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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Number of Words: 1551 / Number of Pages: 6
... to kill himself in the previous week. The older waiter asks why, and the younger tells him that he had no reason
to kill himself because he had \"plenty of money.\" The older waiter lets the conversation drop after he hears this, because this statement shows the younger
waiter\'s perspective.
The older waiter seems to have empathy for the older patron, where the younger waiter has ill feelings to the customer. The older waiter seems to be more aware of a larger sense of existence where everyone plays their role, and the younger waiter seems to believe that he has to simply look out for \ ...
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Blood Revenge In Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 711 / Number of Pages: 3
... of blood-revenge centered around native gods. The people of the time believed that the gods played an important role in blood-revenge, especially if one of their laws were defied. In the Odyssey, Zeus and Athena intervene on Odysseus’ behalf when Odysseus wishes to destroy the suitors that had plagued his palace for a number of years. Zeus intervenes after his sacred policy, his policy of hospitality, was violated and for that the suitors were punished. In Julius Caesar, there is no evidence of any specific gods interfering, such as dialogue or actions, but there are many supernatural occurre ...
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Snow Crash
Number of Words: 1551 / Number of Pages: 6
... In this society no laws exist.
Hiro, the Protagonist, is the narrator of the novel. As Hiro tells the story, there is no form of government anymore. The government has long been over, and has been replaced by individual corporations with their own sets of rules. There were many corporations, Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong being one of them, where one could be a citizen and apply for a passport. Mr. Lee owned franchises in Hong Kong and people needed a passport in order to get into Greater Hong Kong (p.99). Information was vital to these corporations. Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong asked peo ...
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Beowulf 10
Number of Words: 865 / Number of Pages: 4
... sign of alliteration occurs on the first line of the piece extracted from the story. "Then the dangerous dragon…" It goes on to emphasize the burdening problem the dragon, "…scourge of the Geats…" is towards the innocent Geats. When in reality, the Geats were doing as much killing as the dragon, and their killing was probably less justifiable than the dragons, considering the dragon was fighting for his own survival. In this case though the dragon was killing in a rage, over his missing treasure. Nevertheless, the Geats see the dragon as pure evil. "(He) was intent a third time ...
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Fifth Business Character Foils
Number of Words: 678 / Number of Pages: 3
... I lived - well, not low, but in the way congenial to myself. I thought twenty-four dollars was plenty for a ready-made suit, and four dollars a criminal price for a pair of shoes. I changed my shirt twice a week and my underwear once. I had not yet developed any expensive tastes and saw nothing wrong with a good boarding-house. (Page 113)
This shows us that where as Percy was in pursuit of money and possessions, Dunstan was concerned elsewhere. Dunstan bluntly states that Percy was materialistic:
To him the reality was of life lay in external things, whereas for me the only reality was of the ...
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Islands As A Narration Of A Yo
Number of Words: 1491 / Number of Pages: 6
... here, as these
are ‘adult’ songs and it is only, generally, children who sing on car journeys until their
voices are gone.
Even before boarding the boat, the boy begins to notice how ugly age and
adulthood can be. He notices the “gnarled knees , the spreading sweat stains on their
shirts and sagging wrinkles of fat on their thighs.” (129) At one point, he sees “one of
the Germans, an old, bony man” get down on his knees and then vomit over the pier
edge. The boy sees this, but still relates it back to something he understands. “The vomit
Catherine Henderson
hit the surface a ...
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In Our Time By Ernest Hemingwa
Number of Words: 375 / Number of Pages: 2
... course I could not help but think of how much Hemingway's content was influenced by his life. Many of the stories like "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" were based directly on personal experiences of Hemingway's life. Since it is not the focus of your course, I am trying to just accepted the content and concentrate more on writing style and the way Hemingway writes something. I have found it difficult to pay close attention to both the story and the writing at the same time and have had to reread several times. "The Three-Day Blow" offered an interesting irony to the title "In Our Time", but maybe ...
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The Metamorphosis
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... that was pretty much all he thought about even when he first turned into a bug. “The next train went at seven o’clock; to catch that he would need to hurry like mad and his samples weren’t even packed up, and he himself wasn’t feeling particularly fresh and active”(786). He had made up his mind that he would have to catch the train - completely ignoring the fact that he was no longer a human. One other thing he maintained was his relationship with his sister which still stayed the strongest of his family. However, the main difference he encountered was the way his ...
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The Night
Number of Words: 596 / Number of Pages: 3
... book had on me until I noticed how much life has changed for Wiesel and the rest of the Jews and how unexpected this change was. The book shows the progression of an innocent twelve year old boy whose life was devoted to studying the Torah and was changed to a life of terror. The book also shows how the German forces were so harsh at breaking the spirits of the Jews.
Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at the beginning of the novel, but grows weaker as time goes on. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, thousands of men came to attend services. Thousands of voices re ...
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Siddhartha 3
Number of Words: 1271 / Number of Pages: 5
... Buddha had a lot of names like Gotama, the Illustrious one, the Sakyamuni, and he was rumored that he was perfect. Siddhartha agrees with Govinda so they started on a journey to hear the Buddha's teaching.
After they heard the Buddha's teachings, Govinda becomes his follower, but Siddhartha doesn't. Siddhartha and Govinda said goodbye to each other. Siddhartha learned that even from the perfect one, the teachings wouldn't teach him, so he decides to be taught by nobody. He realizes that he was trying to lose the Self because he was afraid of it. From here, he starts to learn from himself.
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