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Herman Hesses Demian
Number of Words: 3530 / Number of Pages: 13
... stole a bag of apples from a fellow neighbor. Although the story is untrue, Kromer threatens Sinclair with exposure if Sinclair does not pay him off. Unable to pay the full amount, Sinclair is forced to become Kromer’s slave, ultimately sending Sinclair into depression and paranoia. Sinclair feels trapped by Kromer, forced to live within the “forbidden realm”, which in turn exiles him from the “world of light” because he has defiled himself by lying and committing sinful acts for Kromer. This experience is traumatic for Sinclair and he is often haunted by nightma ...
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The Grandmother 2
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... even to the point of being intimidating, In the beginning of the story, Bailey is shown to be nervous, as "He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table..." (354) while his mother is trying to talk him into changing his mind about where they go for their vacation. He is also very passive around his mother, and it shows be the way he offers no resistance or objections to what she is demanding. When Bailey looks "straight ahead... His jaw was as rigid as a horseshoe" (358), he was obviously upset about the way the grandmother tries to control what is going on. She overlooks this obvious d ...
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Hamlet - Enstragement In Hamlet
Number of Words: 1590 / Number of Pages: 6
... father’s death. At this stage Hamlet is suicidal and risks himself being estranged from his religious principals as he begins to think of suicide. If Hamlet were to kill Claudius, he would be violating a central religious principle against murdering another human being. Both suicide and murdering King Claudius would make him feel guilt at having violated religious coda, thus representing estrangement at the level of his religious consciousness (Knight 14). As Hamlet has the duty to avenge his father’s death by killing his father’s murderer, the King, Hamlet risks estrangement at the religious level. ...
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Book Review The Republican Exp
Number of Words: 433 / Number of Pages: 2
... Not only did the two books contain a lot of information but also the book compared very similarly with the classroom notes. Many of the ideas that were briefly discussed in class were given in much more detail in the book. The book information really did not differ in the views that were depicted in the textbook. Both sources were good detailed accounts of history during the republican era.
The importance and purpose of this book was to give the audience or the reader complete and detailed accounts of the French Revolution. The author’s purpose was to tell from begging to end how the Frenc ...
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Madame Bovary 6
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... about another man to a woman that no one would dare even thinking about accusing her of even considering adultery.
There was also another moment when she decided to go see the priest at the church (part II, chapter 7) to seek spiritual guidance. The priest, however, seems to assume that all she needs is a cup of tea and sends her on her way. Once Emma gets home, her daughter seems to want to console Emma, but Emma just pushes her away and yells at the child to leave her alone. Emma pushes her so hard that the girl falls and cuts her head. Then Emma cries and yells frantically for the servant girl. A ...
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Jefferson
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... want for my super an I tol him I want nanan to cook me som okra an rice an som pok chop an a conbred an som claba” (232). still enjoys his aunt’s cooking, an outside pleasure from prison.
The fact that he can still take pleasure from these small outside things clearly demonstrates that enjoys a small victory over the world that has locked him away.
The second characteristic that shows society does not defeat is ’s remaining strong compassion for everyone around him. This shows that through defeat, remains a strong person by not holding any grudges against his incarcerators. A selection from h ...
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Piano Lesson
Number of Words: 1401 / Number of Pages: 6
... Willie, on the other hand, was a loud and stubborn man who had his mind set on selling the family piano from the onset of the play and nothing or no one was going to change his mind. "He is a brash and impulsive, talkative, and somewhat crude in speech and manner." (1334) These characteristics of the two main characters refer back to the theme of this play by illustrating the attitudes of African-Americans towards the past, present and future. Boy Willie doesn't want the past to hold him back in society and thus wants to sell a part of the past (the family piano) to enrich his future. Berniece, h ...
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... to capture it, it disappears beneath the depths of the
ocean.
One of the most suspenseful and mysterious parts of the book
was when the characters were thrown into a big room inside the
submarine that seemed to have no doors. At this point in the book the
characters have no idea what was going on, neither does the reader.
The only thing that happens during the time in this room is a man
comes in and gives them some food, minutes later they all fell asleep.
Why where they put to sleep, where is this room that seems to have no
doors? This is just one of th ...
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Macbeth - Lady Macbeth: A Woman Before Her Time
Number of Words: 1458 / Number of Pages: 6
... body nor mind to carry out the deed of killing the King. Therefore, she calls upon the aid of the supernatural to give her male powers, so that she may have the gall to go through with the plan to murder the King, and allow Macbeth to obtain the throne. "The raven himself is hoarse/ That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan/ Under my battlements. Come, you spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,/ Stop up the access and passage to remorse,/ That no compunctious visitings of nature/ Shake my fell purp ...
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Catcher In The Rye 2
Number of Words: 2154 / Number of Pages: 8
... a Swiss cheese and a malted milk. It isn’t much, but you get quite a lot of vitamins in the malted milk. H.V. Caulfield. Holden Vitamin Caulfield.’
He exaggerates big time and he swears a lot. Especially when he talks to his roommates. Goddam this and damn that. But he can’t stand the four-letter word.
‘I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody’d written ‘F*** you on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them-al ...
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