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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Great Morals And Lack Of Glamour
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... and past. Gatsby's life changed from being in the low or middle class to the high class. It is a big mystery of how he receives all this money but it is not from Cody. It is believed that he is a bootlegger. No one was ever sure.
In this story, one can relate Jay's character to the author, Fitzgerald. Both want to achieve the American Dream but are unable to do it. All the money in the world cannot change the past but Gatsby and Fitzgerald learned that the hard way, They were living in a lie, which says that money can buy anything and everything, only to see that it doesn't buy happiness or ...
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The Old Man And The Sea
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... Two of his baits were fresh tunas which the boy had given him, as well as sardines to cover his hooks. The lines went straight down into the deep sea. As the sun rose, he saw the bird circled and circled. This time Santiago saw tuna leaping in the sunlight. A small one took the hook on his stern line. Hauling the quivering fish aboard, the old man thought it a good omen.
Toward noon, a marlin started nibbling at the bait, which was one hundred fathoms down. Gently the old man played the fish, a big one as he knew from the weight on the line. Although he had his skill and knew many trick ...
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Compare And Contrast On The Pe
Number of Words: 394 / Number of Pages: 2
... the villagers go to the doctor's house to ask for his assistants.
When the priest heard the news of the new found fortune of Kino he wondered what the pearl would be worth to him and his church, he tried to remember whether or not he had baptized Kino's baby or even married them. The priest didn't do neither of these things because kino didn't' have any money and the priest would only do it for money.
Juana at first found the pearl to be a blessing. Later in the story she finds it to be evil. The pearl caused her husband to go insane with greed and power. He strikes his wife when she tries to g ...
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Paul Edgecombe: An Excellent Character
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... co-workers told him they could handle it, he was still there.
He also cared about his co-workers. He seemed to have a fairly close relationship with all of them, except Percy of course. When they were planning to take John Coffey to help the wardens wife, he cared enough about Dean and the fact he had children to let him stay back at E Block so he would hopefully not get in as much trouble if they got caught.
Although it was his job to talk to the supposed convicts as they awaited their deaths, he cared when he talked to them, and especially when he talked to John. He went and sat with them and mad ...
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The Effect Of Sterotyping In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And Intruder In The Dust
Number of Words: 2847 / Number of Pages: 11
... they offer it to the
daughters of Harvey Wilk's; however, the daughters suggest that the money
would be safer in the hands of the duke and king. The duke and king hide
the money behind a curtain in their room, but then the duke thinks that
they did not hide the money well enough. Huck observes them hiding the
money and describes it. "They took and shoved the bag through a rip in the
straw tick that was under the feather bed, and crammed it a foot or two
amongst the straw and said it was all right, now, because a n_____ only
makes up the feather bed, and don't turn over the straw tick only about
twi ...
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The Outsiders: Theme
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... and when they get back to
the church they find it burning. When they see that there are kids inside and
the fire could have been started by their cigarettes, they run inside to save
the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital.
They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital
to fight in a rumble against the Socs. While the Greasers beat the Socs,
Johnny dies in the hospital. When Dally finds out he goes out and robs a
grocery store. When the cops pull up he pulls out an empty gun so the cops
shoot him.
The theme of this novel is that ...
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A Doll's House: Theme Of Emancipation Of A Woman
Number of Words: 781 / Number of Pages: 3
... that
one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his
command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies
Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald
gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and
pastry; in modern times, this would be comparable to Macauly Culkin being
given money, then buying things that "would rot his mind and his body" in
the movie Home Alone. Nora's duties, in general, are restricted to caring
for the children, doing housework, and working on her needlepoint. A
problem with ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of Words: 781 / Number of Pages: 3
... plan backfires when Mr. Radley comes out with a shot gun and fires into the air. While running away from Mr. Radley Jem gets his pants caught while trying to get back under the fence and has to slip out of them to get away. Later that night he goes back for his pants and find them folded over the fence and roughly mended. That following winter Maycomb had its first snow since 1885. At first Scout thought that the earth was ending, she had never seen snow before. Scout and Jem made a snow man that looked exactly like Mr. Avery. During that cold spell Mrs. Radley dies, and Miss Maudies house burns dow ...
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Animal Farm 3
Number of Words: 469 / Number of Pages: 2
... and the story it self would have no meaning. The story would also be hard to understand and follow.
Without the rural setting of this farm, Napoleon would not have been able get the power he so desperately wanted through this revolt. The revolt would not have occurred if this novel had been set in an urban area or city, which in result would stop Napoleon from leading this group of confused animals and gaining his overwhelming power over them. Napoleon was only happy looking over and down at the less intelligent animals. If he was some how forced to be on the same level as the other anim ...
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Comparison Of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" And Dali's "The Metamorphosis Of Narcissus"
Number of Words: 1109 / Number of Pages: 5
... the craggy
rocks of what could only be Cape Creus's. On the right side of the painting, the
scene has morphed into a more idyllic and classical scene, in which the
kneeling Narcissus has become the statue of a hand, holding a cracked egg, from
which emerges The Narcissus flower.
This painting reminded me of the first chapter of Metamorphosis, where
the main character, Gregor Samsa, first realizes that he is confronted with a
ludicrous fate in the form of a gigantic insect. In both Kafka's and Dali's
work, I noticed that they both implement a certain "receding" technique. Dali
tends to put an object ...
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