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Jane Eyre 2
Number of Words: 946 / Number of Pages: 4
... house. Many days pass away. One day when Jane goes out to the village to post a letter, she meets a horseman with his dog.
The horse falls and the man is hurt and Jane helps him on his feet. When she is back home she recognizes the dog and understands that the horseman is Mr. Rochester.
She meets Mr. Rochester many times and they have interesting conversations and she starts to like him very much, in spite of his sarcastic and authoritarian manners. He tells her much about his journeys. Sometimes she hears strange laughter in the night coming from the third floor. One night hears a noise ...
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Hawthornes Reference To Anne H
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... 2). On the other hand, Hester did not become a respectable member in society until she was charged with adultery. People’s thoughts of her are shown here, “Such helpfulness was found in her,--so much power to sympathize,--that many people to interpret the Scarlet A by its original signification. They said it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength”(Hawthorne 111). Hester’s alienation from society made her sensitive to the problems of other people. This helped her to help them, because she understood their problems. Instead of letting ...
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Tale Of Two Cities
Number of Words: 442 / Number of Pages: 2
... For example, he swore that he would come visit Lucie and her kids frequently.
The major reasons for Sidney Carton’s death revolved around Lucie Manette. Chances are Sidney would have given up alcohol if he could have married Lucie. He most likely would have become a prosperous lawyer if he needed to support a family. Carton would not have been the “jackal” anymore, as described by his law partner Mr. Striver.
One might think that if Carton cleaned up his act he could have convinced Lucie to be his wife. The opinion Lucie had towards Carton may have been different if he was a successful lawyer and ...
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Number of Words: 522 / Number of Pages: 2
... not say much, but it seems as though that this is because he does not want to get in a fight with the younger waiter. All he does is ask the young waiter questions, as if the middle-aged waiter was sort of stuck in a catch twenty-two. The middle aged man felt for the old man but could not express his feelings to the younger waiter.
Lastly, there is the old waiter. He is some where around the age of the old man that sat at the table. He definitely feels for the man at the table because he knows what it is like to be old and lonely. The waiter says, "I am of those who like to stay late at t ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird - What M
Number of Words: 445 / Number of Pages: 2
... of their participants and Scout Finch's particular take on the events of this book only makes those events gain in moral strength, not diminish.
Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem, Miss Maudie...the characters of this book have achieved an iconic status rare in modern literature. And it has achieved this not by making them Nietzschean uebermenschen, but by entering into their lives with fair, enthusiastic frankness. And to end off, this is one of only a handful of truly successful negotiations between the dramatic (eg. theatre, screenwriting) and the narrative (eg. prose narrative, filmmaking, fo ...
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Death Of A Sales Man
Number of Words: 1015 / Number of Pages: 4
... had met a man named Dave Singleman who was so well liked that he was able to make a living simply by staying in his hotel room and telephoning buyers. When Dave Singleman died, buyers and salesmen from all over the country came to his funeral. This is what Willy has been trying to emulate his entire life. Willy's need to feel well-liked is so strong that he often makes up lies about his popularity and success. At times, Willy even believes these lies himself. At one point in the play, Willy tells his family of how well-liked he is in all of his towns and how vital he is to New England. Later, ho ...
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O'Brien's “On The Rainy River”
Number of Words: 995 / Number of Pages: 4
... courage.
Prior to being drafted, O’Brien admits to political naïveté. His perspective of the Vietnam War is not a passionate one; however, he is decidedly in opposition of the war, feeling that blood is being shed for unstable reasons. He saw “no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law” and has defined the war simply as “wrong”. Upon receiving his draft notice in June of 1968, his emotions range from rage to self-pity. A promising 21 years of age, he angrily perceives himself as too good for the war.
“I was above it. I had the world dicked – Phi Beta Kappa and ...
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Oliver Twist 2
Number of Words: 994 / Number of Pages: 4
... which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory (which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ). While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is greatly expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage before he is sent away.
Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a fondness for "the bleak, the sordid, and the austere.² (Bloom 231) Most of Oliver Twist, for example, takes place in London's lowest slums. The
city is described as a maze which involves a "mystery of darkness,
anonymity, and peril." ...
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A Separate Peace: Character Sketch Of Leper Lepellier
Number of Words: 318 / Number of Pages: 2
... to be friends with them! That could mean being let down, and Leper wouldn’t be able to handle that. He couldn’t handle when the war let him down. After seeing the provocative slide on the ski troops, Leper was convinced that was the life for him. Certain he would find happiness there, he packed his bags and left. Unfortunately, the training for the troops was rigorous and Leper just didn’t have the strength, physically or emotionally, to pull through it. Another thing had let him down, which later on would only push him deeper into his reliance on nature. ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Gorilla, My Love: Family And Traditions
Number of Words: 522 / Number of Pages: 2
... even with the manger now. Hazel’s father found out that it she who set the fire. She had to explain.
Her explanation was as simple as the beliefs of a child. Hazel states that “if you say Gorilla, My Love, you suppose to mean it.” She expected to see a gorilla in the movie. She relays her reasoning to her father with examples of sticking to your word. If father says he is going to do something, the kids expect that he would do it. This to say that in this story Hazel expresses how children interprets things they see, hear and are told and relate them to reality.
Grandma in A Good Man Is Har ...
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