Orwell's Animal Farm: Summary Of Characters
.... horse who works night and day on the windmill and for
Napoleon's cause. When he hurts his hoof and is unable to work, Napoleon is
uncaring and sends him off to the slaughterhouse since he is of no further use.
Some of the animals come to realize what is happening and are mad at Napoleon,
but Napoleon talks his way out of it by convincing the animals that they are
mistaken and the hospital uses vehicles marked "slaughterhouse" to pick up
injured animals. Stalin's character was similar as he used people f .....
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Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
.... had
called at such a late hour. She immediately recognizes it to be Vronsky and she
feels ‘a strange feeling of pleasure mixed with a feeling of vague apprehension
suddenly stirred in her heart.'( page 90)This tells of what may be the conflict
in the plot.
The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly
expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time
of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater
heart. Anna tells .....
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Anna Karenina: Characters And The Life Novel
.... a flat
character is definitely presented in a manner which allows him to have a sense
of lifelikeness and fullness. From the speech patterns the waiter uses to the
description of the fit of his uniform, one is presented with the details that
allow the waiter to contribute to the novel in means beyond simply the presence
of a minor character. His description and actions provide the novel with a
sense of "real life".
Another way in which Tolstoy gives the minor character a sense of life
is by making them .....
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Anne Frank Remembered: Review
.... to be swept in by the Nazis." (Gies, p. 41, 1987).
The main source of background to the author's viewpoint is her own story.
In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story
must be given.
The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies. She
was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents until the
age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of
undernourished and sick children and was to be ad .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
.... what the other birds sing. Hence, we see the
mockingbird through the other birds. In the novel, the people of Maycomb only
know Boo Radley and Tom Robinson by what others say about them. Both of these
characters do not really have their own "song" in a sense, and therefore, are
characterized by other people's viewpoints.
Throughout the novel, Scout, Jem, and Dill are curious about the "mysterious"
Boo Radley because he never comes outside of his house or associates with anyone
in the neighborhood. The c .....
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Rand's "Anthem"
.... eyes grew wider, and there was triumph in their
eyes, and it was not triumph over us, but over things we could not guess."
Later, Liberty follows Equality into the forest, and the first sign of
forbidden love is shown when "we bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but
when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us. We seized their
body and we pressed our lips to theirs."
Equality is excited with the joy of learning when he finishes his work of
building a light bulb. "WE MADE I .....
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The Life And Work Of Anthony Burgess
.... to the life and experience of its
author. In a series of five books, Burgess also focused on his life experiences.
Enderby's Dark Lady was the fifth in the series, and that will be the second
book focused on in this paper. Anthony Burgess's work in A Clockwork Orange and
Enderby's Dark Lady strongly reflects significant events or influences in his
own life.
Anthony Burgess was born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England in
early 1917. (Stinson 1). Both of Burgess's parents were members of the thea .....
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Analysis Of Pearl In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
.... characters'
tragedies.
Chronology
The character of Pearl in the Scarlet Letter lived a very difficult life.
Before the novel begins, Hester Prynne gives birth to Pearl after having an
affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister. Pearl's birth proves that
Hester cheated on her husband Roger Chillingworth provoking the stories action.
The novel opens with the people of Boston staring and laughing at Hester holding
Pearl while standing on the town's scaffold. At this .....
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Chopin's A Pair Of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers
.... Sommers. All of a sudden
everything she has in not good enough, she looks at her shopping bag as
"shabby" and "old". Her parcel is "very small". At this point, she wants more.
She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when
she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going
through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not
thinking at all" at this point.
Mrs. Sommers's mind is not working like it used to at the beginning.
All .....
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: Summary
.... that Ivan holds out which is the empty one. This was in the
book as,
He was about to pass him through when,
for safety's sake, he crushed the mitten
that Shukhov held out to him - the empty one. (Solzhenitsyn, Pg. 107)
The smart move that he does is to place the empty mitten on top and take the
risk that the guard will only search the empty one. Shukhov was lucky. Another
example of having to be smarter is after they find the wood panels, they want to
carry them back to make .....
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Joyce's "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man": A Review
.... the younger
Dedalus. Later in the novel, Stephen loses even more respect for his father as
the familys' debts continue to grow and they are forced to move. Once, when the
two males travel to sell of the family estate, Simon returns to his former
school and converses with his former classmates. Stephen is upset to hear of
his father's wild behavior as a youth, and of his flirtatious nature. He begins
to rebel against his strict upbringing, striking back at his familys'
traditional values and way of life .....
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Native Son: Reviews
.... the moment he allowed what his life meant to enter fully into his
consciousness, he would either kill himself or somebody else." Fadiman then
goes on by criticizing Wright stating that he is too explicit, repetitive, and
overdoes his melodrama from time to time. Fadiman does not believe Wright to be
a finished writer just yet. However, he does think that Wright possesses the
two absolute necessities of the first-rate novelist, passion and intelligence.
He also understands that Wright must have been gre .....
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Flaws In Twain's "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"
.... that Twain seems to ramble on and on and on an.....
To me it seems as if the story that he was writing became faint shortly after
the time when Huck says, “It's me. George Jackson, sir”(pg. 95). I do have to
give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you can only take so much
filler. Then when John Wayne (The Duke) and Elvis (The King) come along there
seem to be four or five stops along the river that except for one little detail,
are the same. Please excuse the jump back, but how coincident .....
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Summary Of "A Raisin In The Sun"
.... those
who are black. Travis who is stay in dismay and is confused waits at home while
Walter goes over to the neighbors house to talk to them about what has happened.
Walter is, in good reason, very angry and annoyed by the racist whites. He goes
over and at first tries his best to stay calm over the situation. The white
father then says, "Listen, if I ever see your son with mine, I will througth
that little black spoiled brat back into your yard." Walter becomes enraged and
hits the man directly in the .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: A Satirical View Of The Old South
.... hurt he said "no'm. Killed a nigger." When
she shows no emotion in her reaction it shows us how many southern whites looked
at blacks. We also see at many times during the novel that Huck and Jim have a
true friendship. The go out of their way at many times for the welfare of
eachother and they develop a relationship to which they both contribute. Huck
teaches Jim about diversity, priests and rulers in chapter fourteen when he
reads to him about Solomon and Frenchmen. Jim also teaches Huck an import .....
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