Crime In The Great Gatsby .
.... a dog and never ever stopped his
car. (187)
Tom only wanted Daisy back because she wasn't interested in him any more. So in the end he threw Gatsby to the lions, Gatsby's death was Tom's fault, he told George Wilson that the car that hit Myrtle was Gatsby's. That was just as bad as pulling the trigger that killed Gatsby. The worst part is he felt no remorse for his actions.
It makes me sick to even acknowledge the fact that people like Tom Buchanan may have or do exist. It is people lik .....
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Crying Of Lot 49
.... Pynchon also uses many metaphors which reveals the relationship between the author and the reader in The Crying of Lot 49. The most obvious one is the name of the protagonist, Oedipa Maas, which elicits the famous Greek riddle-solver Oedipus, whose quest to interpret the Delphic prophecies leads to his own downfall. Oedipa Mass also evokes the reader to think of Newton¡¦s laws, where Oedipa is acted upon by the gravity of her surroundings. An object, once put in motion, as Oedipa is when she is .....
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Call Of The Wild By Jack Londo
.... plots as the story progressed but only one main one. He loved the judge and his kids and John but his real love was for his ancestors. Buck would fetch the newspaper and the judge's slippers, he gave the kids rides on his back but he also had to leave them and move on. Buck's life was constantly changing. When he found the place he truely loved everthing syopped changing. Other smaller plots showed how the man in the red sweater's love of power. He would have killed any dog the didoeyed him. .....
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Candide
.... ideas as taught to Candide about being optimistic, versus reality as seen by the rest of the world.
The overwhelming theme that is presented throughout the story is optimism. Out of every unfortunate situation in the story, Candide, the main character, is advised by his philosopher-teacher that everything in the world happens for the best, because "Private misfortunes contribute to the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the more we find that all is well" ( .....
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Crime And Punishment Psycho-An
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Although Raskolnikov's compassion can be classified neatly under superego, morality principal. Intellect does not fit directly into opposition with it under id. Intellect would best be classified under ego, reality principal. The main job being to find a balance between id and superego. A very good example of this mediation, is after Raskolnikov gives money to Sonia. This is an extreme extension of his superego, the ego lets it slide by. But after Raskolnikov's ego or intellect anal .....
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Comparative Essay Between The
.... and her ideas. Children are also shown this discrimination in Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. After saying "Hey" to her aging neighbor, Scout is chastised by Mrs. Dubose rather sharply. Mrs. Dubose replies to Scout, "Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose!" This only reinforces the fact that young people are discriminated against as much as minorities.
In Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this same disrespect is shown to the "Okies", as they are called. The Joad .....
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Candide-purposeful Satire
.... to Candide whom he pays to travel with him. Martin continuously tries to prove to Candide that there is little virtue, morality, and happiness in
he world. When a cheerful couple is seen walking and singing, Candide tells Martin, "I would venture to lay a wager that they are very happy (67)." Martin challenges that they are not happy, so Candide invites the couple to dine at his hotel. As the yo
g girl, now found to be Paquette, tells her story, Martin takes pleasure in knowing he has won the .....
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Catcher In The Rye
.... people in this book.
He used the term to be what a person is if they don't act naturally and follow other
people's manners and grace. Holden didn't like phonies, he thought of them as if they
were trying to show off. He didn't like it when they showed off because it seemed so fake
and unnatural every time they would do so. "At the end of the first act we went out with
all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies
in all your life, everybody smoking th .....
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Carpe Diem Dead Poet Society
.... Mr. Perry had withdrawn Neil from school. Later that night the two had argued this was a factor leading to Neil’s suicide.
The dead poet society had some more problems since the death of a dear friend such as the expulsion of Newanda and the dismissal of Mr. Keaton . Newanda was a radical student who didn’t like the idea of an all school boarding school and let it be known all over so that he would get expelled. A phone rang in the auditorium while the dean was giving a speech, it was Newanda on .....
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Comparative Essay - A Bird In
.... and she will die. Rachel also suffers the death of a dream. She believes she is pregnant and when she finds out she is not, Rachel grieves the loss of what might have been - motherhood. However, Rachel finds solace in her fate - she becomes a mother to her mother. Like Vanessa, she too moves away from her home-town and starts a new life.
One tool that Laurence uses is irony. In A Bird in the House, the ignorant housekeeper, Noreen, remarked, "A bird in the house means a death in the house," when a s .....
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Carvers Realism From Fires
.... is this truly where the characters come from? Are they just a reflection of Carver and his life?
In private desperation, Raymond Carvers characters struggle through their lives, knowing, with occasional clarity, that the “good life” they had once hoped would be achieved through hard work, will not come about. In many ways, Carvers life was the model for all of his characters. Married to Maryann Burke at nineteen, and having two children in the space of seventeen months, the Carvers life .....
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Communism In Animal Farm
.... Karl Marx also wrote a book, Communist Manifesto, which tries to show how communism would work. Marx's theory of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis can be found in George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The thesis, or the old way of doing things, can be represented by the years Mr. Jones owns and operates Manor Farm. The terrible abuse and neglect of the animals on the farm is because Mr. Jones gets drunk almost everyday. He uses animals for his own success and does not even think about their well .....
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Crime And Punishment
.... It can be said that, in this confession, Raskalnikov’s strength returns.
However, Raskalnikov’s confession to Sonya is not enough, and Sonya knows it. Sonya "asks only one thing of her beloved: that he should acknowledge the reality of . . . mankind outside himself, and should solemnly declare his acceptance of this new . . . faith by an act of confession to all the people." Sonya tells Raskalnikov to bow down at a crossroads, kiss the earth that Rodia had offended and say aloud "‘I have killed!"
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Catcher In The Rye By Jd Salin
.... holden that thurmer is right. Then Spencer reads holden's paper he wrote about some egyption crap and aloudly reads the note that holden had written to him at the end of it. Spencer asks him if he's thought about his future. Then holden tells spencer that he has to go to the gym and says goodbye not feeling one bit like he was getting the hell out of pencey.
Chapter three:
*Holden reveals how much of a lyar he is. He didn't really have to go to the gym to check equipment he just wanted to get .....
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Cat In The Rain
.... while his loved one rants and raves. An example of this is when the wife decides that she is going out in the rain to fetch a lost kitten, the husband gives a courtesy “I’ll do it” but makes no further attempt to help out. He has an another chance to help out his wife while she is pondering what to do with her boyish hair cut; however, he again only offers “I like it the way it is” instead of talking it over with her.
The wife’s character is much different tha .....
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