Huck Finn
.... This
is not a real bright thing to do even though Huck's father is real mean and is a
threat to his life and Huck's life. Huck wants to get away from him so bad that
the first thing that comes into his mind is to stage his death so Pap will think
he's dead and won't be looking for him ever again. Twain feels that by making
Huck do this Twain is poking fun a Huck's intelligence. Not his nature
intelligence but his book intelligence. In other words Twain is making fun of
Huck. Twain also portrays Huck a .....
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The Optimist's Daughter: Summary
.... who will help her. She can not stand up and fight for herself,
instead Fay uses tactics to make her opponent feel sorry or inferior. This
makes her extremely hard to get along with since she is always demanding
and never giving. Laurel McKelva is the complete opposite of Wanda Fay.
She is kind hearted, nice, caring, and intelligent. Laurel has a air of
maturity and understanding around her due to her experiences in life.
3.3
In "The Optimist's Daughter" Judge McKelva will soon enter eye surgery to
fi .....
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Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
.... by virgin forests and lakes full of swans. "And the
shaded oil-lamp . . . lit up all these pictures of the world, which flowed by on
after another, in the silence of the dormitory, to the distant sound of a late
cab somewhere still rolling along the boulevards." (page 30) In short, Emma
fell in love with a world that never existed anywhere. She embraced the
elegance of the life in the pictures which she had hung in her dormitory, and
never did anyone tell her that such realities did not exist out .....
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Moll Flanders: Themes
.... (Defoe 30). Later in the story, Moll becomes
acquainted with a woman who persuades Moll to work for her as a prostitute.
Even though Moll is now married, she agrees to sell her body for profit. "I
found presently that whether I was a whore or a wife, I was to pass for a whore
here…" (Defoe 144). Moll's acts of prostitution show that she will carry out
illegal practices in order to get money.
Moll's many instances involving thievery also express the theme of greed.
At the end of the story, Moll g .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
.... what she would have seen would have been a mirror image of her
reality. Juana's husband was caught in a twisted realm of mirrors, and
they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so
soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the
trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The
fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions.
Soon even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted him
g .....
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Play It Again Rita
.... theatric play, novel or short story.
The play is much more predictable in the sense that a great many things
are bound not to happen on stage. In fact nothing taking place outside
Frank's office can be seen by the audience. All action is inevitably
confined within these four walls. When Frank invites Rita to his home for
dinner in the play the audience are not set up for suspension as to how it
will turn out since they already know that whatever happens will not take
place before them, but will be r .....
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Hester Prynne: Comparion Beween Reynold And Herzog Essays
.... (Reynolds 179).
Hawthorne used ironies of fallen women and female criminals to achieve the
perfect combination of different types of heroines. His heroines are
equipped to expel wrongs against their sex bringing about an awareness of
both the rights and wrongs of women. Hester is a compound of many popular
stereotypes rich in the thoughts of the time ...portrayed as a fallen woman
whose honest sinfulness is found preferable to the future corruption of the
reverend (Reynolds 183). Hester was described by .....
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Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, Or Individuals
.... it, were it fit that
such as I should pray for anything."
Society was an influence on the scarlet letter. People of the town
believed that Hester was a witch as well as sinner. Society ostracized her
because no one in the town had ever delt with any kind of sin as adultry so they
looked at her as a witch. The people in a way wanted to ruin her life because
people actually thought she was bad. One of the real canadites that wanted to
ruin Hester was Mistress Hibbins.
Through out the whole story .....
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Hester Prynne
.... eyes deep-set, and black, her attire is rich,
carefully caressing her slender figure. The scaffold is a painful task to
bear; the townspeople gathered around to gossip and stare at Hester and
her newborn child, whom she suitably named Pearl, named because of her
extreme value to her mother. In the disorder of faces in the crowd, young
Hester Prynne sees the face of a man she once was fiercely familiar with,
whom we later learn is her true husband, Roger Chillingworth. Her
subjection to the crowd of Pu .....
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The Color Purple: Real Outcome Of Economic Achievement And Alternative Economic View
.... to depict the real world of the novel, it is evident we are
examining an external world based in a society where the white oppressor
governs the oppressed black populace. The economic realities of white land
ownership, near-monopoly of technical and business skills and control of
financial institutions was in fact the accepted norm (Sowell 48).
When presenting the term fact - we must account for the introduction of a
second model, "historical and empirical data" in representing the real
world .....
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The Great Gatsby: Symbolism In Colors
.... yellow to symbolize moral decay. On (Page 18)
he writes " The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf
yellow of her hair." He is talking about Tom and Jordan Baker, and he is
suggesting that tom might be heading for moral decay. In the book there are
several things that Tom does that might prove this. First of all Tom is having
an affair with Myrtle Wilson. A second thing is that he does not like Gatsby,
and several times he tries to prove that he is not who he says he is. To .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
.... when Jim dies because of all of the
moral inspiration he gave the regiment. True to his character Jim dies a
quiet and peaceful death not distributing any of the regiment.
Wilson represents the two sides of human nature. In the beginning of the
book Wilson is a mean tough guy that no one liked. This outward act of
being tuff is just a cover of the true nature of Wilson. It is natural
for people to cover their true nature in front of new faces. Towards the
end of the book Wilson starts to care about .....
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The Black Cat: A Comparison Between The Movie And The Book
.... he found a petrified white cat with a rope
around its neck in the charred remains. A few days later the man saw a black
cat with a white chest and he liked it so much he let the cat follow him home.
The cat made itself at home but the man avoided it because of a sense of shame
for his former deed. The next day the man noticed that the cat was missing an
eye just as Pluto. His wife pointed out that the white spot on its chest
resembled the Gallows! The cat made the man trip in his basement one day. .....
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The Giver: Book Report
.... of Characters: Lowry introduces Jonas and his family, with
Gabe, plus The Giver.
Rising Action: Jonas receives the assignment of Receiver of Memory.
Complication: Jonas finds out that not all memories are nice.
Conflict: The conflict is man vs. man. Jonas can't turn down his
assignment without being released.
Climax: Jonas runs away from the perfect community so that Gabe won't be
released.
Falling Action: People search for Jonas and Gabe.
Resolution: F .....
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The Great Gatsby: Jay's Background And His Downfall
.... part of. Therefore he was never really accepted as one of the group.
In an effort to be accepted by the group, Gatsby tried to show off his
valuables and gave elaborate parties. He tried to make an impression on these
people. Many to these people went to these parties "...without having met
Gatsby at all" (ch. 3,p. 41).
Gatsby did not have a formal education. His background did not support
the background of the old wealth. He lived in West Egg, "...the less fashionable
of the two..." (ch. 1, p. 5). .....
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