The Heart Of Darkness: The Horror!
.... the colonizers' greed, and Europe's darkness.
Kurtz comes to the Congo with noble intentions. He thought that each
ivory station should stand like a beacon light, offering a better way of life
to the natives. He was considered to be a "universal genius": he was an orator,
writer, poet, musician, artist, politician, ivory producer, and chief agent of
the ivory company's Inner Station. yet, he was also a "hollow man," a man
without basic integrity or any sense of social responsibility. "Kurtz is .....
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In Our Time: Review
.... B. Parker, and the like
each time. I think I read The Old Man and the Sea ages ago in high school, but
it was so long ago that it has slipped completely from my memory. He is one of
those authors that I always connect with my father and his college years for
some reason, although I'm not entirely sure why. I've always wanted to read
Hemmingway, but I've always wanted to read all of Shakespeare, Homer, and Eliot,
too.
The edition I'm reading has the short stories separated by "Chapters" which do
and don .....
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Beloved
.... way to live, and living in chains and without freedom is not living as
a human should. Slavery degraded African Americans from humans, to that of
animals. They were not treated with any respect, or proper care. Even modern day
criminals, those that have murdered large numbers of people are treated more
humanly then the average slave ever was. The life that the children would of
lived would of been one of complete servitude, they would of never of known what
it was like to live on their own and make their .....
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Huckleberry Finn Learns He Must Grow Up Fast If He Wants To Survive Life
.... father.
Both Jim and Huck have experienced life at a tedious level. They have
their highs and lows, but mainly life is not all it is cracked up to be. For
Huck, he must experience having a horrendous father who beats Huck to a pulp
any time he is sober. And for Jim, the fact that his family is not considered
human by society but rather chattel that can be bought, sold or even traded at
the slightest whim. Together Huck and Jim must work together to escape the
society which has allowed them to live .....
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Human Nature: Exposed
.... , is cruel, silly, and hypocritical in
nature.
Through his writing, it becomes apparent that Twain supports the
thematic idea of the human race being hypocritical. For instance, take the
scene in Chapter 20 where a group of people in Arkansas are listening to the
sermon of a preacher. In this descriptive passage, it can be inferred through
Twain's writing that the average person of this time was in fact "blinded" by
religious influences. The significance of this event can be observed later on
in Chapte .....
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Imagination In Morte D' Arthur
.... when Arthur and his
army are about to negotiate with Mordred and his. One of the King's soldiers
notices a snake about to bite him, and he draws his sword to slay it. All that
Mordred's men see is the blade being drawn, and a battle immediately ensues.
Once again, the reader is told more than the characters. The only thing
keeping the reader a part of the story is the vivid descriptions given of the
nightmarish world of Arthur's dream, and the smoking, bloody battlefield of a
war that wasn't meant .....
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In Contempt By Christopher Darden: A Review
.... the book, and the way he spoke of them before and after the trial shows that
he really cared about the lives of these people that he didn't even know. He
even went as far as to say in the book that this was the first case that
affected him personally and emotionally. As one may expect the majority of this
book is taken up with the Simpson case but, chapters two through six detail his
life from birth, his childhood in a working class district of Richmond,
California, and becoming a district attorne .....
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Louis Tanner Of Destroying Angel And Rick Deckard Of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep: Importance To The Thematic Development Of "moral Men In Immortal
.... Hannah but
did not take advantage of the situation: "No Hannah"(136). Tanner had more
worrisome thoughts than making love to a good friend. He wanted the murderer of
all murderers, the chain killer. As a cop he never captured the chain killer.
This person fused chains to people's bodies and then threw them into the water.
For Tanner who was now a retired cop, it was as if a spark lit up in him. All
the old memories fled back into his mind. The nightmare of his partner getting
shot on a "drug bust gone"(13) .....
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Irony Of The Setting In "The Lottery"
.... surroundings
give the reader a serene felling about the town. Also, these descriptions make
the reader feel comfortable about the surroundings as if there was nothing wrong
in this quaint town.
Upon reading the first paragraph, Shirley Jackson describes the town in
general. The town is first mentioned in the opening paragraph where she sets
the location in the town square. She puts in perspective the location of the
square "between the post office and the bank" (196). This visualizes for the
r .....
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The Major Years: Isolation And Emily Grierson - A Deadly Combination
.... by men. The women try to fight the men in their society and are
trying to find a way to escape from their grasps. They are hesitant to stand up
to the men and instead they tend to hide away. Backman notes that, "The will to
confront reality seems to be losing out to the need to escape"(p.184).
Miss Emily is a woman who had the whole town wondering what she was
doing, but did not allow anyone the pleasure of finding out. Once the men that
she cared about in life deserted her, either by deat .....
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Biography Precis -- Black Boy
.... for quiet during the day, when his father, a night porter, sleeps. When Mr.
Wright tells Richard to kill a meowing kitten if that's the only way he can keep
it quiet, Richard has found a way to rebel without being punished. He takes his
father literally and hangs the kitten. But Richard's mother punishes him by
making him bury the kitten and by filling him with guilt. Another theme is seen
when his father deserts the family, and Richard faces severe hunger. For the
first time, Richard sees himself as d .....
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Literature And Life: Of Human Bondage And Beyond
.... people (I still am, admittedly)
and I had very few friends.
It was not too long before I discovered the faults in my erroneous
living. I finally realized, and truly not a moment too soon, that if I did not
start living for the present, my future would soon become my neglected present.
I would have wasted my life doing meaningless things and I would have no
experience to share with anyone who may be interested in the uneventful life I
had led. After I came to this startling revelation, I grew even .....
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Of Mice And Men: Loneliness
.... room out in the
stable with the horses. The other (white) guys have their bunks in a one room
house type of building. The loneliness affects Crooks so that he remains in his
room when he has some books to read. He also usually rubs his own back with
liniment because a horse kicked or threw him when he was younger. Another thing
that showed his loneliness is that he had his personal belongings scattered
around the room. He also had this stuff scattered around the room because he
was crippled and was a stab .....
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Lord Of The Flies: We Hate Piggy
.... We knew deep down that this was a bad thing to do but we
enjoyed putting him or her down.
Piggy is smarter than most of the survivors. You could see this because
he was aware of the situation around him whereas Ralph enjoyed the freedom. It
was Piggy's idea to write down all of the survivors' names and he knew where to
put the hole in the conch and what it could be used for. Piggy is also clever
in which when he is asked to do something physical, whether it would be
exercise or hard labour, he says he c .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Man Is Savage At Heart
.... a manhunt [for
Ralph], the reader realizes that despite the strong sense of British character
and civility that has been instilled in the youth throughout their lives, the
boys have backpedaled and shown the underlying savage side existent in all
humans. "Golding senses that institutions and order imposed from without are
temporary, but man's irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley
1: 119). The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil
nature inherent in man. .....
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