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Racism In The Play School Ties
Number of Words: 580 / Number of Pages: 3
... suffer emotionally just because of Sally; his teammates make him suffer also.
David has a tough time after his teammates know his religion. One minute they are saying he is the best and the next minute they have their backs turned on him. David is going through a lot. He had not known that his friends would do this to him. He had thought that they would not care if they found out that he was Jewish. When they know about David, they start to ignore him and give him looks. The thing that get David really mad is when David goes into his room and he sees a nazi symbol above his bed. This gets him m ...
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Tradition Roles
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... 'African Americans,' and he questions whether or not his father would mind if he didn't hate African Americans. The prejudice in this family is common, and without knowing it, Jack is greatly influenced. One can see that by noticing his language when speaking about races other than his own.
Tradition also decides on apropos behavior and expectations from certain genders. In The Changeling, the mother dissaproves of her daugher dressing as a boy, while that is the only way to catch a father's attention. "To return invisible, as myself, to the real world of her kitchen." (Cortez, 29) The mothe ...
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A Dream Deferred
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... train passengers gaze; and she watches her mother's shame at her own Creole mother's libidinous lifestyle. Her mother's submissiveness and humiliation evokes a fear, an anger, and an energy in Nel. Her emotions intensify as she makes a declaration to never be her mother, to never compromise her individuality, "I'm me. I'm not their daughter. I'm not Nel. I'm me. Me"(28). Figuring that her "me-ness" will take her far, she exclaims "I want...I want to be... wonderful"(29). However, that trip to Louisiana "was the last as well as the first time she was ever to leave Medallion"(29).
Initially, Nel's self ...
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Hamlet
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm," (pg 99, 29). This also makes sense, and is not quite as random; when confronts Claudius, and the king asks where Polonius is, immediatly begins the comparison by telling Claudius that Polonuis is at supper (the worms are eating him for supper, and so on). This proves that had some kind of planning for this degrading comment, and that his thoughts are not scattered and he is able to stay focused. There is a question of what being insane really is. Since it is agreeable that Ophelia was crazy, it’s possible to use her as ...
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Revision Rich
Number of Words: 1381 / Number of Pages: 6
... The three poems "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" and "Planetarium" are analyzed to demonstrate the changes in Rich's way of writing.
Rich wrote "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" in 1951, while she was a student. At this time in her life she conforms to tradition in her writing, and tries not to identify herself as a female poet. Rich does not identify herself as a female poet by detaching herself from her character and allowing her character to accept the life that man has placed upon woman. Rich's writing is constrained by man because she allows her character to be oppressed ...
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My Friend April
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... the woods, riding bikes, and catching bugs. Our families were very close and often said that the two of us were like brother and sister.
One calm summer night April and I climbed to the top of the garage and lay on our backs staring at the thousands of stars in the black summer sky. The garage wasn't tall; in fact, it was perfect because we could sit up there without worrying about sliding off. That night we talked about everything that was on our minds. I will never forget that night because it was so beautiful outside. The tree frogs and crickets were performing their evening melodies, and th ...
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Pigman
Number of Words: 417 / Number of Pages: 2
... life he blamed his father for, whom he referred to as the "bore." Yet when Mr. Pignati died John realized that he was the one to blame for abusing his trust, and that he could no longer hide from his problems. Lorraine's mother constantly put her down and left her with very little self-confidence. As a result Lorraine was very shy, too shy to stop John from throwing a big party in the (Mr. Pignati)'s house. Yet when the died, she knew something had also died in her, and took responsibility for Mr. Pignati's death.
At the end of the play, John refers to all mankind as "Big blabbing baboons - sm ...
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The Night Journey In Heart Of
Number of Words: 866 / Number of Pages: 4
... As I support the thesis that man moves from innocence to experience and becomes acquainted with evil in the novella, I have interpreted the character of Marlow as the embodiment of good, and Kurtz as that of evil, (although not entirely).
The events of the night journey of Heart of Darkness are described through the character of Marlow who acts as a mediator as he tells the story. Depth and meaningfulness are given in the text, through Marlow's function, serving as a conciousness.
Even before the journey to the Congo, Marlow provides a sense of depravity when he comments (on page 33) that Af ...
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Character Analysis Of The Gran
Number of Words: 957 / Number of Pages: 4
... who doesn't even acknowledge her. Before she has a chance to work on the children, they tell her "stay at home if you don't want to go." The grandmother then decides that she will have to go along after all, but she is already working on her own agenda.
The grandmother is very deceitful, and she manages to sneak the cat in the car with her even though she knows Bailey does not "like to arrive at a motel with a cat." She decides that she would like to visit an old plantation and begins her pursuit of convincing Bailey to agree to it. She describes the old house for the children adding mysterious detail ...
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Lady Macbeth
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... her identity then she has lost her soul and that, in my opinion, makes her a monster. This is illustrated by her willingness to “…dash the brains out…” of her baby, if she had one. The loss of her feminine qualities exemplifies her knowledge of the consequences of killing Duncan, this is demonstrated when she asks the “…keen knife see not the wound it makes…”. This reveals her hope that she will not feel any guilt after the murder and she naively believes that “…a little water clears us of this deed…”; these examples show that knew the deeds she was going to commit were evil and therefore sustains ...
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