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The Bell Jar
Number of Words: 1171 / Number of Pages: 5
... had already taken a course in botany and done very well. I never answered one test question wrong all year.`
Because of her perfectionist attitude, Esther was surprised to hear herself say that she didn't know what her career plans were:
`Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue.
"I don't really know", I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.`
She claims that she has `always wanted to learn German` although `the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam`. Esth ...
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The African Queen Summary Char
Number of Words: 2353 / Number of Pages: 9
... upon the world would soon pass away, so that slaughter and destruction would cease and that when they had regained their sanity men would turn from war to universal peace. Because of this war they were cut off from all communications and the rest of the world. Samuel thinks the Germans responsible for the outbreak of the war and all the sufferings. Rose is helpless as her brother suffers a nervous breakdown. He realises that his life's work has been destroyed and instantly loses his mind. He dies very soon after that, while Rose weeps at his bedside. One day later the sharp sound of a steamboat ...
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Absolute Power Corrupts Absolu
Number of Words: 535 / Number of Pages: 2
... all of the animals because he is their leader. All of the animals believe that their leader wants to fulfill all of their needs. They also are convinced that Napoleon’s decisions are made the best interest of the animals. Napoleon’s piglike qualities are shown throughout the story. He exhibited greediness when he sold the dying horse, Boxer to a slaughterhouse for money so that he and the other pigs could purchase whiskey. Orwell ridicules human nature through Napoleon in the sense that he is trying to show how the greedy and power hungry eventually end in corruption.
Squealer is shor ...
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Expression Through Literary De
Number of Words: 1159 / Number of Pages: 5
... of reason because referring to the statement Rainsford makes in the early stages of the story, he asserts that animals do not feel or think. Now that Rainsford conceives the idea that Zaroff hunts humans, it provides Rainsford with a frustrating mental reaction of fear and anger because Zaroff openly declares that he poaches humans for amusement and yet Rainsford feels the anxiety of dying in his sick game. Equally important, while Zaroff hunts strategically, “[his] brain against [Rainsford]” (71), “it sent a shudder of cold horror” in the flowing veins of Rainsford because ...
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Fahrenheit 451
Number of Words: 674 / Number of Pages: 3
... Clarisse mysteriously disappeared and is later reported dead. But, Montag did not give up. He soon remembers an old retired English professor, Faber, he met one year earlier. Faber jumps at the chance to help Montag and together they venture into the unwelcoming world to try to show others the importance of knowing their past. In light of these facts, one theme of this story, it is not necessarily the eldest, who is the wisest, can be found in the relationship between Clarisse and Montag. The relationship that they have is somewhat difficult to figure out completely; they are so far apart in age, ...
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The Scarlet Letter 2
Number of Words: 1595 / Number of Pages: 6
... remains strong. Many women of the town believe that Hester’s penalty is not harsh enough and therefore, she is marked with the letter A upon her chest. She is returned to her prison cell and a doctor is summoned to help calm her. The doctor turns out to be her lost husband, Chillingworth, and he makes Hester promise to never reveal that he is her husband. She does so in return for the secrecy of the name of the man who is the father of her daughter, Pearl.
Eventually, Hester settles down with Pearl in a small cottage and leads a basically normal life as a seamstress. Pearl turns out to b ...
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Sweet Diamond Dust
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... the same fate" as the other local sugar mills. It was rumored that the Americans had declared a cessation of hostilities in the sugar mills war, and were now willing to aid the criollo hacienda workers. This was his opportunity to mingle and discuss his plans with the owners of Snow White Mills.
When Don Julio arrived at the fair grounds, he made his way over to Mr. Durham and Mr. Irving, the president of the mills and the president of the sponsoring bank National City Bank, respectively. These two Americans saw the US victory as a major step towards modernizing for the US and for Puerto Rico: ...
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The Way An Individual Interprets Things Is Based Upon Their Opinions
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... can not even begin to describe what we see or feel. “When in
love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no
embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can
temporarily accommodate.”(p.68)
Berger states that no image (painting, photograph, or any other
art) should ever be reproduced. However, no situation can be composed
without recreating it through a symbol of some kind. In a painting, a
persons feelings and emotions are being duplicated onto a canvas. In a
camera, an image of something as it was in time and space is being
comprised. An ...
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The Client
Number of Words: 1222 / Number of Pages: 5
... at first, knowing that a woman was not capable of fullfilling his needs, like a man could. Then something happened where Reggie grew on him, he got more used too her, and he found himself telling her personal things, spending tons of time with her, and starting to care for her. She was like the mother figure he never had. Mark and Reggie were in the tangle of mess together. Mark realized through the whole ordeal he could not do everything by himself, he also realized how vulnerable he was by being independent. Mark and Reggie became bestest friends, right up to the point where he would have to le ...
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The Crucible 8
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... imagery to characterize the depraved state of mankind: “The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire…” It was preaching like this which prompted John Proctor to stay away from church and explain his absence as follows: “ I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation… Others stay away from chur ...
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