A Classic To Kill A Mockingbir
.... many people in the novel who are affected by rumors and misjudging. One is Dolphus Raymond, who is thought to be committing a great sin by having children with a black woman. The town does not look down on him, the town actually feels sorry for him. The town does not know the real story; they base their feelings on misjudging and rumors. They think the only way he could do a thing like that is if he was drunk all the time, "they could never… understand that [he] live[s] like [he] do[es] because .....
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A Portrayel Of Women In The Or
.... towards her mother, the cause of all her misery in taking away the only family she ever had. She desperately awaits the arrival of her brother, Orestes, who becomes the father figure she lost when Agamemnon was murdered. She says to Orestes on lines 241-242, "I have to call you father, it is fate;/ and I turn to you the love I gave my mother" (Aeschylus 189). In this way, she comes to revere the male over the female, the father over the mother.
Another strong female character who is grossly undere .....
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A Rose For Emily
.... now why she could not move forward with the town. It was because she was never taught how to let go, she only learned from her father that she should be selfish, and hold onto whatever she wanted for herself, and that is what she had done, until the day of her death.
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A Seperate Peace
.... frustration, envy, jealousy, and guilt—while Phineas remained in constant control of himself. It is this unending flow that not only hints at his peace, but also proves he is the human manifestation of it.
“Don’t be a sap...there isn’t any war.” After his return to Devon, Finny thinks up a conspiracy theory that denounces that there was a war going on. With this, John Knowles blatantly reveals his metaphor of a separate peace, because it is only Phineas .....
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Airframe
.... description brings imagery and realism to the novel, while the plot’s twists and turns help to create suspense. The way Crichton writes gives the reader very detailed and vivid scenes, as seen in this random quote: “Mechanics in Melbourne noted that the fuel coupling was bent on the right wing, and the adjacent slats locking pin was slightly damaged. This was thought to have been caused by ground personnel in Java during the previous fuel stop.” (pg. 149).
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... (P 131) The soldiers were being crushed and seeing things get destroyed, but because they had detached themselves they thought they were able to handle it. Although, as time went on he began to realize something wasn’t right. He tried to replace these feelings with pleasure, so he spent the night at the French girls’ house. After he just felt worse and unfulfilled. “...We are crude and sorrowful and superficial-- I believe we are lost.”(P123) When Paul realizes that we .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... Paul reiterates his feelings about the war and its separating effects in a subsequent quote, Bäumer once again uses his father to represent the whole of society oblivious to the trained killing machines that once lived as regularly operating beings. The inexplicable ignorance of the civilians continues to reveal itself as another person, this time his German-master approaches him with comments, which display that the people know nothing about the battle, their troops fight. “You look well, Paul, an .....
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All The Kings Men- The Spider
.... encountered in previous books throughout the year and throughout this one, truth is not always a good and noble thing. In this case the truth led to what destroyed the Judge and Jack was pursuing the truth.
The Cass Mastern story provides an interesting parallel to the ongoing saga of Jack Burden and Willie Stark. Cass is tormented, as Jack is, by the truth and this drives them both to the brink only Cass falls over and can not recover. Cass hit the spider web when he committed adultery with his g .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... they can return after the war. They will forget the trenches and the death, but the young men have nothing definite to which they can set their sights. Their past lives are vague, unreal dreams.
During the training, Paul and his classmates learned that classical patriotism requires the loss of individuality and personality, a sacrifice that civilians do not require of even the lowest class of servants. Corporal Himmelstoss, formerly a postman, trained Paul's platoon. He is a small, petty man who relentle .....
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A Medieval Contest Between The
.... Round Table as a wedding gift by Gwynevere’s father. It consists of one hundred knights. Often
the knights join together to defend the honor of another knight by killing the one causing the dishonor. The Fellowship bands together with the common purpose of destroying the Ring. The Ring can only be destroyed by throwing it back into the Cracks of Doom in Orodruin, the Fire Mountain, in Mordor, home of the Emperor of Darkness known as Sauron. The Ring should Sauron get it would give him the pow .....
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A Dolls House 2
.... which portrays again, the trend of women sacrificing for their families. They both
(Mrs. Linde and Nora) express their feelings of pride and fulfillment in helping their significant others by sacrificing themselves. Nora’s character is made more obvious to us by Mrs. Linde’s actions. Not only did Nora open her mouth about saving her husband‘s life, but she did it with the utmost pride. Claiming to have raised all the money herself she soaks in her self-importance. In Act 1, Nora se .....
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A Worn Path
.... of an ancient Egyptian bird that regenerates itself after 500 years and lives on for another 500 years. This old woman represents the phoenix, which lives on in her old age.
Phoenix Jackson demonstrates her love of life as she talks to all of the animals within the forest: “Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animal! Keep out from under these feet, little bob-whites. Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. Don’t let none of those come running my dir .....
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A Catcher In The Rye
.... in the bar make him even more depressed so he decides to call it a night. On the way to his room, in the elevator the elevator attendant offers to send him up a hooker for the night. Being a virgin Holden decides to take him up on the hooker. Once the hooker makes it up to his room he gets cold feet and decides not to have sex with her and just talk. The hooker gets mad at Holden for wasting her time and leaves. Minutes later the hooker’s pimp comes looking for money and eventually ends up beating .....
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A Circular Life ( When The Leg
.... Then, during the winter, his mom dies from sickness. He brings her up to where his father was buried and buries his mom right next to his father, singing the song for going away. Bessie was a positive influence to Tom, she had taught him how to live: cook, sing the old songs, and doing things in the old way. On the other hand she was negative, because everyone else in the story was starting to live in the new ways and adapting to it, while she did not even teach Tom anything about the new ways. Wit .....
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A Clockwork Orange (book Analy
.... comes from forced conditioning as opposed to their personal choice for compassion? Does programmed decency towards people ultimately possess superiority over a natural psychosis? It can be argued that programmed decency protects the happiness of the main population, but natural psychosis comes from the choice of
the individual, and protects their happiness (if the psychosis served as a source of joy for the individual to begin with, not insanity that brings about manic-depression and whatnot) .....
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