Different Changes In Different
.... leadership of Ralph. He had even suggested the implementation of rules to regulate themselves. This was a Jack who was proud to be British, and who was shaped and still bound by the laws of a civilized society. The freedom offered to him by the island allowed Jack to express the darker sides of his personality that he hid from the ideals of his past environment. Without adults as a superior and responsible authority, he began to lose his fear of being punished for improper actions and behaviours. This fre .....
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Early Influences On Huckleberr
.... Huck never really enjoys the life of manners, religion, and education that the Widow and her sister impose upon him.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom is a boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life of adventure. Huck is eager to join Tom Sawyer's Gang because he feels that doing so will allow him to escape the somewhat boring life he leads with the Widow Douglas. Unfortunately, such an escape does not occur. Tom Sawyer promises much-robbing stages .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... land and the lone resistance he and his band of Merry Men provide against the evil Sheriff. Had she been loyal to her country, Robin Hood would have never been successful against the Sheriff of Nottingham and the citizens of her kingdom would have had to endure even greater injustices.
Sharing many of the same principles Robin Hood embodies is Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers. The famous trio of noblemen battle against the villainy of the Court of King Louis XIII. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and .....
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Concentration Camps
.... the ins and outs of survival in Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp constructed in the Third Reich. Located 37 miles west of Krakow, Poland, Auschwitz was home to both the greatest number of forced laborers and deaths.
The history of the camp began on April 27, 1940 when Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and Gestapo, ordered the construction of the camp in north-east Silesia, a region captured by the Nazis in September 1939. The camp was built by three-hundre .....
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The Uniting Of Theme And Plot
.... so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it." (3) The comments made by Huck clearly show Miss Watson as a hypocrite, scolding Huck for wanting to smoke and then using snuff herself and firmly believing that she would be in heaven.
When Huck encounters the Grangerfords and Shepardsons, Huck describes Colonel Grangerford as, "...a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse..." (104) .....
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The Hobbit
.... the ring on his finger and became invisible, so he escaped.
He met with the group again and walked with them for a few days. Gandolf left the group a few days later. The ring Bilbo had helped the group through two more circumstances along the journey.
The group made it to the base of Lonely Mountain. They then climbed the mountain and found a secret entrance to the inside, where Smaug was. Thorin and the Dwarfs stayed outside. Bilbo went down a hallway and came upon Smaug. He then slipped on t .....
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The Hobbit
.... way. Raiding Goblins and evil wolves known as Wargs also attacked. In the end, the races teamed up to fight the menace, and drive off the goblins. Bilbo himself lived throughout the battle along with ten of the dwarves, and Gandalf. Returning home, after the wealth was split evenly, Bilbo had reflected on his journey, and considered that greed of wealth was a terrible thing, and the understanding and acceptance of others different that you can only strengthen. As adventures will go, this one had a happy .....
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Comparison: Dover Beach And Do
.... takes Matthew’s poem and turns it into thoughtless and shallow chatter that isn't even worth repeating in full.
And he said to her, "Try to be true to me,
And I'll do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc."
When has there ever been a serious poem that used the word "etc.?" It just seems misplaced and out of sorts in a poem. People simply do not normally use a word like that in writing, perhaps because it is so impersonal when usually poems are written with the intention .....
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Scarlet Letter: Reality Vs Per
.... that because of her punishment on the scaffold and her perpetual reminder of it, the scarlet letter, she sees the sins of the entire townspeople and the hypocrisy of keeping them secret. Thus, her time on the scaffold has made her see the truth of the town and its lies.
Reverend Dimmesdale has a similar experience on the scaffold. Troubled by his sins and his failure to confess them, the reverend ascends the pillory in the dead of night to "confess" his sins to the world. Even though on one sees .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God R
.... took place (Discovering Authors, 3). Hurston already was witnessing the rejection of all of her works submitted to her publisher, but the combined effects of the arrest and the ensuing journalistic attack on her image doomed the majority of her literary career. She wrote to a friend: "I care nothing for writing anything any more... My race has seen fit to destroy me without reason, and with the vilest tools conceived by man so far" (Discovering Authors, 4). In approximately 1950 Hurston returned to Flo .....
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The Merchant Of Venice
.... held in regard to Jews. Shakespeare himself had never seen a Jew but he goes to great lengths to humanize Shylock even while perpetuating the stereotype.
In Act 1:3, before Shylock ever says a word to Antonio, he lets the audience know in an aside that he hates Antonio. He hates him for having hindered him in business and for having humiliated him in public by spitting on him and calling him names such as "dog" and "cutthroat Jew". Shylock tells the audience he hopes to exact revenge on Antonio .....
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The Merchant Of Venice
.... considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, even to the point where he complains about all of the money he's spending in a search to find her.
"Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats in Frankford! The curse....ill luck stirring but what lights o' my shoulders; no sighs but o' my breathing; no tears but o' my shedding." .....
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Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
.... women on the nature of being a good and dutiful wife.
In direct contrast to Shrew, is Twelfth Night, whose main female protagonist is by far the strongest character in the play. The main character Viola, has been stranded in a foreign land and adopts the identity of her brother so that she might live independently without a husband or guardian. She serves as a courtier to a young, lovesick nobleman named Orsino. Throughout the play she plays as a go-between for him to the woman he loves. In the cour .....
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Hamlet - Act 2 Summary
.... watch my new king very closely, for if he so much as flinches I can be sure that the ghost has spake the truth. With that confirmation, I shall begin constructing my play to kill him.
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Hamlet - Act 3 Summary
.... country, and to herself! I have vowed that if I do get sent to London, that I shall also kill my companions, for they are evil as well.
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