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“Do You Believe In Fate Neo,”
Number of Words: 1215 / Number of Pages: 5
... life is dictated by a large group of white people’s false belief of superiority. With every cause there is an effect, and the effect that this burden has on Bigger turns him into an animal, living for only one thing, survival.
“There he is again, Bigger!” the woman screamed, and the tiny, one-room apartment galvanized into violent action. A chair toppled as the woman, half dressed in her stocking feet, scrambled breathlessly upon the bed. Her two sons, barefoot, stood tense and motionless, their eyes searching anxiously under the bed and chairs. The girl ran into the corner, half stooped and gathe ...
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Flowers For Algeron
Number of Words: 869 / Number of Pages: 4
... story. In the story, there was a point where Charlie was at a party and they got him drunk, and made him dance with a girl. Charlie had never been with a girl before and didn’t know what to do. They were tripping him when he was trying to dance with the girl. Later after the operation when he is smart he says "…people were laughing and making fun of me…" Maybe Daniel Keyes has seen something like this happen before done to someone mentally challenged.
Daniel Keyes point of view of improving intelligence by artificial means, is that he is against it. In the end he told through Charlie in an odd way tha ...
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An Analysis Of “The Cask Of Amontillado
Number of Words: 1268 / Number of Pages: 5
... the
conflict will be one of man versus man. It is an external struggle because
Fortunato and Montresor are in a life and death fight. However, the
conflict is largely internal, because Montresor has a fierce hatred that
Fortunato is unaware of. The narrative hook seems to occur when Fortunato
follows Montresor into the vault. Even if the reader was confused by the
language of the first paragraph or is puzzled by the motive of the narrator,
he/she is curious to know what will happen next. Knowing that revenge is
at hand the reader wonders what it will be. Why is he taking him
underground?
The ...
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Rose Of Sharon And The Starving Man
Number of Words: 2090 / Number of Pages: 8
... in front of the other" (Chapter 16). Uncle John lives in the past, harboring guilt over his wife's death. Al lives for girls and cars. Pa is so broken at the loss of his farm that for much of the novel he allows all decisions to be made by Ma. Ma, at the novel's beginning, has only one passion: to keep the "fambly" together. Ruthie torments her brother and exhibits childish ways almost until the end of the book. Even Casy, when the novel opens, is adrift. He's sure there's something to be learned in the midst of all the suffering, but until he goes to prison, even he lacks real conviction or ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Compassion From Atticus Finch
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... THEM. Not just the black felt sympathy toward Atticus, but the white townspeople were grateful for his honorable actions and felt compassionate towards him for being the person that had to MISS MAUDIE QUOTE. However the racists in the town still disliked Atticus for his actions and threatened him by spitting in his face and trying to kill his children.
In today’s society, people have felt compassion toward Nelson Mandela, a man similar to Atticus due to his moral stance. Nelson Mandela helped end the apartheid in South Africa to help give the blacks equality. At first, Nelson was punished by the ...
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The Glass Menagerie
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... people.
Another symbol presented deals more with Tom than any of the other
characters: Tom's habit of going to the movies shows us his longing to
leave the apartment and head out into the world of reality. A place where
one can find adventure. And Tom, being a poet, can understand the needs of
man to long for adventure and romance. But he is kept from entering
reality by Amanda, who criticizes him as being a "selfish dreamer." But,
Tom has made steps to escape into reality by transferring the payment of a
light bill to pay for his dues in the Merchant Seaman's Union.
Another symbo ...
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The Glass Menagerie: Internal War
Number of Words: 785 / Number of Pages: 3
... sister. In the end, Tom walks down the fire escape for the last time “following in [his] father’s footsteps” (7). No matter how much he tries to be better than his father is he ends up walking out just like him.
Amanda is the one that tries to control Tom and burden him with all the responsibilities. She is constantly nagging him about what he does and how he does it. She tells him to “eat food leisurely, son, and really enjoy it” (1.8-9) when he eats his dinner. She confiscates books by Mr. Lawrence from his room because she “won’t allow such filth brought into [her] house” (3.16). Tom’s smokin ...
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Imagination In Morte D' Arthur
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... a snake about to bite him, and he draws his sword to slay it. All that
Mordred's men see is the blade being drawn, and a battle immediately ensues.
Once again, the reader is told more than the characters. The only thing
keeping the reader a part of the story is the vivid descriptions given of the
nightmarish world of Arthur's dream, and the smoking, bloody battlefield of a
war that wasn't meant to happen.
Malory also makes use of drama in his portrayal of the double-death
scene, again with Arthur and Mordred. When he describes Mordred's sword being
driven into Arthur's chest, and Arthur's spear ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Essay On Jack Merridew
Number of Words: 1934 / Number of Pages: 8
... school age, who
find themselves on a lonely island with some other boys of various age, but
not older than themselves. They share similar opinions about their
situation and its solution. They both want to be rescued and taken home.
They both realize that there are a lot of things they must do to survive on
the island until all of them get rescued. And lastly, they both are
dominant types, but yet at the beginning of the novel they both acknowledge
each other's authority and behave to each other in a friendly way.
At the return Ralph found himself alone on a limb with Jack and
they grinned at e ...
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Gulliver's Travels
Number of Words: 769 / Number of Pages: 3
... be
quite naive and impressionable. Although he is simply too large to perceive
them in detail, Gulliver judges the country's inhabitants he meets to be as
perfect and innocent as their toylike appearances. He refers to the Lilliputian
emperor, a being not even six inches high, as “His Imperial Majesty” and blindly
agrees to perform any demanded service, even though he could easily overpower
the tiny nation. It is only after his services have been exploited and himself
banished that Gulliver realizes how cruel and deceitful the Lilliputians truly
are and his personality begins to transform.
In ...
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