Bananafish
.... to learn German in order to read delicate, world-weary poets like Rilke. Destroying Seymour even more is Sybil's reference to the greedy tigers in "Little Black Sambo" and her connection to Eliot's "Wasteland". This suggests that even this youthful girl has begun to develop a problem with material fixation and spiritual neglect. These strains of anti-materialism in the story complicate the suicide because they suggest that Seymour is opting out of a world that is too materially inclined for him, ins .....
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Barbarians
.... and, moreover, who can take control over them. Another factor that scares people is her being a woman. In Ancient Greece women had not had a political power; their voices have never been heard. Medea’s voice is not only can be heard, but also her speeches are manipulative. She is able to use any rhetoric speech that appeals to the emotions of the people. Medea provokes a passion in them in response to her own. Kreon: … You are a clever woman, versed in evil arts, And are angry at having lost your hus .....
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Barbie Doll
.... role in this culture bears strong similarities to that of a slave. Women were essentially not supposed to have their own opinions, thoughts, or wants. Their main goal in life was to marry a prosperous man and serve him. They went to great pains making themselves look perfect, hoping to attract a wealthy male much like male bird's bright colors do the opposite. To have a child out of wedlock was an unforgivable sin, and with it came a hefty price. In the story which Kingston's mother told her, Kingston's .....
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Barn Burning
.... Abner, instead of getting his wife, or his sons to clean the rug, (not to mention himself as well) instructs his two daughters, described as big, lethargic and bovine, to take care of the task. The rational behind this is, Abner knows that the two daughters will more than likely not do a proper job of washing the rug. He’s a very spiteful man. When the rug is returned to the owner and determined to be ruined, Abner is ordered to pay the land owner twenty bushels of corn against his families share of the .....
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Barn Burning: Abner Snopes Character Analysis
.... to return the rug to DeSpain. When Abner returned to DeSpain’s house he threw the rug on the porch instead of knocking on the door and returning it to DeSpain properly. Abner was later charged for the damages he did to the rug. "This is enough to satisfy Abner yet again that the social system only works in behalf of the rich, and he sets out that night to redress this wrong by burning DeSpain’s barn" (855).
Abner’s unchanging character is evident not only in his role as being cold-hearted b .....
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Bartelby The Scrivener
.... Georgiana would be perfect if she didn’t have the birthmark. What he doesn’t realize is perfection is unattainable, except in our minds. The Maypole of Merrymount describes a maypole, and it’s significance in American history. Hawthorne creates a scene of revelry (almost a Mardi Gras scene) and has it destroyed by the Puritans. This story reminds me of the Christian Creation Story with the maypole being the Garden of Eden and the Puritans being allegorical figures of Satan. Hawthorne seems to blame the d .....
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Bartleby
.... give in and choose to stop living you will waste away as Bartleby did. Consequently, Bartleby after having alienated himself so fully was then left to his own devices. "Since he will not quit me, I must quit him. I will change my offices; I will move elsewhere." (pg 132-133) He was deserted completely, for he was no longer living. Arnold, Page 3 He continued to breathe, he continued to exist, but he was no longer of any use to society. As he severs himself from humanity, Bartleby is unaware of .....
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Bartleby The Scrivener
.... conclusion of this whole business was… Bartleby was never, on any account, to be dispatched on the most trivial errand of any sort…" (122). He begins to doubt himself and his position of authority. The narrator turns to his other employees to back him up. "I threw open the folding-doors nearby, and turning upon Turkey and Nippers, exclaimed: ‘Bartleby a second time says, he won’t examine the papers. What do you think of it, Turkey?’" (121). Despite the narrator’s apparent need for organizat .....
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Battle At Trafalgar
.... and used in the role of defense.
Most all of France rallied around the objective of Napoleon. To finance such an undertaking most of the major cities, townships, and districts donated men and supplies to build the new French navy. Lyons for example donated a complete 100-gun ship of the line, while Paris, not to be outdone, donated a ship of 120 guns. Patriotic fever ran its course throughout France. Smaller villages supplied sailcloth and rope, cannons and ammunition. Coastal dockyards worked aroun .....
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Battle Royal
.... searching to find himself. However this search is filled with many obstacles, because he lives in a time when people of his status are conditioned to act, talk, and behave in a certain way.
Our hero's journey toward the light (truth) is started a long time ago. However in the beginning he is unable to get on the right course, due to the wrong advice he is given by different people; he says it as "All my life I was looking for something, and every were that I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. .....
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Battle Royal
.... a hobby for many men back in the 50’s, it was a way for them to get away from the stresses of everyday life." The pride in them (the people of that era) helped determine the way of the country today. It helped determine the way their children and grandchildren live today. The narrator being black had a hard time realizing what the people there were doing. He was being mocked without him even knowing it. Being black in this time period was very difficult for the narrator because he wasn’t looked upon a .....
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Battle Royal
.... made to participate in this activity. "I was shocked to see some of the most important men of the town quite tipsy." he says when he sees who is there, " They were all there-bankers, lawyers, judges, doctors, fire chiefs, teachers, merchants. Even one of the more fashionable pastors." After the fight, in front of that drunk and perverted crowd of white influential males he is going to present his graduation speech, a speech that address "Social responsibility". Increasing the hypocrisy embedded in the u .....
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Battle Royal
.... of the white men. The white community is unwilling to look beyond their stereotypes of the role and place of black men. The school superintendent that had requested IM's appearance at the ballroom to give his speech was also the same man that brought the black men into the ballroom with the words, "Bring up the shines, gentlemen! Bring of the little shines!" (1527). A few days earlier IM had given a valedictorian speech that " . . . was a great success. Everyone praised [him] and. . . . It was a .....
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Battle Royal - Symbolism
.... dancing. The white men yell at the boys for looking and not looking at the woman. It is as if they are showing them all of the good things being white can bring, and then saying that they aren’t good enough for it since they were black. Next the boys must compete in the battle royal. Blindly the boys savagely beat one another. This is symbolic of the African Americans’ fight for equality. It represents the struggle they endured, to be accepted as equals with our society’s white population, upon the .....
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Battleground
.... end, but Vicki Frost did raise attention on how schoolbooks are chosen for our public schools.
The book by Stephen Bates brings up a very controversial issue, should parents be able to control what their children read in public schools. Bates does not criticize either side during this book. Bates does a good job narrating the book giving good details and letting the reader make his/her own decision. Vicki Frost is a parent who does not want her kids reading books that contradict her families belie .....
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