The Lottery
.... but what about a church or courthouse? Surely these two buildings would also be in any traditional town square! The lottery is compared to the town’s celebration of Halloween, not a joyous celebration such as Christmas or Valentine’s Day-- but a rather dark, surreal, spooky, grotesque, and ominous holiday.
The reader is told that school has let out for the summer, and yet the “feeling of liberty sits uneasily” with the children- which is strange, for no normal kid would be anything less than ecst .....
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Farwell To Arms
.... that will affect the story, he does not introduce someone who will be in the scene for five minutes and then leave. I felt that the author's planning on putting this novel together was very good.
Ernest Hemingway has always been one of the world's best-known classic writers. His style and technique of symbolism is much different than others. He uses then in very strong ways that you the reader does not always pick up. I am sure that I missed some of the symbolism that went on in the book. I picked .....
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REAL BOYS
.... never act this way and hide these feelings. These are the reasons the “mask” is formed over the boy.
Pollack states that there are stereotypes about what boys are and how boys should behave. These stereotypes continue to perpetuated, many of us know some of these are outdated and some are simply untrue. A myth that has been made of boys is “ Boys will be Boys” This thought that nature controls boys behavior is untrue. It is not true that testosterone brings aggression and violence in every boy. The d .....
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THE BOGART
.... realize was that a Boggart was sleeping in the desk they took home. When the Boggart got up he realized he was no longer home in Scotland in his castle.
As the Boggart got comfortable he began his practical jokes in Toronto. He would take Mr. Volinks razor and hide it. The Boggart would hide the razor in such a place that Mrs. Volink would find it; making Mr. Volink believe that his wife had taken it. Jessup and Emily didn’t realize a Boggart was in the house until the Boggart ate Jessup’s lunch. What had .....
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Analysis Of Racism In Huck Fin
.... but property and should be treated as such. Huck now knowing that this is not the case sees that people, like Miss Watson, made up these laws to suit themselves. Huck also sees that Miss Watson would often make up a rule for him to follow but not live by it herself. "And she took snuff too; of course that was alright, because she done it herself." (Twain) Huck began to notice that not everything Miss Watson told him was true. With this, Huck not only sees Jim in a new light, but he begins to see that the .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird Notes
.... editor won't tell Atticus-- although he might include it in the social section of the newspaper.
The prosecution rests, and Atticus calls only one witness--Tom Robinson. Tom testifies that he always passed the Ewell house on the way to work, and that Mayella often asked him to do chores for her. On the evening in question, she asked him to come inside the house and fix a door. When he got inside, however, there was nothing wrong with the door, and he noticed that the other children were gone. Mayell .....
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UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE
.... ropes; what to do, what not to do, where to go, where not to go. That kind of stuff. Bea is a good teacher, and a good friend to Sylvia.
One of Sylvia's students is Joe Ferone. Joe is a rebel and a hoodlum. Joe barely ever comes to class. Sylvia really wants to help Joe. Sylvia tries to schedule after school sessions with Joe, but he never shows up. Towards the end of the story I get the feeling Sylvia was starting to fall in love with him.
This story takes place in a New York City school in Man .....
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Lord Of The Flies
.... atop the pig and brutalizing it, alludes to Freud's basis of the
pleasure drive in the libido, the term serving a double Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality on
the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the portrayal
of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to what he
called the destructive drive, the aggressiveness of self-ruin. Jack's
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The Vietnam Wall
.... single name has a story, a legacy, and a history with it. There are fifty-eight stories, legacies and histories on that wall.
The wall is black granite that digs into the ground so that a passerby will not be able to see it from the street. It is designed to symbolize America healing the wound that Vietnam created. From above it looks like a scar. And that is really what it is, what Vietnam is. A scar in America's history. Yet we will never be able to overcome that scar, and the wall gives us over fif .....
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Fallen Angles
.... Peewee to help him talk out his feelings of grief for the loss of the friend. Peewee and Perry have a few days to rest, because they have a weekend pass and it grants them 48 hours of freedom. They go to Saigon and have a few drinks and generally have fun, before they have to report back to their unit, which is stationed in the northern highlands of South Vietnam. When they return, they are happy that they made good use of their weekend passes in Saigon.
The next day, Peewee and Perry are sent on another .....
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The Outsiders
.... to come out. They go out to eat and when they get back to the church they find it burning. There is a good example of one of the major themes in this story, when they see that there are kids inside and the fire could have been started by their cigarettes, they run inside to save the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital. They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital to fight in a rumble against the Socs. While the Greasers beat the Socs, .....
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The Catcher In The Rye Essay B
.... who discriminates against others, is a hypocrite about something, or has manifestations of conformity (Corbett, 1997). Throughout "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden describes and interacts with various members of his family. The way he talks about or to each gives you some idea of whether he thinks they are "phony" or normal. From the very first page of the novel, Holden begins to refer to his parents as distant and generalizes both his father and mother frequently throughout his chronicle. Holden's fath .....
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How To Kill A Mocking Bird
.... young girl by the name of Scout. The readers see the events that occur through her eyes. The novel centers on the trial of Tom Robinson. To the people of Maycomb County, Tom Robinson is just a "sorry nigger," who committed an unthinkable crime. Tom represents the black race in American society. He is a victim of racism, which was the major controversy in our culture during that time. Like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson is characterized by what the people of Maycomb say about him. And after being accused o .....
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Jack The Ripper
.... about. The press was a big part of the whole case because we informed the public
of the killings and it seemed that this was all new to everyone only because it was the
most publicized case. This type of thing has happened before, but no one knew about it
and now you know the real world. The press had created the “boogey man” and many
myths and puzzles for the public.
The Ripper was thought to know a great deal about anatomy because the body’s
were slashed at the throat and the way the b .....
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The Riddle Of St. Leonards
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and the plague handbooks, she tried to get a sense of how the people fought to
survive with the horror of the plague. She also had some help from a friend who
was an expert on St. Leonard’s Hospital. Her name was P. H. Cullum, she was
very educated in the studies of medieval hospitals. This was beneficial to
Ms.Robb, especially when writing The Riddle of St. Leonard’s.
The main character of The Riddle of St. Leonard’s is Owen Archer. Owen
is an ex-soldier, who is now a spy for the .....
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