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The Narrator And Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls To Control?
Number of Words: 1245 / Number of Pages: 5
... takes Mr. Norton to a run down Black neighborhood. Then he takes Mr. Norton to a bar and risks his health and life. When Dr. Bledsoe found out about the trip the narrator was kicked out of school because he showed Mr. Norton anything less than the ideal Black man.
The next example in Invisible Man that implies the narrator and all black men have no control or say so in their lives is when the narrator is sent away from the college. He is sent to a paint factor to work. The narrator arrives and immediately notices the huge electric sign that reads "KEEP AMERICA PURE WITH LIBERTY PAINTS" (Ell ...
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Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 1402 / Number of Pages: 6
... all those reasons mentioned above that I enjoy the book so much and label it as one of my favorites.
For those of you who have not had the opportunity to hold grasp of this book and read it, it is superficially, the story of a young man’s expulsion from school. However, if you study the story, it is so much more than that.
Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in the 1950s in New York, has been expelled from prep school for poor achievement. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school for a few days prior to the end of term and goes to New York to take a “vacation” before returning home ...
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The Harness Conspiracy
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... may not seem obvious at first glance, but under closer observation, one can see all the inconsistencies and clues that lead to this conclusion.
First, there are many inconsistencies concerning Emma's incessant illness. When we first see Emma described, we are told that her eyes were "feverish with a determination to live" (39). This image does not suggest that she would give up life as easily as she supposedly does. Her illnesses were either planned or were hugely coincidental, because "Each time Peter returned from a business trip, Emma was ailing for a month or two . . . " (40). She never got s ...
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Great Gatsby Color Symbolism
Number of Words: 677 / Number of Pages: 3
... to his parties. This makes him a man of who, is “Green with envy.”
In like manner, green is also used to symbolize money. In the story, money controls the life of the people in the story. Gatsby feels that he needs green money to live and to impress Daisy. Symbols of Gatsby’s money included his large green lawn and the green ivy growing up his house. Also, in his car, it depicts the passengers sitting “in a sort of green leather conservatory.” All of these symbols depict Gatsby’s money.
In contrast to green, yellow and gold are used to be an example of old money, ...
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Deliverance
Number of Words: 1390 / Number of Pages: 6
... life.
They also have different views on life. Lewis sees life as a game that you must
constantly challenge if you are to survive. Drew sees life as a struggle that
should never be challenged. Then there is Bobby who sees life as something he
does not have to worry about because their will always be someone their to help
him through it. All three of these characters possess traits that can be
identified in every man.
First there is Lewis, a middle aged man that is at the prime of his life, and
fears nothing. He is the strongest character in the book. He is, "… a
physical-conditioning perfection ...
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Contrasting Marlow And Kurtz And The Theme Of Evil In "Heart Of Darkness"
Number of Words: 2608 / Number of Pages: 10
... represents
the absolute evil, we can see the two products of an inner evil which has
emerged. Marlow, who defeats his evil, and gains self-knowledge, and Kurtz, who
is defeated by his darkness and falls prey to its wrath. In William Golding's
Lord of the Flies the author points out how easily people can be over taken by
the darkness, how the potential for good can be destroyed by the evil, but
ideally how good will triumph. Through an examination of these two works we can
see how the darkness within, given the correct environment will surface. The
circumstances which eventually cause the appearance ...
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The Cask Of Amontillado: Irony And Foreshadowing
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the death of Fortunato when he say’s, “ the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough,” and Montresor replies, “ True – true,“ (11800). But unlike his name suggests, Fortunato is not so fortunate. He does not realize that he is walking towards his own death, and example of dramatic irony.
While Fortunato is drunk, he gives Montresor a sign that he doesn’t understand. The sign is that of a mason. As a sign to prove to Fortunato that he is a mason, Montresor shows his trowel. The trowel is another symbol of foreshadowing because it is a tool used in the ...
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Beloved And Don Quixote: Similarities In Themes And Characters
Number of Words: 1655 / Number of Pages: 7
... finally, blessedly, you let go
of your mind. Letting go of your mind is dying. She needed a new life. She
had to be named" (Don Quixote 9-10). And she must name herself for a man –
become a man – before the nobility and the dangers of her ordeals will be
esteemed. She is to be a knight on a noble quest to love "someone other than
herself" and thus to right all wrongs and to be truly free. In another of
Acker's works she writes: "Having an abortion was obviously just like getting
fucked. If we closed our eyes and spread our legs, we'd be taken care of. They
stripped us of our clothes. Gave us ...
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The Republic: Morality And Immorality
Number of Words: 1043 / Number of Pages: 4
... monetarily more easy to do so. Truth may be
the founding father of morality, and universally unites morality, and
immorality
Moral rules must be flexible, society changes and with it so does
morality. Morality must be as Agreed upon by, religious and non-religious
alike, because morality, as everything else is part of an evolutionary
process. By manifesting religious or scientific laws you manifest prejudice,
ignorance and introduce immorality.
Morality is often vice to power, especially in decadent times. Yet,
scientific morality knows the moral to be the best, and we should all know
morality end ...
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... won't tell who the father is. The next character is Pearl and she is Hester's daughter. Pearl is not a well-developed character and could be considered controversial.
Another character is Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale is a young man and is the town's minister. Dimmesdale has a good personality and plays a very important role in how the book turns out at the end. The last major character is Roger Chillingworth. He is Hester's legal husband and Hester assumed he was dead because he was gone for a long time. He to plays an important role in how it turns out. Hawthorne did a very good jo ...
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