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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A Comparison Of Hamlet And McMurphy In "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
.... and R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, can be defined as anti-heroes making these two pieces
comparable for study.
To examine the aspect of anti-heroes in tragedy, and how this
relates to the characters of R.P.McMurphy and Hamlet, an analysis of the
motivation of each is necessary. Motivation is the source of all action,
and only in this area these two characters similar to a traditional
protagonist. As the character himself evolves through the course of the
plot, so do their motives. .....
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A Critical Analysis Of "Revelation" By Flannery O'Connor
.... uses the word “nigger” in her thoughts. These
characteristics she gives her characters definitely reveals the Southern
lifestyle which the author, Flannery O'Connor, was a part of. In addition
to her Southern upbringing, another influence on the story is Flannery
O'Connor's illness. She battled with the lupus disease which has caused
her to use a degree of violence and anger to make her stories somewhat
unhappy. The illness caused a sadness inside of Flannery O'Connor, and
that inner sadness flowed fro .....
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Great Expectations: Injustices And Poor Conditions Committed On Women And Children
.... did not have the courage to tell Mrs. Joe that he had taken a pork
pie that was for Christmas dinner. Mrs. Joe only made it harder for Pip when
she asked, "And were the deuce ha' you been?" (page 20). Pip had to make a
moral judgment about whether or not to tell the truth about what he did and is
challenged with many more of these decisions throughout the book.
Pip was later introduced to Estella, Ms. Havisham's adopted daughter, whom was
taught to pursue retribution on all of the male population .....
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An Analysis Of The Lord Of The Flies
.... 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 re .....
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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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A Doll's House: Theme Of Emancipation Of A Woman
.... me alone. I don't want all this",
Torvald asks "Aren't I your husband?". By saying this, he is implying that
one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his
command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies
Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald
gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and
pastry; in modern times, this would be comparable to Macauly Culkin being
given money, then buying things .....
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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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Great Expectations: Pip
.... and
gets angry at his son for not showing the same respect of Pip¹s wealth. Then,
when he next sees Pumblechook, he repeatedly asks Pip if he may shake his hand,
as if it is some great honor. Before the news, he hardly treated Pip any
differently than any other common boy. Pip also looks to the way his new
acquaintances are treated, most notably Mr. Jaggers. He is treated with a great
deal of respect by everyone, and even invokes fear in some. Pip had never seen
this level of respect for someone t .....
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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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Hard Times: Struggle Of Fact Vs Imagination And Struggle Between Two Classes
.... few in numbers, are dominant over the middle class, which is larger
in numbers. Stephen Blackpool represents the working class. He is a warm-
hearted man trapped in thes run down society. He feels he deserves this
mediocre lifestyle. Blackpool was originally employed under Bounderby, but is
fired for standing up for his beliefs. This type of behavior was totally
unacceptable during the period of time as it involved imagination and
independance. Bounderby portrayed himself as a self-made man,when i .....
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Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
.... give me
a feeling of abrupt awakening, a feeling of: ‘This is reality, this is what
you are up against.' Your home might be far from perfect, but at least it
was a place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting situation, realizes he
is alone in a hostile, harsh environment. Orwell uses the .....
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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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