Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home And School Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards The Dance
.... narrator's school life was just as bad if not worse. She would never
be sure of herself when she is called up to the blackboard. Her "hands
became slippery with sweat when they were required to work the blackboard
compass." She would also envision the worst case scenario, that she had
her period prior to being called to the front of the class, even when
impossible. This shows that her self-esteem is really low, and she could
not deal with the dance.
The dance was an experience in .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Summary
.... butterflies are the results of these common eyesores. As the
caterpillar grew older it matured and changed, from being stuck on land to
airborne, from being ugly to beautiful, from being young to old. All living
things mature, all things change, wherever time is a variable identities are
changing. Janie is no different from these things, she too has a changing
identity that can be traced throughout four main parts in the book.
Janie is a young girl who at first docent even know her own identity.
Being .....
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The Outsiders
.... live under such circumstances in
constant fear of their lives. It deals with gang warfare, alcohol, drugs, child
abuse, murder, survival and growing up. These are areas that a pubescent
teenager can easily lose themselves in. It forces the reader to realise that in
many cases teenagers have no choice in what lifestyles that are born into in
this case either becoming the rich kid or the kid from the wrong side of the
tracks.
The novel has been incorporated into a Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 movie
adaptat .....
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Rumors : Summary
.... been an accident_ Well, we just arrived here at Charley's
house about ten minutes ago, and as we were getting out of our car, we
suddenly heard this enormous_ thud_ It seemed Charley had tripped going up
the stairs_ no, wait, down the stairs. Down the stairs. But he's all
right," (13). Finally, Chris manages to explain to the doctor that Charley
had not really hurt himself in the first place and that she felt sorry to
have bothered him at the theater. After hanging up the phone, the Gormans
put Charley in .....
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The Secret World Of Walter Mitty: Walter Mittys Life Sucks
.... bite his own wife thinks he
a loser. To bad he lets everyone push him around. Walter Mittys life will
probably always suck.
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Lord Of The Flies: Symbolism Of The Conch
.... order through the rule that you must have the Conch
to Speak in an assembly or meeting. "And another thing. We can't have everybody
talking at once. We'll have to have 'hands up' like at school." At first
everyone thinks that this is the best method to maintain order but soon they
find out how quickly the power of the conch is abused by Ralph and Jack. On pg
89 While Simon is trying to speak Ralph and Jack try to get him to sit down. "
'Sit down' 'Shut up' 'take the Conch!' 'Sod you' ' Shut up!' " T .....
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Tom Sawyer: Summary
.... June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom and his best friend Huck were
out in the grave yard trying to get rid of warts, when they witnessed a
murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun
Joe blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found
out they knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board
"Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they
may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale Is A Coward And A Hypocrite
.... some extent, Dimmesdale's story is one of a single man tempted into the
depths of the hormonal world. This world, however, is a place where the
society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously
complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and
by his own image of himself as a cleric devoted to higher things. Unlike
other young men, Dimmesdale cannot accept his loss of innocence and go on
from there. He must struggle futilely to get back to where .....
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Wuthering Heights: Summary
.... Catherine's emotions are so passionate that she is unable to control
them. To the point of causing her own death. Before she dies, she says that
she wants both Heathcliff and Edgar to suffer-Edgar, because he never understood
heraffection for Heathcliff; and Heathcliff, because he never understood why
she married Edgar. Cathy has a mind of her own and some of Catherine's
willfullness. She is also capable of great sympathy towards Linton, whom she
marries and finally Hareton Earnshaw.
Heathcliff is a .....
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The Scarlet Letter
.... and sometimes not subtly at
all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, is
extremely smart, pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her
intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's
favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will
recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To
Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) "And she was
gentler here [the forest] than in the grassy .....
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The Sword In The Stone: Kay Gets What He Deserves
.... Wart becomes more powerful and
important than Kay, Sir Ector and the other people who had always `ruled'
him.
I think that the Wart was a better person to Kay and although he may not
have been superior to Kay, he certainly had a better personality and was
kinder than Kay. With Merlyn's `education', the Wart learned not only how
to lead well, but also to be a better person, and Merlyn taught him much
about how to treat other people with respect and to relate better with them.
When the Wart meets Robin Woo .....
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Short Stories - "Spelling" And "Differently": Female Relationships
.... illustrates a lack of acceptance and
even disappointment by Flo and shows that there has always been a distance
between the two.
The title is derived from a patient Rose met at the nursing home whose only
communication was spelling words. After meeting this patient, Rose dreamed
that Flo was in a cage and spelling words like the old patient she met in
the nursing home. Rose tells Flo about her visit to the nursing home and
is obviously trying to influence Flo into going to the home. Flo is
suffering .....
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Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
.... the relationship mistakes in Chon¹s life. There
is an hint of jealousy that appears in Jake's tone. He states that women
began to become attracted to Chon as he got older, and that it ³changed
him so that he was not so pleasant to have around² (16). There is
racism in Jake¹s tone, but Jake¹s problem with Chon is is strictly one of
jealousy.
By this time Jake has already developed an extreme distaste for Chon’s
endeavors with women, but these feelings their peak when Chon and Lady
Brett have a brief af .....
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Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
.... half hearted
awnser which implies that it will never happen. He is tolerant of her
behavior because he loves her unconditionally and is willing to overlook
everything she does. Jake’s willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s
promiscuity and infidelity is an indication of the skewed values of the
age. It was an ³anything goes² era right after the first war, and Jake¹s
message to Brett seems to be the same: anything goes as long as you
eventually come back to me.
Jake is forced to accept living in this see .....
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Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
.... one. It was not as if Jake went out
of his way for it to happen. It was much more the will of Brett. She raved
on and on about Romero and insisted to Jake that they go and find him.
Jake did not fight her on this issue, but he certainly did not provoke it.
Jake was more of a stooge for Brett. She would have had her way even if
Jake had not helped her. She uses her feminine charm, and there is, little
that Jake can say. At one point she says “Oh, darling, please stay by me.
Please stay by me and see .....
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