Understanding Holden Caulfield
.... 556). Thus, it is easy to explain reader’s acceptance of him. “Indeed, these people are like Holden himself - the Holden who can be willful, contrary, often impossible, yet in a manner insistently of his own making and at odds with whatever he deems dull or conformist” (Lee 102). “Ambivalence is, in fact, characteristic of Holden, the surest evidence of his mental instability" (Furst 76). He is not what he and many readers assume he is: "an anti-establish figure whose
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Upton Sinclairs Book The Jungl
.... 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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The Magic Barrel
.... he did not love God so well as he might, because he had not loved man." " He saw himself for the first time as he truly was - unloved and loveless." It is possible to imagine how terrible Leo suffered. He understood that he has no knowledge of himself, and "never in the Five Books and all the Commentaries - mea cupla - has the truth been revealed to him. " He was sure that everything is gone for nothing; he stopped to believe in himself. His nerves were on edge.
In this terrible condition Leo ope .....
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The Great Gatsby
.... for Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby were driving home from
town after an argument amongst the group of friends when they passed the
Wilson’s gas station. Mrs. Wilson ran out to Gatsby’s car, because they were
driving Tom’s car, and was hit. Mr. Wilson went positively crazy, and Nick
felt torn by his mixed feelings towards his supposed friend Gatsby. “I
disliked him so much by this time that I didn’t find it necessary to tell him
he was wrong.” Gatsby’s insensitivity brought on by his lifesty .....
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The Frame Structure Of Franken
.... desire is to be loved by someone. When he realises that not only the DeLaceys but every human being will reject him because of his uglyness, he tells Frankenstein his story in order to persuade him to create a female being of his kind for his companion. At the end of Chapter 8 of Volume II (page 97 of our edition) the monster says: "We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
.... its not that way at all he is just a man apart from prejudice he feels that everyone should have their rite to be justified. At the trial it goes pretty smooth for atticus and tom Robinson and when the verdict came out he was guilty. They were in shock they showed so much hardcore evidence but it seemed as though the jury felt like if they ruled him not guilty they would be disliked by the rest of the town. But at the end tom Robinson was killed trying to escape or at least that’s what they told everyone. .....
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Thesis Paper On The Crucible T
.... the established authority.” As such, he is a threat to the community, and consequently will be considered as being aligned with the Devil. The one looked upon as a threat, ultimately, the central figure of drama, but still seen as a Christian is seen to be John Proctor. That is why he needs to show the people of Salem that he really does not have an alliance with the devil and that he will die not as the enemy but as a friend. He must show them he is and was committed to the society before it started to be .....
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The Scarlet Letter
.... in how the book turns out at the end. The last major character is Roger Chillingworth. He is Hester's legal husband and Hester assumed he was dead because he was gone for a long time. He to plays an important role in how it turns out. Hawthorne did a very good job in character development, which is what makes this novel a classic.
This novel has a few important conflicts that are man vs. man and man vs. himself. This story starts out with Hester and Pearl being released from prison. Hester and P .....
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The Mending Wall
.... the voices of the two men the younger, capricious, "modern" speaker and the old-fashioned farmer who replies with his one dogged sentence, his inherited aphorism. Some may hear the opposition of two forces: the zeal of revolt, which challenges tradition, and the spirit of restraint, which insists that customs must be upheld, built up and continually rebuilt, as a matter of principle.
The poet himself looks down upon such symbolic analysis. He denies that the poem says anything more than it seems to say. .....
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The Lottery
.... in the town square. She puts in perspective the location of the square "between the post office and the bank" (196). This visualizes for the reader what a small town this is, since everything seems to be centralized at or near the town square. This is also key in that the town square is the location for the remaining part of the story. The town square is an important location for the setting since the ending of the story will be set in this location.
Also, Shirley Jackson creates a comfortable a .....
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The Natural
.... and sees her wearing nothing but a silk nightgown. After a short conversation, she pulls out a pistol and shoots him in the stomach. His desperate attitude leads him to be seduced by her, ending his bid to make the Chicago Cubs.
The character of Harriet Bird serves as an ancestor-figure to Iris Lemon and Memo Paris (Helterman 25). In a way, Iris and Memo are symbolic descendants of Harriet because they, too, have so much influence on Roy. Memo, however, closely resembles Harriet in personality. .....
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Cannery Row By John Steinbeck-
.... purposes, like dissection. He would go down to the tidepools and collect all sorts of critters like squid, octopus, and sea cucumbers.
When Doc had to leave for La Jolla on a collecting trip, Mack and the boys decided to give him a surprise party. They bought beer, plenty of Old Tennis Shoes (Old Tennessee, a blended whiskey). The whole town was going to be there, and in the minds of Mack and the boys, it was going to be a grand party. However, the party started before Doc even got there. The gues .....
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The Old Man And The Sea
.... more than eighty-four days and is therefore "unlucky". Nonetheless Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him he wants to help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of two friends who have known each other for a long time. When they speak it is usually about baseball or fishing, the two things they have most in common. Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses faith in them even when the star player, Joe DiMaggio is injured with a heel spur. I .....
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The Pearl Book Report
.... wife. She was obedient, respectful, cheerful and patient, she could arch her back in child pain with hardly a cry. She could stand fatigue and hunger almost better than Kino himself. In the canoe she was like a strong man.
She always took Coyotito out of his hanging box and cleaned him and hammocked him in her shawl in a loop that placed him close to her breast. She sang softly an ancient song that had only three notes though endless variety of interval.
Coyotito: their baby -son , slept in a h .....
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Women And Body Image
.... significantly associated with an increase occurrence of weight-loss related behaviors. Overall body size and image concerns have been reported to be more prevalent among females than males. Gender related differences in acceptable body size are shaped from a variety of societal definitions of appealing shapes for males and females. Patterns of body dissatisfaction formed in childhood and adolescence persist into adulthood and are most prevalent in females. In their study, Fallon and Rozin (1985) reported t .....
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