Gulliver's Travels: Summary
.... motives, acts, and humanity are in the same, dwarfish (Long 276). In this
section, the royal palace is accidentally set on fire, containing the empress
inside. Instead of making his way across town, to the ocean, squashing the
people of Lilliput as he goes, Gulliver makes use of his urine to save the
palace. While this vulgar episode was a display of bravery, it infuriated the
emperor, causing revenge to be vowed on Gulliver. Rather then be happy that
both the emperor and the palace are not in rui .....
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Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
.... lingered tears.” 1
She then later fell in love with Angel, and married him. Angel found out about
Tess' past experience with Alec, and he could not forgive her, even though it
was all Alec's doing. Thus it is clear that casual wrong follows her and yet
the wrong is not made by her.
Tess' true strength is her determination to overcome her misfortunes.
When the Durbeyfields' horse, Prince died, Tess took control of the situation
of the horse's death and the beehive delivery. She takes care of the kids .....
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Huck Finn: Conflict Between Society And The Individual
.... see how civilization is more
concerned over finding Huck's dead body than rescuing his live one from Pap.
This is a society that is more concerned about a dead body than it is in the
welfare of living people.
The theme becomes even more evident once Huck and Jim set out, down the
Mississippi. Huck enjoys his adventures on the raft. He prefers the freedom
of the wilderness to the restrictions of society. Also, Huck's acceptance of
Jim is a total defiance of society. Ironically, Huck believes he is com .....
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Superstition In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... door, but I
hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd
killed a spider."(Twain 5).
In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to
Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is the size of a fist
that he took from an ox's stomach. Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here?
But the hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a
counterfeit quarter. Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball
tal .....
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The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe: Love And Attraction
.... Still, everyone is shocked when the handsome outlaw,
Marvin Macy, falls in love with her.
Marvin is a "bold, fearless, and cruel" man who changes his unlawful
ways to win Miss Amelia's love. Rather than robbing houses he begins attending
church services on Sunday mornings. In an effort to court Miss Amelia, he
learns proper etiquette, such as "rising and giving his chair to a lady, and
abstaining from swearing and fighting". Two years after Marvin's reformation,
he asks Miss Amelia to marry him. Miss .....
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The Canterbury Tales: Analysis
.... medieval
society ; the church people, the royalty court people, and the common people.
The characters are from the different class structures of feudalism, (a knight,
a squire, a reeve) and open classes which emerge in city scenes such as a
merchant and an innkeeper.
The church class was a nun, a friar, and a pardoner. Chaucer used very
keen detail to make the characters seem lifelike and almost modern in their
personality traits.
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
.... York, has been expelled school for poor achievement once again. In an
attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days prior to the end of term,
and goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning to his parents'
inevitable wrath.
Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and activities over
these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown,
symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression, impulsive spending and
generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior .....
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions To Classical Mythology
.... warnings, his wings melted, and he fell into the sea and drowned. His
more cautious father flew to safety (World Book 3). By using this myth in A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Portrait of the Artist), Joyce succeeds
in giving definitive treatment to an archetype that was well established long
before the twentieth century (Beebe 163).
The Daedalus myth gives a basic structure to Portrait of the Artist.
From the beginning, Stephen, like most young people, is caught in a maze, just
as .....
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The Deerslayer: View Of The Native Americans
.... the passage in which the
two hunters find each other. "The calls were in different tones, evidently
proceeding from two men who had lost their way, and were searching in different
directions for their path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is
symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again
through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest
into the little clearing we are face to face with... two opposing moral visions
of life which .....
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Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain: Summary
.... first part of the book describes the beginning of the Kiowa culture and
their development.
Towards the end of the first part, the tone of the stories changes.
Instead of describing different stories each time, they begin to tell a story
which continues through six numbered sections. The story relates the life of a
baby who grows into the sun's wife who then has a ·child who becomes two
children, who become honored people in the eyes of the Kiowa. These stories do
not explain things like the creation .....
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Kadohata's The Story Devils: An Overview
.... It is a first-person narration and she is playing the part of the
protagonist. The point of view remains constant throughout the story, which
gives you only the viewpoint of the author to get facts from. Although this may
be a possibly unreliable perspective, due to selective memory, the story is told
in a straightforward manner suggesting truth and honesty.
During the story the author realizes that Mr. Mason is a violent man.
This is learned through several instances, such as when he forced the mot .....
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The Necklace: The Downfall Of Mathilde Loisel
.... life, as well as her husband's, takes a dramatic turn and
the author describes the physical and emotional changes in great detail.
The story's title does not signify the theme however, the theme of the
story is reiterated throughout the story. "She had no dresses, no jewels,
nothing. And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that. She would so
have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after"(900).
Mme. Loisel was envious of her friend and anyone else who had mor .....
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Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall Of Young Goodman Brown
.... because of this promise
that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony to this promise because
when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with
the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the
reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has
a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time
for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God i psycholo .....
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The Effects Of Catch 22
.... all of his chances to become a
normal, practicing doctor.
Before the war arrives on Doc Daneeka's doorstep, it appears to have
benefitted him. Doc Daneeka was making a nice sum of money from various illegal
means. He received kickbacks from drug stores in the area that ran an illegal
operation. He also utilized beauty parlors to perform two or three abortions a
week to bring in more revenue. When the war begins, Doc Daneeka's practice
starts to pick up because of the lack of other doctors. .....
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A Study Of The Negro Policeman: Book Review
.... police, the nature of their relations in regard to
their immediate clientele, their counterparts, and the rest of society. In the
broadest terms, the book examines the special problems that Negro policemen face
in their efforts to reconcile their race with their work in the present
framework of American values and beliefs.
The research for the study was based on intensive interviews collected
over a period of eleven months, from December 1964 to October 1965. During that
time the author talked w .....
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