The Red Badge Of Courage 2
.... They kept marching on without purpose,
direction, or fighting. Through time Henry started to think about the
battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he
started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty
calls. He felt like a servant doing whatever his superiors told him.
When the regiment finally discovers a battle-taking place, Jim
gives Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that
this will be his first and last battle. Th .....
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The Sixth Extinction
.... leading to environmental problems, and; addressing the concept of redistribution of wealth, which like over population has been to some degree viewed as vital to formulating global-scale solutions. While 'The Sixth Extinction' serves an awesome purpose of educating its readers on man's mishandling of the natural world, and the consequences of our actions and inactions, there is however, no prescription given for any of the dilemmas aforementioned. Unfortunately, most, if not all the issues presented by .....
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The Stranger 2
.... her that it didn’t really matter and that if she wanted to, we could get married.” (Camus, 41) Marriage is an issue that would have no effect on Meursault. The only way it would matter to him would be if it made Marie happy, “so she took my arm with a smile and said she wanted to marry me. I said we could do it whenever she wanted.” (Camus, 42) Meursault becomes honest, but selfish with Marie. He honestly could not care if he was married to her. It would not affect him posit .....
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To The Lighthouse 2
.... feelings; it is as if he enjoys "drenching" Mrs. Ramsay and enjoys seeing her in mental anguish. However, Woolf later contrasts the callous Mr. Ramsay with a more sensitive and caring Mr. Ramsay:
So stiffened and composed the lines of her face in a habit of sternness that when her husband passed… he could not help noting, the sternness at the heart of her beauty. It saddened him, and her remoteness pained him. (64)
Therefore, here Mr. Ramsay is portrayed as a sympathetic and caring husb .....
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Tale Of Two Cities
.... characters between
the countries, but most of the action takes place in Paris, France. The
wineshop in Paris is the hot spot for the French revolutionists, mostly
because the wineshop owner, Ernest Defarge, and his wife, Madame Defarge,
are key leaders and officials of the revolution. Action in the book is
scattered out in many places; such as the Bastille, Tellson's Bank, the home
of the Manettes, and largely, the streets of Paris. These places help to
introduce many characters into .....
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The Apprentiship Of Duddy Krav
.... for once, she said.
Your always running or jumping or scratching.
Duddy was surprised and flattered to discover that
anyone cared enough to watch him so closely.” (Page 92)
As time passed by, however, Duddy began to use Yvette as a tool. The main reason for that is Duddy was striving to get the land, and since he could not legally own it as a minor, he employed Yvette to act as a figurehead in his purchase. This treatment of Yvette, combined with her breaking .....
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The Characteristics Of Mrs.dic
.... that Mrs.Dickinson is a bery demanding person. Demanding is not a bad thing, but she is doing it at a wrong way. She is have too much demands on Frederick. As Frederick cries, she demands him to stop cring. "Frederick, you can’t --- in the middle of Regents’s park". (P109) That is not a bad thing to do because Frederick is cring in a public place, but Frederick is still at a young age, and she is giving him a fearful mortificatoin which will make Frederick feel more "You really haven’t .....
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The Core Of Stability-characte
.... the book is one of the many characteristics that depict Atticus Finch as the novel’s core.
In a town of such undeserved glory, Atticus Finch is the one character who is worthy of glorification. Yet, his humility further illustrates Atticus as a man of pure stability. Surrounded by other’s self-righteousness, he is able to remain emotionally grounded. Atticus Finch is a highly accomplished man of great intelligence, but even greater meekness. For example, during one of their chats wi .....
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
.... for people so that that person owes the Count a favor in return. When it is put in context, it seems like the Count just uses people for his own gains and doesn’t really care about them.
The Count is almost done carrying out his plans when he starts to feel like he’s really gone too far. When the Count realizes that it’s his fault that Villefort’s wife and son is dead, he really feels guilty. At this point the Count reveals to Villefort that he is Dantes. Villefort goes mad .....
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The Culture Of Censorship In F
.... wrong with the books everyone was burning. Ray Bradbury points out that not everyone will follow the leader. There will be a few who stand up for what they believe in. It’s not easy for Montag to question someone in a society where everyone is bound by one belief.
The characters such as Montag and Mildred (essay written by Bryan Thomson) show that mindless pleasure seeking and materialism have the power to destroy one’s ability to think for himself/herself. While Mildred is the victim of th .....
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The Destruction Of The Human S
.... believes that he can end his guilt of the murder by destroying the horrid portrait of himself, so he stabs his own heart and dies, leaving the beautiful painting behind.Lord Henry, his friend and mentor, caused Dorian to believe that he will always be a bad person, thus causing him to kill himself.
Both of the novels portray the motivation and vulnerability of the human spirit but they do it in different ways.In Frankenstein Victor, being a very motivated scientist, basically creates his own doom, b .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... failure of an uncivilized person. Pap is an alcoholic, a dead
beat and a racist. Nevertheless, society also considered Huck
"uncivilized" because he did not wear shoes, did not always attend school
and he smoked. Society criticized Huck as uncivilized due to physical
appearance when really Huck turned out to be more civilized than any
other character in the novel because he learns how to respect Jim.
Through the ironic critizims of society trying to civilize Huck, Huck
teaches us a .....
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The Bluest Eye - Protrait Of A
.... some first person narration from Pecola’s mother, and narration by Morrison herself as an omniscient narrator. Morrison says, “First I wrote it [the section in The Bluest Eye about Pecola’s mother] out as an ‘I’ story, but it didn’t work . . . Then I wrote it out as a ‘she’ story, and that didn’t work . . . It was me, the author, sort of omnipotent, talking” (Bakerman 59). Morrison intentionally kept Pecola from any first person narration of the .....
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The Canterbury Tales
.... most of the people are educated. The situation is not the same in my country, where a large number of people are still illiterate. They are so ignorant and credulous that people like Friar or Pardoner can easily deceive them. In the village, where I used to live in my country, most of the people were uneducated farmer. And there was a man in that village who claimed himself to be the saint from Allah (God), and said that if people pay him, he would pray for them, which would give them a better chance of h .....
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The Crossing
.... in for the purpose of repetition. A possible reason for this is that the author wanted to give the reader the same feeling the narrator had: one of total mental exasperation and exhaustion. When discussing the wolf, the author uses run-ons to string together ideas in much the same way a person under intense mental or emotional stress would. Also, the repetition of the word “and” mimics a child. The failure to pause to form the sentences
correctly gives the impression of a child te .....
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