Black And White
.... tale was
true or if Uncle Julius had conceived of it merely to satisfy his own desires.
Chesnutt has added to the end of each story an ulterior motive of Uncle Julius
that seems to be met by the telling of his tales. By doing this, Chesnutt
discretely satirizes whites in general.
In the first story, The Goophered Grapevine, Uncle Julius tells of a
conjure woman putting a “goopher” on the grapevines, causing all blacks that eat
the grapes to die within one year. This story is relayed upon the first m .....
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Lost Heritage In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
.... hog as mercilessly as a man. I
can work outside all day, One winter I knocked a bull
calf straight in the brain with a sledge hammer and
had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. (Walker
289)
And Maggie is the daughter, "homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms
and legs," (Walker 288) who helps Mama by making "the yard so clean and wavy"
(Walker 288) and washes dishes "in the kitchen over the dishpan" (Walker 293).
Neither Mama nor Maggie are 'mo .....
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Mark Twain Wishes To Bring Attention To Man's Often Concealed Shortcomings
.... in owners that could only be for the worse. As they
escape separately and rejoin by chance at an island along the river, they find
themselves drawn to get as far as possible from their home. Their journey down
the river sets the stage for most of Mark Twain's comments about man and society.
It is when they stop off at various towns along the river that various human
character flaws always seem to come out. Examples of this would include the
happenings after the bringing on of the Duke and King. These .....
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The Last Hung: Joop's Mid-Life Crisis
.... take place. While
touring through the house he remembers all the ways that Mari resembled the
goddess of Diana. During the period that Joop was married to Mari, she
portrayed herself in a few ways as being Diana. She did this by giving the
name of "Worshipping Diana to the act of Joop kissing her.
Her skin was white except for one violet-colored bruise just under her
right collarbone; it never disappeared entirely during the hunting season and
came from the kick of her hefty weapons. It pl .....
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Moby Dick
.... to weave into his writing are 1. An
exposition on whales and the whaling industry. 2. A commentary on the universe
and human destiny. 3. Thoughts about God and Nature.
III. Characters
B. The protagonist in this book is Ishmael, a Christian, schoolteacher and part-
time sailor. Ishmael's role in the hunt for “Moby Dick” is to interpret what is
happening. He discusses his reasons for going to sea and interprets and looks
for understanding a number of reasons for any specific action where other
charac .....
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Book Review: Nemesis
.... the planet Erythro
about 2 light years from our solar system, the novel shifts between Earth, space,
and the Settlement named Rotor, which orbits the foreign planet.
Main Character:
Marlene Fisher is a very intelligent young woman at fifteen years of age.
As a child, all who encountered her sensed that she was different. Her wide
eyes absorbed all that was around her and seemed to know a great deal. Growing
older, her “uniqueness” established itself as a gift in which she is able to
read into the b .....
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Black Like Me
.... the heart of the deep south, Mississippi to check it
out.
Even with the risk of his life, Griffin decides to take a bus to Hattiesburg
into the deep south to check out the lynching case. At the bus station, Griffin
acquired “hate stares “ from many whites on the benches waiting for their buses.
Griffin boarded the bus, and during the trip he conversed with a man named
Christophe, and when the white passengers got off the bus during the rest stop,
the bus driver prevented the Negro passengers from depart .....
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The Night Of The Hunter: The Preacher
.... murder her. Just as he is about to whip out the switchblade and fulfill
his holy mission, he suddenly hears “God's” voice telling him not to bother
because “there were too many of them.” At the moment when this revelation takes
place, the woman of the night sees the preacher in the midst of taking out the
knife, and she screams. The shouting brings a Negro servant, and the preacher
is forced to kill both the servant and prostitute. In Powell's sick and twisted
mind, God had merely changed His mind when .....
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A Woman Mourned By Daughters: An Analysis
.... that she died, it is all the things that
she used to do to them. A knot forms in their throats (“what rises in our
throats like the food you prodded in”) as they think about how they used to be
treated.
After the mother dies, the daughters are left with several
responsibilities which are discussed in the next section (Lines 22-28). These
responsibilities are not ones which the daughters would be happy to take care of.
They are so hateful toward their mother and the problems she left are only a
burden .....
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Of Mice And Men: The Importance Of A Close Friendship Between Two People
.... His wife is
a flirt. She wants everybody at the Ranch. Curley doesn't like that so he
tries to keep her in the house.
Slim is like the head of the ranch because he knows what is going on and
everybody likes him. He is the kind of guy you would want as a friend. He is
called a Jerkline skinner. He is a person that is very easy to get along with.
So he becomes one of George's good friends.
The saying "The need for social companionship is a basic urge common to
all mean and deserves consideration .....
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Of Mice And Men: Friendship And Loyalty
.... was the way they never stopped
trying to reach their dream. This made me think that if they could work hard for
there dream why can't I. It showed me that it does not matter were you come from
or what you do, it is okay to dream and work as hard as you can to reach it .
For all it shows for friendship and loyalty it also shows how sometimes you have
to do things you never thought you would do. For example in the end when George
is forced to shoot Lennie in the head you would never have thought he would .....
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Black Like Me: Racism Is A Foolism Misunderstanding Of Man
.... at first was puzzled by this, but soon realized that it was not his
personality, his age, but his blackness that made him a disgrace in the eyes of
an average white person. If he were white, a white store owner would have not
hesitated in the slightest to allow such privileges. How could these people be
so blind as to not see that a black person breathes the same air, eats the same
food, and has the same internal functions as themselves? This misunderstanding
stares them in the face and they can't .....
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Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
.... seems consumed with despair. A return to normalcy, school and
home-life, appear to be more than Conrad can handle. Chalk-faced, hair-hacked
Conrad seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world.
His family, after all, "are people of good taste. They do not discuss a
problem in the face of the problem. And, besides, there is no problem." Yet,
there is not one problem in this family but two - Conrad's suicide and the
death by drowning of Conrad's older brother, .....
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Essay On Pride And Prejudice: Theme
.... Elizabeth could be happy together.
Prejudice was also an issue for Darcy in that he disliked Elizabeth in
the beginning because of her low social status, poverty, and socially inept
family. Darcy was forced to deal with his prejudice when he fell in love with
Elizabeth. This was not easy for him to do but it was necessary. His snobbery
was countered by his love for Elizabeth. In the end, he overcame his pride and
gave in to his feelings by marrying her in spite of her and her family's
shortcomings.
Eliz .....
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Pride And Prejudice: Irony
.... the fatuous Mr. Collins; the younger Bennet
daughter, Lydia; and her lover, Wickham, with whom she scandalously elopes. It
is often pointed out that Austen's novels emphasize characterization and
romanticism, but in Pride and Prejudice the emphasis is on the irony, values and
realism of the characters as they develop throughout the story.
Jane Austen's irony is devastating in its exposure of foolishness and hypocrisy.
Self-delusion or the attempt to fool other people are usually the object of her
wit. .....
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