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Intertextualilty - The Mocking
Number of Words: 1615 / Number of Pages: 6
... and the eventual evolution of their rural surroundings. In the novel "To kill a mockingbird" Harper Lee has adopted a style most novels are written in. The story opens with Scout reflecting on events of the past, referring to developments in the story which are yet to occur. "To kill a mocking bird" Is divided into two sections, The first is almost entirely devoted to the development of characters. Scout describes in vivid detail every thought, look or sign of attitude that another character may be associated with. These vivid descriptions set Harper Lee’s novel apart from the short story. Whilst "A ...
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Loneliness In Of Mice And Men
Number of Words: 604 / Number of Pages: 3
... with one another. Curley’s wife is also lonely, but still has Curley. The men sit in the bunk house, talk and have fun on occasion. Meanwhile Crooks is in his shed all alone. Crooks tries to explain to Lennie in
the shed why he is lonely. “ A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you...I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick” (80). This is showing Lennie exactly how Crooks is feeling. Also, it explains what Crooks has to deal with. He is trying to scare Lennie. Crooks is fo ...
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The Great Gatsby A Goal Of Cor
Number of Words: 1004 / Number of Pages: 4
... This is probably because he has no friends that are minorities and most if not all of his business associates are white. Tom has arrogance about him, an air of superiority, that he feels gives him control over those around him. Tom also takes great pride in the fact that Daisy is his wife, not only because she is beautiful, but also because she "is the most expensive item on the market" (Fetterly 104). She ads value to his already substantial estate. When Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy is leaving him he is so self-confident that he refuses to believe or accept that his wife would leave him "for a ...
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The Charlie Barber Treatment -
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... of being out played.” Here Simon knows that she has no intention of letting him go.
I think Charlie is a very independent girl. “Who cares what other people think?” She also shows she is independent by being in the village without her dad.
We know that Charlie is quite caring from when she won’t give Simon any sugar for his tea. She playfully argues with him. “It’s bad for you.”
Charlie is a very clever girl. She has eleven O-levels and is going to university. Simon is clever as well so they are quite well matched.
Charlie and Simon first know for sure ...
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The Role Of Women In Sir Gaiwa
Number of Words: 5377 / Number of Pages: 20
... Green Knight_ as a romantic celebration of chivalry, but Ruth Hamilton believes that "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains a more wide-ranging, more serious criticism of chivalry than has heretofore been noticed" (113). Specifically, she feels that the poet is showing Gawain's reliance on chivalry's outside form and substance at the expense of the original values of the Christian religion from which it sprang. As she shows, "the first order of knights were monastic ones, who took vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity. The first duties the knights undertook, the crusades, were for the Church" (11 ...
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The Crucible: Personal Turmoil
Number of Words: 909 / Number of Pages: 4
... gets caught up in all the attention and power of initiating and adamantly continuing these "Witch Trials". Finally, John Proctor, the rationalist farmer, shows Mary that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor, who are the saintliest of people, are accused of being witches, something must be wrong. Thus, Mary Warren is faced with a difficult decision to make. She has realized that her whole way of life has been based on injustice. However, Mary does not know how to extricate herself from Abigail and her friends, not to mention her new feelings of confidence. Finally, Mary decides to s ...
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Rebecca
Number of Words: 1699 / Number of Pages: 7
... to change from a Gothic Romance novel into a successful mystery.
"The basic structure of is that of the modern Gothic Romance" (Masterplots 3). The characters and the setting are similar to other books of the time. The narrator who goes un-named, is the "typical heroine of a Gothic Romance" (Masterplots 3). Her character is not very developed but the reader is able to relate to and sympathize with her. also has the perfect setting for a Gothic Romance. Manderley is the isolated, beautiful, and mysterious place that is what really makes the story so engrossing. If the story took place a ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 6
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... seen it was an honest mistake on her part. We could not expect her to learn all of Maycomb’s ways in one day, and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better.’”(30). A lot of the time, people don’t stop to understand a person, but are quick to make judgements. All people need to do is to try to understand why the person said what they did, try to see where he or she is coming from. Only then can mankind know what to do in any predicament.
Even an adult can learn something new every now and then if they think as someone else. Scout’s uncle, Jack Finch ...
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Ryans Red Badge Of Courage
Number of Words: 1476 / Number of Pages: 6
... setting proves an ironic place for killing, just as these fresh men seem the wrong ones to be fighting in the Civil War. Crane remarks on this later in the narrative: \"He was aware that these battalions with their commotions were woven red and startling into the gentle fabric of the softened greens and browns. It looked to be a wrong place for a battlefield\". Green is an image of the natural world and of the regiment\'s fresh youth, while red, in the previous quote, is clearly an image of battle. At the start, however, Crane uses red to describe distant campfires: \" . . . one could s ...
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Roland
Number of Words: 2753 / Number of Pages: 11
... Also, throughout the body of the work the warriors, no matter which side they are on, have significant names for their weapons and war-horses. This holds to the ancient custom that honored weapons with special names as having magical powers that could help its bearer. The battles and heroism of the main characters, as well as the names and details given about their war-horses and weapons, were important to a society that was constantly in a state-of-battle readiness, such as 's was.
Beyond the battle scenes, is true to the era in its portrayal of vassalage between a lord and his liegeman. In her ...
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