Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
.... 19).
The toaster in the Montag;s house, it did all the work. “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18).
The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine whose perverse similarity to a trained killer-dog. It was improves by a refined technology that allows it to inexorably track down and capt .....
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Obasan: Book Review
.... of Naomis Aunt Emily to ensure that her family would be together in whatever place they were sent to. Aunt Emily wanted to head east to Toronto, but was unable to get the documentation for the entire family which included her sister children, who she was taking care of. The novel discuses the camps that the Japanese families were sent to in Hastings Park during the war. It described the treatment the families received while there, including the lack of food and the smell of manure. Naomi .....
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The Crucible - Witch Trials
.... in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; .....
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Farewell To Manzanar
.... mainstream of white people. Because of the want to fit in, Jeanne accepted white culture's beliefs in terms of school and gender as the way to model her life because it is made fitting in easier.
Jeanne seems to have set up her own type of Jim Crow rules, like those in the South. She always had to be complaisant around White people and apologize or be submissive to them even if they were in the wrong. This was not anything that was enforced by law, like in the South, but it was self-enforced becaus .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... beliefs. Before the war they still believed that education was the most important aspect of life. These youthful thoughts were washed away at the Front, where they came to realize that order is what matters. One of the men responsible for this was their drill sergeant, Corporal Himmelstoss, who was a short, mean man. He would force the men to do unnecessary work and torture them with pointless assignments. Paul, Tjaden, Kropp, and Westhus were especially picked on by Himmelstoss, but they were secretly def .....
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Holding The Dream
.... her parents die infront of her. She was orphaned at a small age, eight years old. Kate trained her self to be a practical woman, one who worked hard toward any goals she had and earned them step by step always being careful. She lived in the Templetown house for many years, then she decided to make it out on her own. She was an attorney. Kate worked at the office for a company called Bittle and Associates. She loved where she lived it made her happy. She lived in Big Sur, California. She was happy .....
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1984: Lack Of Humanity
.... been better circumstances; therefore, they think they live in the best time of history. In essence, people are unaware of their plight, and they know no better. George Orwell’s 1984 shows how a human being can be stripped of its emotions, its freedom, and its identity if that human being allows a society like Oceania to rule him; therefore, no one should ever allow it to happen.
The Party controls people’s emotions by instilling basic codes of morality. It is insinuated that one should no .....
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Like Water For Chocolate: Family Relationships
.... that you come to understand your own limitations.” Yuichi’s role was to be faithful reflections and a purpose of Eriko and her life. His existence itself made Eriko like her own life and told her limitation of herself after Yuichi’s real mother died. “ I still went to my part-time job, but after that I would clean house, watch TV, bake cakes: I lived like a housewife.” Even though Mikage was not related to the Tanabe family, she became one of their members after she moved in with them. Her jobs at ho .....
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Summary Of Dracula
.... learns that he lives by drinking human blood. Jonathan tries to kill him but he escapes. The count then takes fifty boxes of earth and a ship and escapes. Ironically, the ship lands in England where Harker's fiancée Mina lives. The Count then attacks Mina's friend Lucy while she is sleepwalking, and she eventually dies. Jonathan finally returns to England and marries Mina. Meanwhile Arhtur Holmwood, Lucy's husband, Dr. John Seward and Quincy Morris, both of whom proposed to Lucy but were rejected, an .....
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The Awakening: Edna Pontel
.... young man named Robert begins courting her. Edna begins to respond to him with a passion she hasn’t felt before. She begins to realize that she can play roles other than wife and mother.
Throughout the book Edna takes many steps to increase her independence. She sends her children away, she refuses to stay at home on Tuesdays (as was the social convention of the time), she frequents races and parties. Unfortunately, her independence proves to be her downfall.
Edna stays married because divorce .....
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The Great Gatsby: Typical Male Behavior
.... just another way of showing-off, another of his possessions and thus boosting his ego. Tom does this without regard for the shame his affairs may bring onto his wife.
Daisy comes to represent a treasured and sought possession for both Tom and Gatsby. Although on the surface it appears that Gatsby has an ever-lasting love for Daisy, I feel that his longing for Daisy stems from his need to recapture a possession which he lost during his youth. Nick comments "He talked a lot about the past and I gathere .....
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The Martian Chronicles
.... late 1940s). One of the themes discussed, for example, is that of colonialization. A comparison of the Marians with native American Indians is almost unavoidable. In fact, it is not only hinted, but referenced directly. And it's rather obvious that Bradbury considers it to be wrong.
And yet, The Maritan Chronicles is not only a criticism. At times, it can only be described as a poetry in prose.
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Of Mice And Men
.... triumphantly. Anyone would have given up on him and left, but not George. George stayed with him because he loved him. He remained for a friend.
George’s other strong characteristic was taking the life of a friend, out of love and compassion. He also did it out of respect, so Lennie could die with dignity.
“George was quite for a moment. “But not us,” he said. “Because____” “Because I got you an’____” “An I got you. We got each other, that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us,” Lennie cried i .....
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Wuthering Heights: Dark And Evil Themes
.... deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour outdoors instead, compelling him to do as hard as any other lad on the farm” (49).
Hindley is also envious of the love that Catherine has for Heathcliff, and he tries to force them to live apart from each other, but Heathcliff and Catherine:
“… they forgot everything the minute they were together again – at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge…” (50).
Even so, Hindley’s abuse is alm .....
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Beloved: We All Look The Same In The Dark
.... to Sethe as a baby was not even from her own mother. Sethe also had to deal with the fact that she was not brought along when her mother tried to escape (unsuccessfully) from the plantation. Sethe was breaking, but not yet broken. The emptiness of Sethe’s relationship with her mother only increased Sethe’s motherly obsession for her own children. As a parent with two kids and another one on the way, Sethe needed to escape slavery. She felt she had to place her children outside the horror of slavery, even .....
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