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Our Town
Number of Words: 712 / Number of Pages: 3
... into the future we are forced, not only to look ahead to what we might become, but also to turn and look back at what allowed us to arrive at this threshold of the new millennium. The characters in tell us what they knew of life; its pain and hope, its simplicity and truth. What they say is what they believe and are. I feel that Thornton Wilder believed that life was meaningful only when lived with full awareness of the value of the present moment.
Thornton Wilder said that was not supposed to be a speculation about the conditions of life after death. I believe that he meant it to find a valu ...
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Lord Of The Flies - Civilized Vs. Savage
Number of Words: 625 / Number of Pages: 3
... is the ability to take all force associated with savagery and to use it to create and maintain a certain order.
At the beginning of this novel, the boys make an attempt at order and civilized behaviour but they fail to the uncooperative nature of the 'little-uns'. The boys elect a leader and make different groups, each with a purpose of accomplishing something constructive: The Hunters, Water-fetchers and Fire-tenders. The boys find a conch and view it as a symbol of order. This shell grants any one person power, as long as they have it in their possession.
The boys in the novel begin ...
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The Bell Jar And Catcher In Th
Number of Words: 630 / Number of Pages: 3
... reason, he would tell himself that the person was a fake. As the time lengthened, both of these young adults fell into a deeper hole of depression. Neither in which realized their mental collapses. As their conditions get worse, the thought of suicide enters both their minds.
After each character had reached their ultimate low, thoughts of suicide crossed their minds. Holden stated, “I woke up singing this morning. I mean, I was happy and all. But last night, what I really felt like was jumping out the window. All I could see were these phonies - I never left the house though. They were ...
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1916 By Morgan Llywelyn
Number of Words: 910 / Number of Pages: 4
... sights of America. He is shell-shocked by the greatest experience of his life so
far. Ned finally builds up the inner courage to go back to Ireland. He is in
horrible shape. The Titanic tragedy had really affected the way he chose to
look at life. When Ned returns to Ireland, he takes it upon himself to tell Dan
Duffy's family that they lost a son and brother aboard the Titanic. While in
Dans' home county of Clare, Ned meets Dan's sister, Sile, Irish for Cecilia.
Ned is taken ...
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Candide
Number of Words: 1456 / Number of Pages: 6
... all goes wrong " (Voltaire, p.86). According to Rene Pomeau, "Voltaire-...have made him [] acquainted with the bad and the good side of human existence. The moral of is born out of its style; it is the art of extracting happiness from the desolate hopping-about of the human insect" (Adams; Pomeau p.137). Pomeau explains that shows both sides of humanity; how both great and terrible events are standard in a human life. Also according to Pomeau, the whole point of the story is to debate between good and bad; for example, as becomes more independent, he starts to doubt that only good comes out of li ...
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Freya Goddess Of Love
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... was taking place, would give the giant the sun, the moon and the goddess Freya. Loki gave him from the first day of winter to the first day of summer to finish the wall or else he will not get his reward. The stranger asked if he could use his stallion to rebuild the wall and Loki agreed, not knowing that it was the stallion that helped speed up the work. Time passed, until there was three days left until summer and the stranger was almost done. The gods were frightened, that the strange man was going to finished in time, so Loki came up with an idea. That night a beautiful mare appeared and whinnied ...
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Two Kinds By Amy Tan
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... an ideal identity for her. Jing-Mei’s mother begins to test her with questions and she cooperates. But as time goes on and the tests her mother gives her gets harder, Jing-Mei begins to be resentful and unwilling to cooperate. She thinks to herself, “I won’t be what I’m not.” (492) This shows a child resisting it’s parents control.
Even as Jing-Mei loses interest in becoming a prodigy, her mother continues to push her on. She decides to arrange piano lessons for Jing-Mei without consulting her first. In doing these things, Jing-Mei’s mother wants to co ...
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Julius Ceaser The Importance O
Number of Words: 737 / Number of Pages: 3
... is often misconstrued as being naive; however, I will treat each as a separate characteristic. Brutus's naive spirit is mostly shown not in one
single action, but in the overall willingness he has to believe that those around him are essentially good. “Only be patient till we have appeased the multitude, beside themselves with fear, and then we will deliver you the cause why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him, have thus proceeded.” (Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 179-183); And also
when he said: “So fare you well at once; for Brutus’ tongue hath almost ended his life’s history: night hangs upon mine ...
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East Of Eden By John Steinbeck
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... became a man, not a hog. As far as the story tells, he never showed any sort of emotion before the shooting or after up until that point. A hog can't show emotions, but a man can. There is the epiphany of the story, where Mr. Wiggins realizes that the purpose of life is to help make the world a better place, and at that time he no longer minds visiting Jefferson and begins becoming his friend.
Mr. Wiggins' relationship with his Aunt declined in this story, although it was never verystrong. His Aunt treated him like he should be a hog and always obey, yet she wanted him to make a hog into a man. His A ...
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Big Two-Hearted River
Number of Words: 1176 / Number of Pages: 5
... It occurs in ": Part II", an intensely personal story which completely immerses the reader in the actions and thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundings, which would have been much more difficult to accomplish using first person narration. Nick is seen setting up his camp in ": Part I" in intimate detail, from choosing the perfect place to set his tent to boiling a pot of coffee before going to sleep. The story is completely written the in third person and is full of images, sounds, and ...
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