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Piano
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... singing with a smile on her face.
The speaker sees this scenery in his mind. As a reader, I can even imagine him standing in a dark room looking at a woman singing and imagining his old days with his mother. Using the picturesque words such as “softly,” “dusk,” “tingling,” and “poised” describe the scene very clearly. As he sees the woman singing while she plays the , he begins to picture himself under the when he was little, and he pictures his mother singing while he was under that . This scenery is very pleasant and happy. A child is under his mother, he is touching her feet. This shows how ...
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Huckleberry Finn 8
Number of Words: 326 / Number of Pages: 2
... how Twain helped to change it, and why his books continue to raise difficult questions today. When Huckleberry Finn was banned in 1885, officials at the Concord Public Library thought it
was "rough, coarse and inelegant,... the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Written in the voice of its young narrator -- who rejects becoming "sivilized" on its first page -- and full of various dialects throughout, the book offended the literary sensibilities of the time. Twain redoubled the insult to the literary
establishment by insisting that his books be sold doo ...
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Essay On Book, An Angel At My
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... Feeling isolated and at the same time learning the language, the attitudes and customs of behavior she also started to feel euphoria of belonging (page 18). So, she had to cope with those contradictions all by herself, which easily may put anyone in all kinds of trouble. Besides she did not dare to admit it (page 23).
The conditions of that time were such that she could not afford to live independently and support herself. Therefore she had to stay with her relatives and accept all consequences and pressures it brought. She in fact hated staying at home and her dissatisfaction with family w ...
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The True Evil - Frankenstein
Number of Words: 1052 / Number of Pages: 4
... symmetry?" (Lines 1-4) Blake calls the "Tyger" twice in the beginning stanza to gain the creature's attention. The poem then offers a brief view of the creature and its setting. This view tells of the evil of this creature. "Burning bright" creates a picture of a fire and a symbol of hell. "The night" adds to the portrayal of evil. Blake then asks the "Tyger," What "immortal hand" (God) could create this "fearful symmetry?"(lines 3 and 4). This "symmetry" relates the "Tyger" to the "Lamb" and through the metaphor, Satan to Jesus. Given this interpretation, the question asks how God could crea ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... and they were taunted throughout the movie about it.
On the other hand, the animals had personalities of their own and were holding meetings in the barn. They would discuss such things as how bad they were being treated by Mr. Jones. He was an alcoholic and drank all the time. He treated the animals poorly and put his drinking and fun before taking care of them. Sometimes they wouldn’t get fed for days. Meanwhile, Mr. Jones heard a lot of
noise going on outside while the animals were having one of their meetings, so he took a shotgun out to the barn and shot into the barn killing the “Old Ma ...
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Aleins Among Us
Number of Words: 2141 / Number of Pages: 8
... a moment and went out. Then another came, and another, and after a dozen or so he sat up and beamed, awed by the glowing sky. It seemed that just above him there was a whole meteor shower, purely for his delight. They fell straight down and glowed longer then Jim had ever seen before. Soon the whole clearing was shining a bright white, like on Forth of July. The dozens became hundreds until finally a large radiant circle seemed to be coming straight down above Jim. He let out a sharp little scream of excitement and sprang from the rock, twirling around and around singing to himself as he always did whe ...
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Writers Block
Number of Words: 875 / Number of Pages: 4
... writes “What I have most wonted to do throughout the last ten years is to make political writing in to an art. One can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality.” Society dictates what is and is not readable, what is and is not acceptable, what is expected and what are success and or failure. We are all shaped and trapped by the popular opinions of our time. We are not free to indulge in art, literature, or even our daily lives with out the watchful eye of society’s scrutiny. It is necessary to test these opinions in order fo ...
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Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... him to the king. The king falls in love with the baby and takes him in as one of his own.
Oedipus left Corinth to avoid his foretold fate, he went to Thebes. On his journey he ran into a caravan at the crossroads before entering Thebes. This caravan was of the present King of Thebes, Laius, but Oedipus did not know that. The people on the caravan started insulting Oedipus. Oedipus lost his temper and in a rage he killed them all, except for one servant who escaped "... I found myself upon the self-same spot where, you say, the king perished ... When in my travels I wa come near this place where three ...
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Munro’s Trademarks
Number of Words: 1342 / Number of Pages: 5
... to my surprise she on the other hand hated math class. Her dislike of math class was solely based on the fact that she didn't like our math teacher. She thought that our math teacher was a horrible teacher who couldn't teach and her attitude problems. It was quit astonishing how I could only concentrate on Ms. Smith's positive attributes while my best friend was only able to the negative things of our teacher. Now that I think back I realize that our grade eighth teacher had both the positive and negative attributes. The only reason why my best friend and I had two very different opinions about her ...
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Heroes And The Defiance Of Fate
Number of Words: 766 / Number of Pages: 3
... a
reflection of Achilles glory and in an emotional sense a part of him. So in
every way, Patrolelos death is a direct blow to Achilles, and Achilles has
no choice, being the great warrior, but to seek revenge. His decision
guides fate, but at the same time, fate guides his decision. [ From one
point of view, we see that Achilles chooses not to fight of his own free
will and we see that Patrolelos chooses to masquearade in Achilles armor by
his own free will. From another point of view, we see that fate guided
these two friends to make these fatally flawed and fateful decisions.] We
must also under ...
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