Frankenstein: What Makes It A Gothic Novel?
.... the mood. The “
dreary night of November” (Shelly 42) where the monster is given life,
remains in the memory. And that is what is felt throughout the novel-the
dreariness of it all along with the desolate isolation. Yet there were
still glimpses of happiness in Shelly's “vivid pictures of the grand scenes
among Frankenstein- the thunderstorm of the Alps, the valleys of Servox and
Chamounix, the glacier and the precipitous sides of Montanvert, and the
smoke of rushing avalanches, the tremendous dom .....
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Franny And Zooey: Childhood
.... at fault of the results of their childhood. A child is easily
susceptible to having the rest of his or her life ruined, such as being
emotionally scarred.
I believe this happened in Franny and Zooey's case as children. They came
from a relatively large family, consisting of two parents and seven
siblings. The Glass children had a radio talk show called the "Wise Child"
when they were younger. Such pressures put upon the children resulted in
which Zooey calls "The Wise Child complexes". He believes that .....
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Galapagos: James Wait's Rebirth From An Iron Age In Galapagos
.... obtained his “Golden Age” through a
rebirth he gained by slowly conforming in a three step process: Sin,
Realization of Sin, and Recovery from Sin.
James Wait acted cruelly to his wives. He just wanted money and
someone to converse with. Leon Trout tells us in the beginning of the book
about James' marriages: “Wait had so far courted and married seventeen such
persons-and then cleaned out their jewelry boxes and safe-deposit boxes and
bank accounts, and disappeared.”(Pg. 8) James Wait portrays his .....
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The Great Gatsby: The Destructive Effects Of Wealth
.... and interruptions make it seem that there is no love between them.
They seem like a couple in their 80's who are sick and tired of each
other. The fact that they came from rich families probably attributed to
their snobby behavior.
The attitude in the first chapter showed a lot of the ugliness
attributed to wealth. Tom especially showed little and at times no sign
of a pleasant attitude while Nick visited his home. He always found a way
to throw in that he was better than Nick, "I've got a .....
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The Great Gatsby: Sign Of God
.... Doctor Eckleburg." (26) Wilson was the one who
believed that the sign was God, he showed this when he was telling
Michaelis about the fight that he and his spouse had gotten in to. "‘I told
her she might fool me but she could fool God. I took her to the window… I
said ‘God knows what you've doing, everything you've been doing. You may
fool me, but you can't fool God!'" (160) The window he was looking out,
was the window that directly pointed at Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. This sign
that Wilson saw as watch, .....
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An Analysis Of The Glass Menagerie
.... As previously stated, symbols play an important role in The Glass
Menagerie. Symbols are substitutions that are used to express a particular
theme, idea, or character. One symbol that is used over and over is the
fire escape. This has different meanings to the characters. For Tom, it
is a place where he can escape to. It is where he goes to escape from his
mother's nagging. He is open to the outside world when he is on the fire
escape. It is his way out. For Laura, it is where the gentlem .....
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Symbols In "The Glass Menagerie"
.... find her daughter, Laura, a husband, the kind of gentleman caller that
she herself longed for, who wouldn't have deserted her. She foists her
illusions on her unwilling children, living in the past with pretensions to
glory.
"In the South we had so many servants. Gone. All vestige of
gracious living! I wasn't prepared for what the future brought me". p.64.
The glass menagerie represents an escape from reality for Laura.
Tennessee Williams has said:
Those little glass anim .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding's Reality - Fact Or Fiction
.... the
title itself means true evil and destruction. Translated into Hebrew it is
Beelzebub and it means devil.
Lord of the Flies is a story of a group of boys from different
backgrounds that become stranded on an isolated and uncharted island when
their plane crashes. As the boys try to unite to try to become rescued
they begin to separate and a tribe of savage hunters is formed. After a
while the boys lose all sense of civilized behavior. This is when you
realize that the boys have lost all mann .....
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Summary Of Willie Morris' "Good Old Boy"
.... about Casey Jones,
a famous train engineer who was killed while saving his passengers lives.
The last legend mentioned was about a race of giant Indians who supposedly
lived on the land that Yazoo City was built on.
Next, the book told about the childhood life of the author, Willie
Morris. Willie, his dog Skip, and friends had many exciting adventures
together in that small town. They ranged from school day pranks to having
saved the town from a band of thieves.
They usually spent a lo .....
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Good Versus Evil: Wars In A Separate Peace
.... at what is called a
"summer session" which could be described as today's equivalent of summer
school. But, as the story unfolds, we are forced to ask ourselves, are
they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they
mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint with this quote at the point Gene
thinks Finny is finally going to "get away" with something he did. "This
time he wasn't going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming
unexpectedly excited at that."(page 20) This shows us .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: The Hardships Of The Common Man
.... they are leaving Oklahoma. Pa Joad
was a hardworking man, who is uplifted from his normal way of life, and is
forced to account for his family not starving. He does not handle this
move very well, and throughout the book, he is confused, and not as
headstrong as Ma. Tom Joad is a very complicated individual, who is a
tremendous asset and at the same time, a tremendous burden. His parole
cuases his family an unneeded worry, while his ability to get work while
very few people do, also benefited the family. .....
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Summary Of Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath"
.... the jobs in
California are not plentiful at all and they are not welcome because they
are migrants. They do eventually find work but at wages which are so low
it is hard for them to even pay for food. Because of the current financial
state of the family they have to settle for living in squalid camps which
are called Hoovervilles. Tom gets into a fight at one of the camps with an
abusive deputy. The sheriff soon comes to arrest Tom, but Casey offers to
go in his place. The family soon finds a nice cam .....
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Summary Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
.... that was circulating in the
dust bowl region. The growers in California knew that the people of the
dust bowl would have to leave their houses because of the crisis. They
also knew the more pickers they had the lower they could make their prices.
The number of handbills sent out far out numbered the number of jobs
available. Many people in the dust bowl were constructing a view of
California that was devastatingly false. However most of the people had to
go somewhere, and all they knew was agriculture, .....
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An Analysis Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
.... by nature. The theme is one of
man verses a hostile environment. His body destroyed but his spirit is not
broken. The method used to develop the theme of the novel is through the
use of symbolism. There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the
turtle at the beginning to the rain at the end. As each symbol is
presented through the novel they show examples of the good and the bad
things that exist within the novel.
The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of the situation facing
the drou .....
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Great Expectations: Pip's Life In The Upper Class Society
.... commodity ( like he was accustomed to in his previous, low class
lifestyle) but as it were a regular, common thing that if not used quickly,
would soon be out-dated. He goes through his teens like this and finds
great differences in his new lifestyle and his old. Pip gains much with
his new found wealth. He gets new clothes; which help him fit into his new
lifestyle. Also, he makes new friends and interacts with the higher class;
Something which was looked down upon and almost outlawed when he .....
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