Native Son: Various Personality Elements Of Bigger
.... murders not in rage or anger, but as a reaction to fear. His
typical fear stems from being caught in the act of doing something socially
unacceptable and being the subject of punishment. Although he later admits
to Max that Mary Dalton's behavior toward him made him hate her, it is not
that hate which causes him to smother her to death, but a feeble attempt to
evade the detection of her mother. The fear of being caught with a white
woman overwhelmed his common sense and dictated his actions. When he
attemp .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Innocence To Experience
.... what roles
they will play in the whole racial game. When Atticus tells Jem and Scout
to, "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird," he is referring to the notion that a
mockingbird is a harmless creature and does nothing but sing and bring
happiness to the world. Harper Lee takes the title for her novel from this
passage because the imagery of the mockingbird is comparable to the
characters of both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. These two characters .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
.... "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 entirely different perspective. Scout learns what a .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
.... who rescued him from his father owns
slaves. Huck shows his own belief in the practice of slavery when he
discovers that Jim has run away. He has promised not to tell but worries
that people will “call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for
keeping mum....” (43). During the course of their journey, the line that
Huck envisions between himself and Jim becomes increasingly fainter.
Society and its mores seem extremely distant and remote from the simple yet
ideal life Jim and Huck lead on thei .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Book And Movie Comparison
.... by everyone even though his intelligence is greater
than theirs. He becomes Ralph’s only friend at the end. Roger is the last
important character and he is the one who supported the killing that Ralph
tried to stop.
Lord of the Flies is full of symbolism. For example; Jack
represents the primitive nature in man and Ralph represents civilization.
Also, Piggy’s glasses represent the civilization that they are losing.
When Piggy’s glasses are taken it seems like the end of whatever
civilization they ha .....
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Animal Farm Theme
.... farm depends on us. Day and night we are watching
over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat
those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?
Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades,”
cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping form side to side and whisking
his tail, “surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come
back?” The animals all are in agreement that they do not want Jones back,
therefore; believin .....
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Jose Donoso's Paso: Summary
.... and
situation, but quickens towards the end. As the end draws to a close the
reader is left with a mixture of feelings from pity to happiness. This is
the result of traditional tail, it is intertwined with common feelings and
situations to which all can identify with that all are affected by the
story.
In the beginning the situation is introduced to the reader by a
narrator recounting the story from a childhood experience. It is known
quite quickly in the story that the home in which the story takes .....
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The Symbolism Of Color In The Great Gatsby
.... drives a white car and dresses
in white. "She [Daisy] dressed in white, and had a little white roadster…"
(p. 75) She also dresses her daughter in white. Even in Daisy’s name we see
white. The Daisy is a white and yellow flower. Daisy also often became
physically white. "His [Gatsby’s] heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s
white face came up to his own." (p. 112) It is obvious that Daisy is a
very white character. As far as purity goes Daisy spends a great deal of
time trying to appear pure with her w .....
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The Great Gatsby: Symbolism Of Character's Names
.... No,Daisy just follows wherever the money goes. “ Daisy is like,
she’s like... money”(chapter 8). My mom told me that when you put a daisy
in a vase with water, it will shrivel up and die. That is just like Daisy’s
character. She seems so sweet and good, but as times progresses you find
out that she is just a selfish,and devoted to only being with the person
who has money.
Jordan Baker’s name is very symbolic. Her name combines two
automobile makes. The sporty Jordan and the conservative Bak .....
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A Review On Durable Goods By Elizabeth Berg
.... is the narrator of the story. About twelve years old, Katie
is waiting for puberty to hit, waiting for prince charming, waiting for her
father to come to his senses. Her father is a highly ranked and respected
serviceman who moves his family to a Texas army base after the death of his
wife. Katie struggles with the tradgety of her mothers death but handles
her pain in a heartwrenching, stoic manner. Her abusive father, on the
other hand, handles his sorrow by showing aggression towards his daughters .....
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Different Strokes For Different Folks
.... right’ I said, ‘I’ m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’
ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a
beautiful little fool’” (Fitzgerald 21). These statements explain her
opinion on how females should be, and also shows the insincerity in her
personality.
Daisy is also very confused about what she wants. When she is
faced with having to make a decision between Jay Gatsby, her old love, and
Tom Buchanan, her husband, she is not sure whom to choose. It is a choice
that is based upon .....
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Mother-Daughter Tradition In The Joy Luck Club
.... left her babies during the war. June's mother felt that since she
had failed as a mother to her first babies she had failed as a person.
When she made June take piano lessons June thought that she was trying to
make her become a child prodigy like Waverly, but her mother did this
because she knew it would benefit June for the rest of her life.
Because of the death of her mother, June was forced to take the
place of her mother in more than just filling her place at the Maj Jong
table. The mo .....
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Themes In Ellen Foster
.... people. She didn’t
want people to break it. Ellen kind of kept her life secretive from others
just like she had kept the microscope.
Two themes can be discussed in the novel Ellen Foster. The first
theme mentioned is self-reliance. Throughout the whole novel Ellen had to
rely on her self to make it through life. After her mother died she had to
survive on her own with the threat of her alcoholic father always in her
way. She had to survive at her grandma’s by picking cotton and doing
things of a l .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Amanda Wingfield Is Annoying
.... II, Amanda seemed to want her daughter Laura to have as many
gentlemen callers as she had when she was a young woman. She kept talking
about having 17 gentlemen callers at one time. How she would set each one
and talk to each one about the important issues of life.
Amanda wants to know what each one of her children are doing each
minute of the day, in scene III, where Tom and Amanda are having
dissolutions about his books, and he can not have certain things kept in
her house; not realizing it was .....
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Maggie A Girl Of The Streets And Pudd’nhead Wilson
.... it was realized who was really
who and the mistake was returned to normal.
Roxy, the mother in Pudd’nhead Wilson was first seen as a hero in
the book. She saved her own child from slavery and put her masters child
into it. This idea does not work out and son grows up beating her and
whipping her. Her son turns into the laughing stock of the town. According
to the website http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/applebaum/roxy.html,
Roxy is very naive. Her second sign of stupidity was after she .....
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