My Son's Story
.... endeavor that he
is slowly beginning to dissipate from his commitment to his family. He
emerges himself in a relationship with Hannah, a young woman working for a
human-rights organization. “It was then that it began, that it was
inescapable. Needing Hannah”(53). Sonny and Hannah share the same fierce
drive to end apartheid. They are fighting the same battle. She is his
understanding. With Hannah, Sonny feels “the ultimate joy of making love
with someone who, too, is in the battle, for whom th .....
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The Last Of The Mohicans: Summary
.... named Duncan is also very much in love
with Cora Munro. He fights under command of her father, and despite her
fathers initial dislike for Hawkeye, and his great liking for Duncan, Cora
does not feel the same love for Duncan that he feels for her. Magua is a
member of the Huron tribe and has a great hatred for Colonel Munro, and
has made it is life's mission to kill Munro as well as his children to
wipe out the Colonel's seed forever. Magua is a very seditious man, and is
set on achieving his heinous m .....
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An Analysis Of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
.... Ginny is acceptable as a woman as long as she remains
"oblivious" (121). She is allowed to disagree with men, contingent upon
her doing so without fighting (104). Ultimately, her opinion as a woman
remains irrelevant. Ginny remarks, "of course it was silly to talk about
'my po int of view.' When my father asserted his point of view, mine
vanished" (176). When she makes the "mistake" of crossing her father, she
is referred to as a "bitch," "whore," and "slut" (181, 185).
It could be argued that m .....
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The Canterbury Tales: The Wife Of Bath
.... made trips to several shrines.
Through her unique introduction in The General Prologue we learn
much of her physical attributes. The Wife of Bath is gapped tooth.
"Gat-toothed was she, soothly for to saye.
Upon an amblere esily she sat" (p.91, ll. 470-471)
This physical feature is attributed to lust and passion. The fact that she
could ride a horse easily also could take on sexual connotations (Maclaine
32). The horse she "rides" so well could actually be her hu .....
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Characterization In Clancy's Red Storm Rising
.... hadn't been exposed. Instead, the reader finds O'Mally
to be a wise, loving, compassionate man. Lastly, the reader sees the
thought process of Lt. Edwards, a man stranded with 4 marines in an enemy
occupied Iceland, as he kills three Russians in order to save a girl from
rape. If his actions weren't enough, the reader sees in italics the
sanctity and respect that he holds for women and his fellow human beings.
Showing the thoughts of the characters brings the reader even closer to the
story and the men in .....
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The Scarlet Letter: How Are Life's Lessons Learned?
.... could be punished, he did not go unpunished.
Reverend Dimmesdale had taken it upon him to stand on the same platform
that Hester had, and he also whipped himself. The whipping did not serve
its purpose, he was laughing all the while that he lashed himself. Neither
means of punishment had taught him anything, as well as Hester.
To fill in for what punishment had not taught, consequence brought
forth the lessons of life. The consequences that Hester found were bad and
good. There is usually two sid .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Summary
.... attention, and whose harvest is a little
Pearl. Finally, as things unfold we learn that the Puritans are not all bad.
Potentially they are indeed a diverse community, comprising not only
dogmatists and invaders, but ecumenicals, free-thinkers, Quakers,
antinomians, and former members of the Merry-Mount colony. So the mood is
hopeful as the story draws to a close. The community survives, and with it,
presumably, the prospects for the great experiment. Prospectively, too, the
experiment moves outward across .....
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Young Goodman Brown: Everyone Is Capable Of Sin
.... to the
Black Sabbath. Shortly afterwards, as Goodman was resting, Deacon Gookin,
Goodman's other spiritual advisor, walks by with a minister. He and the
minister are talking about missing a church ordination dinner to attend the
satanic gathering. The deacon says,'”Besides several of the Indian powwows,
who, after their fashion know almost as much deviltry as the best of us,'”
(311). The whole time Goodman is on the trail, he is committing sin.
Every step of the way, he is forsaking his god. He slowly .....
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Fahrenheit 451: A Depleting Society
.... which also vaguely relates to Walkmen or walkie-talkies. Almost
every kid in the United States owns a Walkman and many tapes or CD's. Many
teenagers lives' are spent listening to music. Instead of talking and
carrying on a conversation with somebody a person often turns the music on
and sticks to themselves instead.
Before the 1920's and before Charles Darwin came out with his
theory of evolution and The Origin of Species, the only thing people knew
was the story of the Bible. Almost every .....
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Animal Farm: The Corruption In Humans And The Character Napoleon
.... character.
He is a cold hearted individual and the effect he had on others didn't have
much impact on his moral character. His tactics for deception were his
cunning ways. An example of this is when the pigs milked the cows and
someone asked what was going to happen to all that milk, Napoleon
receptively shrugged it off by saying: “ ‘ Never mind the milk, comrades!'
cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. ‘That will be
attended to.' “ Napoleon is using a communist term when referring .....
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Animal Farm: Boxer Is A Leader's Ideal Disciple
.... to persuade Boxer, Boxer says, "I do not believe Snowball was a
traitor at all in the beginning." He sticks to this until he is told that
Napoleon said that the story about Snowball was true. He then resorted
back the motto that "Napoleon is always right." He may have been able to
stick to his belief about Snowball had it not been for his naive nature.
The pigs took a great advantage of this. Boxer was also faithful to his
work. He was always trying to do more. Boxer was a very faithful
charact .....
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The Great Gatsby: Adults In The Great Gatsby And Adults In The 80s And 90s
.... and next
they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and
white,”(137). In society today many races are discriminated against because
they are thought to be inferior. In school, at work, and in anyone's
neighborhood there is discrimination because of the skin color and they are
harassed. There was violence in the 20's with gangs and mob leaders such as
Al Capone. He was a notorious racketeer who fought with other gangs. Today
there are also gang crimes like in the music busine .....
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Jay Gatsby: A Confused Man
.... Nick and Daisy. He rarely showed or talked
about his emotions and if he did, the subject was quickly changed.
Gatsby did not develop throughout the novel. From a point early in
his life, he had a romantic fantasy and he continued to sustain this
throughout his life. He liked to focus on past events, rather than look at
what was happening at the present. For example, he and Daisy had a
beautiful romance for a long period earlier in his life. Gatsby repeated
this moment over and over again in hi .....
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Summary Of The Heart Of Darkness
.... into the dense, black
depths of the jungle. Marlow is told that there are enemy natives hidden
there, but it is struck by the absurdity of this war with the “darkness”
and its invisible forces. Finally, the steamer reaches the mouth of the
Congo and Marlow disembarks.
Here, he boards another steamer, commanded by a Swede, and starts
on his first leg of his journey up the river. The captain tells him of the
sad fate of another Swede who had apparently hanged himself. Again and
again Marlow is str .....
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Analysis Of Animal Farm
.... happened in my book Animal Farm was that the
animals over took the Manor Farm. The "revolution," as they called it, was
achieved with great ease. Jones had gotten so drunk at a bar that he did
not get home until noon and then went to sleep until late that evening.
The animal had gone unfed that whole day. Then one of the cows could not
stand it any more and broke the door to the store-shed. She and the rest
of the cows started eating the feed in the shed. This commotion awoke
Jones, and he and his f .....
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