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Alice Munro's "Boys And Girls"
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... on and damp across the
stomach from the supper dishes.1
The narrator had problems coming to terms with the role in life
that she was expected to lead. She wanted to work outside with her father
doing the work that she deemed important. The mother tried to get the
narrator to work inside doing work deemed appropriate for a lady, however
it was not something she enjoyed. "I hated the hot dark kitchen in the
summer" (p. 530). The narrator was not considered of any consequential
help to her father, simply because she was female.
"Could of fooled me," said the salesman. "I thought i ...
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... , but they were tormented also. The tormenting eventually led to the killing of others who weren't in the group.
III. CHARACTERS
I believe there are two main characters in the book. One of them is Ralph, for his coolness and consideration, and another is Jack, for his leadership roll. Another reason I picked Jack and Ralph as main characters is because they have a conflict throughout the whole story.
1. Ralph
Ralph is a medium sized, fair haired, boy, seemingly of about 12 years of age, making him one of the older boys in the story or a "bigun". He was the first person focused on in the ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of Words: 1095 / Number of Pages: 4
... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
There were many groups that Clemens contrasted in Finn. The interaction of these different social groups is what makes up the main plot of the novel. For the objective of discussion they have been broken down into five main sets of antithetic parties: people with high levels of melanin and people with low levels of melanin, rednecks and scholarly, children and adults, men and women, and finally, the Sheperdson’s and the Grangerford’s.
Whites and African Americans are the main two groups contrasted in the novel. Throughout the novel Cleme ...
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Macbeth - The Importance Of Night
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... hypothesis were correct. First, in act I, we see the first usage, night as a period for rest and revitalization. In scene iii, lines 19-23, the First Witch says,
Sleep shall neither night nor day / Hang upon his penthouse lid; / He shall live a man forbid: / Weary sev'nights nine times nine / Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine: / Though his bark cannot be lost, / Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.
Here, she is punishing the sailor by depriving him of his sleep, which she realizes is important for anyone to function normally. Without the ability to recuperate after each hard day's work, one would grow v ...
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... through her poems. Besides the literal significance of the "school," Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring" much is gathered to complete the poem's central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of the life's'cycle. Ungraspable to many, the cycle of one's'life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shawn as follows: "School, where children strove" (9). Because it deals with an important symbol, the "Ring" this first scene is perhaps the most important . One author noted that "the children, at recess, ...
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Shilo
Number of Words: 736 / Number of Pages: 3
... is the kind of belt and buckle Drill Sergeant Mabel would wear during her inspection of Norma Jean’s house: "she inspects the closets and then the plants, informing Norma Jean when a plant is droopy or yellow. She also notices if Norma Jean’s laundry is piling up" (666). Everything must be in its proper place, having been ordered by Mabel’s strict discipline policy.
Mabel’s discipline is the result of her anger against Norma Jean for getting pregnant out of wedlock, and the death of the baby a few months after birth; taking Mabel’s only grandchild. It is doubtful Norma Jean will ...
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Issues Of Sexual Morality And
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... of rules and regulations that are established differs in each society. Those who follow the rules are rewarded with praise and approval; they become apart of the majority and, as a result, become part of the process of adding new rules and revising old ones. Those who don’t play by the rules, like Sula, are viewed as outcasts. In most societies, sex is an uncomfortable topic of conversation. It is difficult to distinguish what characterizes a healthy sexual relationship and one that is unhealthy. One person can think that sex is and should be considered a horrible thing that should never be prac ...
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Analyis Of Shakespears Juliet
Number of Words: 676 / Number of Pages: 3
... face.
Later in the play, Romeo says, "Now I have stained the childhood of our joy." He recognized the purity of their love. Perhaps this is why Juliet devotes herself so entirely to him without any doubts. She has childlike faith in him. In that way, her love for him was blind. Ever the optimist, she still believes Friar Lawrence's plan will work despite all the possible catastrophes that could occur. For her, love will always triumph over hate. There's no reason for her to believe otherwise. Her youthful nature is shown again through her impatience. Waiting for the nurse to come back, Juliet is anxio ...
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Criminology, John Widemans Bro
Number of Words: 1533 / Number of Pages: 6
... different means of achieving this dream. John determined early on that “ to get ahead, to make something of myself, college had seemed a logical, necessary step; my exile, my flight from home began with good grades, with good English” (27). In order for John to climb the social status, he realized that his only ticket out of poverty and his community is through a good education. Status must be earned through hard work and determination. Robert is just the opposite of John. Early on, Robert acknowledged that school and sports could not satisfy the glamour that Robert so muc ...
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Madness In Macbeth And Hamlet
Number of Words: 915 / Number of Pages: 4
... make them act so foolishly. In Hamlet, this foolish person would be the daughter of Polonius, Ophilia. She puts on quite a display for
the reader when she comes into the castle and appears very upset and as
many would say, "mad". She enters into the room and begins to sing and respond to everyone with a different verse. Then she sings, "You must sing "A-down a-down, and you call him a-down-a." O' how the wheel becomes it!" (H4.5.170-171) This display of childish singing shows that Ophilia is distressed because of her fathers death and she can not handle the shock. She leaves the scene and the p ...
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