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The Old Man And The Sea: Modernist Literature
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... knows all about the old man and the boy. The reader learns of the relationship between Santiago and Manolin. "The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him" (10). From the narrator the reader learns that the boy takes care of the old man by bringing him food and supplies. The narrator tells the reader what Santiago is thinking while he is fishing.
The third characteristic is a simple direct style with a basic vocabulary. The choice of words creates basic concrete pictures with no flowery language. For example, "He knelt down and found the tuna under the stern with the gaf ...
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Brave New World: Escape From Reality
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... to make a person their own.
Lack of Individuality
Huxley describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rather than a mother’s womb, and the government controls every stage of their development, from embryo to maturity. Each new human is placed into a certain class, such as Alpha, Beta, and so on. The embryos are manipulated chemically to stimulate or to retard their physical and mental ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... fellow student, Cranly, asks him. "I tried to love God," Stephen replies. "It seems now I failed." The force that eventually unites these contradictory Stephens is his overwhelming desire to become an artist, to create. At the novel's opening we see him as an infant artist who sings "his song." Eventually we'll see him expand that song into poetry and theories of art. At the book's end he has made art his religion, and he abandons family, Catholicism, and country to worship it. The name Joyce gave his hero underscores this aspect of his character. His first name comes from St. Stephen, the first Chr ...
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“Style Critique On The Hot Zone”
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... be brief and scientific in their reports on the symptoms. Preston description’s are not brief and are graphic. “ His face lost all appearance of life and set itself into and expressionless make…the eyeballs themselves seemed almost frozen in their sockets, and they turned bright red. He began to look like a zombie…and then you see that his lips are smeared with something slippery and red, mixed with black specks, as if he has been chewing coffee grounds. …. He is going into shock. He leans over, head on his knees, and brings up an incredible quantity of blood from his stomach and spills it onto ...
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John Updike's "A&P"
Number of Words: 699 / Number of Pages: 3
... but their bathing suits would catch anyone’s attention. As the narrator, Sammy, describes in the story, “A&P was right in the middle of town and women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street.” It was the appropriate thing to do. To Sammy, however, it was appropriate only if you had “six children and varicose veins mapping your legs and nobody could care less.” Contrary to his belief, however, just because you are beautiful and look good in a bathing suit does not mean you are an exception to any rule. Even if the same had occurred today , I ...
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In Cold Blood: A Review
Number of Words: 1339 / Number of Pages: 5
... to be that the book was a true account-
because these things had actually happened, and they were not simply a
fictional story produced by some author's overactive imagination. However,
it becomes apparent it wasn't just the horrific story of these murders that
is troubling, but the aspect of how Capote tells the story that makes
reading it uneasy.
Unlike many other murder stories, Capote not only discusses the
criminals and their role in the crime, but their childhoods, their lives
right before the crime, and their lives after the conviction until the
executions. This may be because he ...
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Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Number of Words: 1093 / Number of Pages: 4
... They feared rituals and ceremonies that seemed strange and suspicious. They feared a social unity of sharing and togetherness that they found alarming and intimidating.
The Indians woke up one morning to find that the lands they once belonged to were no longer theirs. The deeds and papers said the land now belonged to the white folk. It was taken away from them by sheer physical force, stolen, and they were sent away to live on reservations. Tayo was a part of the Laguna Pueblo reservation.
As a young kid on the Laguna Pueblo reservation, Tayo and the other children were sent away to white ...
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Dante’s Tools Of Character: Love And Choice
Number of Words: 1151 / Number of Pages: 5
... can be frozen and they are unable to move or respond to love.
A person rarely gives up on those they love, at least not with out a great struggle. Giving up on our own liberation is quite natural, most of the times. Being found worthy in the eyes of another allows us a new perspective on ourselves, especially if their admiration and compassion is coupled with actions of self-sacrifice. In other words, to discover oneself they must go and find someone who will love them. It may not be a demonstrated love but merely an act of human kindness that point to a great love. As in Dante, one may have t ...
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Inferno
Number of Words: 303 / Number of Pages: 2
... which is represented by a she-wolf. This beast is the symbol of all the cravings such as sex, food and money. However, the first beast that Dante sees is a leopard. His spots on the body are very meaningful; they have ability to change if we look at baby deer, for example. Therefore, the leopard is the symbol of trickery, betrayal. The by Dante as a pure piece of art intensifies our experience of life. For me, it is a chance to examine my own experiences, some outer source that fulfill my inner need of thoughts.
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