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.... Literary Criticism 173).
Gradually the character comes to be one with their surroundings and is able
to cope with the problems the west posses. They gain inner peace and
become one with nature. In the novel The Vanishing American Marian is an
eastern girl who moves out west to be with her true love Nophie. Nophie is
an Indian she met and fell in love with. At first Marian struggles with
the harsh conditions and hot weather. She almost gives up but continues to
push on. Gradually she become .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Thoughts And Feelings
.... plan, even though the extent of his plans are to
"take a room in a hotel.., and just take it easy till Wednesday."
Holden's excessive thoughts on death are not typical of most
adolescents. His near obsession with death might come from having
experienced two deaths in his early life. He constantly dwells on Allie,
his brother's, death. From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves
and misses Allie. In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the
pain of his loss, Holden brings Allie .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Beast Within Us
.... Jack we witness many acts of
savagery. When Jack first starts to turn to a savage, was when he changed
himself into someone different by putting paint on his face and acting like
a wild animal. This is kind of like Jack's own way of initiating himself
into a different person. Then after we see Jack as a different person, we
see such acts as the death of Simon, the smeared blood on the children's
faces, and the attempt on Ralph's life. All these things show how his
inner demon's presence. Another .....
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The Invisible Man: Philosophy Through Characterization
.... to the white benefactors. An accidental remark to equality nearly
ruins him, but the narrator manages to survive and is given a briefcase
containing a scholarship to a Negro college. This acts a high peak in the
narrator's quest since it sets him for his struggle in searching for
himself.
The narrator adores the college however is thrown out before long
by its president, Dr.Bledsoe, the great educator and leader of his race.
Ironically the narrator had seen Dr.Bledsoe as an idol aiming to gradually
impe .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Breakdown Of A Society
.... occurs when Piggy is killed. The heavy
impact of the stone shatters the shell and ends what is left of their
society.
The second symbol is Piggy's glasses in connection with the fire
and the boys' eventual rescue. The specs were used to start the first fire.
Without them, they have no chance of rescue.
At one point in the story, Jack and Piggy began to fight and Jack
hit Piggy's glasses off. They hit a rock and shattered one lens. This
symbolizes the loss of one-half of their chance of rescue.
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Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
.... and nomadic, and inclined to be rootless and adventurous. They
lived off the land. The family led a simple life, and believed that by
worshipping the land it would provide for them. To be happy and prosperous
one did not need the comfort of towns or advantages of education, one only
needed the vast open plains of the llano. Gabriel's wife encouraged him to
give up the wild lifestyle and move into town where they could build a
family together. He did this but it crushed his adventurous spirit. He
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William Faulkner's Absalom
.... it to the reader. Faulkner says that the duty of an author, as
an artist, is to depict the human heart in conflict with itself. This
attitude is revealed in the conflicts that Henry Sutpen undergoes in
Absalom, Absalom.
Thomas Sutpen is the son of a poor mountain farmer who founded the
Sutpen estate. Thomas Sutpen stands for all the great and noble qualities
of the South, and at the same time represents the failure of the South by
rejecting the past and committing the same types of acts .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Racism
.... through the trial of Tom Robinson that racism is unjust.
As the story progresses you learn the hate put onto a man solely due to his
color. Through a wise, just, man, Atticus, you learn that hate should
never be brought onto anyone. Prejudice is another example in which hate
should not be brought forth in.
To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates prejudice through Boo Radley.
Boo shows us that thoughts can be brought onto a person, just because they
are different. People believe that he is a crazy ma .....
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Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
.... are many members of the family that stand
out in self-conceit. One person is Tom Joad, one of Ma and Pa Joad's
children. He has recently been released from prison and seems to be
concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for
money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many
lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy,
a man representative of Jesus Christ in both his initials "J.C." and in his
beliefs. The preacher is the one .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout And Maturity
.... on tiptoe, hastily looked around once
more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus
their outer wrappers. (Lee, p.67)
Although Scout may not have realized the connection of the gifts,
she later realized they must have came from Boo. This was the start of her
acceptance of Boo as a "nice" person.
When Miss Maudie's house caught on fire, Boo surprised Scout.
Atticus stated, "Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you
didn't know it when he put the bl .....
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Summary Of Aycliffe's The Lost
.... Castle Vliacu, his family's fortress in the
Transylvanian Alps and hopes to turn it into an orphanage for Romanian
children. Delightful letters pass between Michael and his love, Sophie
Wandless, back in Cambridge, as he describes his travels through Eastern
Europe, his frustrating encounters with bureaucrats, and the gloomy life in
today's Bucharest. Meanwhile, he hires a research assistant, Liliana, to
help him establish his bona fides as the owner of Castle Vliacu.. Liliana
and her secret boyfriend, .....
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The Dubliners: Summary
.... always being under the constant
supervision of the priest to do what he felt was righteous.
It is not until the end of the story that the boy realizes from
one of the Sisters, Eliza, about the priest madness as well as his
physical and spiritual paralysis. He understands that the priest had been
a living his life in a way he felt would be satisfying to the church which
eventually led to his death. When The boy is finally able to see the priest
he has a moment of truth and understanding. He understa .....
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The Stranger: Existentialism
.... the
beach and how he handled the situation afterwards. The Arab had drawn his
knife and held it up to Meursault, but this wasn't what bothered him, it
was the light from the sun that shot off the Arabs knife, and the intense
heat along with the salt from his sweat in his eyes that was bothering him.
Meursault shot the Arab mainly because he was uncomfortable and not because
he felt threatened, but in any case he made the decision to shoot him. In
the next chapter Meursault can't understand why he would .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Ma Joad - The Leader
.... if everything is all right, then the family
will assume everything is all right. Most members of the family openly
express their doubts or fears. Ma may be just as frightened as the rest of
the family, but she always maintains a front for the rest of the family.
When Ma had fears, "She had practiced denying them in herself." This
extraordinary self-control helps to keep the Joad unit together and alive.
Ma, like all leaders, must be forceful for things to work in her
favor. Numerous situations occu .....
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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
.... of "every woman". She was conventional in prior
times, married with one daughter, a husband and a career. She is
ambivalent to many things that may seem horrific to the reader. On page 93,
Offred is witness to Janine's confession of being raped. She doesn't
comment on how the blame is placed on Janine. Is this because Offred has
begun to accept the words of Aunt Lydia, or more likely, is she silent to
create emphasis on the horrific deed? The answer is easily satisfied when
the reader finishes t .....
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