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The House On Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... life that she was given, and is destined to improve and achieve past the expectations set forth by her environment.
The writing style used in The House on Mango Street is a very indirect way of narrative. The author presents to the reader many different stories, stories that if taken at face value could be see as details alone. These stories are short narratives that describe a character in the life of Esperanza, or tell of an action that took place. Each individual story is told as if the reader is to understand, as if the reader is a friend of Esperanza. This is a very personal attraction that Th ...
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A Critical Analysis Of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Number of Words: 2254 / Number of Pages: 9
... ship, Ahab, all journeyed
together.
Not long once at sea, the captain of the ship, Ahab reveals his
plan to hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sailor, a
man that had a heart of stone. Ahab had a personal grudge against Moby
Dick. Moby Dick was responsible for taking off Ahab's leg in a previous
voyage. Ahab's plan was essentially an unauthorized takeover, what the
whaling company had not in mind. Ahab was very irrational and ludicrous;
his plan seals the fate for himself and the crew of the Pequod. In the
tragic ending of Moby Dick, all of the characters die except for Ishma ...
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The Pearl: Evil
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... like a snake and she
stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before a
butcher. (742)
Juana saw through the outer beauty of the pearl and knew it would destroy them,
but Kino's vision was blurred by the possible prosperity the pearl brought. The
malignant evil then spread to a secret cult known only as the trackers. This
corrupt band of ruffians attacked and destroyed Kino's life. The very night
that the trackers learned of Kino's pearl, they tried to steal it. The next
night, Kino was attacked twice, which resulted in Kino committing murder. After
the final stru ...
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A Separate Peace
Number of Words: 377 / Number of Pages: 2
... from the rest of group, Finny would take up for
him. Even though Gene made Finny break his leg, Finny still didn't hold
anything against him and refused to believe what happened. Finny has always
been friendly to others due to his outgoing personality.
Finny is a competitive sportsman like person. Whenever Finny sees a
challenge that has never been achieved he will try to do what the others could
not. During the summer when there was nothing else to do, Finny decides to make
a club. When the club meets, all the members have to jump out of the tree to be
initiated. Finny will always stand up to ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Characters And Conflict
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... that is faced with conflicts, but I feel he is faced with the most difficult conflict. He has to mature so quickly in order to be responsible and get himself and the rest of the kids rescued. I think that would be the toughest task a twelve year old boy could be asked to do, and Ralph does a good job on it. Mario Muscarella English
In the novel Lord of the Flies many conflicts take place. Characters in conflict include Jack, Ralph, Piggy, and Simon. I think the character with the most conflict would have to be Ralph. Ralph is faced with the toughest conflict of being the grownup as a twelv ...
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The Great Gatsby: American Dream
Number of Words: 538 / Number of Pages: 2
... but watches them from a distance. When this dream doesn't happen, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want.
Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes...but of ...
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King Solomons Mines
Number of Words: 1257 / Number of Pages: 5
... over the rest of the world.
“The fact of the matter is, that I thought that the best plan would be to tell the story in a plain straightforward manner…I cannot help thinking that simple things are always the most impressive, books are easier to understand when they are written in plain language, though I have perhaps no right to set up an opinion on such a matter.” (Haggard 6).
In this introduction/disclaimer, Allan Quatermain as our narrator, comes clean with his intentions, providing a stabilizing retrospective for the ensuing epitaph. He seems well aware of the vague line be ...
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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Number of Words: 1015 / Number of Pages: 4
... Kimbro. In
this scene, Kimbro teaches the narrator how to make the ordinary white
paint into "Optic White": Ten drops of a black formula must be mixed in to
the white paint, of which the surface is already brown. The narrator does
not understand this, and inquires about it, only to be insulted by Mr.
Kimbro. Mr. Kimbro, in no way what so ever, wants any of his workers to
think. He just wants them to obey. So the invisible man, although still
unable to comprehend this idiosyncrasy, does not persist. The white paint
may represent the white world, perhaps even America, as alluded to in the
company' ...
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Everyday Use 2
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... The mother (or protagonist) describes the yard as being comfortable than most people know. She says, "It is like an extended living room." (351)
Another prized possession of the family was the first house that they lived in. Apparently they felt comfortable living there, because when it was burned in a fire they moved to another one that was almost identical. Contrary to her mother and Maggie, the oldest daughter Dee, hated the house and the environment they lived in. The mother mentions in the story how Dee acted like she wanted to do a dance around the house while it was on fire. The mot ...
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Society's Views On Family Values And Children As Reflected In The Novel The Handmaid's Tale
Number of Words: 1275 / Number of Pages: 5
... a modern day government with all the knowledge and weapons combined with
the fanaticism of a medieval based church create a dictatorship like none
other. The novel deals with the treatment of children harshly for a society
which views children as their last hope, their most valuable commodity.
Children are taken away from their homes to be given to the privileged, and
women are forced to give birth to babies they can not keep. The society of
Gilead takes the views of a traditional religious monarchy and enforces
them with modern day power.
In the novel The Handmaid's Tale, there is a place cal ...
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