To Kill A Mockingbird: Character Analysis Of Jem
.... court convicts Tom Robinson of rape when
Atticus had clearly proven that Tom could not have done it Jem sees his
first real glance of corruption in the world. It upsets him as well as
making him see and believe in evils in the world, such as racism. His
beliefs in why Boo Radley stayed in the house all the time changed too.
When he was young he thought Boo was just crazy and that's why he stayed in
the house. But he comes to believe that Boo stays in the house because he
doesn't want to come out, because h .....
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
.... Muff could have been hung or go to prison for
a long time.
Tom uses his head in serious situations. For example when Injun
Joe was upstairs and Tom has to be quiet. It seemed nothing else mattered.
Tom works best under pressure because he thinks more about it.
Somehow, Tom had sensitivity for others, even others didn't have it
for him. Like the situation with the torn page of the teachers book. Even
though Tom didn't tear the page he still took the blame for Becky when
Becky was being mean to him. He go .....
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The Canterbury Tales: Tools Of The Trade
.... his hand to this false traitor Death. He that slays so
many shall be slain himself before nightfall."
In "The Pardoners Tale" personification is employed to make Death a
person instead of a process. Death is given human characteristics to make
him more real to us. This tool allows the main characters to focus their
feelings.With the use of personification the three men are allowed to
focus their feelings of vengence on a person instead of a biological
process.
Another tool that was heavily relied .....
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To Teach Or Not To Teach?
.... subtly and not pushing them upon the reader directly.
Primarily, Huck Finn teaches readers two important lessons about
the true nature of people. Throughout the book, one of these main lessons
is that Blacks can be just as caring as whites. The white characters often
view the blacks as property rather than as individuals with feelings and
aspirations of their own. Huck comes to realize that Jim is much more than
a simple slave when he discusses a painful experience with his daughter.
Jim describes h .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest And The Scarlet Letter: To Live With Fear
.... talked to McMurphy one night, and began laughing at the situation at
hand. One day when McMurphy and the Chief tried to help another patient
who was being taken advantage of by orderlies, they were caught and
sentenced to electro-shock therapy (EST). The Chi usually blacked out in a
fog when confronted with problems; however, this time (he had endured over
200 EST sessions previously) he did not. However, McMurphy was
deteriorating, and the two seemed to be reversing positions. McMurphy
eventually .....
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The Tower Of Babel
.... In the novel Kidnapped, Stevenson
carefully molds his theme of duality and character's personal and cultural
conflicts to narrate a story about a kidnapped boy, named David, who,
through his growing cultural tolerance and open-mindedness, matures from a
naive adolescent to a young man capable of dealing with crisis and
accepting his role in the culturally divided world.
Despite extensive cultural differences, the Highlanders and
Lowlanders represent two halves of a society that must intermin .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Trading Places With Atticus Finch
.... such as the average citizen's political views, or if the average
citizen even had one. It would also be fun to see what "technology" there
was, although there was probably not much. Lastly I would enjoy seeing how
people dealt with the low standard of living.
There are many differences between him and me. One is that I have
never been persecuted. He was every day. That would not be fun. People
wanted to kill him, which wouldn't be fun either.
The other main difference was that he lives d .....
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Of Mice And Men: Lennie And George
.... they live a part of eachother. George, being
the leader of the two, has the responsibility of caring for Lennie, who is
much like a child in his ways, however, far more dangerous than his inner
character reflects. George has to keep a watchful eye over Lennie, for
without constant supervision, Lennie would inadvertently kill anything he
touches.
George has towards Lennie the tenderness and protective instinct which
most have towards the helpless, the disadvantaged, and the dependent.
George has encounte .....
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Transfer Of Power
.... Mocondo villagers just
become idle. Ursula ses her personal power when her 17 grandsons are
executed and yet she remains calm and collected. Ursula not only uses her
power to help herself she maintains it for nearly a century.
Incredibly Ursula is able to maintain her power for more then three
generations after the death of Jose. Ursula accomplishes this not by
making decisions that are always necessarily agreed upon but by standing by
her decisions and not wavering. When money is found in .....
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Nine Tomorrows: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
.... to memorize enough to match
someone else who knows" (Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55). People would not
chose to study, they would only want to be educated by computer tapes.
Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing
something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic
world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and
allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people.
Computers would start teaching humans wh .....
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The Awakening: Triumph Over Tragedy
.... also make the audience love them, feel for them and experience
the anguish and pain they will undergo. King Lear is a great example of a
tragic figure. He appeals to the reader, and captures their attention. The
reader ends up sympathizing for him, and wanting him to overcome the
obstacles which block his path. He motivates the emotion of the audience
and controls their feelings. Edna Pontellier does not have the depth of
character or ability to be a tragic figure. From the opening chapters she
is portraye .....
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A Separate Peace: True Friends
.... when everything was thrown on the scales they
would in the end tilt definitely toward me"(47).
So in Gene's mind he was better than Phineas, and this appeased the grip of
jealousy for awile at least. Peace is once again retained at the Devon
school, but it wont last. Neither Gene nor Phineas can foresee the agony
which will soon be beckoning them.(4)
The summer was quickly passing for these two boys and Gene nearly
forgot his jealousy towards Finny. The stress of trying to be better and
fo .....
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Turgenev's Fathers And Sons
.... who is
described as a simpering old servant. Arkady is then met by his uncle Pavel,
Pavel shakes hands with Arkady but abruptly puts his hand away when he is
greeting Bazarov. We can see from the actions of Pavel that he immediately
doesn't like Bazarov. After Arkady and Bazarov leave to go to their rooms,
Pavel begins to ask about the "hairy creature" that is visiting with Arkady,
and Bazarov begins to mock Pavel by comments his European demeanor and
finds him "terribly affected for someone living so far .....
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Solomon's "The Return Of The Screw"
.... of Quint and Jessel. Solomon
does not address the issue of whether or not what the governess sees is
actually there. His explanation is logical either way. If the governess
sees real ghosts, or if she is imagining it all, does not matter. What
matters is that Mrs. Grose tailors Quint and Jessel to the governess'
descriptions. She listens to the descriptions and tells the governess'
she is seeing Quint and Jessel. Mrs. Grose does not herself create the
visions that the governess sees, instead, she .....
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The Riders: Summary And Analysis
.... been constantly drunk in
past few years. Peter is the first person which scully encounters when he
arrived in Ireland and from then on peter has become a good friend of
scully, bringing him his telegrams, having a social chat and helping
scully with his home. (34).
Since the first greeting between peter and scully, peter has schown great
enthusiasm to help scully recondition his home on page 24. This even meant
putting off his daily post. “Haven't you got the post to do? Diversity, Mr
Sculy thats my m .....
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