Things Fall Apart 2
.... huts. The women never received important jobs such as tapping the palm tree for palm wine or harvesting yams. The women were also there to produce children. A good wife could produce many children. In today’s society some women might cook or do other comforting chores, but so do many men. Men take care of children as well as women. In Okonkwo’s village, taking care of children was a woman’s chore. The children even played a different role in the novel’s society. Basically, t .....
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Tale Of Two Cities Sydney Cart
.... rather than for the sake of the lives of Darnay and his children.
After all is said and done, Carton brought happiness to the lives of Darnay, Lucie, their Child, and their families by sacrificing his single life. His dying was a good deed and had positive aftermath, but might have been done more as proof of devotion to Lucie than an actual care for the life of Darnay and his family’s feelings aside from Lucie’s. Basically, Carton probably died just to prove a point and go out in an .....
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Taming Of The Shrew
.... but that you are but newly come,
You might have heard it else proclaimed about
(4.2.86-92.)."
Tranio later argues how he can save the man's life:
"To save your life in this extremity,
This favor I will do for his [Vincentio, Lucentio's father] sake
(And think it not the worst of all your fortunes
that you are like Sir Vincentio):
His name and credit shall you undertake,
And in my house you shall be friendly lodged (4,2,107-113,)."
Shakespeare uses this to .....
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The Adventures Of Huck
.... the idea of Huck’s quest for freedom. Widow Douglas wanted to "sivilize" him. In contrast, Huck wanted to be "free and satisfied." Freedom not only in the beginning of the novel in this point was evident, but the end reinstated Huck’s desire for sovereignty. The novel ended with Huck planning "to light out" for a different territory because Aunt Sally wants to "sivilize" him. The thought of burden from individual guilt and sin did not connect with the story. Considering the concept of re .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... use of satire in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn enables the reader to better understand his message of slavery.
First, Huck’s relationship with Jim shows the authors views on slavery. Huck was taught at home and in school that slavery was a part of the natural order. He never found anything wrong with the way slaves were treated. In the beginning of Huck and Jim’s journey Huck treats Jim in a prejudice manor (according to our standards) in the way that Jim is differen .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down-stairs — where it's long stairs and they bounce a good deal, you know" (44).
That one sentence encompasses all of the techniques and provides an excellent description. It uses personification, alliteration, allusions, personification, and others.
Huck uses several onomatopoeias in his description of the storm. In addition to painting a picture in the readers mind, because of his use of onomatop .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... a plan to rescue Jim so he can be a free slave. Later, Huck meets up with Tom Sayer who was coming to visit his Aunt and Uncle. Throughout this whole fiasco Jim listens to exactly what Tom and Huck say, even though some of the things that are "necessary" for a prisoner to do are ridiculous. Jim just thinks they are white people and therefore they must obey unquestionability. Their plan however backfires and Jim is back into the custody of the Phelps. Even when Jim has the chance to act like he knows H .....
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The Adventures Of Huklebery Fi
.... in three weeks. Both the novel and the film portray Huck to be generally kind and loving to everyone, but the novel shows Huck's appreciation and love for Jim more vividly since Huck sees the suffering Jim endures while being locked up in the hut. He becomes more aware of the pain that Jim and the rest of the "negroes" have gone through due to the acceptance of slavery. He finally begins to understand that society has been wrong to discriminate against a whole race, and strip them of their human rights. .....
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Hol
.... Holmes' eccentricities and mind interesting, and because they have been friends for some time.
Being with Holmes gives him a chance to see the man's brain, which Watson openly admires, in action, as well. He also gets a chance to test his own mind against the problems they encounter. He seems to enjoy the drama of his friend's life and work, speaking of Holmes as a fascinating creature, more machine than man at times. Unravelling the mystery of who Holmes is seems to be one of his mai .....
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
.... The book starts out with Duddy as a fifteen year old
attending high school. At the beginning of the book we find Duddy in a
bitter conflict with a teacher at the school, Mr. MacPherson. As is seen in
this dialogue: -"I know you're responsible for the drawing on the board and I
think it cowardly of you not to have taken complete responsibility." said the
teacher. -"I'm a coward. Who's afraid to strap who around here?" responded
Duddy. We find that the young Duddy is a bit of a trouble maker .....
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The Awakening 3
.... his/her responsibility to reach for it and achieve it. In “The Awakening,” Edna does not take responsibility. She tries her entire life to fit in the prescribed mold that her husband set for her. She invests so much time into duty and responsibility that she loses any happiness that she hoped to achieve. She was not aware of her “responsibility as a human being.” She was not “aware of one’s rational powers in the exercise of moral duty.” Edna knew she was not .....
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The Awakening 4
.... He turns her life upside down as she begins to feel a passion for him that she has never felt before in her entire life, not even for her husband that she thought she loved. When Robert goes away, she misses him dearly and begins to change her life’s priorities, such as not staying home on Tuesdays as most women did and were expected to do so. She also changes her mindset away from trying to get the world’s approval and just does what makes her happy at that time. She does things such as movi .....
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The Awakening 5
.... that he did not know where she had gone.” Mademoiselle Reisz is in no way the beautiful Aphrodite that Madame Ratignolle is. She is an old woman who is past her physical prime, although the reader gets the impression that, during her prime, her looks still left something to be desired. The community snickers at her because she wears “false hair” has poor taste in fashion. Mademoiselle Reisz has always lived on the top floors of apartment buildings, which takes her far away from .....
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The Bluest Eye 2
.... eyes of all the other students and teachers. Claudia, Frieda and Maureen are walking home together, even though Claudia and Frieda don't like her, when they see Pecola getting harassed by some boys in the school yard and they rescue her. Maureen tries to befriend Pecola but only to torture her some more. Frieda stands up for Pecola but then Maureen makes a comment on how the girls are black and therefor ugly which hurts Pecola even more. Now we hear from the second narrator again about a woman named Geral .....
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The Bluest Eye 3
.... eyes of all the other students and teachers. Claudia, Frieda and Maureen are walking home together, even though Claudia and Frieda don't like her, when they see Pecola getting harassed by some boys in the school yard and they rescue her. Maureen tries to befriend Pecola but only to torture her some more. Frieda stands up for Pecola but then Maureen makes a comment on how the girls are black and therefor ugly which hurts Pecola even more. Now we hear from the second narrator again about a woman named Geral .....
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