The Handmaids Tale
.... it was the need to protect "good" women from sex that justified all manner of repression in the 19th century, including confining them to the home, barring them from participating in the arts, and voting. Contemporary Islamic women sometimes argue that assuming the veil and traditional all-enveloping clothing is aimed at dealing with sexual harassment and sexual objectification. The language is feminist, but the result can be deeply patriarchal, as in this novel.
Without some sense of the varying ag .....
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The Horse Whisperer Healing Of
.... she will also be helping Grace"(Ebert). While searching on the Internet Annie finds Tom Booker who is considered to be a " Horse Whisperer" and she calls on him for his help. In telling her that "he doesn't help people with horse problems…he helps horses with people problems"(Evans), she packs up Grace and Pilgrim and heads toward unknown territory. As the physical and emotional injuries begin to heal in Grace and Pilgrim, Annie starts to heal herself. She transforms from the high-powered magazin .....
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The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
.... is screaming and complaining that the lottery wasn't "fair." Due to her actions the reader now knows that she is going to be the one, but what is unknown is the prize. This is where the rocks come back into play. At this point, we can already see what the town is going to do to Tessie. We might even think the story is over. As Tessie is first attacked, we see that Mr. Adams and Mrs. Graves are in the front of the line to kill her. Jackson tells us this to make a point. These two people represent bir .....
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The Martian Chronicles
.... exaggeration of how hot it becomes within a few miles radius of a rocket launch. Around this certain rocket, it was winter. As soon as the rocket’s booster ignited, all of the snow within the vicinity melted. “The snow dissolved and showed last summer’s ancient green lawns.”. Bradbury knew when he wrote this that a weather change that dramatic would never happen from a single rocket, it was simply to grab the attention of the reader.
In “The Third Expedition”, the .....
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The Scarlet Letter The Struggl
.... confesses publicly, he will be able to embrace god because he will be free from Chillingworth’s desired attainment.
At the end, Dimmesdale frees his soul by publicly confessing. Chillingworth is furious when he confesses and yells, “Thou Hast escaped me!…Thou Hast escaped me!…” pg.241. Then Dimmesdale turned to Pearl and gave her a kiss, by doing this he announced Pearl as his daughter. This time she does not brush the kiss off, but she starts to cry and she transforms fr .....
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The Stone Angel - Character An
.... his slowness of speech. Once when an ecstatic Marvin told Hagar that he finished his chores, Hagar bluntly sends him away saying, “I can see you’ve finished. I’ve got eyes. Get along now … (Laurence 112)”. Even as a child she was lacked emotion when she could not provide comfort to her dying brother, Daniel. Daniel needed the comfort of his mother, but for Hagar, “to play at being her – it was beyond me (Laurence 25).” Indeed, Hagar’s deficiency i .....
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The Truth Behind The Madness,
.... her real last name is Cosway but was later changed to Mason after her mother married Mr. Mason. Jane Eyre’s “madwoman in the attic” is “Bertha Antoinette Mason, daughter of Jonas Mason, merchant, and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole, at church, Spanish Town, Jamaica”(Brontė) . Through this information given by Mr. Briggs in the wedding we can see that both Antoinette and Bertha Mason are intended to be the same person. Both were born in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
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Themes Displayed In To Kill A
.... beliefs.
Helpless Victims is another theme that one sees as they are reading the novel. Mrs. Dubose is addicted to heroine and soon isn't able to control her body. She had to have Jem and Scout come read to her because she was so dependent on the drugs, she couldn't do it herself anymore. Another example that many people can recognize is Tom Robinson. He did not rape Bob Ewell's daughter, but because he was black, he was prosecuted. He ended up getting shot in jail. Both of these people giv .....
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Things Fall Apart 4
.... his land relentlessly. Although he encounters hurdles like bad weather, he became a very successful and prosper farmer. In addition to wealth, he wants to overcame his father’s failures and achieve great prosperity and even greater reputation among the people of Umofia. Therefore, his desire for titles and respect makes him one outspoken leader of the village taking responsibilities in name if Umofia, such as carrying messages of war. Okonkwo was well known throughout the villages. His fame reste .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 3
.... who supposedly got raped by Tom Robinson. Judge Taylor is the Judge of Maycomb County. Heck Tate is the county law official.
Atticus tells his children: "I prefer you shoot tin cans, but I know you'll wanna shoot birds, if you can hit 'em. Shoot all the Blue Jays you want, but never shoot a Mockingbird. All they do for us is sing their hearts out for us. Remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird". The Mockingbirds in this story are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Mr. Radley is a mystery man and scary. .....
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To Kill A Mokingbird
.... he never complained of what she did, even when she took the children to church with her while he would be away on business. I could imagine how scared the children were when they were in an all black church with everyone staring at them. It would be very uncomfortable. I feel that race relations are better now than they have ever been. There is this problem in the story of interracial relationships and mixed children that were unaccepted then and to some extent, even now. Mr. Dolphis Raymond was the examp .....
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Upton Sinclairs Book The Jungl
.... they buy to eat, back then they did not have this system, until Sinclair came around and changed it with this book. This book is a very powerful book.
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Walden
.... dead and dying, both red and black.” This is the first reference to the Trojans and their war. The Myrmidons were the people of ancient Thessaly who followed their king, Achilles, to the Trojan War. “Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus.” This statement was in reference to a little red ant, who either dispatched his last foe without a scratch or had come green from the home-front. Either way, the little .....
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Walking Across Egypt
.... given in to the stereotypes that are now plaguing Mattie, and insists that she do the same. In fact, she invites Mattie to accompany her to the funeral home where they will each pick out a casket that they are to be buried in. Pearl pushes the subject, as if to force Mattie into realizing that she doesn't have much time left to live. Pearl also begins talking to Mattie about the past and the fun that they once had, as if to tell Mattie that those days are over and that it is time for her to begin a new ch .....
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What Is The True Image (the Ch
.... be used in many positive ways to make our world a better place and more advanced. For example, they can transport messages halfway across the world within 2 minutes, rather than taking days, weeks or maybe even months. By doing so they save us a great deal of
time and money. All of you probably knew that from before but were afraid of them turning against you. As Michael told David, Rosalind and Petra, "They are afraid of us…What they've seen is that we could be a real danger to them… .....
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