Cahill's How The Irish Saved Civilization
.... individual.” (Cahill, p. 115) Patrick, the
slave turned Christian, escapes only to return to convert the Irish. He was the
first missionary to the barbarians beyond Greco-Roman law “who looked into the
hearts of others.” (Cahill, p. 115)
Cahill notes Ireland is the only land where Christianity is introduced
without violence - there were no murdered Irish martyrs. (Cahill, p. 151) He
discusses the growth of monasteries in Ireland and their eventual spread to Iona
and beyond by Columcille and his “ .....
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The Old Man And The Sea: Analysis Of Santiago
.... the supplies that he had. On the boat while he is battling the
mighty fish, he is able to deal with limited food and drink. He realizes he may
be out at sea for a long time, so he rationalizes his supplies. Santiago copes
with what he has. The sail on his boat is torn and tattered, consisting of
countless rags stitched together. Although a nicer sail would have been nice he
knew that he could get by with the one he has.
Santiago displayed a great deal of grace while under the pressure of
catching his gre .....
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A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
.... is.
There is one character that fits into no stereotype. "Leper" Lepillier
is an individualist. Individualists are people who don't conform to social
norms just for the sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are
not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people
conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II.
The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as conformity
becomes more popular. I haven't met any real indi .....
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Jane Eyre: The Settings
.... Reed, Jane is merely a dependent here.
When she finally leaves for Lowood, as she remembers later, it is with a
"sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation." Lowood is after all an
institution where the orphan inmates or students go to learn. Whereas at
Gateshead her physical needs were more than adequately met, while her emotional
needs were ignored. Here Jane finds people who will love her and treat her with
respect. Miss Temple and Helen Burns are quite probably the first people to
make Jane .....
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The Metamorphosis: Shape And Form
.... on it (p.84). For so long he wanted
to quit his work, because he wasn't happy with it. But he said to himself, "
Besides, I have to provide for my parents and my sister. (pp. 82-83)." He felt
that his family was too dependent of him. When Gregor wouldnt let anyone in his
room in fear that they would be horrified by his condition, he thought that his
family was harassing him because he was in danger of losing his job, and
because the chief would begin harassing his parents again for the old debts" .....
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Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal Dreams": Alice
.... in which he strained to create slippery and unmothered
women.
Homer's fear of becoming attached to anything which reminded him of
Alice resulted in an unorthodox childhood for Hallie and Codi. Homero was more
of a child mechanic than a father. Retaining only his technical aptitude after
Alice died all he could do was provide his kids with orthopedic shoes and the
correct medicine. When not fixing Codi or Hallie's present or future ailments
Homero took photographs of natural objects and slyly transform .....
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Shoot The Teacher
.... he doesn't have any
friends in the new school, maybe because he feels inferior being the new kid and
outsider that he is.
Adam's relationship to his father seemes to vary a lot. At first Adam looks at
his father as if he was a perfect stranger.And he has all rights to do that
since they practicly hadn't seen each other att all since Adam was born. Then
some kind of a father-son friendship evolves, but I get the feeling that it's
only because they feel they have to. When Simon is accused of murder, Ad .....
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"The Stranger": Analysis
.... in 1936. C.
The factor that influenced Albert Camus was his parents, who were a working
class family. He was determined to make a better life for himself by getting an
education and preparing himself to go to college. The fact that he lived in
North Africa, he wrote lots of fiction books, dealing with moral problems of
universal importance. 1. I think Albert's prospective in life was to just be
able to write books for people that actually would deal with the reality and
difficulty of people fa .....
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Of Mice And Men And The Pearl: Characterization
.... workmen, moving from town to town and job to job, but they symbolize
much more than that. Their names give us our first hints about them. One of
Steinbeck's favorite books when he was growing up was Paradise Lost by John
Milton. In this long poem, Milton describes the beginnings of evil in the world.
He tells of Lucifer's fall from heaven and the creation of hell. He also
describes Adam and Eve's fall from grace in the Garden of Eden. By giving George
the last name of Milton, Steinbeck seems to .....
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C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure
.... by Hornblower is what later earned him the command of the Retribution,
although his command of the Retribution did not come until later when the war
started again.
Hornblower had also had a few failures that hindered his successes.
Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships.
This was both a success and failure. It was a failure because after heating the
shot for a considerably long period of time the shot began to deform. This
deformity of the shot would .....
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Summer Of The Monkeys: Jay Berry And His Conflicts
.... and
help him through his amazing journey.
The first inner force that helps Jay Berry along his journey is his
incredible determination. Jay Berry displays his determination many times
throughout the novel. For Jay Berry to succeed his goals of bringing the
highly intelligent circus monkeys home he has to have a great deal of
determination. He shows an example of this when he fails to succeed his first
few times out, but he never gives up, and has the same motivation the next time
he tries to catch the .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Superstition
.... He is very ignorant and is
easy to beleive things things. Not only does his beleif that this hairball has
magic spirits, he is also fooled by Huck many times during the novel. You would
think because of him being an uneducated slave, and Huck being the white boy who
has had some schooling, that their beleifs in this superstitous hairball would
differ. This is not true as seen when Huck is the one that comes to Jim for the
powers of the Hairball. Huck wanted to know what his father, Pap, was going to .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
.... have enjoyed doing some difficult feet that he has just
performed. Although he gets annoyed by Tom's daydreams sometimes he goes along
with them because he believes that Tom is someone that is on top of him.
2. Huck Finn's relationship with Jim changes as the story progresses. Analyze
how and why the relationship changes, supporting your answer with at least three
examples from the story.
Jim, a slave owned by Miss Watson, is a very interesting character in
the book. He seems like a person who .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
.... how corrupt civilization really is. He also points out a positive
symbol, the wild rose bush. This represents the blossoming of good out of the
darkness of all civilized life.
The most important symbol which is carried throughout the novel is
undoubtedly the scarlet letter A. It initially symbolizes the immoral act of
adultery but by the end of the novel the "A" has hidden much more meaning than
that. The "A" appears in many other places than on the chest of Hester Prynne.
It is seen on the ar .....
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Symbolism In Camus' "The Plague"
.... as
people being good to a neighbor in time of need or people volunteering to adopt
a family for the holidays are many times based on a desire to simply do
something good, not a necessarily a desire to please a god or receive a reward.
Finally, without a god (or even with a god for that matter) Camus says
that we need to be responsible and create our own hope. By looking carefully at
the characters in the book, I plan to also show Camus' press for responsibility
among the people. The ultimate goal of .....
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