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A Birthday
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... A tree is a symbol used in both selections to convey there attitude towards love. In the poem the line "My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit" shows the happiness of the speaker and the fullness of her heart do to her new love.
In the line "She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all quivering with the new spring life" The symbol of the tree is used to convey a different attitude towards love. It shows the excitement of the character for her rebirth and freedom obtained by the loss of her love.
A character ...
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Grapes Of Wrath And Jim Casy
Number of Words: 2487 / Number of Pages: 10
... respected by many for simply being a preacher. Casy and Jesus both saw a common goodness in the average man and saw every person as holy. Both Christ and Casy faced struggles between their ideals versus the real world. (Despite Casy's honesty, goodness, and loyalty to all men, he would not earn a meal or warm place to stay. Although Jesus had many followers, still others opposed his preaching until the very end. ) These prophets attempted to disengage man from the cares of the world and create a high spiritualism that stemmed joy from misery. (All the migrants found pleasures along their trips and kep ...
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Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Number of Words: 1117 / Number of Pages: 5
... living in a man’s world. She made some hard decisions growing up as a child., as a result, she chose to be a professional prostitute. Her life style allowed her the riches, and luxuries not afforded to most women.
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ENGLISH 102:ENGLISH COMP & LIT
INSTRUCTOR
April 24, 1999
Mrs. Warren’s main goal in life was providing a better life for her daughter. With the help of her sister she was able to get a brothel established and made it extremely successful. Unfortunately, the title of Madam has no honor and causes her daughter to reject her. She acquired wealth and power equal to that of her ...
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Call Of The Wild 2
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... when the team was chasing a rabbit through the woods. Buck was in the lead just inches behind the prey, when Spitz took a shortcut and jumped on Buck. It was a life and death struggle, Buck was bigger, Spitz was skilled. In the End Bucks shear strength prevailed.
Once the job was done, Buck was under a new owner. The duty was not to get the fastest time but to pull the most. It was grueling, heavy work each day. The team soon grew tired and slow, it was boring work and Buck hated it. The Driver promised rest as soon as they finished. Unfortunately the government decided to sell tired dogs instead of r ...
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Sybolism In White Fang
Number of Words: 852 / Number of Pages: 4
... put symbolizes Satan. This man, this creature so vile as to subdue yet another victim (White Fang) into his ever-growing underground slavery prison camps. The greed for money and profit is the only need for this “prison camp”; the dog-fighting gambling is their prison cell. A comparison between the bulldog Cherokee and death itself can be made. Once death has you, there is no way of escaping. When Cherokee had White Fang gripped between his jaws, “There was no escaping that grip. It was like Fate itself, and was inexorable,” (London 139). Surely enough, God (Weedon ...
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Mark Twain A Morally Deficient
Number of Words: 1543 / Number of Pages: 6
... decided to put himself to work on a piece that had been rumored throughout town, but to that day had not been brought out in the open. It seems that some time before, perhaps a few days or a week maybe, that a man by the name of Higgins, who at that time was the editor of the rival paper, had been jilted, and one night left a note on his bed, which stated that the could no longer endure life, and had drowned himself in Bear Creek. Upon discovering this note, a friend ran down to the river only to find Higgins wading back to shore, who concluded that he wouldn’t. The village was full of the r ...
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Language In The Aristocrat
Number of Words: 717 / Number of Pages: 3
... voice tones. Finally, after Mrs. Flowers reads the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities aloud with all the emotions of her spoken words, the only way Marguerite can respond is with a, “Yes Ma'am” (164). This shows that she is confused. Short phrases in response to long, heart filled elegies display one's confusion and awe-struck nature.
Language, in terms of both the spoken and written word, has the power to awaken emotions in readers and listeners. For instance, Marguerite mentions that often her mother would refer to Mrs. Flowers with familiar terms such as “sister” (161) in a way that made her wa ...
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Pygmalion Vs Educating Rita
Number of Words: 1335 / Number of Pages: 5
... story to attract the reader making one event crucial for the development of the story.
"He opens his umbrella and dashes off Strandwards, but comes into collision with a flower girl who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her hands. A blinding flash lightning, followed instantly by a rattling peal of thunder, orchestrates the incident"
A common example of a popular misconception is when two people accidentally meet in odd circumstances. In this case two people coincidentally bump into each other on the street: a flower girl and a man who is in a higher class than her. It is this c ...
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Hamlet Plot Summary
Number of Words: 2413 / Number of Pages: 9
... attending Denmark for the coronation ceremonies. And his father and the king give him permission.
The king and queens attention is now towards young hamlet. They are wondering why he is still grieving of his father's death. They then realize that it is sweet and commendable for hamlet to show love for is father by immediate grief. The queen asks hamlet to stay at Elsinore and hamlet says that he will obey her and the king commends him.
Hamlet is left alone in the room and expresses his innermost thoughts, and admits that he would commit suicide if it were not against god's law.
Horatio, Marcellu ...
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Death Of A Salesman 4
Number of Words: 806 / Number of Pages: 3
... him “…you’re the handsomest man in the world” (1809). But the truth is being popular and good looking is not the key to success. Success is achieved through hard work and perseverance.
The American Dream has long turned sour for Willy. At the beginning of his life, he remembers travelling in a wagon going westward. His parents conquered the new frontier and succeeded. His brother Ben, “Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s rich” (1811). For a while, the American Dream was alive in Willy too. He helped stake out new territo ...
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