The Scarlet Letter: Physical And Psychological Effects And Consequences Of Adultry
.... for the sin she committed. Although Hester is clearly a Puritan, she does fully acknowledge her sin and boldly displays it to the world. She dresses Pearl in scarlet as a second symbol, and wears the scarlet A long after she could have removed it. All these things are proof that she was trying to hide nothing. Hester’s salvation lies in truth.
Adultery also led to Hester having psychological consequences. She experienced much shame and guilt. As one of her punishments for her sin, she was for .....
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The Joy Luck Club: Journey To Adulthood
.... she would start her new future, she could see by the outside of the house that the Huangs were much higher in society than her family was. Once she stepped inside, however, she sees that the house is uncomfortable and imposing. Lindo was not welcomed warmly as a new member of the family. Instead she was shown to the servants' quarters which gave her a good idea about her position in this household. Her sole purpose of being the bride of Tyan-yu was to provide grandsons for Huang Taitai, her mother-i .....
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Soldiering & Symbolism
.... labeled as “Martial races.”
An interesting point that she makes about Martial races is that they have traditionally been set on the regional peripheries of a state. This makes it seem as though the only reason for their being allowed to remain part of the state is to protect it from outside invaders. With this kind of covered seclusion breeds contempt, both from the main stream people of the state as well as the “martial races” forced outside the framework of society for their differences. Th .....
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The Great Gatsby: Nick Was A Neutral Character
.... I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hersitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them. Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear observation. However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about something at a time, he does not believe it is true. After he proves it, he will accept the truth. Moreover, .....
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The Dead: A Necessary Introduction
.... he is. He asks Lily if she’ll be married soon, to which she replies "The men that is now is only a palayer and what they can get out of you" (Joyce, 178). Gabriel blushes immediately. He feels bad for bringing it up, and tosses her a coin in thanks, and as an indirect apology. He then rushes away to avoid further discussion, and perhaps his guilt as well.
The reader also discovers very quickly that Gabriel is very well educated. He is to give a speech at the dinner table, and he struggles with wheth .....
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Helpless Before The Iron In Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing"
.... I waited to the clock decreed," she shows the lack of knowledge the mother had in caring for a newborn because she ignores her maternal instincts and instead chooses to go by the book (p. 169). With just one line in the story, this statement packs powerful reasoning into the mother's helplessness, showing how her immaturity and lack of knowledge is working against her and to no fault of her own.
Closely related is the narrator's single status in a time of male dominance and no charitable family organ .....
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The Sundiata
.... were revealed (Niane 3). During wartime, a man would have to know how to kill his own food to survive, and knowing which plants would heal the wounds of injured sofas and cure their diseases was important to the survival of the troops. A great hunter would never die of hunger or wounds not treated properly.
In the Sundiata, the Muslim rulers were portrayed as powerful, respected, good rulers. Sundiata was a Muslim as well as Soumaba Cisse˘. When Sundiata first arrived at the court of Souma .....
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A Raisin In The Sun: Achieving Impossible Dreams
.... when Walter loses the money and the family ends up back to where they started, with nothing. Though the money is lost, this lifetime dream of Mama and Ruth’s is not destroyed. They keep their pride and dignity and contribute to sacrificing their time into working endless hours to keep the house. Ruth says, “Lena—I’ll work… I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to— .....
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Emily Bronte's Life And Wuthering Heights
.... men, but for different reasons. Heathcliff is a vengeance ridden, cold, wild tempered, working class man who destroys the lives of everyone around him in seeking restitution for the injustices against him as a young boy. Edgar Linton is well-mannered, considerate, financially secure gentleman who sought only the love of Catherine. Many of those who read this novel would support the blatant obvious; Edgar Linton as the unsung hero of the story. That though is the blatant obvious and the easiest choi .....
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Summary Of Beloved
.... Sweet Home, though for them, it was neither home nor sweet.
Plot
The plot of the novel is loosely based upon the life of a former slave named Margaret Garner, who tried to kill all of her children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arrives, he chases away the ghost, but soo .....
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Frankenstein: Rights And Responsibilities
.... all things around us and attempts to look at every hair, muscle and movement of an object to find out everything about it. Science is also about adding on to what already exists; this was a problem. When Dr. Frankenstein decided to introduce a new being into the world, he didn't have to consult anyone, answer any questions or think into the future. With no monitoring, one scientist not only caused four unwarranted deaths, he endangered the lives of many more. "The death of William, the execution of J .....
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Northanger Abbey: Reader's Response To Heroine
.... talks about in her description of Catherine in the title above come from Catherine's extreme innocence. Jane Austen's heroine arrives in Bath as a young debutante and, entirely inexperienced in the ways of the world, is immediately impressed by the more sophisticated Isabella. After their first meeting this is clear as she watches her leave; "(she) admired the graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her figure and dress, and felt grateful, as well she might, for the chance which had procur .....
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A Changed Man
.... much less take it all for his trip. A sensible man, Kumalo realizes that it is necessary to take all of this money and sacrifice the luxuries for which they had been setting aside. Kumalo is somewhat angered by the fact that he now must suffer for those who left and no longer send any letters, and seems to believe that they are at fault for the weakening of his family and of his tribe. Still, he knows that the fate of these family units lies in his hands now, and with the urgency of the situation in mi .....
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The Time Machine By H.G Wells
.... the concern for social justice that drew Wells to the Fabian Society and inspired much of his later writing, but time has not dimmed the fascination of the situation and the horror of the imagery. The Time Machine brought these concerns into his fiction. It, too, involved the future, but a future imagined with greater realism and in greater detail than earlier stories of the future. It also introduced, for the first time in fiction, the notion of a machine for traveling in time. In this novel the Time Ma .....
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The House On Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule
.... tight steps in front. She also complains that she has to share a bedroom with her Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, and Nenny. Esperanza is not satisfied with the life that she was given, and is destined to improve and achieve past the expectations set forth by her environment.
The writing style used in The House on Mango Street is a very indirect way of narrative. The author presents to the reader many different stories, stories that if taken at face value could be see as details alone. These stories are .....
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