Old Man And The Sea
.... dark and treacherous though, and
every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal
pool with life called `Cannery Road'.
This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It
mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other
characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of
biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin,
his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that .....
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Standing In The Light
.... was strong-willed when she had the strength to adjust to her
new ways of life. She was pulled from her old life, to her new life, back to
her old life. It was very difficult for her because both the Quakers and the
Lenape were two very different cultures. She found herself having mixed
feelings and a lot of confusion, but she had the will to deal with it.
Catharine was also adjusting. She was adjusting when she had to adjust
to life with the Lenape. She had to learn new ways of lif .....
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Gullivers Travels By Jonathan
.... into the "Middle Period."(Cook, V) In
1710, he became a powerful supporter of the Tory government in England.
Through many of Swift's articles and pamphlets in defense, he became one of
the most effective public relations men any English administration ever had.
The Tories saw how good Swift's literature was and hired him as an editor
for their journal, The Examiner. His political power ended when a new
government came to power. This was the Whig party. The Tory government and
the Whig party .....
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The Time Machine
.... is demonstrating it the other four scientists don't
know what to think. And then it disappears into thin air. All of his
friends can't believe it and leave. Except one of his friends, David
Filby a good friend of his. He tries to talk him into not going through
with this whole time travel notion, and then he leaves.
The time traveler descides to try it anyways and goes into his
laboratory. The first thing he does is sets his pocket watch to the same
time as the clock on his desk and then he s .....
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The Scarlett Letter
.... handed down from God was a constant mental and physical reminder to Hester of what she had done wrong, and she could not escape it 'Thou art not my child! Thou art no Pearl on mine!' (pg.99) At times Hester would get frustrated. In this aspect, Pearl symbolized God's way of punishing Hester for adultery.
The way Hester's life was ruined for so long was the ultimate
price that Hester paid for Pearl. With Pearl, Hester's life was one
almost never filled with joy, but instead a constant na .....
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Raptor Red
.... great detail in how Raptor
Red stalks her
prey and kills her victims. Once you start reading this book and you see how
intelligent
raptors once were you really can't decipher Raptor Red's thinking to a modern
day
human hunter.
3. This book follows the life of Raptor Red and all the troubles a raptor
would face
in it's life from good times to bad. The book starts off with Raptor Red
hunting an
Ultrasaurus with her mate. They carefully select the dinosaur they will
sing .....
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Scarlet Letter
.... Hester and his undying love for her. It is also here that
Hester can do the same for Dimmesdale. Finally, it is here that the
two of them can openly engage in conversation without being
preoccupied with the constraints that Puritan society places on them.
The forest itself is the very embodiment of freedom. Nobody
watches in the woods to report misbehavior, thus it is here that
people may do as they wish. To independent spirits such as Hester
Prynne's, the wilderness beckons her: Thro .....
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Wuthering Heights
.... and hateful. When it is bedtime, Lockwood is shown to a bedroom which appeared to not have been used and observes the names Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton -- all scratched on a window seat. Looking through some blank pages of an old book, which are something like diary entries by the guests, he observes the handwriting of a
young girl named Catherine who speaks of how Hindley mistreated Heathcliff and how Hindley tried to drive Heathcliff away. Similarly, he reads how C .....
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The Crucible
.... Corey and Thomas Putnam, argue early on about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says he owns it, and Goody Nurse had no right to sell it. Later, when Putnam's daughter accuses George Jacobs of witchery, Corey claims that Putnam only wants Jacobs' land. Giles says, "If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property - that's law! And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece. This man is killing his neighbors for their land!" Others also ha .....
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The Jungle
.... America. The day after
the wedding is over, everyone was back to work and Jurgis and Ona's
married life was cheerless. The pressures of work, poverty and illness
stifles the families spirits and then Dede Antanas, Jurgis' dad, dies.
After Jurgis gives his father an inexpensive funeral, he decides to join
the Union and begins to learn English and gets an unfriendly opinion of
democracy. Jurgis begins to see how the packers operate, they sell spoiled
or contaminated meat without remorse. Worker .....
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Animal Farm
.... the farmhouse. They also learned
many other things. The animals had to work even harder than before. They had to harvest the
fields without any tools. The animals were still happy anyway because they were free from the
farmers rule. An old donkey named Benjamin was unchanged after the rebellion. They had sort of
what was like council meetings. Napoleon and Snowball were most active in the debates. They
made committees to teach the animals how to read and write. Napoleon found that two dogs,
Jessie a .....
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The Catcher In The Rye
.... is actually extremely afraid of the adult life and as a way to escape life, he creates this character, the catcher in the rye, throughout his thoughts. He feels that by saving the children from falling off the cliff, he saves them from falling into the adult world that he disgusts. He feels that this character can prevent the children from becoming adults and remaining in that childish world. Holden pictured it this way,
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big fiel .....
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Beloved
.... to keep her from bondage. Morrison portrays Denver as a guard watching over the yard; the duty Denver has assumed since her mother's crime years ago. By allowing the flashback and violent attack to occur the vicious cycle that each character is miserably engulfed by is broken, which allows a new beginning to the individuals lives.
This scene contributes to the structure of the work because it allows the novel to narrate itself in the presence tense. After Sethe's violent attack she is able .....
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Hatchet
.... read this book in sixth grade and I still remember everything about it. The entire time I read the book I was constantly amazed at Brian's ability to come through in tough situations. He never thought that he would not be rescued. He felt that sooner or later he would get home. I love his strong will and positiveness. Instead of looking back at what happened and being mad, he realizes how much it taught him.
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Life On Land Compared To Life
.... that can be found. The first similarity is how each living situation started out easy, but became hard and tiresome for Huck. Though living with the widow started out hard and became easy, the similarity is the change for the opposite difficulty than what the difficulty was to start with. Another similarity is that Huck is not happy with wherever he is. He was not happy at the widow's because of all the rules nor was he happy at his father's because of the beatings that he received. Though th .....
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