Billy Budd: A Story Of True Goodness
.... people who are clearly on opposite sides of the spectrum contrast one another in a plethora of ways. Where Billy is sweet, John is bitter. Where Billy is naïve, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. Lastly, where Billy is good, John is bad.
The ugliness that results in the death of both men portrays the triumph of sinister forces over the meek. John Claggart, who is a powerful and feared man aboard Bellipotent, lashes out at Billy who is for the most part defenseless. This is an .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Imagery And Symbolism Of The Conch Shell And Ralph
.... than it had been when they first found it. It still had the power over the boys though they still listened to the person who was holding the shell. By the time Piggy was killed though the conch had changed to a bleached color though, and was very brittle. When Piggy died the conch went with him it shattered into hundreds of pieces. The conch symbolizes how the civilization was drained from the boys. The more and more wild the boys got the whiter and more fragile the conch got.
Ralph was the other sym .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Love FOr Children
.... is one of the few people that he can really take to. He does not want to see her grow up. It is Phoebe who ultimately saves Holden.
Holden Caulfield is a confused sixteen-year-old who refuses to grow up. He is frightened to face his approaching adulthood and often thinks of killing himself so he doesn’t have to. He often thinks of his deceased brother Allie who will always be remember as a child, and he realizes the price one has to pay to remain a child is death.
Holden’s fear of growing up and his .....
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Summary Of All Quite On The Western Front!
.... conditions at the front are terrifying. As the narrator puts it, "It is unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation wild with anguish, filled with terror and groaning." It is very loud, also, with constant bombardments and frequent attacks. "At that moment," Paul says, "it breaks out behind us, shells, roars, thunders." The screamhs of injured people is even worse then the blaring explosions and the earsplitting sound of machine gun firing because they know that the wound .....
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The Joy Luck Club: Relationship Between Mother And Daughter
.... can see the stories behind both sides and so as not to judge either side unfairly. This section, titled Feathers From a Thousand Li Away, is aptly named, since it describes the heritage of the mothers in China, a legacy that they wished to bestow on their daughters, as the little story in the beginning signifies. For many years, the mothers did not tell their daughters their stories until they were sure that their wayward offspring would listen, and by then, it is almost too late to make them understand .....
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Malamud’s The Assistant: Frank Alpine's Metamorphosis From Bad To Good
.... get acquainted and have a revealing conversation. In this conversation, Frank discloses some personal information about his past. “I’ve had a rough life……I mean I’ve been trough a lot. I’ve been close to some wonderful things……but close is as far as I go….sooner or later everything I think is worth having gets away from me in some way or other.” (P39-40) Frank does not have any clear justification for his actions. However, his defense is that after such a rough childhood, what else can be expected of hi .....
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Who Is Amelia Sedley?
.... and marital problems are paralleled by Amelia’s.
Amelia’s marriage to George Osborne is threatened when her family sinks
into financial ruin and George’s father refuses to countenance a union
between his son and the helpless daughter. However, inspired by his friend
Dobbin, who is himself in love with Amelia and always selflessly thinking
of her happiness, George rebels against his father and marries her.
George is killed in battle and she is poverty-stricken that she is
forced to hand her son over to .....
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The Scarlet Letter - Puritan Society
.... where men, as well as women, can
open up and be themselves. It is here that Dimmesdale openly acknowledges
Hester and his undying love for her. It is also here that Hester can do
the same for Dimmesdale. Finally, it is here that the two of them can
openly engage in conversation without being preoccupied with the
constraints that Puritan society places on them.
The forest itself is the very embodiment of freedom. Nobody watches
in the woods to report misbehavior, thus it is here that people may .....
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Nine Tomorrows: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
.... 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 what
computers te .....
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Children Of The River
.... all worked out at the end.
Soka is Sundara’s aunt, but now she has Sundara as a responsibility. Ravy
is Sundara’s Cousin. He falls quickly into the American ways. Yet, no one
stops him. Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon are Jonathan’s parents. Mr. McKinnon saved
Ravy’s life when he came to America. Sundara also teaches him Cambodian
language, so he can go to Cambodia.
Minor Characters
Naro is Soka’s son yet he is the head of the family. Grandmother
makes sure that Sundara does what she is supposed to. Moni is like .....
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Tess Of The D'Ubervilles: Environments And The Feels Of The Characters
.... by stabbing him in
the heart, symbolically breaking his heart as he had done to her years ago.
Once he was dead, Tess was free of her sin and could finally have the love
of Angel unhindered by her past. She had killed her past in the house
which was slowly killing her.
The next residence for Tess after the murder was in an abandoned mansion:
Bramshurst Court. This was the perfect place for Tess and Angel to escape
to. She wished for nothing more than to be left alone, from other people
and from her past .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... himself in: "They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and
low…Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,- s'pose you'd a
done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than you do now? No, says
I, I'd feel bad…" (p.127). Only a few weeks with Jim and still feeling
great ambivalence, Huck returns to the river to think. Twain tries here to
tell the reader how strong the "mob" really is, and only when totally alone
is Huck able to make the morally correct decision. The natural fl .....
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Of Mice And Men
.... was in the bunkhouse in
the ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck described the
bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were
whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse
was not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of
entertainment in the bunkhouse was playing cards .....
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The Invisible Man
.... man: he lost part of his identity, However, he
regained it by escaping and making a name for himself in the Brotherhood.
The chain becomes a symbol between the narrator and Brother Tarp because
the chain also symbolizes the narrator's experience in college, where he
was restricted to living up to Dr. Bledsoe's rules. He feels that he too
escaped, in order to establish himself again .The narrator identifies with
Brother Tarp because he too is trying to be an individual free of other
people's control. .....
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The Awakening: Edna's Path Through Life
.... herself for the hurricane
winds of a disappointed and disapproving society? Edna chose to do what
society wanted her to doshe got married and left her fantasies and dreams
in the depths of the shadows. "The acme of bliss, which would have been a
marriage with the tragedian, was not for her in this world. As the devoted
wife of a man who worshiped her, she felt she would take her place with a
certain dignity in the world of reality, closing the portals forever behind
her upon the realm of romance and d .....
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