Into The Wild
.... to go ahead. After all his main goal was to find himself. If he had his parents disapproval hanging over him the entire time that would have proved difficult. In the end McCandless found what he was looking for. He found himself. He tested his limits and unfortunately found out what they were. Whether it was his intent to test his limits to the end like he did is unknown. He had escaped his parents grasp and discovered his own personality, One that was not driven by others needs or responsibilities .....
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Irony In The Rocking Horse
.... in horse races, and begins to win bets based on Paul's insight. Paul
arranges for some of his winnings to be given to his mother, under the condition that she not know from whence it came. He is afraid that if she knew, she would take away his luck. In a frenzied search for another winning horse, Paul falls off the rocking-horse, mortally injuring himself. Before he dies, he tells his mother "... I knew [which horse], didn't I? Over 80,000 pounds! I call that lucky, don't you, mother? ... I'm lucky."
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H.m.s. Pinafore
.... really gave it a realistic feel to the whole thing. On the deck was a steering wheel and a bell and both of these things were used on numerous occasions. Also up there was another entrance/exit. As well as another by the cabin on the bottom as well as in the cabin.
To stage right there was a movable rope holder that is a hug part of the ending. Lower stage right are typical supplies a ship would store, such as crates and extra rope. There are two exit/entrances used- one that is suppose t .....
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I Love The Smell Of Nepalm In
.... worried about saving his hide but not good old killgore. Killgore’s men kill, kill for fun, kill to have fun, but just kill as much as possible, with no good cause. Killgore is so conditioned to the harsh environment that he isn’t even phased by the bomb blasts and actualy seems to ejoy war, even the smell of nepalm, but however much he enjoys the war and makes it fun for his men, the hardship will burn at them like nepalm to the point where no amount of recovery could wash the feeling away .....
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Identity Crisis (joy Luck Club
.... and therefore also ends up pulling away from her mother. Jing Mei does not understand the culture and does not feel it is necessary to her life. When she grows up it is not "fashionable" to be called by your Chinese name (26). She doesn’t use, understand, or remember the Chinese expressions her mother did, claiming she "can never remember things [she] didn’t understand in the first place" (6). Jing Mei "begs" her mother "to buy [her] a transistor radio", but her mother refuses when sh .....
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Im The King Of The Castle
.... Charles walked to the house and looked at it he saw Edmund standing at the window of his bedroom , watching him. Edmund teased Charles because he had been afraid of a crow. At night Charles sees something's lying on his bed, it was a dead crow which Edmund had found in one of the attics. Charles was silent and he did not cry. Edmund wanted to show Charles the Red Room, Charles was afraid of all the moths and then Edmund locked him up in the Room. He didn't shout, because then Edmund would win.
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Imagery Patterns In The Seafar
.... the author is demonstrating man’s lack of control over his life. The waves of the sea, and the sea itself, are uncontrollable and this is how the person in the poem feels about his life and his soul. “The only sound was the roaring sea.” This suggests that the hardships of life overpower other aspects of the person’s life. Roaring implies something being extremely loud and unavoidable, indicating that the harshness of life is always staring one in the face and cannot be e .....
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Importance Of The Concept Of H
.... seafarer identifies his life with his kinsmen on land as his home, the place that he belongs.
At first he does not seem content with his seafaring life. During the early descriptions of his time there, it is painted as a life of hardship and penance. Images and adjectives of the sea and life there are harsh and foreboding-"ice cold", "hung round with icicles" , "fettered with frost". The sea is seen as cold, and not just in the physical sense .It is remote, a place of despair , an earthly purgatory, wher .....
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In Cold Blood
.... where they undergo seven years before they are finally hung for murder.
It is not only with a sick sensation of horror but with simple, genuine human sympathy that we watch the senseless murder of the four Clutters. Depicted with even greater care and with an insight always controlled by the facts of their lives, by their confessions, and by the testimony of others who had known them, are the two loathsome murderers.
The most important characters, or rather people, in this nonfiction novel are the Cl .....
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In The Heat Of The Night
.... arrested Sam Wood Virgil also proved him innocent. Even though Gillespie didn’t like to be proven wrong by anyone (none less a Negro) he respected Virgil for his great detective work. At one point in the novel Gillespie and Tibbs shake hands and I think that was the high point of this mutual respect. Virgil didn’t respect Gillespie that much in the beginning and most of the middle of this story but in the end Virgil respected Gillespie. I think it was good that Virgil did not respect Gille .....
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In The Mind Of The Pardoner
.... he thrives. He clearly states that repentance is not the central aim of his preaching, by mentioning “my mind is fixed on what I stand to win and not upon correcting sin”. Rather, his foremost intention is to acquire as many shillings as he can in exchange for his meaningless pardons. In this regard, one can argue that although the Pardoner is evil, he is not a dissembler. His psychology is clearly not guided by hypocrisy because he does not conceal his intentions under false pretences.
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In The Skin Of A Lion Essay
.... his character. Metaphorically speaking Patrick is a moth.
Symbolism is also something that is seen quite often in this passage. Skating is a symbol that represents freedom. When you are skating, you are in control of what you do; you are free to do and try whatever you desire. During the day, the immigrants work for Harris, helping to build his dream and getting paid poorly for it. They follow orders all day, and now at night they finally have a chance to be free of the rules. This idea of f .....
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Indulging In Escapism
.... she does not fear being accepted or not. Laura also makes a world within her home as a place of acceptance, she develops a Glass Menagerie as a place were she can feel free from rejection be accepted. She has a favorite glass piece in her menagerie, the unicorn. Laura points out to Jim that the unicorn "doesn't complain" about being different either (Williams 275). Laura sticks to the fear that she is different because of her crippled leg, she magnifies her problem by not allowing her real beauty from wi .....
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Interview With The Vampire
.... It really took me some time and thoughts to understand the whole plot and to sort out the conflicts, especially at the ending.
Thoroughly I truly enjoyed this dark, fascinating and moving tale. Even though it was a little disturbing, I really would recommend it to anybody.
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Investigating The Style And Te
.... technique. An example of this is the final paragraph in the novel. It contains only one long sentence seperated by many commas and conveys the natural spontaneous thoughts of the main character, Sal Paradise, as he thinks of his old friend, Dean Moriarty:
“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old-broken down river pier watching the long, long skies over new New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going...al .....
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