Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver And Swift's Separate Personalities
.... of treason agaainst members of the Tory party Swift despised. The small size of the Lilliputians is in inverse proportion to the amount of their corruption.
Similarly, the Brobdingnagians find Gulliver's culture to be too violent for the size of its people, and Gulliver's pride in describing the English is offset by his puniness. Swift characterizes the giants of Book II to be imperfect but extremely moral, possibly the ideal for how a society could be in Swift's (or our) time.
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Amazing Grace By Jonathan Kozol
.... in the city.
Kozol writes about the trials and tribulations of everyday “normal” life for the children and people who live here. Normal for them however is quite different than it is for most of us. Living with drug dealers, pollution, poor hospital care and an abominable education system not to mention the social system of the city, is the “norm” for these children. In his interviews with the children of this squalid neighborhood, we find that the children speak honestly and freely about their fe .....
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Animal Farm: Satirical Techniques Such As Irony, Fable, And Allegory
.... socialism is a good ideal, it could never be successfully adopted due to uncontrollable sins of human nature. For example, although Napoleon seems at first to be a good leader, he is eventually overcome by greed and soon becomes power-hungry. Of course Stalin did too in Russia, leaving the original equality of socialism behind, giving him all the power and living in luxury while the common pheasant suffered. Orwell explains: “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals .....
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1984: The Party's Control Over The Thoughts
.... was open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death..."(Orwell 9).
Oceania has no courts or prisons, only the Thought Police and Ministry of Love. The Thought Police serve to help the party maintain the strictest level of orthodoxy among its followers, and further contribute to the loss of juridical rights, for as O'Brien eventually explains to Winston, "The Party is not interes .....
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
.... until they were playing hide and go seek and he hid in the closet. Lucy told the others that he had been to the land and Edmund denied it and made it look like Lucy was lying. This showed that Edmund was dishonest.
A change occurred in Edmund’s character when the witch turned a family of animals into stone. Edmund plead for the animals but the witch did it anyway. This showed that Edmund was no longer self-centered or selfish because he actually cared about something besides himself. This was the t .....
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Toni Morrison's Beloved: Sethe, A Brave Mother In Love, Or Is She Selfish In Her Weakness?
.... Sethe’s children are her only good quality. Her children are a part of her and in killing one she kills a part of herself. What hinders over Sethe is her refusal to accept responsibility for her baby’s death. Does she do this because she is selfishness or because it need not be justified? Sethe’s love is clearly displayed by sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet, Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of compassion is also murder.
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Of Mice And Men: Stereotypes And Discrimination
.... again. ‘A guy can talk to you an’ be sure you won’t go blabbin’." p.78. This most likely makes Crooks feel not wanted at all, Which roots to loneliness.
Lennie is not so much stereotyped, but rather trapped because of his size. Because Lennie is so big, Curley thinks he has to prove something by beating up Lennie. Lennie gets on Curley’s bad side when he didn’t do anything wrong. Lennie is then forced to fight. " ‘I don’t want no trouble,’ he said plaintively. ‘Don’t let him sock me, George. .....
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Savage Inequalities: Conditions Of Poor Schools
.... of hopelessness and destitution that the children in these areas not only feel in their education but in their everyday lives as well. By describing the deteriorating conditions of the schools in the selected areas against those in the more affluent districts, he implies that money is the short-term fix to the problem. Money may fix the roof or the walls but more then just money needs to be put into these schools. Kozol writes with the intention to shock his readers with graphic details, and push .....
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A Horseman In The Sky
.... with his own eyes how horrible the war could be. After he finished fighting in the war, he wrote stories. In them he tried to make people realize that war was bad.
I think that Ambrose Bierce described the setting and the time period very accurately. By reading his story I could picture the scene very accurately. He explained that the sun was shining, and that it was autumn. Because it was autumn it was not too hot or too cold. He also described Carter’s location very well. From what I read C .....
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Shane: No Ordinary Man And His Gun
.... for gun fighting. The faster cylinder and the hammer being filed were to make the firing faster. The better balance to get a better aim. Bob doesn’t find out about why Shane has no sight on the gun. The smooth and polished appearance was an extension of Shane’s own personality and style. this is what made it his Shane handles a gun with deadly precision and speed. Bob knows that the gun allows for speed and precision. But a lot relies on the person holding the gun. In this quote Bob has been playing with a .....
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Chekhov’s “The Bet”: Metamorphosis Of The Lawyer
.... dollars of his wealth that the lawyer will not be able to stay in a solitary confinement for 5 years. The lawyer demonstrates his impulsiveness when he replies, “I’ll take the bet, but I would stay not 5 but 15 years”(160). The lawyer does not even reason about what he has just committed to. Furthermore, he raises the stakes of the proposal as a result of his confidence in winning the bet.
Although he begins his confinement secure that he will be victorious, the lawyer gradually becomes very despondent o .....
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The Fifth Child
.... the true nature of Ben’s personality. Lessing suggests that human nature is unchangeable and strongly believes in the “nature” vs. “nurture” theory of personality.
From the time of birth, Harriet had conceived Ben as being a belligerent infant whose main purpose in the world was to harm. When he was in her womb, Ben would be “trying to tear its way out of her stomach (38),” in a rage of vigorous jabs and kicks. When Ben was born, he was a rebellious child, always trying to hurt something or some .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Compassion From Atticus Finch
.... standing up for what is morally just. QUOTE BLACKS IN BALCONY. Also, the blacks QUOTE ON FOOD GAVE THEM. Not just the black felt sympathy toward Atticus, but the white townspeople were grateful for his honorable actions and felt compassionate towards him for being the person that had to MISS MAUDIE QUOTE. However the racists in the town still disliked Atticus for his actions and threatened him by spitting in his face and trying to kill his children.
In today’s society, people have felt compassion t .....
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Ordinary People - Avoiding Problems Is Not A Way Of Handling Them
.... and she is very cautious about her appearance to the community. Beth cares more about herself and her social standing then she does about her family. For example, when Calvin and her were getting dressed, she made him change his tie. That stuck in Calvin’s mind as why did it matter what he wore to his son’s funeral. Beth was very loving to Buck, though. She didn’t want anyone to know that there was anything wrong and she would avoid problems at all cost.
In this novel, Judith Guest tries to portray .....
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Of Mice And Men: The Great Depression And Lennie And George's Dream
.... a dime to help American farmers…”(Nardo13). Lennie had trouble keeping out of mischief and so him and George were always looking for new jobs. This put a damper on their dream because they were unable to save up the money that they would need to purchase a farm. The downfall of America during this time made it very hard for anyone. Even those people who were upper class before the Great Depression lost almost all of their money and were having trouble surviving. Someone who was lower class, like Le .....
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