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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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
.... women are supposed to walk ten feet behind their
husbands. This may seem like demeaning women to us but who are we to judge
when the United States has had a long history of racial and ethnic
discrimination and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has
simple changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much
have we changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England,
we killed people for conducting scientific experim .....
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Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
.... Later in life Dickens used his
father as the basis for his fictional character, Mr. Micawber and his mother as
Mrs. Nickleby in the Brothers Cheeryble (Constable 25).
In 1814 John Dickens was transferred from the post in Portsworth to one in
London. Three years later the family moved to Chatham to be closer to their
father who was working steadily at the post. Charles Dickens's mother taught
him to read when he was barely five and for the next few years Dickens lived
wonderfully, reading every book h .....
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"A Man For All Seasons" By Robert Bolt: More's Moral Dilemma
.... More, to force him out of the way.
All of these pressures from the king lead to a moral dilemma that More has
to face, but he chooses to stick to his morals.
King Henry applies pressure on More to support the divorce through
Meg. While More is in jail for failing to take an oath supporting the
divorce, Meg tries to convince him to take the oath, and she says, "Say
the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise," (page 81). More
responded to this by saying, "What is an oath then but words we .....
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The Jungle By Sinclair: A Man Of Many Colors
.... keep her
happy. When he lost his job, he earned mony immoraly. He does not do this
for himself, but for the welfare of Ona and the family. Eventhough he
inevidably fails, he does everything in his power to be an ideal husband.
Rudkis, like many other good-hearted people, had to circumb to the
evil powers of greed. He buys an expensive house that he could not afford.
He could settele for a house of lesser value that suits his needs just as
well, but he doesn't. Eventhough he is somewhat conned into .....
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Melville's "Bartleby The Scrivener": Introduction Of Character
.... so that it may ease the transition to the reader's
acceptance of the lawyer's thoughts and opinions. Although the author
could have simply related facts about the lawyer, the reader is able to
obtain much more from the lawyer's first person point of view.
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Oliver Twist: Summary
.... A dirty snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy (short for his age).
Dickens makes Dodger look more appealing by describing his outrageous clothes
and uninhibited manners.
Fagin - A master criminal, whose specialty is fenang (selling stolen property).
He employs a gang of thieves and is always looking for new recruits. He is a
man of considerable intelligence, though corrupted by his self-interest. His
conscience bothers him after he is condemned to hang. He does have a wry sense
of humor and an .....
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An Analysis Of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
.... cocoon, there is always a time when
one must leave and bravely enter the unknown world behind the shell. Mrs.
Flowers encouraged Maya to emerge and assisted her in finding her strongest
defense and force, her love of literature, to open this barrier and allow
Maya to end the silence. By doing this, it enhanced Maya's courage and
willingness to conquer other barriers and fortresses. Maya's love of
literature expanded and opened her horizons. One of Maya's favorite pieces
of literature is The Tale of Two Cit .....
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An Analysis Of Gulliver's Travels
.... island of Blefuscu. Gulliver helps the
Littlenders to defeat the bigenders. In this book Swift emphasises the
stupidity in the war between England and France and also every war which
starts over a stupid reason, he also points out the meaningless in
courtlife were they do nothing but waste the states money.
At he lilliputians he builds a raft which he uses to sail back to England.
But instead he finds himself shipwrecked and washed upon the shores of
Brumbidang or the giants land. there he was found b .....
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A Comparison Of The Magic In "The Rocking-Horse Winner" And "A Very Old Man
.... ride it often as Lawrence describes. The stories are bound
by the fact that the magical things they discover are unbelievable at best.
They often criticize Paul for his affection for a horse he should have
outgrown long ago. No one would believe that the rocking-horse essentially
talked to him. Although the characters in "A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings" believe that an angel is in their presence, they have no idea what
to do with him. No one had ever dealt with a spirit on this level before.
As .....
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An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale
.... man, willing to sacrifice self for the worthy cause of the
afflicted and weak; on the other, we have the sad truth that the human
knight rarely lived up to this ideal(Patterson 170). In a work by Muriel
Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, she explains that
the knights of the Middle Ages were "merely mounted soldiers, . . .
notorious" for their utter cruelty(18). The tale Bath's Wife weaves
exposes that Chaucer was aware of both forms of the medieval soldier.
Where as .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of Social Structure
.... shows that all the higher aristocracy cares about is themselves.
Another fault the Dickens points out about the social structure in the society
is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine
get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being
described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little
guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with
a cruel regard for life. Another place wher .....
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An Analysis Of "Heart Of Darkness"
.... as
darkness fell, reminding his audience that exploitation of one group by
another was not new in history. They were anchored in the river, where
ships went out to darkest Africa. Yet, as lately as Roman times, London's
own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous hinterland where the Romans
went to make their profits. Soon darkness fell over London, while the
ships that bore "civilization" to remote parts appeared out of the dark,
carrying darkness with them, different only in kind to the darkness .....
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An Analysis Of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed In Life Due To His Father
.... son. He did not want his son to work as hard as he did growing up.
When Jimmy went away to college, he spent more time socializing than he did
studying. "Jimmy did not study very earnestly and took to bad courses for
awhile. He had money and he was popular; ..."(p.25). Jimmy liked better
to be in the company of peers rather than study, and his father condoned it.
When Jimmy was not doing well at Dublin University, his father let him go
off to Cambridge where he could "see life a little". While there .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
.... has caused her to view even her relationship with the deity
about slave and master. This makes Janie the leader of her family's search.
However Nanny realized this, and when she saw that Janie was old enough for
love she had her married. This guaranteed that Janie would not continue a
loss of identity.
Even as a young girl, living in the materialistic world of her
Nanny and her first husband, Logan Killicks, Janie chooses to listen to
"the words of the trees and the wind" (23-24). This is the first evi .....
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