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Book Report On Tim O'Brien's Vietnam
Number of Words: 1067 / Number of Pages: 4
... do to this day.
Tim O'Brien, like many Americans was drafted into the war in the
1960's. He was a college graduate from a small town in Minnesota. I could
not imagine graduating college and then being asked to fight in some war
that you could care less about. Tim made it through boot camp and he was
sent off to war. At one point he even thought about going AWOL. That idea
was changed as he sat in a Seattle hotel room and decided to stick it out
and go off to Vietnam. Many soldiers went AWOL, either over in Vietnam or
in the States before they were sent off to fight. Tim was put into Alpha
C ...
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The Root Of All Evil,macbeth
Number of Words: 1049 / Number of Pages: 4
... Macbeth "carv'd out his passage" until he and the enemy
general were face to face. In the same act, the reader is told that Macbeth
is brave because of his "disdaining Fortune."
In addition to his quality of courage, Macbeth is also a gentle man.
Demonstrating his love and devotion for his wife, Macbeth refers to her as
"his dearest partner of greatness" in Act I, Scene V. Lady Macbeth views his
kindness as somewhat of a problem for their quest for power. She says that
Macbeth is "too full o' the milk of human kindness" to place them on the
throne of Scotland as a result of mu ...
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The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
Number of Words: 965 / Number of Pages: 4
... does not, however, so Gatsby casually asks around to find out if anyone knows her. Eventually, Gatsby soon realizes that Nick Carraway, his neighbor, is Daisy’s cousin. Gatsby then devises a plan to at last see his beloved Daisy. Jordan sets up the meeting for
Gatsby with Nick, “He wants to know if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over.” By arranging this meeting, he displays his wealth, and he believes that he has acquired her affection once again as Daisy says, “ I certainly am awfully glad to see you again.”
Gatsby’s delusion is that through wealth and pow ...
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Crucible Character Analysis On
Number of Words: 712 / Number of Pages: 3
... of being a tragic hero when he attempts to go into court to save his wife and prove the girls liars. However, he ends up being accused himself. Mary Warren is in court testifying when she suddenly breaks down “ hysterically, pointing at Proctor, fearful of him: My name, he want my name. ‘I’ll murder you,’ he says, ‘if my wife hands! We must go and over throw the court,’ he says”... “ [Proctor] wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck and I sign, I sign…”(119). Thus John Proctor fails in trying to rescue his wife from the clutches of the false accusers, instea ...
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Symbolism In The Crysanthemums
Number of Words: 838 / Number of Pages: 4
... the world is a symbol of the struggle that Elisa is soon to face. The second sentence of this story reinforces that the this place is isolated by saying, "On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made the great valley a closed pot. "(Steinback 267) The symbol of a closed pot works in conjunction with the first sentence to give an idea to the extent of how hard it would be to escape the pressure of the isolation that Elisa is feeling. The symbol of living on a farm helps Steinback show Elisa's isolation. Location is not the only symbol that Stinback uses in this story to symbolize El ...
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Tragedy And The Common Man
Number of Words: 1576 / Number of Pages: 6
... question of tragedy in art is not at issue, we never hesitate to attribute to the well-placed and the exalted the very same mental processes as the lowly. And finally, if the exaltation of tragic action were truly a property of the high-bred character alone, it is inconceivable that the mass of mankind should cherish tragedy above all other forms, let alone be capable of understanding it.
As a general rule, to which there may be exceptions unknown to me, I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one ...
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Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
Number of Words: 2425 / Number of Pages: 9
... Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God psychologically delayed his meeting with the devil.
The Devil had with him a staff that "bore the likeness of a great black snake". The staff which looked like a snake is a reference to the snake in the story of Adam and E ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... us war is horrible. He also shows us
that war is terrible beyond anything we could imagine. All our senses are
assaulted: we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up
together in a cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the
wounded horses (Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies,
swelling up and belching gases, dumped into a huge shell hole (Chapter 6);
and we can almost touch the naked bodies hanging in trees and the limbs
lying around the battlefield (Chapter 9).
The crying of the horses is especially terrible. Horses have
nothing to do with maki ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: A Classic
Number of Words: 941 / Number of Pages: 4
... the entire trial on the basis on that it does not matter what Atticus can do, Mr. Robinson is automatically guilty. This message can also be seen in a severely symbolic manner, Tom Robinson's death. The manner in which he dies is that he escapes and attempts to climb the fence to freedom, however he only has one good arm and that is his detriment. It slows him up enough to allow the police to shoot him numerous times. Symbolically this can be viewed as a glimmer of hope to end this suppression. As this glimmer of hope is about to reach the mainstream and acceptance that racism is evil, it is shot ...
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Green Grass: Lionel Red Dog
Number of Words: 771 / Number of Pages: 3
... "captured" the natives. The natives were asked to give
up all weapons, and a misunderstanding led the soldiers to believe there
was a resistance. The soldiers opened fire on the Natives, and over three
quarters of the natives were killed.
There, at Wounded Knee, The natives set up road blocks meant to
keep tourists out. They did this so that the government would take notice
of their plight. But things went horribly wrong. The FBI intervened, and
set up their own road blocks. They stopped all traffic and it soon became a
stand off. The natives were confused that such an action should be taken,
and man ...
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