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Beloved 2
Number of Words: 1030 / Number of Pages: 4
... one of em. Bought em thataway, raised em thataway. Men every one.”1
The things that occurred at Sweet Home while Mr. Garner is alive are rather conservative compared to what slaves actually suffered during this time period.
Under the management of schoolteacher, things change dramatically. He turns Sweet Home into a real slave plantation. He treats and refers to the slaves as animals. He is responsible for the horrible memories embedded in Sethe and Paul D.
Sethe feels the impact of slavery to its fullest extent. Slavery pushes her to kill her baby daughter. She feels that is the only way to p ...
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Night By Elie Wiesel
Number of Words: 268 / Number of Pages: 1
... happened. I especially could not believe how Elie Wiesel survived
to tell this tragic story.
I suppose I would have had to be a Jew during the time of the holocaust
to know what actually went on. From what I have read, I can say that I am glad
to have not even been alive during this time. It seemed horrible and unbearable.
The fact that Elie Wiesel survived through all this terror is beyond my
imagination.
While reading the book I felt great pity on the Jews. I almost could
not bear to finish reading the it. It told of a side to the holocaust that I
never even knew existed. All the ...
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The Wages Of Whiteness: Race And The Making Of The American Working Class
Number of Words: 1009 / Number of Pages: 4
... from
Blacks. Clearly, we can acknowledge of hatred towards Blacks. In Columbia,
Pennsylvania 1834, skilled workers went on riots hysterically fueled by the
threat of inter-racial sex. Again, we see that society did not
want Blacks to mix with white. This was more emphasized with white women
mixing with black men, because the white working class did not want the
physical blending of black and white people. Mobs were against black causes.
“As David Grimsted has shown, the tendency to riot against asylums for the
Black orphans carried the singling out of the defenseless for attack to a
chilling extr ...
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Holding The Dream
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... to be a practical woman, one who worked hard toward any goals she had and earned them step by step always being careful. She lived in the Templetown house for many years, then she decided to make it out on her own. She was an attorney. Kate worked at the office for a company called Bittle and Associates. She loved where she lived it made her happy. She lived in Big Sur, California. She was happy to be with her foster parents Josh and Alexia, and Margo and Laura, and the other children. Kate lived a normal life with that family. Although she lacked and hated not having Margo’s beauty and L ...
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The Masque Of Red Death: No One Can Hide From Death
Number of Words: 972 / Number of Pages: 4
... fashion the great halls are described in imagery that
foreshadows a horror to follow. The "masque" takes place in the imperial
suite, which consisted of seven very distinct rooms. Seven being a symbol -
seven wonders of the world, seven deadly sins with seven corresponding
cardinal virtues. Seven also suggesting the stages of one's life, from
birth to death (Birth, childhood, teenage, young adult, middle age, old age,
death).
The seven rooms are laid out from east to west, reminding us of the course
of the sun, which measures our earthly time. Time in this story is seen in
the symbol of the ...
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Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part Of Our Past
Number of Words: 854 / Number of Pages: 4
... and all the other famous scientists, television
probably would not be invented that early.
In our day and age people are watching too much television. We
figure that everything that is in books is on the television. If we need
to learn about something we rent a movie about it or watch a show on it.
No one reads books anymore just for the fun of it, or so they can read the
paranormal, science fiction, horror, classics, fiction or non-fiction
novel that surround our world. If we want to see stuff like that we will
watch “The X-Files” or rent a Stephan King movie. Actually when you read
books the ...
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Wuthering Heights-storm And Ca
Number of Words: 759 / Number of Pages: 3
... Edgar Linton falls in love with Catherine, upsetting the balance between the relationship of Catherine and Heathcliff. Edgar’s love for Catherine is sincere, but the element of great passion which is strongly characterized does not compare to Heathcliff’s love. The difference between Catherine’s feeling for Heathcliff and the one she feels for Linton is that Heathcliff is a part of her nature, while Edgar is only a part of her superficial love. “For he (Heathcliff), like her, is a child of storm; and this makes a bond between them, which interweaves itself with the ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Number of Words: 1520 / Number of Pages: 6
... Three of the nurses little helpers that go around and make sure everyone is doing what they're scheduled to do. They cause a lot of trouble with all the patients especially McMurphy. 2. The doctor: Another of Ratchets henchmen. She won't allow him to think for himself until McMurphy come in and changes the way the doctor thinks. 3. Harding: Another one of the patients on the ward. He's not to sure of the motives behind Randall McMurphy. 4. Candy: An old friend of McMurphy's who takes the guys on a fishing trip and the party to end the book and Billy Bibbits life. Candy is considered to be a whore.
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Frankenstein
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... monster, now bitter and hateful, resorts to random acts of violence to compensate for its mistreatment. At "birth," when the first spark of life shot through the creature, there is an apparent natural love and respect for the creator. Victor, on the other hand, fled in disgust at first sight of " the miserable monster which I have created"(57)and hoped to never see it again. But like a child, 's monster returned expecting to be accepted: " And his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks...one hand wa ...
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