Brave New World - Summary
.... an object of worship, so he spurns her. Soon his mother died and John went berserk and tried to lecture the Utopians back to sanity. A riot takes place and Bernard and Helmholtz are exiled, but John is ordered to stay behind. John is determined to escape Utopia and flees to a deserted spot outside London. But Utopia comes to him and, he is hounded by the press and the public to the point of mental exhaustion. He then falls victim to the very Utopian vices, which he hated. Finally he comes to his senses and .....
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Brave New World - The Conflict Between Mond And The Savage
.... humans. This is one of the principle issues - treating humans like nothing, a "cell" in the "social body". Even as children they are spoken of in terms of mass production, when "the infants were unloaded".
If mass production of humans is harsh, their whole world is summed up in a few short sentences: "The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're bl .....
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Brave New World And The Giver: Similar Yet Different
.... turn a certain age, the contact with their parents comes to an end.
The characters in Brave New World live happily (and stupidly) in their own little caste systems. They are completely oblivious to anything outside their own little worlds. They are put into a profession according to their caste system and their conditioning. They know nothing about any other job in the community; they do not even know the reason for what they do, they just do it. They have absolutely no say in what they want to be or w .....
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Brave New World Compared To 1984
.... real-world standards cruel, AThe screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone. There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance." (Huxley 20) The children's "Pavlovian" conditioning with electric shocks is later compared to the wax seals which used to grace the seams of letters (Astrachan), "Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that .....
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Bread Givers
.... the cultural expectations of early marriage, but she, instead, has greater ambition for her life. Sara plans to get an education which is not in her fathers plan for her life. Reb wants Sara to marry like her
other sisters, and live a "holy" life according to the Torah. Sara’s will to educate herself, and Reb’s will to have Sara married is what causes the conflict in their relationship. Like Sara’s blood and iron will, Reb also is driven for his daughters to live their life according .....
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Franklins Preface To Poor Rich
.... my laziness and my need to abide by this one. Another similar adage is, "Plough deep, While Sluggards sleep, and you should have Corn to sell and to keep." Both of these maxims tell us that in order to get ahead, you
can’t be lazy.
Franklin believed that a person that listens to the sayings would avoid being poor. He wrote that poverty robs a person of their spirit and virtue. His proverb, "‘Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright", lets us know that it is hard to functi .....
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Bridge Of San Luis Rey
.... her daughter away, because she loved too much. Although she was able to realize this before she died, it was too late. She was not able to show this newfound love to anyone. In the case of Esteban, he was not able to love anyone else except for Manuel. While Manuel was able to love another, this caused strife between them. When Manuel died he was not able to move on, simply because he only had love for Manuel. Then we have Uncle Pio, another character who loved too much. Uncle Pio had a mindset of h .....
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Brighton Rock
.... came from a broken home like Pinkie). Rose wants to be loved and have some type of companion so badly that she momentarily turns her back to her faith in God. Now she repeatedly tells Pinkie that he has acquired her faith when she discusses "being damned together." Rose seems to believe in her faith to Pinkie now, just as he also seems to when he repeats constantly after meeting her that "Rose completes me." However Roses' faith is tested over and over by Ida who continuously antagonizes Rose about her evi .....
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Broken Chain
.... fragment in the history, once again supported the basic of the human nature, "Men are born evil". At that time, the Europeans were the strongest people on the earth, in terms of firearms and navigation technologies. The Europeans’ intentions are obvious, that is to expand and take other people’s land and resources (example: slaves, land and ore mines). Their sinful minds and technologies afforded them to sail around; colonized {"invaded" is a more suitable word) and brought painfu .....
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Broken Ground By Jack Hodgins
.... is consumed in flame. Matthew, braver then ever, runs straight into the flames in a desperate attempt to save her, but only ends up placing his own life at risk. The horror of the burning forest and falling tree limbs all around him sends him into another horrific flashback where he believes he is getting gassed by German forces. He runs through the flames for what seems like hours, and collapses in a heap on the doorstep of the abandoned lumber mill. His last memory is that "[he] cannot even protect [h .....
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Buried Child
.... we know that Ansel died on his honeymoon, Bradley cut off his own leg in a chain saw accident and is now mentally imbalanced, Tilden is nonfunctional and has been driven out of New Mexico, Dodge is a crazy old sick guy, and Halie is doing shady things with the preacher. Vince is the only person capable of facing the world and life, but he too is corrupted by the secret at the end. The answer to the question is that their secret, the dead child, is a secret festering them from the inside out. It is unclea .....
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Buried Child
.... know that Ansel died on his honeymoon, Bradley cut off his own leg in a chain saw accident and is now mentally imbalanced, Tilden is nonfunctional and has been driven out of New Mexico, Dodge is a crazy old sick guy, and Halie is doing shady things with the preacher. Vince is the only person capable of facing the world and life, but he too is corrupted by the secret at the end. The answer to the question is that their secret, the dead child, is a secret festering them from the inside out. It is unclear
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Bushed
.... quills in his hat.
In the third stanza Birney shows us through a series of metaphorical actions the characters evolution in his attitude towards the entire situation. At first our character is still unsure and alert at all that is happening around him, " At first he was out with the dawn." Yet he becomes more and more sure of himself and feels very secure, " A guard of goat before falling asleep on its feet at sundown." Earle Birney uses the goat as a metaphor for security beca .....
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Butterbox Babies
.... their money. One of the ways was by threatening to expose the baby and shame the mother. The women were then forced to somehow scrap up the money, either by taking a loan from the bank or even borrowing money from her family. Another way the Youngs would get the money would be by convincing one of the men the mother had slept with into thinking that the baby was his. If he did not pay the $150 they threatened to take him to court. If there was no other alternative, the mother was put to work at .....
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Call Of The Wild
.... many debts. Manuel kidnaps Buck and sells him to pay off a debt. Buck’s trustworthy nature changes as soon as he is beaten and is not fed or allowed to drink water. When Buck arrives in Seattle he is almost beaten to death by the man in the red sweater. "He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club." (Call of the Wild, page 19). Buck learns from this horrible incident the ‘law of the club.’ The law of the club states that a dog is no match for a man with a weapon. Bu .....
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