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Escapism In The Glass Menageri
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... Tom wanted to be free, and to him, the fire escape was the exit into freedom. Movies were also an important part of Tom's life. He went to the movies when he and his mother argued or when he felt he needed some excitement. In scene four, Amanda asks, "Why do you go to the movies so much, Tom?" and Tom replies "I go to the movies because - I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of a work, so I go to the movies." Tom doesn't have adventure at work or at home. The movies to him, represented what he wanted, adventure. The Victrola phonograph was Laura's means of escape and comfort ...
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The Pearl - Greed
Number of Words: 951 / Number of Pages: 4
... and they were all shattering one byone. In the night he heard a "sound so soft that it might havebeen simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the trespasser.This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. Thefear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over hisactions. Soon even Juana who had always had faith in herhusband, had doubted him greatly. "It will destroy us all" sheyelled as her attempt to rid the family of the pearl had failed.Kino had not listened however, and soon Juana began to lose herspiritual side and for a long time she had forgotten her prayersthat had at onc ...
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A Psychological Evaluation Of
Number of Words: 1065 / Number of Pages: 4
... line. The more he told me about Gastby, it seemed the more he felt he needed to emulate him. He then began to talk of a Mr. Tom Buchannan. Tom was not to Carraway’s liking. He seemed harsh and too masculine to have any relation in Nick’s life. Nick is simple, innocent, and he is just starting out. From what he has told me about him, Tom seems to be a bigot of sorts, not to fond of Nick’s existence in this side of town at all. How does tom fit in to all this, I asked myself. Tom is Daisy’s husband; Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Kind of confusing, eh? Carraway started to finish up the session wit ...
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of Words: 8639 / Number of Pages: 32
... Idea’s and manners can be changed. I don’t know what else to make of it. It’s the only lesson I can find in the novel. I read because I enjoy it, not because I want to be taught life visions.
STORYLINE:
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austin
[Chapter 1]
Mrs. Bennet tells her husband, Mr. Bennet, to visit the new owner of Netherfield, Mr. Bingley. He is quite rich and he is single which makes him a wanted man with all the girls in the neighbourhood. Mr. Bennet tells her that he won’t be visiting him because he likes to fool around with her. Mrs. Bennet is thinking about their five ...
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Contrast In Language
Number of Words: 397 / Number of Pages: 2
... thy love.(Rom. II. II, 76-78.)
In the final scene of the play, there is much talk of death by Romeo, Friar Laurence, and Juliet. Romeo announces his own demise in his soliloquy:
Depart again. Here, here I will remain
With worms and chambermaids. O, here
Will I set my everlasting rest
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied
flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips,
O you
The doors of breath to engrossing death!(Rom. V. III, 108-114.)
The Friar's Frantic wrods and actions in conflict to his previous calm stature illustrate the grim mood of the sc ...
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The Aeneid
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... of Carthage. The people of
Carthage feel like they don’t have a leader and are being left to fend for themselves.
They feel Dido is not paying any attention to her city, only Aeneas. The effect of this is
that the reader feels that Dido should stop goofing around and pay attention to her city. It
makes the characters look down on the queen, and begin to loose faith in her. Virgil was
trying to rub it in even further that Roman men are irresistible to women. People are
loosing faith in Dido and all she cares about is Aeneas.
This conflict ends with tragedy in Didos life. Near the end of book f ...
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Color Purple 2
Number of Words: 1154 / Number of Pages: 5
... This brought a lot of pain and emotional downfall but in spite of this with a great help of her younger sister Nettie, Celie tried her best to learn what she missed in school. It was very important for her, because she realized that knowledge is one of the ways to become strong and to improve in life. “ Us both be hitting Nettie’s schoolbooks pretty hard, cause us know we got to be smart to git away. I know I’m not as smart or as pretty as Nettie but she say I ain’t dumb.” (Page 10). In spite of the physical, sexual, and verbal abuse that Celie got from her father, ...
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The Gilgamesh Epic And The Old Testament
Number of Words: 459 / Number of Pages: 2
... plant that gives immortality to anyone who eats it, a great
snake steals from him. Like in the Old Testament, God ordered Adam and Eve
not to eat the Is there really an eternal life like what everyone is
searching for?
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the people considered natural
catastrophes to be work of the gods. The gods, they believed, even used
nature to punish the people. Human beings were too insignificant to pass
judgment on the conduct of the gods, and the gods were too superior to
honor human morals. Rather, they worshiped the gods because they believed
their gods were mighty.
The creation of ...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife F
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... most. The first story that caught my attention was about the sixty year old Madeline J. who was suffers from being “congenitally blind” and has “cerebral palsy”(Sack 59). She was a very bright and intelligent woman that gained all her knowledge and learning from listening to books and from talking to people. She had never learned Braille because her hands were “Useless godforsaken lumps of dough…” Through simple tests, Sacks discovered that her hand recognized light touches, pain, and temperature. All basic sensations and perceptions were in tact. However ...
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Great Gatsby Essay
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... Baker. This is ironic because it
was Jordan’s compulsive dishonesty that ruined the relationship. They
weren’t secretly seeing each other behind other people’s backs, they
weren’t unfaithful to each other, and they both cared for each other.
Nick saw Jordan’s dishonesty as a major flaw in her personality, and
he didn’t think she was worth it.
Out of all of the relationships, Tom Buchanan and Myrtle
Wilson’s was the most the most superficial. Neither had true feelings
for the other, they were just there to amuse themselves. This one was
also the most damaging. Gatsby, Mr. and Mrs. Wil ...
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