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Eight Men Out
Number of Words: 1959 / Number of Pages: 8
... than learn about, and as such, for a movie to work, one must, as a viewer, share in the experience of one of the characters" (pg.108). Since this story is about ballplayers who threw games and accepted bribes, this poses a difficult problem in asking the audience to share the feelings of the conspirators.
That is the problem throughout the movie that Sayles fails to resolve. Where do the audience's sympathies lie? It is hard to maintain sympathy for the players with the likes of Swede Risberg and Chic Gandil behind the fix. Players like Buck Weaver and "Shoeless Joe Jackson", who are portrayed a ...
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Violence In Jane Eyre
Number of Words: 362 / Number of Pages: 2
... solve it. Finally, there is the
characterization of Bertha. From the way Rochester talks about Bertha at
first she seems pretty normal, but he says how she become after they get
married. She turned into someone he did not know, a crazy psychopath, mad
woman. Rochester wanted to hide this from everyone even Jane, Bertha cares
for no one but herself. She does not care who she hurts, she proved this
when she hurt Mr. Mason her own brother. At last, the end of the novel,
The suspense, mystery, and characterization are all told. The person that
this all revolved around was Bertha. It was Charlotte Bronte ...
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Slaughterhouse Five
Number of Words: 1650 / Number of Pages: 6
... but the main character certainly has many things in common with his creator: an American artist within Nazi Germany, doing what he felt was necessary to stay alive and to further his work. The author himself tells us he had to write this book. His subtitle “A Duty-Dance with Death” also takes on a personal aspect. Vonnegut had to reconcile himself with the war, the death, and its impact on him.
Tools and Context (war)
Through the use of philosophies and ideas, characters, and entire settings, Kurt Vonnegut makes his experiences as a soldier and a prisoner in the Germany ...
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Ambition Vs. Reasoning In Macb
Number of Words: 1272 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the most significant reasons for the enduring critical interest in Macbeth's character is that he represents humankind's universal propensity to temptation and sin. Macbeth's excessive ambition motivates him to murder Duncan, and once the evil act is accomplished, he sets into motion a series of sinister events that ultimately lead to his downfall." (Scott; 236). Macbeth is told by three witches, in a seemingly random and isolated area, that he will become Thank of Cawdor and eventually king. Only before his ambition overpowers his reasoning does he question their motives. One place this que ...
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1984 Big Brother Is Watching Y
Number of Words: 1160 / Number of Pages: 5
... and the proletariat. The Party members are like machines that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place in society. Due to this authority that attempts to control the human train of thought, paranoia among the people became common. Nobody would talk to each other. Bonds between one another were broken, and it was never thought to be any different than before. To hold on to what makes you human - emotions and the ability to speak freely - was considered a crime against Big Brother. Of course, with authority comes punishment. To break from t ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Dr. Alexandre Manette
Number of Words: 603 / Number of Pages: 3
... A huge portion of the story revolves about Dr.Manette's past suffering in
the Bastille. The Doctors Bastille time is pure hell. Ever after being freed he
still mumbles crazy things such as “It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's
walking-shoe. It is in the present mode. I have had a pattern in my hand.”3
Outbursts such as that show that he is not nor may he ever heal his scars.
Though the book starts after his imprisonment, his Bastille time contains his
actions that effects the stories plot the most. The action that truly stands out
is his writing and hiding of the letter that later convict ...
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The Rime Of The Ancient Marine
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... killing the symbol of nature that everyone reveres. He is beaten down by the sun with its rays and is taunted by the endless sight of water that he cannot drink. Nature is the force in this poem that has power to decide what is right or wrong and how to deal with the actions.
The mariner reconciles his sins when he realizes what nature really is and what it means to him. All around his ship, he witnesses, "slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea" and he questions "the curse in the Dead man's eyes". This shows his contempt for the creatures that Nature provides for all people. The ma ...
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1984 Thematic Essay
Number of Words: 638 / Number of Pages: 3
... Winston has thoughts all the time against the party, but luckily has never been caught by the “thought police”. He keeps on seeing some woman and eventually they meet and he finds out her name is Julia. They differ in their view of how best to oppose the party. He believes in a widespread rebellion while she believes in just going against the party when it is safe. Eventually, they come to follow a man named O’Brien who is the leader of an opposition party to the brotherhood. He gives the couple a book by a man named Goldstein that is against the brother hood. He reads the book but soon after is ...
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Five Days Of April: Notes
Number of Words: 342 / Number of Pages: 2
... North's side, while his other brother fights war for the South's side. Their father, Matt,
is generally for the North. Southern Illinois
is divided, and the few people for the North
do not like the fact that Matt allows Tom
to fight for the south.
Resolution: The war ends and the family is brought back together.
V. Style.
Descriptive language: This book is generally southern slang. and
is from an observants point of view.
VI. Theme.
Moral/pu ...
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A Man For All Seasons Guilty P
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... on the divorce. Despite that King Henry promised again to More, “There, you have my word – I’ll leave you out of it” (56), he hired Cromwell to pressure More into making a statement. King Henry became so obsessed with trying to achieve More’s acceptance that it was said he “Wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed” (119). King Henry with his lust for new love took his unrelenting iron fist and thrust down Sir Thomas More’s throat his last breath of life. But a King without a council is powerless; there are ...
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