Crane's "The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky": The Marriage Of The End
.... game as well, reacting to Scratchy as
one should react to a typical bad guy. When the sheriff comes home with
his wife Scratchy threatens to kill the sheriff until he learns that he has
broken the rules and gotten married. This ends the game and forever
changes the way the town interacts with each other.
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Materialism And Happiness In America: The Gatsby Era And Today
.... in this country. Consumers are taught that they need to have all
these things that the businesses are trying to sell.
It's true that this desire for things is what drives our economy. The free
market has given us great blessings, but it has in some ways also put us on
the wrong path -- the path to a selfish, unhappy society. Michael Lerner,
who worked as a psychotherapist to middle-income Americans notes that
"The problem is that the deprivation of meaning is a social problem, rooted
in part in .....
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Frank Norris' "McTeague": The Three Major Themes
.... obsessed with gold and riches. The same
obsession for money was in all of the characters. Zerkow was viewed as a
"lost" soul and Trina as a proper young lady, yet they were both almost
exactly alike. Here are some quotes on greed. "Miser, nasty little old
miser. You're worse than old Zerkow, always nagging about money, money, and
you got five thousand dollars. You got more, an' you live in that stinking
hole of a room, and you won't drink any decent beer." "She don't care if I
get wet and get a cold and .....
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1984
.... The
children are members of Spies, a youth that encourages spying and telling
on traitors, including parents. Winston is revolted. He returns home and
writes a couple more minutes before going back to work. He remenbers a
dream where O'Brien tole him he would meet him in a place wher there is no
darkness. He washes his hands and hides the diary
Reaction
Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the
earth has changed, into 3 main contenients. we are also introduc .....
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Metamorphosis: A Review
.... his entire family. While his boss was very
strict, Gregor managed to do well enough to keep his family in an apartment
that was larger than their needs required. He was even planning to send his
sister to the music academy to further her violin skills. But to call
Gregor's life tedious would be an understatement. Every day he awoke early
to catch the same train to do the same job until it was time for him to
return home. Kafka implies that in order to save money, or for some unknown
reason, Gregor's soc .....
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Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Taking Place Involving Gregor And Its Effect On The Family
.... for his family. " It hardly surprised him
that he was showing so little consideration for the others; once such
consideration had been his greatest pride."
Everyone in the Samsa family experiences changes brought on by
Gregor's metamorphosis. Since Gregor's physical change renders him no
longer able to work, the family's financial situation changes. Gregor's
mother, father, and sister have to get jobs. Mrs. Samsa, Gregor's
mother, sews lingerie for a local clothing store. His .....
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Milton's Paradise Lost: A Look Within
.... intelligences more highly refined
versions of human intelligence. He is still left with one problem, that of
introducing a flaws in this refined beings. Because of these refined
intelligence, these creatures should incline solely to good.
"So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear,
Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my Good;"
(IV, 109-111)
In this intensely dramatic statement, Satan renounces everything that's
good. His is not a lack of intelligence, or weakness of cha .....
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Miss Massey
.... responds to Jaz shows that Tony does not find it easy
to express his feelings toward Jaz. He thinks that trying to comfort him
would cause a worse temper whereas I believe that Jaz would like some words
of consolation. Of course Tony knows Jaz better than I do, but most people
like some comforting when they are upset about something.
(In the following paragraphs I presume that the city referred to in the
text is London. This may not be correct, but I know of no other English
city with an Underground). .....
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Moby Dick: The Characters And Plot
.... say that he is a good man, but because of some strange illness, he
is confined to his cabin.
On Christmas day, and with Ahab still in his cabin, the Pequod sets
sail in the Atlantic. As the weather begins to warm up (several months
after leaving port), Ahab is finally seen on deck. The strangest thing
about Ahab is his leg. Instead of flesh and bone, he has a white ivory peg
leg.
As the weeks wear on, Ahab starts to become friendlier. One day,
he calls the crew before him. He tells them that t .....
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Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
.... was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means
of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against
their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to
lose but your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches,
help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion,
according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working
people to forget about th injustice they meet in their lives and to .....
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Moral Development In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And The Great Gatsby
.... and Huckleberry Finn have a chance to mature as time progresses
though the novel, and then make a remarkable move to end up as a hero.
The narrators of The Great Gatsby and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
develop morally as the relate the story that reflects each one's position
in society.
The Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald, is narrated by Nick Caraway. Nick
is a sophisticated observer of character, who starts out as an amoral
person. His character is a very peculiar one, because he is somewhat
neutral .....
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The Great Gatsby: Moral Responsibility In Gatsby
.... Tom's knowledge of Daisy's guilt by just
trying to escape with her. Even knowing this, Tom still had the indecency
to tell George it was Gatsby's car. Tom can also be morally blamed for the
killing of Gatsby because of his affair with Myrtle. George killed Gatsby
not only because he thought he killed Myrtle, but also because he was under
the impression that Gatsby was the one having the affair with his wife.
Tom knew George was thinking this and when George talked to him, Tom seized
his opportunity to .....
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Morals And Psychological Aspects In Jane Eyre
.... through experiences such as these
came to hate the idea of deceit along with anyone who practiced it. In
addition, Jane never saw justice. No matter how obvious it was that John
or one of his sisters were at fault Jane was always blamed.
By looking at Jane's moral values it becomes apparent what Rochester has,
in Jane's eyes, done wrong. He was deceitful in many ways. For one, he
didn't tell Jane that he was already married when he asked her to marry
him. Big mistake! He also pretended that he was .....
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Flowers For Algernon: Supplementary Book Review
.... main characters in the novel include Charlie, Alice, Algernon, and
Fay, a character who did not make much of an appearance, but in my eyes
believed, that she played a very important part in Charlie's involvement in
trying to sort out his past and figure out his present and future plans.
Charlie is a mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining
friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of an experiment which
could possibly make him smart. He makes himself subject to this human .....
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Woman On The Edge Of Time: Mother To The Tribe
.... the right to live with the
socially prudent. According to Kevstin Shands, Piercy says: "It is
primarily a novel about Connie. There's a lot about social injustice in it,
and about how a woman stops hating herself and becomes able to love herself
enough to fight for her own survival" (66). In Marge Piercy's Woman on the
Edge of Time the motif of mothering is the basis of the story; she uses a
mother as the protagonist and creates a utopian society based on the
strength of the nurturing.
To see how .....
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