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Cujo The Dog
Number of Words: 630 / Number of Pages: 3
... people". These slaughterings definitely pose to be of King's best, most-intense and goriest scenes ever. Cujo is (was) a good dog 'til he contracted rabies. The story really reaches the heights when Donna and Tad are stuck in their car, trying to keep safe from the dog. The final part of the book focuses on Donna's struggle to keep herself and Tad alive in her failing car. Cujo's attacks simply don't come to an end, and we start believing that if the dog doesn't kill them, the heat will. This is where I'll have to stop. If I don't, I'll spoil the ending - which will, of course, spoil reading the bo ...
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Achilles As Hero
Number of Words: 480 / Number of Pages: 2
... sent down by Hera to calm the raging Achilles and urge him not to fight Agamemnon. Not able to act against the will of the gods, Achilles sheathed his sword and only verbally badgered Agamemnon. After the verbal abuse continued for a while, Agamemnon finally got fed up and ordered Briseis to be taken from Achilles. Achilles lets the two messengers take Briseis away; although he mourns every step she takes away from him, he reluctantly lets her go. Before Briseis was taken away, Achilles states that
“But let them both bear witness to my loss…in the face of that unbending, ruthless kin ...
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Merry-Go-Round In The Sea - Ra
Number of Words: 678 / Number of Pages: 3
... himself and his father to be the end of an era. Another important issue caused by the war is Rob's constant travel. His roots were constantly being uprooted as his mother dragged him from farm to farm. Due to th remoreness of these properties, Robmissed out on one of the most vital aspects of childhoos, constant friendship. From this independance, Rob learnt to be strong, but he also failed to see the importance of peers and what they could contribute to a problem.
Rick's absence was also a crucial factor to the psychological development of Rob's character. Just as he began to stop focusing on Rick's ...
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King Arthur
Number of Words: 397 / Number of Pages: 2
... British Isles and
much of Europe Introduced by Geoffrey are Guenevere, Merlin, information
about Arthur's strange birth and death and the concept of chivalry. Due to
the tremendous popularity of Geoffrey's book, authors like Robert Wace and
Chretien de Troyes continued on with the development of King Arthur and his
life, adding yet more detail and depth to the story. Robert Wace
concentrated on the Arthurian aspect of the story while Chretien
concentrated on the romantic aspect of Arthur's life. Some of the new
elements added include d the Round Table, courtly love and the love affair
between Lancelot ...
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Oedipus And Antigone
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... Creon is used to having people do everything he wants them to do. The second example is the relationship between Antigone and her dead brother Polyneices. She is incredibly loyal to him and is willing to risk her life in order to preserve his honor as a warrior and bury her against Creons order. It is evident in her statement of, “But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall die down with him in death, and I shall be as dear to him as he to me.” She will do whatever it takes, even if it is death, to bury her violated brother. The third example is the relati ...
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Antony Has Been Described As "
Number of Words: 1837 / Number of Pages: 7
... hour" "No place will please me so, no mean of death, As here by Caesar" this shows that he holds Caesar as a very noble man, and that he loved him.
However, Antony then appears to make friends with the conspirators when he addresses them after Caesars death "Friends I am with you all, and love you all". Here Antony shows true deceit, for Antony is not their friend, but rather their enemy. "Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!" and pronounces that he will create war among the people to revenge Caesars death. "Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all parts of Italy…Caesar's spirit r ...
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Leguins Omelas
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... The theme then takes over asking if one could accept the conditions that Omelas “happily” lives under. The plot then allows enough room for the reader to imagine the living conditions under which the child lives in with “a little light seeping in dustily between cracks in the boards.”
The characters, though not drawn out in much detail, have such personalities as to make them recognizable in our own lives. Le Guin utilizes broad terms such as “the youths and girls, the merry women, old people and master workmen.” By using general identities for these chara ...
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Virgil The Art Of Imitating Ho
Number of Words: 1816 / Number of Pages: 7
... the style and the use of a model for
human insight and feeling. When reading the Aeneid, one can clearly see and hear the Homeric
echoes present in the epic.
The Aeneid is clearly divided into two parts, “The ‘Odyssean’ Aeneid”3 and, “The
‘Iliadic’ Aeneid.”4 The first six books are based on the Odyssey while the last six books are
based on the Iliad. To clearly see that Virgil was indeed basing his working on Homer, let us
examine the Homeric echoes that are present in the first half, or the Odyssean Aeneid. The first
parallel that presents ...
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So Long A Letter
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... dis-empowerment by
directing and solidifying the characteristics of the her two main character. In Senegal, the traditional view of woman, which values her entirely based on her son-bearing role, is still present. The first role of women is to stay at home and take care of the children. The inequality starts at a very early age. The rate of girls going to school is by far lower than that of boys. Parents' choices of investment in their children completely depend on their view of the latter's worth as adults.
The relationship between Ramatoulaye (Rama), a Senegalese women, and her friend, ...
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Young Goodman Brown 3
Number of Words: 2330 / Number of Pages: 9
... Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God psychologically delayed his meeting with the devil.
The Devil had with him a staff that "bore the likeness of a great black snake". The staff which looked like a snake is a reference to the snake in the story of Adam and Eve. The ...
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