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There Are No Children Here
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... go to school with them and we play with them. Throughout the book, we are much like flies on the wall. We see and feel everything the boys' go through at Henry Horner Homes, the project where they live. LaJoe moved into the Henry Horner Homes in 1956 with her mother and father. Back then it was a beautiful place. There was a green, grass baseball diamond, which was regularly mowed. For the children there was a playground with swings and jungle gyms. The bricks were smooth, the windows were shimmering, and the walls were freshly painted white. The adolescents joined boys and girls clubs, marching band ...
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Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" And His Life
Number of Words: 967 / Number of Pages: 4
... where he saw many disturbing sights which
probably had a hand in shaping his character.
After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily
to Oak Park. The impression left on him by his participation in the war
had greatly changed him. He began living at home again but refused to get
a job, even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he
moved to Chicago. Here he made a living writing for the Toronto Star and
working as a sparring partner for boxers. While he was in Chicago he met
his first wife, the young and innocent Elizabeth Hadley Richardson.
Soon the yo ...
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An Analysis Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 1185 / Number of Pages: 5
... kind of
lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day." (24) After some time, and
being unable to endure the abuse of his father, he runs away. Huck is as
dissatisfied by one extreme as he is by the next. Huck chooses not to take
sides on any matter, but instead be indifferent towards it. Huck avoids
moral decision making throughout the book as much as possible. In the end
of the book Twain saves Huck's indifferent persona by bringing in Tom to
make the decisions for him.
Some may argue that in saving Jim , Huck saves face for the human
race, giving a sense of hope for the future. However, Huck must ...
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Childhood’s Own World In The God Of Small Things
Number of Words: 730 / Number of Pages: 3
... world, they love her double. At one point in the novel (109), as many others, Rahel shows the reader how important her mother’s love is to her and how her mother’s indifference to her words hurt her. At a hotel, the night before the twin’s cousin Sophie Mol arrives, Rahel gets very sad because she thinks that her mother love her “a little less.” She ask for a punishment so her mother love her the same as before. Then Baby Kochamma, Ammu’s aunt, said: “Some things come with their own punishments.” Those words can be changed to: In order to love and be loved people must suffer. But Rahel can’t und ...
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Social Injustices In Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 1368 / Number of Pages: 5
... we see the hypocrisy of society. The first character we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn’t understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she was going to live so as to go the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it." (3) The comments made by Huck clearly sh ...
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... Faria reaches Dantes by means of a tunnel that took him 3 years to dig with his makeshift tools. Even though he had limited resources, Faria made matches, a lantern, a ladder, and a knife. Faria hid all these tools behind two separate rocks in his cell. All of these things show how smart Faria really was. Faria’s intelligence is what helps Dantes make his transformation. “There is a maxim of jurisprudence which says, ‘If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.’ To whom might your disappearance be useful?” This quote makes ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Chapter By Chapter Summary
Number of Words: 3237 / Number of Pages: 12
... Wing, he's trying to
read a book, but Ackley, a guy that sleeps in the room next door, comes in
through the shower curtains and disturbes him by picking up and laying
down everything in the room and asking stupid questions. Finally,
Stradlater, Holden's roommate comes in in a big hurry and makes Ackley
think of leaving the room.
Chapter 4 ---------
Stradlater tells Holden he's going out tonight with Jane Gallagher, who
used to be Holden's neighbour when she was young. While Stradlater is
shaving, Holden sits next to him and he's turning the tap on and off, as a
nervous habit. Stradlater asks Holde ...
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Essay On Bladerunner
Number of Words: 1147 / Number of Pages: 5
... does.
The film, however, starts out with a disassociation between replicants and humans. The opening text states that the replicants are not being ‘executed’ but ‘retired.’ It uses such language as ‘mutiny’ which in and of itself brings images of traitors and rebels. The word brings a negative opinion to the audience of replicants. But then again, the word brings images of an act of will, a free decision made by these so called machines. If they are only machines, then how can they decide to rebel against their creator? The question of whether replicants are jus ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Sin
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... of
another miserable. He wasnot flung from society's view as if he were a
dirty secretlike Hester was; he was embraced by it. However, his sin
didtake it's toll. He was disfigured horribly and became atwisted man,
scarred by sin. He also was robbed of thepleasure of destroying Dimmesdale
which was his reason forliving. He died shortly after Dimmesdale.
Hester Prynne, however, was the complete opposite of Chillingworth in
that her sin gave her life, not destroyed it. She took her punishment and
embraced it, using it to rebuild herself not as a pathetic sinner, but as a
pseudo-saint. At first, the ...
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Gatsby 2
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... than their health and lives. Subsequently, the people at his parties show careless recklessness with their abuse of alcohol and their bodies. First of all, the people at Gatsby¹s balls drank all night and showed no respect for Gatsby¹s house or possessions. Also the participants of the parties held at Gatsby¹s mansion are audacious enough to drive home while very intoxicated. Furthermore the individuals who were drinking were astonished to see the car in the ditch but none of them bothered to help. Alcohol in large amounts and large groups can cause misjudgements and even death. All in All drinking ...
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