A Separate Peace: Gene And Finny's Relationship
.... proper person is your best pal...which is what you are..." In that passage their relationship has taken on a greater meaning; from that point on they are emotionally attached. After Finny's first accident, the relationship grows stronger. "Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas."
Gene begins to feel that Phineas is .....
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Paul Edgecombe: An Excellent Character
.... were new prisoners coming in, and he had to make sure everything was running smoothly. Even when his co-workers told him they could handle it, he was still there.
He also cared about his co-workers. He seemed to have a fairly close relationship with all of them, except Percy of course. When they were planning to take John Coffey to help the wardens wife, he cared enough about Dean and the fact he had children to let him stay back at E Block so he would hopefully not get in as much trouble if they got c .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Evil And Corruption In The World
.... and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while he was sleeping, Holden jumped up and ran out thinking that Mr. Antolini was a pervert as well. This is the .....
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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Great Morals And Lack Of Glamour
.... for another reason, which may be the need for love. On top of all this, he wants to escape his background and past. Gatsby's life changed from being in the low or middle class to the high class. It is a big mystery of how he receives all this money but it is not from Cody. It is believed that he is a bootlegger. No one was ever sure.
In this story, one can relate Jay's character to the author, Fitzgerald. Both want to achieve the American Dream but are unable to do it. All the money in the world ca .....
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Gullivers Travels And Robinson Crusoe: Characters Resemble Trained Soldiers
.... The period from 1600 to about 1750 is known as the Baroque Era. Throughout this period the Catholic Church was fighting back against the effects of the Renaissance. The people of the Renaissance society started to question their beliefs in the church and tried to rationally explain the world around them. Several crusades were fought throughout this period and in the end England and France became "Christianized." Robinson Crusoe was published during the Baroque Era and it contained a great amount of .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath
.... successful. She knows that if Pa ever gives up, the family will collapse, so sometimes she probes him into anger so that he doesn't.
Pa Joad
He is the official head of the family, though Ma in reality is the driving force behind it. He is a hard working tenant farmer who is forced out by elements beyond his control.
Grampa
He was attached to the land. He was too old to adapt to a new place. As soon as he was removed from the land, he died. He pretended to want to go to California but he was .....
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A Rose For Emily: Victim Of Circumstance
.... her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. But then again, did she have the know-how to do this, after all those years of her father’s past actions? It also sounds as if the townspeople thought Emi .....
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Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur: Myths And Legends
.... of the book that there was actually a King Arthur who lived many centuries ago. This story has also been handed down through many generations. Though there are many parts in the book that stray away from the legend, this is a novel that lets the reader use his or her imagination and wonder in far off places. This book “remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose.”
The fact that this is a myth allows the reader to be prepared fo .....
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The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
.... across the bay.” In order for him to see her, he holds extravagant parties, hoping that she will attend. She does not, however, so Gatsby casually asks around to find out if anyone knows her. Eventually, Gatsby soon realizes that Nick Carraway, his neighbor, is Daisy’s cousin. Gatsby then devises a plan to at last see his beloved Daisy. Jordan sets up the meeting for
Gatsby with Nick, “He wants to know if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over.” By arranging .....
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“A Rose For Emily”: Changing Of Values And Attitudes In Southern Society
.... as the person who had knowledge of her situation.
To avoid being “poor Emily” after her lover apparently refused to marry, she took matters into her own hands purchasing Arsenic. She offered no explanation for its use even though the druggist explained to her that the explanation was required by law. When an unbearable stench emanated from her property, the men sprinkled lime around the property to contain the smell but asked no questions out of respect for Miss Emily. The people of the town “knew .....
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The Island Of Doctor Moreau: Could It Be?
.... It was only a natural reaction from my story that she thought I was crazed. We sat and talked about it for hours until I finally convinced her that this did actually happen to me. She asked me if I had ever thought about going back to the island and I said no. I guess her curiosity had gotten the best of her because she said she thought that we should try to go back to the island to see what had become of it. I told her there was no way of knowing its location. She suggested that since we knew where I .....
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The Life Of Eveline
.... not abundant for women, and considerably smaller when divided amongst four people. Financial aid, public assistance, and shelters for families in need were not available. For Eveline it is very difficult to keep the structure of her family together especially while maintaining a positive demeanor
Although the situation would warrant an attitude of pessimism Eveline maintains an optimistic view of each situation. The father is an abusive alcoholic who Eveline feels is threatening. Treatment programs a .....
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"Gotti, Rise And Fall": A Book Review
.... world.
I think that the authors were very good at describing the way Jon Gotti is. Their use of imagery and dialogue made it easy for me to see what kind of a person he really was and still is now, I also liked the very descriptive and important details about him.
In Conclusion, I think that the authors did a great job of writing this book. They made me understand what kind of a person Jon Gotti is, and they also helped me create my own views of him. They also created very good picute of him in my m .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: True Picture Of Human Behavior
.... Ackley is described as “a terrible personality.” Why doesn’t Holden or any of the other guys in the school tell Ackley how bad his teeth are and how bad his personality is? Sometimes people don’t speak of things that annoy them to the actual person that is annoying them. That might be the reason for the guys not telling Ackley about his problem, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
J. D. Salinger’s choice of language puts great emphasis on the way the character, Holden, feels about certain issues .....
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The Themes In Of Mice And Men
.... their dream seems more attainable with Candy’s involvement. But here lies the tragedy of this classic novel. Their dream turned into a cliché of a line in Robert Burns’ poem where he writes that “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” Their dream seemed it would become a success until a tragic event brought failure.
The novel brings about the question of whether or not human life has a purpose. The reader may ask himself if a person’s purpose in life is only to kill and be killed. On .....
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