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Fahrenheit51
Number of Words: 837 / Number of Pages: 4
... society. Montag meets a crazy and imaginative seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She tells him of a time when firemen used to put out fires instead of making them. After that, Montag and the other firemen burn a house filled with books and burn its owner. "They crashed the front door and grabbed at a women, though she was not running , she was not trying to escape." (38). This incident makes Montag start to think that there is something important and valuable in those books, for a woman to stay and burn with them. Montag then starts to get curious and reads books, betraying the ...
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"Down And Out Paris And London"
Number of Words: 905 / Number of Pages: 4
... because if they were dangerous they would be treated accordingly. A
casual ward will often admit a hundred tramps in one night, and these are
handled by a staff of at most three porters. A hundred ruffians could not be
controlled by three unarmed men. Indeed, when one sees how ramps let themselves
be bullied by the work house officials, it is obvious that they are the most
docile, broken-spirited creatures imaginable. "(p. 204)
About the term "drunkard" Orwell disagrees also saying:
"Or take the idea that all tramps are drunkards -- an idea ridiculous on the
face of it. No doubt many tramps woul ...
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Robinson Crusoe
Number of Words: 863 / Number of Pages: 4
... members become landowners, the idea of Divine Right to rule over the land no longer proves valid. Defoe illustrates society’s changes through Crusoe, who battles with the notion of God’s Providence. At certain moments he thanks God for His Providence, but then later conceives that actually God did not cause the miracle but he did. For example, when the English barley sprung up from the ground on Crusoe’s remote desert island with improper climate for growing corn, Crusoe thought "these the pure Production of Providence" and "this touch’d [his] Heart a little, and brought tears to [h ...
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Johnny Tremain
Number of Words: 1077 / Number of Pages: 4
... how you would feel about it and act upon it, it made me feel
thankful.
Another interesting part of the book was when Johnny went to
look for a job. Johnny was so persistent when trying to find another
apprentice job. He didn’t really care about what kind of job it was he
just wanted a job, he went from place to place trying as hard as he
could to hid his crippled hand.
When Johnny started his job with the Sons of Liberty as a news
paper route boy it came to be a very interesting section of the book. It
was interesting because, he was giving a code to all of the Sons of
Liber ...
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Huckleberry Finn - Life On The River
Number of Words: 864 / Number of Pages: 4
... Huck’s idyllic life on the river is as routine. The words ‘then’ and ‘next’ are repeated several times in the first half of the passage, their function and effect is ensure that the passage flows, much like the river, in a slow and constant sequential manner.
A sense of relaxed movement is conveyed and emphasised by diction and alliteration throughout the passage ‘then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness’. The use of onomatopoeia ‘swift’ allows the passage to progress in the same continuous and serene motion as the river. The words and phrases ‘nice breeze springs up’ and ‘smiling in the sun’ ...
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Leadership In Julius Ceasar
Number of Words: 1215 / Number of Pages: 5
... differences, Brutus and Cassius have similar traits that give rise to great leaders. Both Brutus and Cassius are noble, intelligent men. They usually have good intentions and understand the situation they are in. This is why they both agree to go along with the conspiracy to kill Caesar. The two also like to think out and plan their actions. They do this two significant times in the play. When the two plan Caesar’s assassination and during the planning of the final move for Brutus and Cassius’ army. When the assassination is developing, Cassius thinks to kill Antony as well as Caesar saying, ...
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Far From The Madding Crowd
Number of Words: 2882 / Number of Pages: 11
... replied, ‘Yes.’ His immediate reaction was to compliment her by calling her a lady, illustrating his natural tendency to see most young ladies he comes across as merely objects for personal conquest. Flattery is of course his chief weapon in charming and conquering the female heart. One of the main reasons that Bathsheba fell for him in the first place is her own vulnerability to flattery, as she is such a vain young lady. From this point on, on the occasions that he meets her, he continues to remark on how beautiful see looks, concentrating on praising her appearance. His first attempt at courtship ...
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Hamlet
Number of Words: 4232 / Number of Pages: 16
... inferior role from which Nora progressed is extremely important. Ibsen in his "A Doll's House" depicts the role of women as subordinate in order to emphasize the need to reform their
role in society.
Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of Torvald by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her opinions, including the decision of which dance o ...
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The Bluest Eye
Number of Words: 569 / Number of Pages: 3
... of attention. But the harder both characters try, the worse things get.
Pauline strived for beauty because she wanted to attention and wanted to be beautiful. Pauline seemed to have just worse case of bad luck, when she was a child she stepped on a nail and she was left with a limp forever. "The wound left her with a crooked, archless foot that flopped when she walked….." (110). She tried to put that behind her but she lost three middle teeth, not all the same time but slowly. It wasn’t because her teeth were rotten, the tooth just fell out. "I was sitting back in my seat, ...
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Faces Of The Diamond - Essay O
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... in his novelette, “the Diamond as Big as the Ritz” to ridicule the American society on the terms of the corruption of the American dream, the maltreatment of human life and the limits to the power of wealth.
Before the dawning of the Jazz Age, the American dream stood for hard work, honesty, virtue, and morality, as any individual of the society is able to achieve success and rise to a higher level of material living regardless of one’s origin. As time proceeded, Americans began to strive for their goal through underhanded tactics thus corrupting the main principles of the utopian dream. Hence ...
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