The "Hemingway Hero"
.... enable Hemingway to explore what it is to truly be a man. The Hemingway man thus presented is a man of action, of self-discipline and self-reliance, and of strength and courage to confront all weaknesses, fears, failures, and even death.
Jake Barnes, as the narrator and supposed hero of the novel, fell in love with Brett some years ago and is still powerfully and uncontrollably in love with her. However, Jake is unfortunately a casualty of the war, having been emasculated in a freak accident. Still ad .....
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The Island Of Dr. Moreau
.... to this, the creators manipulated their minds with lies. The creatures, even though they out numbered the humans by a large margin, believed everything their “Masters” would utter, and, therefore, followed a code of law. These laws consisted of the following: they were not to walk on all-fours, they were not to suck up their drink, they were not to eat flesh of any kind, including fish, they were not to claw the bark of trees, and they were not to chase other men, for “that is the Law”(Wells 121). The .....
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Fahrenheit 451: How Montag Is Convinced To Change His Mind About Books
.... happiness. Clarisse also causes him to question the society he is living in. "Clarisse wonders whether Montag is actually happy leading a death-in-life, and Montag quickly realizes that he is not happy when he enters his sterile and fully automatic house" (Zipes 185). Clarisse opens Montag's eyes to a different world, a world full of books and people communicating with each other. In the novel Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy. At first he denies it, but then after thinking about it he changes his mi .....
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So Long A Letter And A Raisin In The Sun: Love And Wealth
.... is faced with financial difficulties, but in the end the most important thing is love. The Younger’s, a black family from Chicago receives money from Walter Younger’s death and his wife wants to buy a house in an all white neighborhood. The Younger family consist of Lena, the mother Walter Lee and Beneatha her children, Walter Lee’s wife, Ruth, and their son Travis. This story takes place in the 1950’s when there were many racial discriminations occurring, segregations, and the Civil Rights movement. .....
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A Separate Peace: Finny How Things Change
.... towards him. Gene thought that everything Finny did was perfect, which just upset Gene all the more. Finny was so perfect that he didn't care what others thought, like when Finny wore a pink shirt as an emblem after the bombing of central Europe. " '...Pink! It makes you look like a fairy!' 'Does it?' He used this preoccupied tone when he was thinking of something more interesting than what you had said." One time Finny and Gene were at the swimming pool when Finny noticed that a boy named A. Hopkins .....
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Rebecca By Daphan Du Maurier
.... unwelcome by the servants and is especially disliked by Mrs. Danvers. While spending much time at the house, Mrs. De Winter discovers information about the former Mrs. De Winter, Rebecca. All along, the young lady understands that everything she does is compared to Rebecca. She becomes furious and fed up with all the reactions she receives and is convinced by Mrs. Danvers to kill herself. Close to suicide, Mrs. De Winters confronts her husband.
After a long conversation about Rebecca, he admits .....
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How It Feels To Be Coloured Me: Realizing Color
.... coloured. It’s thrown into her face. All the black people aren’t doctors, lawyers, butchers and postal workers like they were in Eatonville. As she states, “I feel most coloured when I am thrown into a sharp white backround.” She realizes that not everyone is the same anymore as they were in Eatonville. She knows that she’s “not in Kansas anymore”, similar to what anyone would feel being out of their realm.
Unlike the days of her grandfather, when he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of doing a .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
.... in contact with carry a certain sequential order. Huck started off despising the Widow’s rules, and when his Pap kidnaps him, he has no interest in returning. The juxtaposed thoughts in Pap’s mind, money and education, make him feel unworthy to Huck. Since Pap has neither quality, he does not want Huck to accelerate him in anyway. His father’s frantic activities show him as a person to always avoid and Huck now intentionally goes to school “to spite Pap”(Pg.27). “School is everything Pap is not, and e .....
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“The Loneliness Of The Long Distant Runner”: What Makes Smith Run???
.... by laughing at the law and running from it’s reaching arms.
Smith is forced to run by the governor at Borstal as part of his punishment for his crimes as a juvenile. He does not enjoy running except for the sanctity that it provides. The nature and beauty surrounding him while he runs is what appeals to him. Nature is not governed by man’s laws and in this sense is honest, true, and free. This appeals to Smith because he wants to find his own niche in society and depend upon his own system, instead .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Symbolic Scaffold
.... Arthur Dimmesdale (the father of Mrs. Prynne’s illegitimate child), and Pearl (the illegitimate child). Here, we find that the Reverend’s guilt over his sin becomes too much to bear alone. Dimmesdale goes to the scaffold to confess to God. Soon after, Hester and Pearl arrive, and join Dimmesdale on the scaffold. A meteor that appears and leaves an image of the scarlet A across the sky illuminates the three. This scene is symbolic because it shows how the Reverend wishes to confess his sins and over .....
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Barrio Boy And The House On Mango Street: A Character's Goals
.... This allowed him to run for president of his class in school. Ernesto's attempts to succeed with his goals in his Barrio make it evident that the quote is correct.
Esperanza's life on Mango Street sustains the message captured by the critical lens. Esperenza and many other characters in this short novel are determined to escape Mango Street. They all have the same goal for different reasons. Esperenza longed to leave because she was ashamed of where she lived and she did not believe that she fit in. H .....
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Silas Marner: Eliot's Manipulation
.... to the village of Raveloe because he has been falsely accused of stealing by the members of his religious sect in Lantern Yard, his hometown. Having lost faith in both God and man, he seeks a new life in Raveloe with new inhabitants, and falls into a routine of work and loneliness. We learn that his greatest joy is in amassing money. He likes how they shine and feel. Silas' few attempts at being neighborly are received with suspicion and he is thought of as fearsome. The children are afraid of his "de .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, And Violence
.... Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year.
In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets depressed, he turns towards alcohol. in Chapter 12, Holden is at Ernie's night club an .....
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Inherit The Wind: Creationism And Evolution
.... has been proven because numerous amounts of fossils were found in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Skulls, teeth, and bones of the earliest form of a human being, apes, and modern humans have been compared. It is that over millions of years the skull for example has more then tripled in size. The earliest tracing back of a human fossil is called austalopithecines; it dates back to about 5 million years ago. Evolution is a slow process and one could learn a lot from it. Evolution is connectable with creationism. .....
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Canterbury Tales: Power Corrupts
.... sounding harp. Having no job left the Clerk broke; his only source of income was his friends loaning him money. Not to anyone’s surprise, he spent the money on books and education. He loved to teach others and be taught. He listened carefully to what everyone had to say and never said anything more than what was appropriate for the specific time. This showed his modesty and willingness to learn new viewpoints and not just teach everyone his views.
The Friar was a happy and lustful man, who hav .....
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