THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
.... has faith in Manolin, in the Yankees, in Joe DiMaggio, and most importantly in himself. This is perhaps his greatest attribute because without it he would never have had the strength to persevere and defeat the giant Marlin.
Faith is not the only thing that drives his perseverance. Santiago also draws upon his past victories for strength. After he hooked the Marlin he frequently recalled his battle with a native in what he called "the hand game." It was not just an arm wrestling victory for him it was a .....
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Minority Rules
.... rebel and kill the Marquis. The one murder symbolizes the animosity of all the peasants and is a taste of what is to come with the revolution.
Gaspard was therefore used to foreshadow what is to happen in the future, this is auvioce especially after Gaspard is captured and hung. He is left hanging with a knife in him so that he poisons the water. Later that afternoon the Jacquerie are talking in Defarge's wine shop of how "the chateau and all the race..." are doomed for "...Extermination."
Jerry .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... nature and its many facets. Remarque did a wonderful job of blending the lives of his characters with the war and his forays into our souls. I would recommend this book to anyone, even those who have never liked war novels. It may open your eyes, as well as your mind.
writen by: Derek Vo
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To Kill A Mocking Bird
.... of this book was in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Scout, Jem and Dill spend the summer trying to get Boo Radley out of his house. None of them had ever seen him. Scout started to school and on his way there and back, he and Jem would find gifts in a hole in the tree by the rocky place. Scout and Jem started hearing their father referred to as a “nigger-lover” because he was defending Tom Robinson – a Negro man accused of rape. When Scout, Jem and Calpurnia come home from church, they find Aunt Al .....
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On The Road
.... was a wild and rambunctious guy who lived by his own rules and heard nothing from anyone else. This comical yet very interesting book captures the time period in which crazy people were doing this all over. No need to worry about diseases or if you got a girl pregnant because stuff like hat was virtually non existent. You could get a girl pregnant but you can just run away so you have nothing to do with it, kind of what Dean had done.
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Brave New World
.... clear to the
reader. To do this he uses characters, but they're insignificant to what his real intentions
are, he merely uses them to express his ideas, therefor their characteristics and ideas are
not important in the whole picture. There is hardly any charaterisation in the book to
illustrate the individuals.
Theme: In the foreword Huxley states: "The theme of 'Brave New World' is not the
advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human
individuals." The picture .....
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A Analysis Of Jack London Nove
.... were his writings. Today, London is mostly known for his "dog stories", The Call of the Wild and White Fang. In addition to those great works London wrote many other stories and novels, all of which were published in the seventeen years that he wrote professionally. Londons writings vary in quality as well as in subject, his from the cheapest and worst kind of pieces to the beautiful works like The Call of the Wild and Sea Wolf. In this literary analysis the focus will be on Londons more well known and en .....
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Huck Finn
.... to society. "The Widow Douglas she took me for
her son, and allowed she would sivilize me...I got into my old rags and my
sugar hogshead again, and was free and satisfied." (page 1) Huck says this
shortly after he begins living with the Widow Douglas because it is rough for
him to be confined to a house and the strict rules of the Widow Douglas.
Huck’s father, a dirty and dishonest drunk, was also a problem. He
was so angry that his son could read, that he severely beat him and then
force .....
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The Positronic Man
.... in his quest for the impossible, arriving at last at a terrifying choice: to make his dream a reality, he must pay the ultimate price.
I must say that I didn't have very high expectations for this book because I am not a very big science fiction fan, but this book changed my mind. There are many reasons why this particular book changed my view on science fiction. One of the major reasons for my enjoyment of this book is the way in which it was written. Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg set this story u .....
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Another 1984
.... no visible telescreen. The
owner told Winston the he never had one because, “Too
expensive. And I never seemed to feel the need of it
somehow.”(82) In truth their was a telescreen behind the
etching, which leads to the capture of Winston and Julia. The
apartment was a huge symbol of the past to Winston. The
apartment is decorated with relics of the past: a double bed,
a metal etching of a church, a bookshelf filled with ancient
tomes. Winston and Julia use these items as constant
reminders of th .....
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Big Two-Hearted River
.... person. It occurs in "Big
Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story
which completely immerses the reader in the actions and
thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the
omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to
visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundings, which would
have been much more difficult to accomplish using first
person narration. Nick is seen setting up his camp in "Big
Two-Hearted River: Part I" in intimate detail, from choosing
the perfect plac .....
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Flowers For Algernon
.... sister
yelling at him and making fun of him. He also had memories
of the night his parents took him to the Warren Home. He
was terrified and his dad would never answer his questions.
Charlie remembered his childhood and through his
memories, he felt guilty for hurting his family. After the
operation, Charlie also suffered from disillusionment. In the
bakery he used to have friends. Friends that would talk to
him and care about him. "...Why? Because all of the sudden
your a bigshot. You think yo .....
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Animal Farm
.... to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major,
Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the
working class poor. The working class in Russia, as
compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a
laboring class of people that received low wages for their
work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia
thought there would be no oppression in a new society
because the working class people (or animals) would own
all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and
Gelle .....
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Allegory Of The Cave
.... the other
captives of the truth, they laugh at and ridicule the
enlightened one, for the only reality they have ever known is
a fuzzy shadow on a wall. They could not possibly
comprehend another dimension without beholdin! g it
themselves, therefore, they label the enlightened man mad.
For instance, the exact thing happened to Charles Darwin.
In 1837, Darwin was traveling aboard the H.M.S. Beagle in
the Eastern Pacific and dropped anchor on the Galapagos
Islands. Darwin found a wide array of ani .....
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Antigone
.... argue that Creon is the
tragic hero of Antigone. They say that his noble quality is his
caring for Antigone and Ismene when thier father was
persecuted. Those who stand behind Creon also argue that
Antigone never had a true epiphany, a key element in being
a tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake
when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live,
knowing that three people are dead because of his
ignorance, which is a punishment worse than death. My
opinion on this deb .....
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