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Sluaghterhouse-Five
Number of Words: 754 / Number of Pages: 3
... was young, Mr. Pilgrim sets the stage for Billy’s insanity:
Little Billy was terrified because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or-swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim. It was like an execution. Billy was numb as his father carried him from the shower room to the pool. His eyes were closed. When he opened his eyes, he was on the bottom of the pool and there was beautiful music playing everywhere. He lost consciousness, but the music went on. He dimly sensed that someone was rescuing him. ...
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Jane Eyres Struggle For Love
Number of Words: 997 / Number of Pages: 4
... or kindness, but I cannot live so: and you have no pity" (Bronte, 68). Here,
Jane makes her first declaration of independence, contending that she will no longer be a secondary
member in the Reed household.
At Lowood, Jane is repulsed by Mr. Blocklehurst and his "two-faced" character and coarseness.
However, while at Lowood, Jane finds her first true friend in the form of Helen Burns, another
student at the school. Helen teaches Jane of love in the form of religion. By means of instruction as
well as by example, Helen is able to convey this message. When Ja ...
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Odysseus: Traits Of An Epic Hero
Number of Words: 438 / Number of Pages: 2
... have any leftover beeswax for his ears, he had to resist the temptation of hearing the songs. Secondly, he tricked the Cyclops and got away in time before he was killed. Third, Odysseus sends just two of his men, instead of the whole group, to find out about the songs. If he sent them all, they may have got killed.
Even though Odysseus is strong and intelligent, he also has enough self-confidence to get him through his journey. If he didn't believe in himself now, how would his men do the same. His men look up to Odysseus and learn from him. Since Odysseus believed in himself he was able to ho ...
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The Diviners: How Does Morag's Past Influence Pique's Life
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... with Jules. When her husband is
Brooke Skelton, she has a sexual relationship with Jules and gets pregnant.
Later, Pique is aware that Jules is her father. Pique has an idea about why she
is different from the others because a typical family should have a mother and a
father, but she comes from a single parent family. When Pique first meets her
father she is at about five years old. Jules sings a song to Pique which she
finds fascinating and meaningful to her. Pique, at 18, is more mature than her
mother at the same age. She loves her father very much and wants to live with
him, however, Morag does n ...
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She Walks With Beauty
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... The alternating rhyme scheme in all three sestets gives the poem its consistent tone. "She walks in beauty, like the night," (1) rhyming with "And all that’s best of dark and bright," (3) makes the poem easier to remember and pleasing to the reader’s eyes and ears. The iambic tetrameter, when read aloud, guides the reader along in such a way that the poem maintains a smooth and graceful sound. "Of cloudless climes and starry skies," (2) is more pleasant when read with the proper accents than if it were read without its proper meter. The alliteration also contributes to ...
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Hedda Gabler
Number of Words: 953 / Number of Pages: 4
... is not happy in her marriage, she attempts to forbid anyone else to live a content life. For example, after she persuades Eljert Lövborg to consume alcohol, he ruins his reputation and loses something that is most precious to him: the manuscript of a book that he had been writing with Mrs. Elvsted. Although Hedda realizes the importance of this manuscript to both Lövborg and Mrs. Elvsted, she chars it. Because Lövborg and Mrs. Elvsted have put their souls into this manuscript, Hedda metaphorically relates her action to burning their child. This cold thoughtlessness demonstrates Hedd ...
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Antigones Right Problems
Number of Words: 939 / Number of Pages: 4
... deserve a proper burial whether they are friends or enemies. Antigone’s characteristics have an affect on her actions toward Creon and his decisions. There are many characteristics but there are only three that stick out. The three characteristics are determination, honor, and her insisting to take the complete consequence like a regular person caused Antigone’s ironic tragedy.
Antigone has a characteristic that I mentioned before that she shows entirely through the play. In the beginning, Antigone talks with her sister, Ismene. Antigone talks to her sister about what Creon’s ...
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Turn Of The Screw- Henry James
Number of Words: 2474 / Number of Pages: 9
... appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1865. In 1866, the James family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. James had his first novel, Watch and Ward serialized in Atlantic Monthly in 1871. In 1877, James wrote The American, while visiting Paris and Rome. In 1878, The Watch and Ward appeared in book form, and James wrote French Poets and Novelists (criticism), and The Europeans (novel). While visiting Paris and Italy in 1879, he wrote Daisy Miller (novella), An International Episode; the critical biography, Hawthorne; and The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales. The following year, he wrote the novel ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 936 / Number of Pages: 4
... so well at the widows where you had to wash and eat regular…It was pretty good times up in the woods there, take it all around.” (p. 31) Living in the woods is harder work, having to catch food and build fires to stay warm, but Huck doesn’t mind work as long as he can do it how he wants to.
Huck is always going against society and cannot live by its rules. Society told him it was wrong to help a runaway slave, but when he paddled out to go turn Jim in he just couldn’t let himself. He decided that he didn’t care what society thought was right, and that staying true to Jim was the best thing to do. “I ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... woman’s friendship, a gracious presence to soften the harsh loneliness of my life.”When he then admits, “My heart always timidly hides its self behind my mind”, the reader can instantly relate to this dilemma but it is the fact that Cyrano is able to overcome it, then thatmakes him the ideal “chevalier servant”.Not only is Cyrano filled with emotion, but he also goes out of his way to live life to the fullest. Cyrano’s introduction to the reader definitely leaves a lasting impression. Not only does he banish an actor from the theater for performing poorly, but ...
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