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To Kill A Mockingbird -
Number of Words: 3149 / Number of Pages: 12
... Robinson of attacking her
Reverend Sykes:
A Negro minister who takes care of Scout and Jem during the trial.
Chapters 1-7
The beginning of chapter one opens up with Scout telling us that Jem has a broken elbow. She then takes us back to summer of 1933 where we meet a young boy named Dill. Together Jem, Scout and Dill begin their adventures and their obsession with Mr. Aurthor Radley, or Boo as the kids call him.
We find out that there are rumors about the Radley House. These include the most memorable rumor which is that he stabbed his mother in the leg with a pair of scissors. We never do ...
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Van Gennep's "Rites Of Passage", Durkheim And Turner's Theory Of Communitas
Number of Words: 2117 / Number of Pages: 8
... and incorporation. In the Mescalero puberty ceremony, separation is
achieved when the girls move in to their camp homes. During this stage, the
Godmothers and Singers take the role of the parents. This may be described as
a "cessation of interaction between the individual and the group in which he or
she has been interacting" (Chapple and Coons, p. 485). However, there is not a
complete separation from the girls and the community. There are instances (such
as the time when the participants sleep while the community holds contests)
when the two are physically separated, but they are near th ...
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Tortilla Flat
Number of Words: 2147 / Number of Pages: 8
... senses--the novelist's use of concrete objects and events is most important in letting the reader know what is meant and how the writer wants the reader to feel about what is going on. Tone is the result of style [style recommends certain attitudes or conclusions following technical means of diction, syntax and imagery. Serious style employed to recount ridiculous events often helps establish a comic or satiric tone. Sometimes tone is achieved through contradiction. [Some types of tone are: forward, solemn, formal, informal, intimate, pompous, scholarly, angry, contemptuous, humorous, satirical, me ...
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Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 855 / Number of Pages: 4
... social class. The guest’s big and sophisticated names were representative of their high social ranking, yet they also acted as shields to hide their insensitivity and shallowness. They managed to show up at every one of Gatsby’s lavish parties and take full advantage of everything he had to offer them. Their disrespectful and drunken behavior often led to the damaging of property, for which they cared nothing about. Their presence was for their own benefit to a high class, but it was of little importance to Gatsby at the time. When, however, Gatsby was truly in need of their c ...
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Flight I Am A Man
Number of Words: 575 / Number of Pages: 3
... which his dead father had given him and of which he was so proud, has killed a man in an accident. A man said names to Pepe that he could not allow, and before Pepe knew it, the knife "went almost by itself." Pepe is changed from boy to man with one slip of the wrist. Now Pepe must flee for his life.
The author allows a major amount of space in the story for setting.
As Pepe leaves his family, he follows harsh, rocky, and unforgiving land. A parallel to the unforgiving society he lives in. This society is now plaguing his footsteps in pursuit of his life.
Pepe rides until he is bone weary. The tr ...
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E.e. Cummings, Poem, Anyone Li
Number of Words: 941 / Number of Pages: 4
... adults, since I do not see them relating to any other parts of the poem. The bells seem to be an important part of the town since they are mentioned in the second line of the poem and those exact lines are repeated in line twenty-four, sixth stanza of the poem. The bells are related to the children and their death, because they only ring when the children are mentioned. The portion of line two which states "many bells down", is possibly referring to the death of the children and somewhat the death of anyone and noone. The reference to death in lines twenty-nine and thirty by stating "deep by de ...
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Spring Time
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... long winter has held children in the caves as young dder had their ffet tied. now is a time for the twilight stars to be out on their feet withjoy and laughter. friends that gather around for climbing trees, playing seek and hide, or even building tree houses. also the girls could have the flower-basket held in their hands while wondering around int he greenhouse picking the glamorous flowers while the boys could diving hteir kites int he blue sky.
in the yellow-shiny sunset, the salty wind has brought calmness and peacefulness in a way that everyone admires to spend their times to feel the warmness ...
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Langston Hughes
Number of Words: 1450 / Number of Pages: 6
... Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an
unhappy year. Even as he worked as a delivery man, a messmate on ships to Africa and Europe,
a busboy, and a dishwasher, his poetry appeared regularly in such magazines as The Crisis
(NAACP) and Opportunity (National Urban League).1 As a poet, Hughes was the first person to
combine the traditional poetry with black artistic forms, especially blues and jazz.
As a leader in the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and thirties Hughes became the
movements best known poet. He published two poetry collections, The Weary Blues (1926) ...
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Shawshank Redemption And Film
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... of this is to immediately evoke within the viewer, the idea that Shawshank exists to contain individuals from the outside world, to torment them with the beauty of nature, yet, force them to exist in a world of ugliness and hatred. Every scene within the prison is framed by bars and dark sombre grays or blues as backdrop, the effect of which is to indicate the oppressive nature of life in "inside" and the dominance of the prison in the lives of every individual.
The repression of Shawshank, as well as the enforced routine, is depicted by the film makers through lighting, camera angles and music. Th ...
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 1037 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the youth
throughout their lives, the boys have backpedaled and shown the
underlying savage side existent in all humans. "Golding senses that
institutions and order imposed from without are temporary, but man's
irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley 1: 119).
The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil
nature inherent in man. If a group of well-conditioned school boys
can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can
imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under
the pressures of t ...
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