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Eating Gilbert Grape - Respons
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... Ellen and we get the impression the list would have continued 'wanting' for other people, had Becky not interrupted.
Gilbert's good nature is apparent from the very start when he and Arnie are waiting for the caravans to pass through Endora. We can hear Gilbert describe the scene as a 'yearly ritual' in a very tired voice. Yet, we know he is doing it for Arnie. It pleases Arnie so much to see the caravans along the road, and Gilbert feels satisfaction that his brother is happy. To make someone else happy creates a warm feeling inside. From Gilbert's facial expressions and body language, the ...
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Oedipus 4
Number of Words: 1155 / Number of Pages: 5
... of sightlessness is first mentioned in the discussion between a soothsayer and Oedipus to find out the justification for the punishing, "…murdering sea," that Thebes has been thrown upon. The city is being punished by the gods for an offense that has been committed by a criminal who does not know his crime. The question of justice arises and is dismissed just as fast because, "...justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality." The action of the gods may not have seemed fair, but, to coin a phrase, "life isn't fair." From his birth, Oedipus was prophesied to a fate worse than death, so his par ...
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Misunderstood
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... Instead, he wiped the spit off of his face and kept walking minding his own business. This showed Scout and Jem that there was no reason to worry themselves with other peoples opinion’s. When Mrs. Dubose called Atticus a nigger lover to Jem, Jem got angry and went home and asked Atticus if he really was a nigger lover. Atticus said straight out with no thought, “I certainly am. I do my best to love everyone…I’m hard to put, sometimes-baby, its never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is , it doesn’t ...
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Catcher In The Rye 7
Number of Words: 836 / Number of Pages: 4
... himself, like Allie was still right next to him, thinking he is having a conversation with Allie. This shows Holden has unresolved issues of Allie’s death, that he has not gotten over it yet. Holden never goes to Allie’s grave, to see his tombstone. Thinking that if he never goes to see him, Allie death would never have really taken place in Holden’s mind, kind of like hear no evil, see no evil.
Holden watches Phoebe ride on the carousel, turning and turning on it, and thinks "so damn happy all of a sudden". "This recreates the pattern of the catcher in the rye story" writes Mal ...
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Balthazar
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... carpenter. What he really wanted as making the cage was to make the little boy happier. Secondly, he felt mean and dirty about rich man¡¯s money. In this story, the cage was splendid and beautiful as much as news of its beauty had spreaded even before he finished the cage. So even though a doctor insisted on buying that cage, he didn¡¯t sell it because he made only for Pepe. But Pepe¡¯s father treated like a sly merchant but praised its beauty;(p 384, ll 45~50). So, thought that if he received money for the cage, it was to exchange his creative beautiful cage, in other word his pride, with dirty an ...
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Ethan Frome --- Contrast Betwe
Number of Words: 975 / Number of Pages: 4
... nearby, in the middle of winter. This, with the addition of appropriate music, creates a bleak atmosphere, and there is no doubt in the audience’s mind of an impending sense of gloom and tragedy. The darkness of the house amongst the pure white of the snow is a symbol of the darkness within the house. It shows that the people living in the house, the Fromes, are not happy people. They have their burdens and a darkness in their lives that is further intensified by the joy of the people around them. The audience is perhaps more aware than readers of the book of the dreariness of the isolated to ...
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The Plot Of Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 1092 / Number of Pages: 4
... consists of huge ash heaps and a yellow brick building which is an all-night restaurant and George Wilson's garage.
Nick finally gets the opportunity to meet his neighbor Mr. Gatsby. Gatsby gives huge parties, complete with catered food, open bars, and orchestras. People come from everywhere to attend these parties, but no one seems to know much about the host. Legends about Jay Gatsby abound. Some say he was a German spy during the war, others, that he once killed a man. Nick becomes fascinated by Gatsby. He begins watching his host and notices that Gatsby does not drink or join in the revelry of ...
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Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
Number of Words: 1033 / Number of Pages: 4
... hopefully unprejudiced child, proves to see him the way any adult would, with disgust and horror. After completing the act of killing the child, he resolves to "carry despair to [Victor Frankenstein], and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him" (p. 137). According to the monster, the function of appearance is to make society react to you. Whether the reaction is appropriate or not is beside the point; all that matters is the way you look.
Then we have language and communication. The first time he encounters spoken words, the monster reports that "this was indeed a godlike scene, and ...
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The Future Of The Race
Number of Words: 1584 / Number of Pages: 6
... quoted in the Appendix of , and begin: “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.” These exceptional men, and Du Bois did mean men, would "guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst.” The Talented Tenth would shoulder the task of uplifting the race without succumbing to money-grubbing selfishness; their formal education signified their intelligence and enlightened character. In 1903, the Talented Tenth was broadminded and big-hearted by definition.
The passage of forty-five years diminished Du Bois’s assurance. ...
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Hamlet The Challenge Of Reveng
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... a smart enough would also lead himself to downfull.
The second kind of person is the one that does not have self-confidence and opinion who always leads by someone's order. Laertes is a good example of the second person. He wants to have revenge for his father but all he does was listening or taking orders from the King Claudius. He never has his way or thoughts for the revenge, therefor, he becomes Claudius' dog. A hand to get rid of Hamlet. A person who does not have opinion may becomes other person's pieces in a board game. If the person is stand at one's side the revenge may success. In th ...
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