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Go Tell It On A Mountain - Sum
Number of Words: 1510 / Number of Pages: 6
... out that Roy had been in an incident. His father, aunt, and mother have a dispute and then the next day John heads to church early to open up and clean up. Him and Elisha (a brother and preacher of the church) have a talk. John is told to think about being saved, just as Elisha had been saved.
Part Two- The Prayers of the Saints:
Florence’s Prayers
1. Summary- This next chapter focuses on John’s aunt, Florence. It begins with Florence at church, she is sorry for her sin yet doesn’t remember how to pray. A few nights before, she had received a threatening message repeatedly and e ...
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The Power And The Glory
Number of Words: 1241 / Number of Pages: 5
... in “The Power and the Glory” evoke certain feelings in the reader. In the scene when the whiskey priest was put the crowded jail, for having liquor on him, Greene makes the scene so horrible that you can’t help but feel sorry for the priest. As Kenneth Allott said, “The crowded unseen figures in the dark seem like shapes from a Dore hell.”(182). In the scenes when the priest is traveling from town to town, the setting is very rough. Through dense forests and complete darkness, he travels and again, the reader feels pity for someone he doesn’t know but feels connected to because of being human ...
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Chaucers The Pardoner
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... down in the Prologue. The area of the Prologue that talks about the Pardoner describes him as a man with “hair as yellow as wax, Hangling down smoothly like a hank of flax.” The Pardoner had a beautiful singing voice, which he used to his advantage by singing loud and merrily in order to get more money from the people.
The Pardoner tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After learning that someone named Death has killed a friend, the three men decide to find Death and get revenge for their friend. While looking, they come across an old man. They ask the old man if he kno ...
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Frankenstein: The Subjectivity Of The Character "Safie"
Number of Words: 1954 / Number of Pages: 8
... a subject with
feminist qualities juxtaposed against her fulfillment of European domestic
ideology.
Many theorists, such as Benveniste who said, "Consciousness of self [or
subjectivity] is only possible if it is experienced by contrast," argue that
one's subjectivity can only exist in their relation to the Other(85). The
subject's relation this "Other" depends on which aspect is being examined. For
example, when dealing with gender, it would be the relationship between Man and
Woman and when dealing with nationality it would be the relationship between
Native and Foreigner. Thus, the character of S ...
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A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... with anyone in town. Miss Emily never experienced love with anyone but her father because he chased all of Miss Emily’s suitors away from their house when they came calling. When her father died, she was at a loss for what to do. She had no idea how to take care of things, like paying bills, etc., so in order to make the transition smooth for Miss Emily, Colonial Satoris made Emily exempt from taxes. In this time that was the right, and gentlemanly thing to do, especially since she had just lost her father, and source of income. Many years later, the modern town of Jefferson could find no p ...
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Summary Of The Andromeda Strain By Crichton
Number of Words: 1154 / Number of Pages: 5
... back at base, listening to them. When, after
the two find all the dead bodies in the town, everything goes silent, he
knows something has gone very wrong, and calls in the problem. The systems
that have been set up to take over in the event that something that like
this happened start to take over, and certain people are contacted. Years
before, a group of biologists proposed to the President that, in case of a
unknown biological agent getting out into the country, an underground
secret base should be set up to study the organism, and possibly try to
find a cure. It would be five levels, each succ ...
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The True Devils In Salem
Number of Words: 2534 / Number of Pages: 10
... is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" Another girl, Betty, continues the cry with, "I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody How ...
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Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... She raved
on and on about Romero and insisted to Jake that they go and find him.
Jake did not fight her on this issue, but he certainly did not provoke it.
Jake was more of a stooge for Brett. She would have had her way even if
Jake had not helped her. She uses her feminine charm, and there is, little
that Jake can say. At one point she says “Oh, darling, please stay by me.
Please stay by me and see me through this”(188). Jake is to wrapped around
her finger to refuse.
There is no question in Jake¹s mind that he will be losing Montoya as a
friend and also the respect that others had once held ...
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Gatsbys Dream
Number of Words: 1327 / Number of Pages: 5
... himself. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition."(69) Lastly, he spends his money like pouring water. He held expensive parties, owns a huge mansion, a Rolls Royce, two motor boats, aquaplanes, a swimming pool (ironically that he has never used it except the day he has died), and a flashy wardrobe including a pink suit. Gatsby's materialism is not something to praise about. However, all of his amoral actions are caused by one pur ...
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The Physicists
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... and physical change is perceptible. Both the main characters and the environment are changing. For an example in act two, Herbert Georg Beutler alias Sir Isaac Newton turns out to be a long lost world famous physicist Alex Jasper Kilton who discovered the "Theory of Equivalents" also Albert Einstein alias Ernst Heinrich Ernesti is the also long lost discoverer of the "Eislereffect" Joseph Eisler. The most noticeable changes are that there are male nurses and the iron bars in front of the windows. There are many characteristic changes in this incalculable and satiric play. First of all the inspecto ...
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