To Kill A Mockingbird: A Hero Among Them
.... same in his house as he is on the street. He treats all people with respect and decency. During the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus speaks to Mayella Ewell with a respect that she is not accustomed to receiving. This respect is shown to Mayella simply because it was the right thing to do. Additionally, Walter Cunningham is treated as a guest, while in the Finch home for lunch, not as a poor person in the community Atticus shows Walter respect for the hard work that he contributes to his family. Att .....
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Transcendentalism In Moby Dick
.... this god was not one of Christian influence, the element of worship to a higher power shows that he knew that he was not alone on this earth, that there is a force stronger than man which sustains life. Finally, when he and Ishmael sign aboard the Pequod, Bildad and Peleg give Queequeg a hard time because he is not a Christian, as was appropriate at the time. However, Queequeg has faith in himself and shows the men that he is an equal to all the Christian sailors by showing them his talents in the field .....
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Candide: A Satire On The Enlightenment
.... by the primary concerns of the Enlightenment, it also criticizes certain aspects of the movement. It attacks the idea that optimism, which holds that rational thought can inhibit the evils perpetrated by human beings. Voltaire did not believe in the power of reason to overcome contemporary social conditions.
In Candide, Voltaire uses Pangloss and his ramblings to represent an often humorous characterization of the “typical” optimist. Of Pangloss, Voltaire writes, “He proved admirably that there .....
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The Great Gatsby: Being Successful
.... from his mansion. When we think of the color green we can associate it with a few things. The majority of the things in nature are green, leaves, plants, and the grass. Green represents a peaceful color; one that does not hurt the eye when put in direct line of sight. An example of a color that would lash out at you and scream, “hey look at me, I’m noticeable!” would be red. Aside from red being associated with violence it is a very noticeable color that is probably why it is the color used in .....
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Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl
.... twenty-six dust storm throughout their towns. The dust storms were often times massive and destroyed crops, houses and the lives of anyone living near it. By mid March, the storms had become commonplace in Amarillo and Dodge City. Residents began to accept them as a part of daily life. On April 10, 1935, a dust storm rolled through Texas and Oklahoma and on to Kansas. The storm lasted for over twenty-four hours, and set a record for intensity and duration of a storm. This storm came four days befo .....
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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation
.... he praises himself as a god:
'I had selected his features as beautiful, beautiful! Great god!' (Pg47)
In reality, Frankenstein is so delusional that he fails to recognize that his creature's outward appearance is hideous. He knew of the creature's disfigured face and gigantic proportions, yet he is so blinded by his ego that he fails to take into account the results of his actions, i.e. how his creation would coexist with other beings. His thoughtless actions immediately doom his creature to be a so .....
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Animal Farm And Russian Revolution Comparison: Highlights, Events, Characters, Themes
.... llich Lenin, favored establishment of a centralized communist society. The other faction, the Mensheviks favored establishment of a constitutional government because they believed Russia was not ready for revolution. In reality, neither party held a real majority, and many political figures became powerful and then were expelled. Leon Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks and supported plans that would be for the good of all Russian people. Joseph Stalin built consensus with the members of several factio .....
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Criticism Of Shame
.... characterization of Rushdie’s style stated, "His prose prances, a declaration of freedom, an assertion that Shame can be whatever he wants it to be coy and teasing an ironic and brutal all at once. . .[Rushdie’s work] is responsive to the world rather than removed from it, and it is because of this responsiveness that the mode in which he work represents the continued life of the novel. . . and one wants something better to describe it that the term ‘magical realism’— is an assertion of individual freedo .....
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Alice Walker's "Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is The Self"
.... they are occurring. Walker starts showing the reader how she viewed herself and how others viewed her when she was a little girl ready to give her speech that she memorized for Easter Sunday. Then her accident happened. Walker then emphasizes to the reader that the way she views herself now and the way she thinks people view her at the age of eight have changed for the worse. She then states at the age of fourteen her view of beauty changes. She says she can raise her head now that she has had her I fi .....
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Catcher In The Rye
.... with the main character, Holden Caulfield, in so many ways because of the similitude in values and convictions we both hold. It is for all those reasons mentioned above that I enjoy the book so much and label it as one of my favorites.
For those of you who have not had the opportunity to hold grasp of this book and read it, it is superficially, the story of a young man’s expulsion from school. However, if you study the story, it is so much more than that.
Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up .....
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John Updike's "A&P"
.... years.” So to see three girls walk into a convenient store five miles from the beach wearing nothing but their bathing suits would catch anyone’s attention. As the narrator, Sammy, describes in the story, “A&P was right in the middle of town and women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street.” It was the appropriate thing to do. To Sammy, however, it was appropriate only if you had “six children and varicose veins mapping your legs and nobody cou .....
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1984: Socialism, Fascism, Or Communism
.... the proletariats. In the book, the proles are the working classes, so that might foreshadow a revolution. Also, another trait that shows up in 1984 is no religion. The ultimate goal of Communism is that no government is needed.
In a fascist state, there is a totalitarian dictatorship, where one person or group controls everything within. This can be seen in 1984 by the Party. There is subordination to the state and its leader, which there is not in the book. Ethnic cleansing is required in a large Fas .....
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Catch 22: What’s Fair Isn’t Fair
.... of personal advancement instead of the well-being of their country.
Although the title of General, Sergeant, or Major may make one seem distinguished and well-learned, Heller offers a different perspective. Major Major Major, Scheisskoph and co. share one common characteristic: they are more fit to be clowns than leaders. Through portraying Major Major Major as an inefficient Major (he is unwilling to meet with those who wish to see him) whose promotion was a direct result of his name, one is inclined t .....
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Oliver Twist: Summary
.... the months that follow, Oliver stays with Mrs.Maylie and her niece Rose. Then one of Fagin’s thieves, Monks, goes to the Bumbles to buy the evidence of Oliver’s parentage- a locket left by his mother. Monk throws it into a river, then tells Fagin to make Oliver a thief again.
One day Nancy, a thief, overhears Fagin and Bill Sikes talking about Oliver and what they are going to do to him. Bill Sikes finds out Nancy told Rose Maylie and beats Nancy to death. Bill Sikes hangs himself accidentally whil .....
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George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
.... this in 1984. George Orwell is famous for two major novels which attack totalitarianism. The first is Animal Farm, a satire describing the leaders of the Soviet Union as animals on a farm. The second novel is 1984, a story of dictators who are in complete control of a large part of the world after the Allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime puni .....
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