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Lord Of The Flies Vs. Huck Fin
Number of Words: 2536 / Number of Pages: 10
... fending for themselves. The characters all go through changes as they adjust to their new world, and become different people because of it. In example to this, Jack seems like a strong willed character at the start of the book, but the other boys never would have imagined he would turn into a cold blooded killer. Therefore, they must learn to take care of themselves for they can not depend on Jack or any of the older boys, to be there for each and every one of them. It is proven that each boy
has this responsibility in the following quote;
“Merridew turned to Ralph. ‘Aren’t there any grown-ups?’ ‘No.’ ...
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The Tradgedy Of Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 546 / Number of Pages: 2
... gives an
arrogant feeling of Caesar to the reader. This is shown as Cassius spoke to Casca about the
upcoming conspiracy. "What trash is Rome, what rubbish and what offal, when it serves for
the base matter illuminate so vile a thing as Caesar!" (p.45).
Caesar was by no means only shown as a foolish man who thought highly of himself.
Caesar's statements about his distrust of Cassius are correct. Caesar has every excuse for
distrusting Cassius, who was already plotting his murder. "Yond Cassius has a lean and
hungry look; he thinks too much, and such men are dangerous" (p.27). Caesar even put ...
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Billy Budd
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... Arthur Miller’s, that the audience feels and fears for the characters so much that it is as if they are the characters themselves. The characters finally meet their tragic end, and the audience witnesses and understands their end. This applies to Billy mostly because of his likeability. The readers come to love Billy as his fellows sailors do. He is completely innocent and naive at the same time. The readersees his weakness and comes to feel sorry for Billy the way one might for a child. The reader sympathizes with Billy especially when he is confronted by Claggart and can do nothing, but stutter. The ...
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The Wars
Number of Words: 2799 / Number of Pages: 11
... letting others feed from your resource-all you had in life was put in jeopardy" (Findley, 153). Mrs. Ross had mourned for years over the sudden death of her brother and her father, now she had lost a daughter and was going to lose a son. It is also evident she kept a lot of things to herself. At Rowena's funeral she stood apart from the rest of the family pretending she did not need any help. Mrs. Ross hid behind a large, black hat that day. Before Rowena's death and Robert leaving for the war Mrs. Ross used to be out in the public, handing out chocolate bars to the soldiers going off to war. Howeve ...
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The Sanity Of Hamlet
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... towards Ophelia is inconsistent. He jumps into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes, "I loved Ophelia, Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love" during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved her, when she returns his letters and gifts, while she was still alive. Hamlet subtly hints his awareness of his dissolving sanity as he tells Laertes that he killed Polonius in a fit of madness.
Hamlet has violent outbursts towards his mother. His outburst seems to be out of jealousy, as a victim to the Oedipus ...
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Meursault: A Man Who Refuses T
Number of Words: 1115 / Number of Pages: 5
... next day is the funeral. The funeral is yet another formality. As Meursault is on the trip to the cemetery, he takes notice of his mother's dear friend, a friend he has never met. Meursault notices how this friend is constantly falling behind the hearse during the ride. Despite his observations, he does not do anything to help the man or solicit help from others. As for the funeral, he does not seem to feel anything regarding the loss of his mother. In fact, he does not shed a tear. He makes a few random observations, such as, "Then there was the church and the villagers on the sidewalks the red ...
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The Intelligence Of Odysseus
Number of Words: 578 / Number of Pages: 3
... eye. Then as the blinded Cyclops guarded the door with his sense of touch, Odysseus quickly gathered his men and instructed them to hang on to the belly of the sheep as they passed out the entrance. By his cunning and resourcefulness, Odysseus used the wine as a stunner, the pole as a weapon, and the sheep as a getaway vehicle.
To free his men from her evil spell, Odysseus (with a little help from Hermes) manipulated the witch Circe in her palace. Circe and her potion had turned the men of Odysseus into various sorts of animals. Odysseus traveled to Circe’s palace to find them and when he was alm ...
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What Is The American Dream?
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... husband was killed at Harper’s Ferry while fighting with John Brown; her second husband, Hughes’ grandfather, was a prominent politician in Kansas during the Reconstruction. During the time that he lived with his grandmother, however, she was old and poor resulting in little to eat and forcing them to rent out part of their small house. Unable to give Langston the attention he needed and his feelings of hurt and rejection by both his mother and father caused him to grow up very insecure and unsure of himself. In the second grade Langston was introduced to books and soon became fascinated with t ...
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Sarah Canary
Number of Words: 596 / Number of Pages: 3
... separated by one big gap and that is class status. The first hint to that was when the girl with the bow talked to Rosaura. “I and Luciana do our homework together,” said Rosaura very seriously. “That is not being friends,” the bow headed girl said (614). In that quote what the girl with the bow said that Rosaura was not a friend of Luciana’s just because you do your homework together. She did not understand what real friends are. She thought that friends were made by the social class you are in, which she probably learned from her parents. This represents Heker&# ...
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