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The Power And The Glory
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... says to a soldier, �You mustn�t think they are like me�It�s just that I�m a bad priest.�(p.191).
In addition to recognizing their betrayal of God, they believe that a sacred life is the ultimate victory. The speaker confesses, �Yet dearly I love you and would be loved fain.�(ln.9) The priest also desires to love God above all, �He knew now at the end there was only one thing that counted � to be a saint.�(p.210)
However, each character pursues the Divine in a different way. Even though the whiskey priest perceives himself as a sinner, his way of life resembles the good of the Holy Spirit. The ...
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The Alchemist
Number of Words: 577 / Number of Pages: 3
... Before the boy could reply, a butterfly appeared between him and the old man. He remembered something his grandfather had once told him: that butterflies were a good omen. Like crickets, and like expectations; like lizards and four-leaf clovers."
Even when Santiago had almost given up his journey, after working in the crystal shop for eleven months and nine days, he finally earned enough money to go to Mecca and buy his sheep. But for some reason, he remembered what the old man had told him about seeking his Personal Legend. Because of this, Santiago decided he would go and try again to find his tr ...
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The Grapes Of Wrath 3
Number of Words: 467 / Number of Pages: 2
... In chapter three, Steinbeck emaculatly describes the long tedious
journey of a land turtle across a desolate highway. From the onset of
his journey, the turtle encounters many set backs. All along the way
he is hindered by ants, hills, and oak seeds under his shell. The
turtles determination to reach his destination is most apparent when a
truck driven by a young man swerves to hit the turtle. The turtle's
shell was clipped and he went flying off the highway, but stop the
turtle did not. He struggled back to his belly and kept driving toward
his goal, just as the Joads ...
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Archetypes
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... demanding. Gifts from the gods are very helpful and useful to anyone who receives them. Changing or interpreting things that change can alter many plots or events.
The Loss of Innocence Archetype happens on two levels, Individual and Social and it can be physical, emotional, spiritual, and an onset of experience.
For example, while Perseus is living a wonderful and trouble free life on the island of Serephus Hera seizes and inflicts terror, fear and death into Perseus�s life. Hera believes Perseus shouldn�t receive special treatment and should have to experience the hardships of life like other ...
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A Raisin In The Sun Crtical Analysis
Number of Words: 914 / Number of Pages: 4
... Walter doesn't want his son to see him struggle. Children are very impressionable. Walter displays an unselfish characteristic that is overshadowed by unwise decisions later in the play. In one particular scene, his son Travis asked both parents for money. Walter acts out of pride and little motivation by giving Travis his last pocket change. This symbolizes Walter's willingness to be a good father. In a different situation, Walter wouldn't display his selfish intentions. This behavior can be attributed to working in a degrading, underpaid position and not seeing results. The overcrowded liv ...
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No Sugar
Number of Words: 1848 / Number of Pages: 7
... only the white person's expectations of the aboriginal culture. The play also strives to let the white audience learn of the extreme injustices encountered by the Aborigine's during the white colonization. In doing this it also attempts to let the white audience to experience the inability
faced by the Aborigines in terms of power and freedom by the use of the Nyoongah language
and manipulation of other theatrical and narrative elements.
The opening scene attempts to establish setting by making clear reference to the poverty the Millumara family lives in (a run down camp e.g.. of poverty, a soak wher ...
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Things Fall Apart 7
Number of Words: 967 / Number of Pages: 4
... most drastic ones are: hisson’s conversion to Christianity, the change in daily life the new religion brings, and his frustration caused by his apathetic clansmen. Nwoye’s conversion to Christianity was a sharp blow to Okonkwo because the Christians are looked down upon as being insane. The missionary tells them that all of the Ibo’s gods are false images of wood and stone, and can do them no harm. Upon hearing
this, the men of Mbanta decide that “these men must be mad [for] how else could they saythat Ani and Amadiora were harmless? And Idemili and Ogwugwo too?”(146 ...
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Building A Space Station
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... the space station should be considered a contest of which country can do it faster and better. It should only be built to be helpful to sciences, not to be a contest between countries.
The building of the space station can be helpful in some ways of science and technology. Some examples of this would be artificial intelligence, robotics. process, automation, low cost global and orbital transport, optical communication, ultra-light strength and high temperature materials, supercomputers and pollution free vehicles. Even though these things would be good to find out more about, there are thing ...
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Barn Burning: An Endless Circle
Number of Words: 618 / Number of Pages: 3
... like
these were granted placed them in public offices, and gave them opportunities to
prosper where others could only dream about. This same honor seemed to carry on
to those who shared the names of the great war heroes. ��Hey', the Justice said.
�Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybody named for Colonel Sartoris in
this county can't help but tell the truth, can they?'� (Kennedy 163).
On the other hand, the Snopses are viewed as dishonorable. During the
war, Ab Snopse was considered a mercenary for serving both sides of the way. �
...nights passed during those four years in the woods hidi ...
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The Stone Boy
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... Eugie more than anyone and when the shotgun went off, Arnold was so devastated that he denied the fact that he had even shot his brother. He thought that if continued to pick peas, Eugie would get up, and tease him for being such a fool. However, this was not the case. Later on, when Arnold told his family that he killed Eugie, they looked at him as a cold-blooded killer. They did not realize that Arnold was more devastated than anyone was, and they overlooked the fact that he was only nine. He would have to live with the fact that he had shot his brother, his hero, for the rest of his life.
Also, ...
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