A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
.... (68). When Gene starts a fight
with Quackenbush and falls into the Naguamsett because Quackenbush calls Gene "a
maimed son-of-a-bitch," Gene surfaces from the Naguamsett feeling grimy, dirty
and in desperate need of a bath (71). Much like the clean, refreshing water of
the Devon and the ugly saline water of the Naguamsett, Gene's carefree attitude
of the summer session vastly differs from the angry, confused attitude of the
winter session.
Likewise, the two sessions, the summer and winter, give .....
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A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
.... anyone, he just wanted to do it for himself. Gene and Phineas of
campus to the ocean to swim. They have a drink at the bar, the spend the night
on the beach, and Phineas tells Gene he is his best pal. Gene is not sure if he
feels the same.
Chapter 4: Gene and Finny (Phineas) wake up and head back to Devon. Gene fails
his trigonometry examination for the first time. Finny tells Gene that he
studies too much. Gene thinks Finny is jealous. Gene wants to earn the
Scholastic Achievement Citation to get even .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Characters Are "Recalled To Life"
.... is given another chance at life ,and therefore was
"recalled to life."
The last and most significant instance of someone being "recalled to
life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has recently
switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine.
While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I
do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I
have ever known." Through these words Sydney recogniz .....
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A Town Like Alice: Discussion
.... England.
Another example in the book that is more about religion and culture is the
Japanese soldier who walked with the girls in Malaya when they got the stolen
poultry from Joe. The soldier is abused by his captain and he finds it so
humiliating that he looses his will to live. When he's infected by the fever he
doesn't fight it and he dies. This is a mentality that is or maybe was very
common in Japan. A person from the west would never feel so bad about loosing
his face as a man from Japan.
The diffe .....
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Attitudes Toward Marriage In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
.... in
astrology and Absalon's refusal to accept offerings from the ladies, as well as
the behaviors of both with regards to Alison. Still, Alison does what she wants,
she takes Nicholas because she wants to, just as she ignores Absalon because she
wants to. Lines 3290-5 of the Miller's Tale show Alison's blatant disrespect for
her marriage to "Old John" and her planned deceit:
That she hir love hym graunted atte laste,
And swoor hir ooth, by seint Thomas of Kent
That she wol been at his comandement .....
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Bless Me Ultima: The Growing Up Of A Young Boy
.... home to warn Ultima, a kind whitch about Tenorio, whose desire
is to destroy her spirit, he realized he or Ultima could both be exterminated.
During the run, Tony thought of the future, which he hardly thought of before
this event. Almost every child Tony's age was preoccupied with activities, such
as playing and horsing around, and certainly not thinking what the future could
pertain. This proves Tony understood the aknowledgement of reality, unlike most
of his peers. When Florence, his freind, ques .....
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Morrison's Beloved: A Review
.... so deserved. Future leaders of known fame will be Malcolm
X and Martin Luther King which will carry on this battle begun by the
abolitionists.
Baby Suggs, is Halle's mother and Sethe's mother - in - law, and is an
important character in the story in that she brings about many aspects of self-
pride and versatility. Suggs lived through the "slavery" and came out of the
ordeal with strength of her character alone. Slavery at the time broke down the
slaves making them have low self- esteem and lo .....
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"Beware Of The Fish" By Gordan Korman: A Review
.... Macdonald Hall dive headfirst into, the
headmaster at the girls school next door thinks that the boys at Macdonald Hall
are 'hooligans terrorizing my poor girls' (whoare actually on the boys side.
(Even if the guys tried to terrorize them,they'd beat them to a pulp.) And poor
Mr. Sturgeon has no idea whats goingon. If you think that's weird, wait'll you
see what Bruno does next.
I think that this book is a really crazy book with really funny
characters. A few other books are also written about Bruno and .....
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Biblical Allusions And Imagery In Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
.... His writings spoke out against those who kept the
oppressed in poverty and therefore was branded as a Communist because of his
"voice." Although, it did become a bestseller and receive countless awards, his
book was banned in many schools and libraries. However, critics never attacked
The Grapes of Wrath on the artistic level and they still consider it a
beautifully mastered work of art. More than any other American novel, it
successfully embodies a contemporary social problem of national scope in a .....
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Billy Budd
.... among his shipmates; a leader,
not by authority, but by example. All the members of the crew look up to him
and love him. He is "strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess [are] recited.
Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion
always foremost"(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude,
Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is
accepted for his looks and happy personality, "…hardly here [is] he tha .....
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Racism In Wright's Black Boy
.... to beat the black child. Wright did not think
that whites had the right to beat blacks because of their race. Instead he
assumed that the white man was the black boy's father. When Wright learned that
this was not true, and that the boy was beaten because of his race, he was un
able to rationalize it. Even as he got older he didn't see the color of people.
In one instance Richard and a friend are standing outside a shop when some white
people pass by, Richard doesn't move to accomodate the white pe .....
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Wright's "Black Boy": An Oppressionist Impression
.... and live.”
Wright fills the chapter with a calm and mesmorizing tone; like that of
a preecher drawing his audience into a hymm. Omisdt violence, under anger and
fear, Wright converses with the reader as though he were a youth leader telling
a story to a group of boyscouts outside by a campfire. His spellbounding words
chant the reader into his world and produce a map through which the reader
follows his life in the shadows of others. “ I mingled with the boys, hoping to
pass unnoticed , but knowing tha .....
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Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons": Reasons For A Person's Actions
.... knowing that he will inevitably be executed.
One who is reading this may reply by thinking More's decision was asinine. The
reader may believe that life is the greatest value to man, and to place anything
above it would be asinine. More's behavior was bizarre even to his own time
period. His daughter, Margaret, pleaded for him to sign the oath, "Then say
the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise"(81). Her father could
not morally be satisfied by this. More believed that when an .....
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Around The World In Eighty Days: Summary
.... to
pack for a trip around the world. Throughout the entire novel the reader is
informed of all the peculiar habits of Fogg that Passepartout had to support.
My least favorite character is Fix the detective. He followed Fogg
around the globe, he missed arresting him in India and Hong Kong through
incompetence, and as soon as they arrived back in London, he did arrest Fogg but
erroneously.
The main conflict of the novel was time. Time caused a lot of pressure
on Fogg; he had to get back to London on tim .....
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Book Review Of Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squardron
.... amount of
training time and are sent out on a mission in just weeks of forming the new
Rogue Squadron X-wing fighter group. This book switches the first-person
perspective between Corran and Kirtan Loor. While Corran and the Rogue Squadron
are off fighting TIE fighters and Star Destroyers, Kirtan is hunting down
information on the squadron and it's pilots.
Personal Reaction : I found this book a little hard to read because of the long
complicated sentences and the complex words Michael Stackpole cho .....
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