Pearl's Contribution To The Scarlet Letter
.... is
whenever an adult is occupied with something then the child finds something
to do. When Hester went to the woods to meet with Dimmesdale, Pearl went
off to play in the brook while the two adults talked and then she stopped
when her mother called. A second example is when Pearl accompanied her
mother to the seashore where they met Chillingworth, Pearl wandered off by
herself and occupied her time by playing with seaweed and the various
animal life that happened to be around. Children can also not .....
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Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis
.... unshaken in her love for Wentworth. Thus Austen creates
a emotional fairy tale which keeps you dreaming and makes you believe that
true love never dies.
Austen presents her strongest feminist character in this novel.
The roles of hero and heroin are reversed and men and woman are presented
as moral equals. It is interesting that the most explicit feminist
protests by Austen in her novels all have to do with literature. In
Persuasion Anne Elliot debates Captain Harville on who loves longes .....
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A Review Of I Heard The Owl Call My Name
.... appliances they use are
more primitive, and the houses are wooden cottages. The native's way of
behaving and interacting with the outside people and world is also a lot
different. All the ceremonies including the costumes and poems, songs,
etc prove how they are protective of their native culture and heritage.
The natives do not trust the european dsecendents, because they took over
their lands. All these reasons add up to the fact that the natives are
being described in detail in this book.
Another g .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Phoniness - The True Face And The False Face
.... company, even though he calls them
"phonies." Holden is really a decent and mature teenager, but he only
hides behind the false front to obtain the approval. In the meantime, he
tries to find the meaning of his existence. There's Holden's false front,
a rude and without standard teen, but what's behind it are important. A
decent, sympathetic and mature teen lies behind the mask. The only time
he reveals these distinctions is when he comes to some points and some
people, especially children. For exa .....
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Picking Up The Pieces: An Analytical Look At Why The Village Of Umofia Fell Apart
.... that his father had
not received any titles as a clansman. He was determined to be a respected
farmer of yams to ward off the shame of his unsuccessful and dishonorable
father.
Fortunately, among these people a man was judged by
his worth and not according to the worth of his father...
As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could
eat with kings. Okonkwo had clearly washed his hands
and so he ate with kings and e .....
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Arthur C. Clarke's 2061: Odyssey Three
.... out. Floyd found some caves and decided to
investigate it but came back empty handed. After The universe dropped the
passengers back off at the moon base the universe was assigned to go pick
up a ship that had crash landed on Europa. Universe went to pick up the
people when it was hijacked by Universe's stewardess and was forced to land
when Universe had landed The Hijacker killed her self by shooting herself
in the head. after the ship had land the landing pads had sunk into the
ground and the hijacker mu .....
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An Analysis Of Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher
.... intentions of keeping her corpse
for a fortnight in one of the many vaults in the house. Having no wish to
oppose his wishes, the narrator helps him entomb the body at Usher's
request. The mood in the house has worsened, and Usher is no longer
himself. The narrator finds him ranting about the storm, and he explains
to him its only a natural phenomenon, and turns to their earlier hobby of
reading to distract him. He chooses the Mad Trist, which is apparently a
story completely created by Poe (and is .....
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Summary Of Joyce's "A Portrait Of An Artists As A Young Man"
.... in his
growth, symbolizing many different things throughout his life. The first
section of the novel sets the stage for the rest of his life. Stephen
feels he should be the center of his family's universe, or the "baby
tuckoo". His family symbolizes the oppression that Stephen encounters
throughout his life. "Apologise, pull out his eyes, pull out his eyes,
apologise (Joyce 4)." Later the reader finds that this symbolizes how his
family will not accept his spontaneous outbursts, especially involvin .....
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The Eyes Have It
.... takes place, and is a huge continent where many different races and
cultures live (like Asia and Africa put together with some aliens and snow
thrown in.) the Spider Queen had the notion of destroying all this good for
her own, and turning it into her black domain. She did. She casted a
spell which made a huge black bubble. It spread like a plague and grew for
leagues in every direction. Anything that entered this bubble never came
out. The Spider Queen threw her min orcs, demons, kobolds, etc. into t .....
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Pride And Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet
.... to the standards set forth by
society, "where the family and the community...tend to coerce and even
predetermine the volition and aspirations of the self"(Tanner 125). She is
self-reliant and independent, while "contemptuous of all the conventions
that restrict the individual's freedom"(Litz 65). Darcy observes Elizabeth
as "...sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention...disgusted
with the women who were always speaking, and looking and thinking for
[men's] approbation alone"(Ghent 185 .....
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Pride And Prejudice: Marriage For Money
.... combination of a wealthy person with an attractive person.
The first line of Pride and Prejudice, “It is a universally
acknowledged fact that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be
in want of a wife”, sets the tone for the rest of the novel. We interpret
it to mean that a wealthy man either actively pursues a wife based on his
knowledge that no one would turn down a wealthy suitor, or attractive
women use their beauty to their advantage to attract a rich husband.
Confident in his knowledge .....
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Pride In The Iliad
.... that he could have stopped the onslaught of the Acheans
altogether, and won the war for the Trojans. The result of Hectors pride
was his death and the betrayment of his fellow warriors and friends.
Another person within the Iliad whose pride was the downfall of his
character, was Patrocleus. Patrocleus was a great warrior, friend, and
asset to the Achiens. But, he made foolish choices on account of his pride.
For instance he chose to wear Achille's armor into battle when Achilles
refused to fi .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Primal Fear
.... and power. Ralph handles the situation very efficiently and in a
well-organized manner. Because of Jack's greed for power and his fear
of losing it, the small community of young boys are not able to effectively
and pragmatically plan ways to eventually be saved. When, having a
gathering of all the children, Jack urges everyone not to listen to Ralph's
reasoning but rather to listen to his own. This can be described as
deleterious to all the children because now not only do they have to de .....
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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
.... rather attain social recognition. At least, not until the opportunity
presents itself. Thus, through a series of events, Bernard uses the
curiosity of the society to his advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish
of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society.
This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his
arrogant behaviour, he is exiled.
The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's
fame (and folly), is an ou .....
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Comparison Of "Queen Of Diamonds" And "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters"
.... all the time, but she was someone
who had gone out a lot of the time with her friends and drank. The
drinking was the reason that she was in the hospital. It never once showed
Christine as being happy, she was always in a bad mood, and never really
seemed to be pleased with anything. Towards the end of the book we find
out that Christine is going to kill herself. The reason for which she
decides to take her own life is that there is nothing for her to live for,
nothing that she had made for herself. .....
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