A Summary Of A Christmas Carol
.... in the book, some feeling pity, others feeling
hostility.
"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm,
no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he…Nobody ever
stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear Scrooge, how are
you? When will you come to see me?'. No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,
no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his
life inquired the way to such and such a place, of .....
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A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote
.... purse under a loose board in the floor. They never
remove the purse from under Sook's bed unless making a deposit or a ten-cent
withdrawal on Saturdays. She allots Buddy ten cents to go to the picture show
each Saturday. Sook has never visited one before, but asks Buddy to go instead
to come back and tell she the stories of the picture show. After dinner, Sook
and Buddy retire to a room in a faraway part of the house where her sleep's at
night, to count their treasure. When finished counting, Buddy .....
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Universial Themes In "The Return Of The Native" And "Great Expectations"
.... reaching home, he is frightened by the light coming from the heath and
returns to discover Wildeve meeting with Eustacia. By pure chance, Venn
discovers the boy and quizzes him.
“Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't like to
speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again” [Johnny
Nunsuch]
“ A gentleman--ah! What did she say to him, my man?” [Diggory Venn]
“Told him she supposed he had not married the other woman because he liked his
old swee .....
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As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner
.... see the tension between Anse and Jewel. We see the lack of
respect Jewel has for Anse. It is rather ironic when Anse says "He's just lazy,
trying me" (p. 129) Since Jewel has been working really hard, and it is Anse who
is lazy. Furthering on Jewel and Anse's relationship, I feel that it is fairly
evident that Jewel knows that Anse is not his father. This is illustrated in the
following section on page 136: "Jewel looked at Pa, his eyes paler than ever.
'He won't never eat a mouthful of yours' he said. .....
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A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"
.... invention could improve the quality of life of the
people it is deemed "evil" because he worked on his project alone. The society
in this book is also strict and authoritarian to the point of dictating what
your job will be, to whom you will have children with.
In The Handmaid's Tale the story takes place sometime in the near future
after some kind environmental catastrophe that makes it impossible for most
women to have children. To solve this problem some radicals set off a nuclear
bomb in Washington .....
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A Comparison Of "Of Mice And Men" And "The Great Depression An Eyewitness History"
.... worked on farms because after
the stock market crashed people realized that the reason the stock market
crashed was because farms were not producing enough goods. People started to
work on farms more to help everyone. Lennie and George worked for ranches and
also in the fields. "He's a good skinner. He can rassel grain bags, drive a
cultivator. He can do anything." (Of Mice and Men p.22).
If you really look closely, George and Lennie's way of life and the
Great Depression have a good deal in comm .....
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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
.... how
unfairly, and cruelly slaves (she) were treated. People saw the slaves as
scapegoats and were blamed for everything. She gives many examples of situations
in which someone (one of the masters or mistresses) wasn't happy with something
and blamed it on the slave(s), forcing them to deal with the harsh consequences.
An example is when the cook sends dinner out to Dr. Flint. Sometimes, when he
does not like a dish, the cook gets whipped, other times he shoves all the food
down the her throat until she .....
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An Analysis Of The Lord Of The Flies
.... of the savage hunters. The
boys go through many trials and hardships while on the island including the
dangers of the jungle, finding food, and remaining a functional group.
The novel's main focus is on Ralph and his experiences on the island.
As leader of the group, Ralph has a great deal of responsibility and must learn
how to work with this responsibility. Through the course of the story, Ralph
changes from an adolescent child to a mature person, but ends up breaking down
at the end of the novel. Th .....
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A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
.... -- hard work for their
landlord and mere survival for them.
No hope for advancement prevails throughout the story. Sarty, his
brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must spend
their time working in the fields or at home performing familial duties.
Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room where they would
presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-afternoon meal” (PARA. 55).
As a consequence, poor health combined with inadequate opportunity result .....
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A Critical Analysis Of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
.... was the whaling boat Ishmael sailed on where
such characters as Queequeq, Starbuck, and the captain of the ship, Ahab, all
journeyed together.
Not long once at sea, the captain of the ship, Ahab reveals his plan to
hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sailor, a man that had
a heart of stone. Ahab had a personal grudge against Moby Dick. Moby Dick was
responsible for taking off Ahab's leg in a previous voyage. Ahab's plan was
essentially an unauthorized takeover, what the whaling c .....
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Mark Anthony's "Crypt Of The Shadowking": A Fantasy
.... where Cutter is mining to find the crypt of
the Shadowking, where the nightstone, an ancient artifact of great and evil
power, believed to be. Caledan finds this out through a connection within the
slums and goes to find his old traveling companions who once made up the Company
of the Dreaming Dragon. After reuniting, the company goes to find the tomb of
Merrimeck to find the secret of the shadow song, the known power against the
Shadowking and the nightstone. As the company travels to toward the Fie .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism In The Forest
.... Hibbins, yet Hester refused to sign her name in the
black mans book on that night. She explains that the only reason she does not
sign is because Pearl is still in her life. At this time the forest itself is a
open door to another world, a wicked world that would take her away from her
present situation, but that is not the only door that the forest holds.
The forest is an open door to love and freedom for both Hester and
Dimmesdale. It is a place where the letter on their bodies can no longer hav .....
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A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
.... this is the first instance in which Jefferson breaks his
somber barrier and shows emotions. At that point he became a man, not a hog. As
far as the story tells, he never showed any sort of emotion before the shooting
or after up until that point. A hog can't show emotions, but a man can. There
is the epiphany of the story, where Mr. Wiggins realizes that the purpose of
life is to help make the world a better place, and at that time he no longer
minds visiting Jefferson and begins becoming his friend.
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
.... men just like himself, people with whom he might even be
friends at another time.
But Remarque doesn't just tell us war is horrible. He also shows us that
war is terrible beyond anything we could imagine. All our senses are assaulted:
we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up together in a
cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the wounded horses
(Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies, swelling up and belching
gases, dumped into a huge shell hole (Ch .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Speaks Her Ideas
.... sweet wid mah marriage lak
when you sit under a pear tree and think." She shows her grandma that she is
not happy with her
Janie's next husband, Joe Starks was very nice to her and gave her
everything she wanted. When it came to Janie wanting to talk or speak her mind,
he would not let her, and that made her feel like she was less of a person than
he. Until one day, towards the end of their long marriage, when Jody made a
very mean comment about Janie's body. She came back with, "When you pull .....
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