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Bless Me, Ultima - Character A
Number of Words: 780 / Number of Pages: 3
... forgive Tenorio.” (173) In addition, Tony’s maturity leads him to order someone to “go get the lifeguard” (239) during the drowning of Florence. At the same time, Tony notices a “red spot on [Florence’s] forehead where he must have hit the edge of the culvert.” (240) Death, to a six year old, is a mystery while religion is accepted just like the letters of the alphabet. However, Tony’s questions of religion and reactions to death reflect a mindset of someone far beyond his age group.
For someone of his age, Antonio has a strong yearning for knowledge. He is “driven by the desire to make [his] the m ...
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Huck Finn - Mark Twains Views
Number of Words: 739 / Number of Pages: 3
... the worse. As they escape separately and rejoin by chance at an island
along the river, they find themselves drawn to get as far as possible
from their home. Their journey down the river sets the stage for most
of Mark Twain's comments about man and society. It is when they stop
off at various towns along the river that various human character
flaws always seem to come out. Examples of this would include the
happenings after the bringing on of the Duke and King. These two con
artists would execute the most preposterous of schemes to relieve
unsuspecting townspeople of their ca ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird-society
Number of Words: 339 / Number of Pages: 2
... Heck Tate is also his own individual. After learning
Boo Radley killed Bob Ewell, Heck Tate has a right as
sheriff to take him into custody. Despite Atticus’s demand
he does not. He knows the town does not need anymore gossip,
and claims Bob Ewell fell on his knife. If he had followed
the beliefs of the town he would have thought of Boo Radley
as barbarous. Yet he does not because he won’t let Boo
Radley go on trial. Also, in spite of everyone’s belief, he
also takes into consideration the innocence of Tom Robinson.
In any society it is important to maintain ones own
ind ...
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Lord Of The Flies 2 -
Number of Words: 1045 / Number of Pages: 4
... and civility that has been instilled in the youth
throughout their lives, the boys have backpedaled and shown the
underlying savage side existent in all humans. "Golding senses that
institutions and order imposed from without are temporary, but man's
irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley 1: 119).
The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil
nature inherent in man. If a group of well-conditioned school boys
can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can
imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of ...
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White Noise
Number of Words: 1222 / Number of Pages: 5
... a sense of peace and security I'd never experience (55)." The weather is something that is universally tangible in the sense that one can feel its effects. Heinrich may disagree much like he did on page 24. Howard became more sociable because of the discussion of the weather. Jack's focus on Hitler also dwells on the idea of tangible objects. On page 63 he states that, "Some people put on a uniform and feel bigger, stronger, and safer. It's in this area that my obsessions dwell." One of the bigger points to my argument comes in chapter 17. A comment from a colleague ("You look so harmless") com ...
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Explication On Fire And Ice
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... end in ice, seems to present the image of a slower, numbing effect. I feel he uses ice to represent a slow, almost unnoticeable change that eventually causes the destruction of mankind.
Fire, instantaneous combustion of an object. Frost uses fire to represent an ending with incredible speed and unimaginable pain. The quote, “From what I’ve tasted of desire” seems to represent the tendency of people to be impatient. The way many people of today are, they can not wait. They must have what they want, and they must have it now. That is one of the main purposes of a loan. Someone ...
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Lord Of The Flies Comparison T
Number of Words: 1277 / Number of Pages: 5
... along with his poor eyesight, size, accent, and asthma, are why he is constantly ostracized by the others. His glasses represent technology, civilization, reality and reason. When they are destroyed it is a sign that the boys are no longer using reason in their actions and civilization is becoming more and more a thing of the past.
Ralph, on the other hand, represents government, authority, order, and self discipline. Although Ralph occasionally gives way to his more primitive side he is one of the only members of the group who maintains enough discipline to try to remain "civilized". Lack of thi ...
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Robin Hood And Allen A Dale
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... Robin before,
"O hast thou any money to spare
For my merry men and me?"
As you can see from the example above (stanza 30, page 7), the second and fourth lines rhyme. During the story you will find this rhyme scheme to be very common. This ballad, like many uses Incremental Repetition which is the use of a line with some slight variation. An example is:
"I have no money", then quoth the young man,
"No ready gold nor fee,
But I will swear upon a book
Thy true servant for to be."
The statement "No ready gold nor fee" (stanza 50, page 8) is a fine example of Incremental Repetition because the wa ...
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The Khent
Number of Words: 3224 / Number of Pages: 12
... persecutors, the inexorable Turkish authorities had driven us during the dark days of the First World War with the flimsy excuse that we were in sympathy with the Allied cause. We enjoy now in America, "The Land of Liberty and The Home of the Brave," a cultural democracy, the likc of which is not found anywhere in the world on such a vast scale. To this cultural heritage every race has contributed something worthwhile from its precious spiritual resources. This fact explains why America is blessed more than any other country
with an incomparably rich culture and a way of life which is a shining exam ...
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Comparison Of Shakespeare Shal
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... over his fathers business. In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was the daughter of a local farmer, to whom he had a daughter in 1583 and twins, a boy and a girl, in 1585. The boy did not survive. By 1592 William Shakespeare had attained success as an actor and playwright in London. His Sonnets and poems, written between 1593 and 1609, also established him as a gifted and popular poet of the Renaissance.
Shakespeare’s poetic efforts include a series of one hundred and fifty four Sonnets, in which he developed the Shakespearean sonnet as a new poetic form, arranged as three quatrains an ...
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