To Kill A Mockingbird
.... when it was cold. Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem’s pants that tore on Dill’s last night. Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to Scout’s primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree. She never gave anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout escorts Arthur home and stands on his front porch, she sees the same street she saw, just from an .....
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The Surprising Aspect Of Sex In Heller's Catch-22
.... again…" (230), make this Catch-22 dirty. It brought this book to whole other level which when I first opened it was not expecting. This level is almost in a way more humanistic than the level I thought it would reach. The typical war story of courage and bravery seem to have disappeared from Heller's depiction. It shows that while there is a traumatic World War, and these soldiers are fighting for their country and more importantly to them, their lives, these soldiers have a life outside of the war t .....
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Intolerance Within The Novel The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce." Even in the opening paragraph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Clemens states, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
There were many groups that Clemens contrasted in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The interaction of these different social groups is what makes .....
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Wuthering Heights
.... creates a mood of isolation. These two places greatly differ in appearance and mood. Wuthering Heights and its surroundings, depicts the cold, dark, and evil side of life. " 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather" (2). The inhabitants of Wuthering Heights were that of the working class, while those of Thrushcross Grange were high up on the social ladder. While Wuthering Heights was always fu .....
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Livy's Historical Approach
.... of Livy's education was spent focused on the study of rhetoric and philosophy. Livy was never closely involved with the literary world of Rome, the poets or the partons of the arts. Livy in his time wrote a total of 142 books, many of which have been lost, and most of his later books are known only by summaries.
The history of Rome, which was compiled by Livy in the height of the Roman civilization takes a look at the past achievements of his great civilization. Although a historian, Livy di .....
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Death Of A Salesman
.... national level. It is the philosophy of business and comprises the dreams of man. Sometimes, this can drive man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin. Willy was driven to the latter. (Not his own greed for he was a simple man with simple dreams, but by the greed of others.) The developers who took away the sun and gave birth to shadows, his boss who reduced him to commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure.
The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. Th .....
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Nature And Its Elements In Jane Eyre
.... little sense of life in you yet; rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more - never more see birds making nests and singing idylls in your boughs; the time of love and pleasure is over with you; but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathize with him in his decay.'"
As reflected in the passage above, nature plays an integral part as a thematic element in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte consistently draws a parallel between Jane's life .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Primal Instincts
.... Since the beginning of the novel, all Ralph wanted was to get rescued from the island, and go back to his home. At the beginning of the novel, he talks about his father, who happens to be a "commander in a navy" (p. 8), in such a way hoping that he will somehow finds the boys and bring them off the island. Furthermore, at various moments of the novel, especially when Jack lost interest in the fire, Ralph reminds the boys how important the fire is. At one point a ship passed by the island but did not see .....
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Flannery O’Conner And Grotesque Characters
.... Tom her son in law. His goal soon became, fix up the old car he was sleeping in and hightail it out of there with the car and some of the old womans money in his pocket. On the pretense that he would need it for a honeymoon trip, he convinces the old woman to fix the car and give him some cash. The story ends with him marrying the retarded daughter, leaving with her on a honeymoon trip, then abandoning her in a rundown diner on the side of the road.
“Good Country People” is a story about Joy Hopewel .....
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Animal Farm And A Tale Of Two Cities: Their Authors' Disenchantment With Human Nature
.... bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable.
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
.... Beyond this the only significant things are when his friend and companion Kat died, and in the end Paul himself died. With these events in mind this is how the rest of this is organized: chronologically.
Paul and his friends started to lose their innocence the day they enlisted after their school days. In school their master, Kantorek pounded into them an idea that they are men and are obligated to do their duty for the country of Germany. Kantoreks blind patriotism led all the boys, none more th .....
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Themes Of Struggle, Social Oppression And Money In The Pearl
.... under the oppression of the Spanish people who took over their land. These Spanish people have no concern for the lowly Indians because they think of them as merely animals. This is shown in the novel when Kino goes to the Spanish doctor for help with Coyotito’s scorpion bite and the doctor, selfish as he is, rejects them. The Spaniards are also turning the Indians own people against them because the doctor’s Native servants which have joined in on the oppression of his own people. Even the Spanish priest .....
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Allegorical “Young Goodman Brown”
.... Brown unfortunately was blinded by the realization of sin and its existence in the human heart and chose to reject all of society and trust no one.
The name of Goodman Brown and his wife Faith are clear symbolic elements. Goodman Brown stands for the naïve, immature young man who only sees the good in his fellowman, and has yet to be confronted with evil. Faith, Goodman Brown’s young wife stands for what Goodman Brown believes in. He sees his wife as all that is good and when he realizes that she t .....
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Babylon Revisited
.... of a child has a lot of value. Charlie Wales realized that his life wouldn’t be complete without his daughter. He didn’t want to miss out on her childhood, which is the most influential part of a person’s life. Honoria wants to live with her father and can’t wait for the day when she will be able to. As she says, “Daddy, I want to come and live with you … I love you better than anybody. And you love me better than anybody, don’t you?”(1871). I don’t think it would be right to take away the only immediat .....
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Vladimir And Estragon: A Symbol Of Man
.... to look into his hat. Vladirmir constantly “Takes off his hat, peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, puts it on again”2. Through this action Vladimir is shown to be searching for answers in his hat, which symbolizes his using knowledge and his intellectual capability for solving problems. Both Estragon and Vladimir are searching for what the reader assumes to be the key to life’s problems. When they continue to do this throughout the drama, it expresses the fact that they are searching .....
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