The Secret Sharer: A Summary
.... or in other words is
a secret sharer if the word secret is taken for a noun, it is a possibility
that this image might come to mind. Another image is that of a person who
shares in secrecy, therefore becoming a secret sharer, if the word secret
is taken for an adjective. This could be an image of a miser, who
generally does not share his wealth, but does so only in secrecy. A secret
sharer could also be an imaginary friend. It would be a person who is
secretive, and you share your thoughts with the .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
.... do not go for their
full life but for a couple of years. When they do get out of prison they
are still in the mafia. The only thing they learn from being in prison is
to cover their tracks up better. People should pay for what they do and be
punished properly. For example, if a man rapes a woman he should be
castrated. This way people would have fear and not commit crimes.
Torture is also a better punishment rather then death. When a person
dies they don't pay for what they have done, they si .....
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Comparison Of Margaret Mead's "Coming In Age" To Russian Youth
.... Many come
from broken homes and poor communities with little respect for authority.
They rebel against what they feel is an unjust society and look for a
culture or group that they can identify with.
Often society depicts these groups as dangerous, deviant and
delinquent. These groups, however, just show many of the valued structures
of society, but in a more radical way. They have a standard code of dress,
values, ethics and rebel in order to force their ideas onto the public and
to feel part .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Plot
.... Hester's or Author's. This is first evident in the fact
that he married Hester knowing she would never love him and yet he made her
marry him anyway. He admits this while talking to her in the jail cell.
"Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false
and unnatural relation with my decay."
His second sin is allowing himself to become obsessed with
vengeance against Dimmesdale].
"But, as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce,
though still cal .....
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The Stone Angel: Hagar Shipley
.... (p.10) and that "she took after him" (p.10). The first sigh
of Hagar's excessive pride was shown when her father scolded her for
telling a customer that there were bugs in the barrel of raisins. She
refused to cry before and after the punishment: "I wouldn't let him see me
cry, I was so enraged" (p.9). She continued to build a wall around herself
to hide her emotions. Her pride interfered with many relationships in her
life. When her brother Dan was dying, her other brother Matt asked her to
put on .....
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The Stone Angel
.... at being her - it was beyond me." (p. 25) Hagar's father sent her to
school out east to learn how to become a proper lady. After coming back
from college to become a proper lady, Hagar wanted to teach school but her
father wouldn't allow it. Hagar, instead, kept her father's accounts and
played hostess. Hagar meets Bram Shipley three years later and decides to
marry him. Her father does not approve of the marriage, but Hagar marries
Bram in a spirit of willful pride. Hagar's father does not sp .....
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1984: The Structure Of The Novel
.... Also, Winston thinks about Goldstein. He says how
Goldstein has a lot of influence on some people. Still, the majority of
the people hate and despise him. He is always the face of hate in the Two
Minute Hate and everywhere else, but for some people like in The
Brotherhood, he is a hero. Winston thinks about the brotherhood and
wonders if it is a myth or a reality. Therefore, Winston's conversion to
Party doctrine becomes obvious when he writes in his diary, and when he
questions Goldstein.
Se .....
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"The Anniversary" And "To His Coy Mistress": The Synchronicity Of Pen And Life
.... the next line, "nor
would I love at lower rate." This is where we begin a question what has up
till now progressed so smoothly, as all good fantasies must if they are to
be successful. We begin to question this world of Marvell's creation and
see the enigma that lies within the term "lower rate." We have been
hearing of an agonizingly slow mating ritual, Marvell has been patiently
dancing around his mistress, praising her every aspect with a devotion that
approaches what one would offer to the divine. .....
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Comparison Of Lord Of The Flies And All Quiet On The Western Front
.... the societal taboos placed on killing are still
ingrained within Jack. The next significant encounter in Jack's
progression is his first killing of a pig. There is a description of a
great celebration. The boys chant "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill
her blood." It is clear from Golding's description of the revelry that
followed the killing that the act of the hunt provided the boys with more
than food. The action of killing another living thing gives them pleasure.
The last stage in Jack's metamor .....
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The Genji Monogatari
.... a paper).
The first way that Murasaki employs nature is in her precise
characterizations of the dozens of main and minor players in Genji. From
the season in which the character appears to the clothes that they wear to
the portion of Genji's palace that they inhabit, without a more than casual
appreciation to nature in reading this novel a great chunk of the literary
value is lost. "[Murasaki} is not content simply to describe the charms of
the different seasons, but they are skillfully harmonized with .....
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The Themes In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
.... by
the setting of her novel; an old house where a mysterious recluse might
live, the courtroom, and the lawyer's office" (Matuz 239). This
environment and her southern background proved to be the perfect
combination for writing a story about life in a quiet town in Alabama. The
only way to be a good writer is to write from experience, and since she
lived most of her life in the setting of the story, her writing proved to
be good. The timing for the release of To Kill a Mockingbird could not
have .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: The True Sign Of Maturity
.... them aboard, showing
great compassion. Later, the two men lie to Huck and Jim. Huck does not say
a thing, though he realizes they are lying. "But I never said nothing,
never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no
quarrels, and don't get into no trouble...I hadn't no objections, 'long as
it would keep peace in the family." (19). It is now clear to Huck that
these men are not going to be a blessing to him and Jim. Still, he never
says a thing, and just wants to have a fri .....
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The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
.... but not his relative). Enlisting the aid of
his brother Scott, the two first began tracing the connections between the
death squads but soon were unravelling networks and alliances that involved
terrorists, Nazi collaborators, racists, assassins, anti-Jewish bigots, and
right- wing anti-communist American politicians. The one factor all had in
common was their involvement with the World Anti-Communist League.
The Latin American death squads, for instance, were found to be linked
through an umbrella .....
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Similarities In Fitzgerald's "Two Wrongs" And "An Alcoholic Case"
.... takes his profession seriously in the way
that it produces many social advantages and opportunities.
In the other story we have an out of work cartoonist who also has
an alcoholic problem. His is a condition that is so bad it requires him to
have a nurse. This is an obvious and maybe at first glance, the only
similarity between the two stories. In Fitzgerald's stories, fictional
problems are often the result of alcoholism. There are, however more
similarities than that.
There are also similarities in th .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: The Unfairness Of Life
.... help from others. In fact they are
embarrassed to take charity. The Cunninghams are too proud to take
anything without paying or working for it. "Your shamin' him, Miss
Caroline. Walter hasn't got a quarter at home to bring you, and you can't
use any stovewood." (21) When Miss Caroline offers the money to Walter,
Scout quickly steps in, trying to save her from an embarrassing moment.
The Cunningham's financial situation is hard enough for Walter. He no
doubt feels as if it's his fault, he has let t .....
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