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To Say Or Not To Say Letters A
Number of Words: 1429 / Number of Pages: 6
... Mr. Collins, who will inherit Longbourn after Mr. Bennet’s death because he is the nearest male relative. In his letter, Mr. Collins proposes a visit to Longbourn and hints at a further proposal of marriage to one of the Bennet daughters. The reader quickly learns of this man’s nature because of the contents of his letter as well as Mr. Bennet’s reasoning behind his acceptance of the proposal. Mr. Bennet makes fun of his unusual writing style and pomposity, and also makes snide remarks to his family about him. Ultimately, Mr. Bennet agrees to the visit because he wants to laug ...
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Native American Literature
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... evil or good creations, is what the Delaware felt created life and its methods. The actual writing of the myth is in short descriptive phrases, leaving out any unnecessary words or clauses. It speaks as if Earth and Nature are people, a part of their kin. The Delaware use detailed characteristics to describe the universe that surrounds them. They speak of only subjects that are important to them and deeply express their thoughts. The Delaware Native Americans were ones who saw Earth and nature as interesting aspects on which they must know about.
“Song of the Sky Loom” written by the Tewa Native Americ ...
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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... about those books I’d pasted over...but that was only an excuse.” (Pg 151)
This highlights some of the themes by TJ’s total lack of loyalty and personal integrity.
One of TJ’s biggest mistakes in the book is befriending two white boys, R.W. and Melvin Simms (Jeremy’s brothers). He thinks they are his friends and he doesn’t know that they are just using him. By hanging around with these two he ends up getting himself in a lot of trouble. They talk him into stealing the ‘pearl-handled pistol’ from the Barnett’s store.
“R.W. broke the ...
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Catcher In The Rye Book Review
Number of Words: 1246 / Number of Pages: 5
... dead and bloody." (201) His deep concern with impeccability caused him to create stereotypes of a hooligan that would try to corrupt the children of an elementary school. Holden believed that children were innocent because they viewed the world and society without any bias. When Phoebe asked him to name something that he would like to be when he grew up, the only thing he would have liked to be was a "catcher in the rye." He invented an illusion for himself of a strange fantasy. He stated that he would like to follow a poem by Robert Burns: "If a body catch a body comin' through the rye." He kept "pict ...
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IMAGERY IN MACBETH
Number of Words: 1585 / Number of Pages: 6
... "The theme of Macbeth is reinforced by the imagery of blood." (Von Doren 338). Shakespeare mentions the word blood, or different forms of it often in the play. The best way to describe how the image of blood changes throughout the play is by following the character changes in Macbeth. First, Macbeth is a brave and honored soldier, but as the play progresses, Macbeth becomes identified with death and bloodshed, along with showing his guilt in different forms.
The first corrupt reference to blood is when Macbeth sees the dagger floating in the air leading him to Duncan's room and he sees "on the ...
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Lord Of The Flies Book Analysi
Number of Words: 1805 / Number of Pages: 7
... line shows that they have pretty much lost it by now. It describes their loss of hope for rescue, and that they have developed a superiority complex. The rush they get from ending a life has made them go insane and clouded their judgement. As the book goes on and they say this line more often, wackiness follows.
"Coming?" (Chap. 7, pg. 119) Although Ralph was a good leader and had good intentions, he was still somewhat passive because he always gave in to whatever Jack said. He would let Jack walk all over him which was a factor in the "biguns" leaving his group and joining Jack's chaotic tribe. ...
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Authority And Macbeth
Number of Words: 977 / Number of Pages: 4
... describes Macbeth's violence to indicate what a good warrior he is thus showing that he has respect for Macbeth. Once Macbeth became king, he became overpowered with keeping his authority. Macbeth realized that he was being used just so that Banquo's sons can inherit the throne:
They hailed him father to a line of kings.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding (act III, scene 1, lines 60-64).
Macbeth feeling this way convinces a pair of men to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. By ...
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The Sound Of A Memory
Number of Words: 1427 / Number of Pages: 6
... The reader's can see the same things that the author sees in his own mind, and a calm feeling is felt throughout the opening lines.
Rudman then throws in some quicker wording to describe the landscape, which is broken up into short, incomplete ideas with commas. He introduces a multitude of ideas when he describes, "Hills leeched of color,// the desert a kind of form,// with rimrock and succulents and gulches// providing borders- boundaries.// Dust and Desire" (651). The above lines are very interesting when you look at the tempo at which they are read. "Hills leeched of color," is on a ...
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The Stand
Number of Words: 532 / Number of Pages: 2
... to protect them from the evil. In the
dreams there is also a "Dark Man". He is always there lurking,
waiting to attack.
Harold admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes
crazy when he realizes how serious Fran has become with Stuart
Redman, one of the newcomers to their traveling group. Harold
becomes insanely jealous and plots to separate them, even if it
means murder.
Harold doesn't admit it to any of them, but his dreams are
different from theirs. In his dreams the "Dark Man" offers Harold
power and respect, something Harold could never im ...
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Daddy By Sylvia Plath
Number of Words: 1207 / Number of Pages: 5
... Daddy.
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
Here the persona uses the simile "like a foot" to compare herself to a foot. Metaphorically she is describing how she has had to live her life without her father, entrapped in black sadness like how a foot is tightly enclosed within a shoe. The reader is positioned to see that life can become very grim growing up without an important figure in a person's life such as their father.
The second part of Daddy deals with World War II, a prominent event in our recent histor ...
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