The Pearl By Steinbeck
.... very conniving characters when they all tried to buy the pearl for much less than it is worth so they could sell it for a big profit. Kino now realized that this pearl was becoming a problem but he didn't care. His motives revovled around greed which was shown throughout the story. Kino encounters many other obstacles in his journey to sell the pearl such as theieves and his wife. Kino who was described as a very loving and caring man at the beginning of the novel hit his wife because she wanted to g .....
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Satire At It's Best In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... it; it ain't good sense, ain't good morals. Ain't I right?" This is a very good example of Twain satirizing the idiocy and cruelty of society in general. The man is so misguided that he thinks it's a lesser crime to let a man drown than to just plain kill him
Twain a lot of the time makes fun of how whites perceived blacks or how blacks thought of whites. "He judged it was all up with him any way it could be fixed; for if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, wh .....
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Ayn Rand's Anthem: Themes
.... They work only for what is taught to be the common happiness. True pleasures of life are not allowed. Since they do not see personal benefits and fulfillment from their work, they lack enthusiasm and personal initiative. It is as though everybody has been brainwashed to one collective way. The people consider themselves as one body. Though collectivisim may have certain benefits, in Anthem it is taken to a dangerous extreme. Their collective society has nearly wiped out any traces of the individual. For .....
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Walker's Everyday Use
.... Maggie has always known the meaning, she values them for what they mean to her as an individual. This becomes clear when she says, "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts," (698). This implies that her connection with the quilts is personal and emotional rather than materialistic.
Dee has always been ashamed of her family; she told her mother that she would manage to come to see them but wouldn't bring her friends. Just by saying that you can tell right off that she was ashamed to bring her .....
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The Changing Of The America Through Literature
.... these life lessons that had to be learned by his readers in entertaining stories that had the ability to get the point across. During that time the people were basically divided into three groups, rich white folks, poor white folks, and black slaves and plantation workers. There were no respected Negro people in any of the communities throughout the South. They were mostly slaves serving and working for the white people. Twain showed mostly the negative effects of that time period but also added in .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Predictions
.... outcasts.
Another difference that is rather large is the emphasis that Bradbury puts on the wall screen, three wall television type devices. Probably the biggest difference and the strangest is how Guy’s wife Mildred and the rest o f the country related to them as their “family.” Also how all the characters in the books could interact with the televisions by being in plays or shows. The TV could quite possibly be a way for Mildred to try to escape her unhappiness and reality, rather than dealing with .....
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The Awakening: Edna Pontellier's Spiritual Awakening
.... her soul. “But she knew a way to elude them.” (p. 115) Her actions around her suicide greatly symbolize everything she hope to achieve in her life, and finally found in her death. As she walked down to the beach for the last time she put on her bathing suit. When she arrived at the shore, “she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her.” That symbolized the shedding of her “unpleasant” and “pricking” life. “For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air.” (p.115) She was on he .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
.... a vast blue demonstration. They kept marching on without purpose, direction, or fighting. Through time Henry started to think about the battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty calls. He felt like a servent doing whatever his superiors told him.
When the regement finally discovers a battle taking place, Jim gives Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that this will be his first and last ba .....
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The Awakening
.... Awakening was set and therefore a limitation for most, allowed her to overcome other limitations of being female. Edna refused to attend her sister’s funeral even though, according to her father, she should go out of “womanly consideration”. And as most wives unconditionally obeyed their husbands, Edna often refused her husband’s wishes from simple matters of merely meeting him downtown to more complex issues such as her Tuesdays at home.
Through her struggles, Edna came to understand her means to hap .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus And Miss Maudie
.... he was a Negro? He was a man.
Mayella didn’t know what extent of legal trouble her actions might offer for Tom, not to mention problems with her father. She didn’t know he’d run and therefore seem to seal the fact that he provoked it.
Mayella took care of everything around her. In this way she sang her heart out. Mayella took charge of her siblings. She was like their mother. They might not have had much class, but they were relatively healthy and able thanks to her. She kept a good house (wi .....
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A Picture Of Dorian: Gray Basil's Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion On Art
.... being called "Price Paradox." Although Dorian and Basil end up hating each other, they do enjoy meeting each other for the first time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in love with him and begins to paint the picture. Basil begins painting the picture, but does not tell anyone about it, including Dorian, because he knows that there is too much .....
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The Cask Of Amontillado
.... left the house, thinking the master would be out for the rest of the night. Montressor had told them not to leave knowing that they most defiantly would. The house was now empty and perfect for his plot.
Montressor led Fortunato into the gloomy depths of the vaults. The humidity caused Fortunato to cough so Montressor gave him more to drink. He made it seem like he cared about Fortunato's cough when he was actually trying to get him more drunk than he already was. Montressor's evil is shown when .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage
.... a better member of the group. Henry returns to the regiment and learns to follow orders without complaining. Henry overcomes his fears and shows courage at the next battle.
When the battle is over Henry has changed. He did what had to be done, therefore, he acted courageously. Henry can now look at his heroic deeds, put his sins in perspective, and not feel to proud about one, or too guilty about the other. Henry has matured into a courageous and honorable man.
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The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
.... to.
Differences that were highly noticeable were that in the novel, the interviewer was a teacher that wanted her information for his class and in the movie, it was a magazine reporter. When Albert Clevoue died in the novel, the chariots of hell came for him, and in the movie, you don’t even hear of his death. In the novel, it was a black horse that killed Joe Pittman, and the movie, white.
In conclusion, the novel had more, described the stories more thoroughly. One might find that the novel i .....
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The Pardoner
.... Though he may be equally guilty of sin, he can still make others repent. His only concern is that, realizing their sinfulness; they give him money to benefit from his pardons. All the money he gets he seems to regard as his own, he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. The Pardoner tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After a coffin passes by the inn, the three learn that the dead person was a friend of t .....
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