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The Sun Also Rises - Response
Number of Words: 686 / Number of Pages: 3
... it until it was brought up in class, maybe because it wasn't a point for me in In Our Time, but He doesn't often enough credit quotations with, ",he said," or, ",said Brett," or, ",Bill replied." In SAR it stood and called attention to itself. I wasn't particularly bothered by His not telling me who said what, but it was very...pointed. I first noticed around the hundredth page or so. Then I realized I couldn't keep track of who was speaking. By not dwelling on it, though, sort of (hate to say this) accepting it, I managed to assign speech to whomever I felt was speaking. Gradually I came to enj ...
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The Merchant Of Venice - Anton
Number of Words: 1031 / Number of Pages: 4
... that his sadness is related to his ships or a lost love. Uninterested in the 'world' of suitors and marriage, Antonio is left without his lifelong companion, Bassanio after he travelled to Belmont to woo Portia.
Early in the play another side of Antonio is revealed. Antonio is displayed as a hard cruel man, although a Christian, he displays hatred and contempt towards the Jewish race, usurers and especially towards Shylock. After kicking and spitting upon Shylock, Antonio shows no remorse or sympathy for the man he has abused. Antonio even goes to the point of saying that he would once more spit upon ...
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The Autobiographical Elements In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1630 / Number of Pages: 6
... mother in the last stages of
tuberculosis. Upon her death, he was then separated from his younger sister,
Rosalie. Another major low point in his life was the death of his foster mother,
Mrs. Frances Allan, and his foster father disowning him, all at one time. The
most significant set-back to Edgar Allan Poe was the death of his cousin/wife
Virginia Clemm. This single incident was the cause of almost all of his
feelings of isolation in his in his adulthood. He felt as though anyone he
became close to would die.
Poe wrote about isolation in many of his most popular works. "A Dream
Within ...
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Secret Sharer Character Essay
Number of Words: 466 / Number of Pages: 2
... Captain then goes through a transformation experience, when he meets his "double," a man named Leggatt.
After meeting Leggatt, a stowaway that committed murder, the Captain changes into a confident person. Through Leggatt, the Captain gets to know himself better and is no longer a stranger to himself and his crew. Shortly after meeting the Secret Sharer, the captain is feeling more confident and starts to give orders. He says, "It was the first particular order I had given on board that ship; and I stayed on deck to see it executed" (949). He no longer worry's about the opinion of his crew, rather ...
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The Godfather
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... seen as a hero for fighting for his country.
The Italian Mafia wedding experience just adds more understanding for the reader of just how culturally and traditionally oriented this family is. The scene is perfectly placed in the novel at a point where the reader is meeting all the Corleone family, and the scene has a way of inviting the reader into their family and into their lives. From this scene on the reader becomes a surrogate member of the Corleone family, thus every trial the Corleone's experience has a way of affecting the reader just as much as it would any Corleone.
Lastly, the wedding ...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... is that she will do what it takes to please the man. She is nervous but is in denial; she tries to reassure herself. She feels the man’s distance from her and tries to draw him back in to her world.
The setting was very important in "" and contained a lot of symbolism. One of the first comments the girl made was that the hills were "lovely", and "looked like white elephants". The hills symbolized the big obstacle the couple had to overcome in their relationship. Hemingway often mentioned the bead curtain between the couple and the workers in the bar. This was the separation between the couple a ...
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Anointed King
Number of Words: 1346 / Number of Pages: 5
... God is somewhat responsible for the state that England is in, because they believe Richard was chosen by God. Within Richard II , God is believed to be forsaken so that England can become a great kingdom again, and this is done in hope that Richard’s wrongs can be made right by Bolingbroke. Richard’s opposition - York, Bolingbroke, and Northumberland - believe that what they are doing is done to regenerate the badly tended “garden”. They want to replant it with Bolingbroke as king, and this they believe will restore England to order. By judging and replacing Richard they are ...
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A Review Of "The Rattler"
Number of Words: 909 / Number of Pages: 4
... character. The man says that “my duty” is
to kill the snake to protect the women and children of the farm he is
working on. The author creates a man who thinks not only about himself but
about other people, and this creates an image of an admirable, likable
person. All the characteristics the author uses to produce a likable man
is related to his major theme of life being dear, when he creates an
equally likable character, in the snake.
The author then depicts the snake as an innocent creature to
continue to produce the effect of life being dear for the snake, also.
When the author first introd ...
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Arms And The Man
Number of Words: 759 / Number of Pages: 3
... He’s content with the thought once Nelson has had the opportunity in experiencing the city he will “be content to stay at home for the rest of his life” (251). His only comforting thoughts, as he lay to sleep before the day of the trip, were not of turning Nelson into a racist, but “thinking how the boy would at last find out that he was not as smart as he thought he was.”
Degradation towards anyone, including his own grandson, is another way by which Mr.Head can feel minutely satisfied with himself. He welcomes and anticipates the point in which Nelson questions his own intelligence. Towards t ...
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The Odyssey: Odysseus Learns Patience, The Sanctity Of Life, And Humility
Number of Words: 636 / Number of Pages: 3
... start a fight. At almost all of his stops, Odysseus and his crew, some how or another, got into battles with the inhabitants of the islands. While he is in Hades, Elpenor, his dead crew member, tells Odysseus to bury him or he may “draw up God’s vengeance upon (him)!”(125). When Odysseus leaves Hades he goes back to bury his friend. This is the first time that we see Odysseus paying respect to one of his crew after their death. The many times before when Odysseus’ crew members would die, the death was taken lightly and casually overlooked. Following his decent, Odysseus rarely drew his sword unl ...
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