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The Great Gatsby 5
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... this book are focused on trying to bring him and Daisy back to the point of time before he joined the army except this time, he has enough money for her. Gatsby says it himself (on page 111), "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" Judging by Gatsby's death at the end of the novel, Fitzgerald didn't feel that such optimism was worthwhile.
Daisy is the woman Gatsby is trying to win back and coincidentally she is also Nick's second cousin. Daisy doesn't have a strong will and she cracks under pressure as is shown late in the book in the hotel scene. She is the original material girl and focuses ...
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A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... her for so long she wasn’t able to function without him. Since she wasn’t able to function without his presence Emily chose to live her life as if her father was still with her. She spent the majority of her time inside of her house because that was where she could best feel her father’s comforting dominance.
Emily was extremely resistant to modern changes in the outside world affecting her own world because she was determined to live in the past with the ghost of her father. When the new age of city authorities in the town visited her to collect taxes they felt she owed, she sent them away explain ...
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Careful, He Might Hear You
Number of Words: 1281 / Number of Pages: 5
... in his home, school, and lifestyle. All of this was done against the will of PS, who strongly resented the proposition of these changes.
This incident displays the lack of importance the opinion of a child holds in society. PS disliked Vanessa, but his opinion was held irreverent. This was made apparent by his experiences of acute nostalgia.
Lila, his pseudo-mother, was mawkishly protective of PS. Instead of revealing PS to the face of reality, she shrouded the real world and prolonged the fantasised world he lived in. This was done through such things as referring to PS's mother as the "Dear ...
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“A Worn Path”: Phoenix
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... is and imaging a food being brought to her. “But when she went to take it there was just her own hand in the air.”(117) Imagining Phoenix condition, she can only wish and stay strong enough to keep walking. She didn’t stop there. Phoenix knew she needed to find a safe place, so she would not face harm. Even though she was hungry.
Phoenix has made it “Through the maze now.”(117) It will be easier for Phoenix to continue walking “for there was no path.”(117) She felt a bit of relief to know that she didn’t have to deal with some of the animals that would have been there back in the summer.
However, P ...
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Hamlets To Be Or Not To Be
Number of Words: 407 / Number of Pages: 2
... realize that he is not being c
ardly, but smart to wait and take decisive action.
Evidence shows that Hamlet feels life is a burden yet Hamlet still remains tranquil as he soliloquizes. The perfect iambic pentameter of Shakespeare gives this passage a sense of fluidity in contrast with the whirlpool of emotions in other soliloquies
Words such as suffer, troubles, dies, sleep, heartache, calamity, and weary, depict depression as Hamlet is a very low-spirited and depressed man. There are also images that are tools of destruction: slings, arrows, arms, and whips. Shakespeare’s c
eful use of ...
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Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Number of Words: 2436 / Number of Pages: 9
... any
of the magnificence with which God had created the world? In answering
this question, Swift discovered a series of social vices and injustices
that perpetuated the painful poverty of the Irish peasantry, and due to his
resulting anger felt that it was his God-given job to do something about
them. "'What I do is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the
mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and baseness around me, among which I
am forced t o live'" (Keach et al 372). Thus, Jonathan Swift's career as a
political satirist and social reformer truly began. Throughout his career,
Swift wrote pol ...
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Grapes Of Wrath - Plot Questio
Number of Words: 1282 / Number of Pages: 5
... themselves.
2. Who are the members of the Joad family unit that set out for California? Briefly state what happens to each of them.
Ma, Pa, Ruth, Winfield, Uncle John, and Rose of Sharron all where in the barn. Rose of Sharron was breast feeding a old man, after her baby died. I think she was doing it for personal pleasures. I don't think that she was sincere about the feeling to prolong the mans life. She was always selfish, and I still think she was at the end. I don't blame Connie for leaving her. Al left with his fiancee named Aggie, to start a new life with her. Tom left to become another Jim Ca ...
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Typical American By Gish Gen
Number of Words: 875 / Number of Pages: 4
... to some extend, typical Americans.
When Ralph came to the US he certainly was a Chinese. He did not understand the Americans, he did not have an English name. He asked the secretary of the Foreign Student Affairs to give him the name. "'Ralph,' she said finally. She wrote it down. R-A-L-P-H. 'Do you like it?' 'Sure!' He beamed." (Typical American, 11) The American name was the first step to his Americanization. Even though Ralf came to America to study engineering and was supposed to return to China afterwords, things went differently. When, in 1948, China collapsed and the Nationalists were fighting t ...
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Tender Mercies
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... how this theme provides the clearest reason why “” is neither a Tragedy nor Pathos.
As mentioned above, one of the centralized themes in “” is the theme of redemption and that it can be seen through many characters, of whom is Mac. In the beginning of this screenplay, Mac is viewed as a person with a drinking disorder. In other words, he was an alcoholic. He would drink continuously, being unaware of the hurt he caused to his loved ones. He drank more and more as he tried to run away from his problems; he believed that drinking was t ...
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Descartes First Meditation
Number of Words: 910 / Number of Pages: 4
... succeeded in their goal to establish doubt upon the existence of the outside world, which were the sensory illusion and dreaming arguments. However, people such as Descartes who believe in an omnipotent supremely good being, called God, could easily refute these arguments. Therefore, in order for Descartes to start from the very beginning, in terms of knowledge, he needed to find a way to bring doubt upon the very thing that was the basis for all his knowledge, which was God.
In the evil demon argument, Descartes is not denying the existence of God. The way the argument is presented, Descartes make ...
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