married her saving her from a catastrophe. But she would not tell her husband and her daughter about the catastrophe.
"I let myself become a wounded animal. I let the hunter come to me ...
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Tale Of Two Cities: The Wine Shop Chapter - Element Of Secrecy
Number of Words: 361 / Number of Pages: 2
... her eyebrows to get his attention. Mme. Defarge said nothing...but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with lifting her darkly defined eyebrows suggesting to her husband that it would do him well to look around the shop.(pg. 28). The reader, at this point, becomes aware of the same secrecy between the Defarges but is unsure why.
Charles Dickens certainly used the wine shop to install an element of secrecy in the novel. He shows that certain individuals are required to lead a secret life just to stay alive. He shows this when Mr. Monette is hidden away in the attic.
Often you ...
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Kaffir Boy
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... He often was without the required materials like a school uniform and books. This then resulted in Mark being beaten at school. These beatings became so intense and often that Mark thought about dropping out of school. His Mother helped him decide that he should stay in school because she knew that an education was the only way out of their life of poverty. Through the support of Mark’s Mother and grandmother Mark found success in school. He almost always was ranked in the top of his class and received scholarships to continue on in school. At the end of Mark’s schooling he receives a job ...
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Huck Finn: Conflict Between Society And The Individual
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... Pap.
This is a society that is more concerned about a dead body than it is in the
welfare of living people.
The theme becomes even more evident once Huck and Jim set out, down the
Mississippi. Huck enjoys his adventures on the raft. He prefers the freedom
of the wilderness to the restrictions of society. Also, Huck's acceptance of
Jim is a total defiance of society. Ironically, Huck believes he is committing
a sin by going against society and protecting Jim. He does not realize that
his own instincts are more morally correct than those of society'.
In chapter sixteen, we see, perhaps, the most i ...
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The Truth Behind The Madness,
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family, idiots and maniacs through three generations!”(Brontë). Later, in the same chapter, she is further described as having a “discoloured face”, “a savage face” with “fearful blackened inflation of the features”, “the lips were swelled and black”. Nowhere in the novel she allows “the madwoman in the attic” to have a voice, to explain what may have caused her madness. She shows no pity for her, and neither does the reader feels that she deserves some. Jean Rhys identifies with Bertha being she ...
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Young Goodman Brown 2
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... be so far in the wilderness at night fall.”(Hawthorne 98) When he learns of her travels and of how she is acquainted with the old man he is in disbelieve that a women that taught him religion is evil. When Goody asks the old man for a hand to take her to a communion he offers her cane and throws it down when it hits the ground it turns alive and Goody Close disappears. Leading you to believe that she is just an imagination to get Brown to believe in the evil. Goodman Brown also sees other town’s members in the woods such as highly respected people such as Deacon Gookin, and even h ...
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Clock Work Orange With Regards
Number of Words: 1722 / Number of Pages: 7
... personal moral choice imposed upon Alex creates conflicting situations in which he has no control over. This is apparent when trying to readjust into society. As conflicts arise within the spectrum of criminal justice the main focus is revolved around the corrections aspect of reforming the criminal element.
Within the confines of the seventies Londoner. The character, Alex is created as the ultimate juvenile delinquent leading a small gang. Living within his own world the use of old Londoner language and attire reflect the non-conformity with society. Let loose within a large metropolitan, Ale ...
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Oliver Twist And Hedda Gabler: Commentary On The Social Conditions Of That Time
Number of Words: 2315 / Number of Pages: 9
... from those they interact with, but
there are some that they associate with that they reveal their mind to. But
those that know are of a like mind to them. "Birds of a feather flock
together", it has been said. It has certainly been true to the characters
in Ibsen's and Dickens' work.
In Oliver Twist, Fagin and his gang are of like qualities, all
being thieves and gangsters, with whom poor Oliver unwittingly falls in
with. Oliver, being a kind and innocent soul, is beguiled by Fagin and his
boys into joining them for time. He uses double talk to keep his true
motives from others.
"You'd li ...
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Wright's "Black Boy": An Oppressionist Impression
Number of Words: 883 / Number of Pages: 4
... audience into a hymm. Omisdt violence, under
anger and fear, Wright converses with the reader as though he were a youth
leader telling a story to a group of boyscouts outside by a campfire. His
spellbounding words chant the reader into his world and produce a map
through which the reader follows his life in the shadows of others. “ I
mingled with the boys, hoping to pass unnoticed , but knowing that sooner
or later I would be spotted for a newcomer. And trouble came quickly- a
bloabk boy came bounding past me, thumping my hat to the ground and
yelling.” To keep his audience from dazily drifting into a ...
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