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In The Time Of The Butterflies

.... family all looked out for each other. They supported and helped one another. Minerva comforted Mate when they were in prison. Patria took care of her sisters’ children. Dede says at the end of the book that she, too, cares about her family so deeply that she forgets about herself. She admits this by saying, "And I see them all there in my memory, as still as statues, Mama and Papa, and Minerva and Mate and Patria, and I’m thinking something is missing now. And I count them all twice before I realize- .....

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Indian Boarding School

.... (lines 5-6). Mountains are definite things that are physical in nature. Train tracks on a face are hard to imagine, so it leads us to believe it has some deeper meaning. This reveals that the children want to run away from the boarding school for more serious matters than just good old home-sickness. The "old lacerations" may represent wounds on their own faces, internal or external. Visually, train tracks look like wounds that were stitched and scarred. The Turtle Mountains must relate to this idea som .....

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Indian Camp

.... of telling your son what happens when a woman is in labor, but as a doctor maybe he wanted his son to learn biologically what went on. After the baby is born Nick’s father finds out that the Indian womans husband had committed suicide. The quotes, " Take Nick out of the shanty, George" and "I’m terribly sorry I brought you along, Nickie. It was an awful mess to put you through." also help show how in some senses Nick’s father has compassion for his son. The fact that he feels bad .....

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Indigo

.... through her violin music. Through the development of her character Indigo is forced to make decisions that affect the outcome of her music and ultimately her life. The story ends in a very somber tome with a funeral sequence. Indigo realized that the time had come to say good0-bye to her childhood and the dolls she played with. She dressed in white and her mother in black as one by one she carried her companions to the attic for a proper burial. Her dolls were her last connection with childhood and af .....

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Inexcusable Acts In Literature

.... this statement Gualtieri is portrayed as a compassionate man. He says he will blame no one but himself if things do not work out and once his wife is chosen he orders his people to respect her, no matter what. This is ironic for him to say, due to the actions he takes later in the story. As the play proceeds Gualtieri's actions become more inexcusable and immoral. He "wished to test his new wife's patience" to see if she truly was as loyal a wife as she seemed to be. He first insulted her with " .....

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Inherit The Wind

.... an evil misanthrope who had never done anything good and honest in his life, and should be hated and banned from the town immediately, before he begins the genocide of all holy Christians and their beliefs with his satanistic Darwinian brainwashing. Meanwhile, Drummond took an entirely different approach to this specific aspect of the case, the pre-trial campaigning. He planned to save his massive assault for the trial itself, and took on a somewhat withdrawn social appearance. He knew that the ig .....

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Inherit The Wind

.... cannot be overlooked, as I myself am deeply devoted to it’s teachings. Brady and others like him fight from the backbone of Faith. I don’t believe in the literal deciphering of the Bible, but that it is a book of ideals that we must trust in it’s veracity. It isn’t meant to be explained! Ironically, the thing that people are the most hungry for, meaning, is the one thing that science hasn’t been able to give them. Enter God, the means that mankind has clung to for purpose. If there .....

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Inherit The Wind

.... and mighty" thinking is going to lead to his downfall. Even Brady is taken a tad aback by the news that Drummond will be joining the trial "Brady: (pale) Drummond?" (Pg. 25) While he basks in his loving audience of townspeople, he will yet be pulled down from his high throne to be questioned and scorned. While the town feels much strife resulting from the trial, the truth will yet be discovered that there really is no right answer to the question who is right and who is wrong. Th .....

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Inivisble Man

.... Howe however, when he mentions that Ellison tries to overwhelm the reader and that it gets confusing because it is written in first person. Although Ralph Ellison, relies heavily on various symbol (visions and black and white), which can get confusing at times, but they can only help the novel and in no way destroy it. Also, Ellison’s style is also creative because it allows the novel to appear as if you were actually listen to a Negro telling the story, in the sense that Ellison’s wrote in the local di .....

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Interview And Death

.... as birth yet is totally unprepared for in our culture. If society was aware that death could consume us at any moment, we would do things much differently. We’re so consumed with materialism and status that we lose sight of the important things like family, love, and our belief in God. He explains that we have lost a sense of common courtesy, decency, and the key ingredient to a meaningful life, the development of relationships. After having gained the conscious comprehension that his life is comin .....

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Into The Forest

.... the novel as Eva always makes sure the fire is stoked and does gardening. This also changes towards the end of the novel when Nell is needed to take over these things when Eva is pregnant, such as using the rifle to kill a wild pig for food. Both girls show compassion towards each other, but it is Nell that needs or craves this fellowship and interest of other people. She tries to become friendly with the girls in the Redwood town with no success, but when she realises that she cant really be .....

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Into The Wild

.... the United States. The only thing he might do differently is finding a way not to starve to death at the end of the novel. In the beginning of each chapter, Krakauer includes one or two exerts from various authors of nature such as Thoreau, Tolstoy, or London. Once in a while he even includes postcards that Chris had sent to some of the people he met along his journey, which show what he was feeling throughout the trip. Some of the exerts were taken from what was highlighted in the books found .....

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Into The Wild

.... as how everyone else viewed it. They did not want success. They wanted independents away from everyone. They wanted to feel free. That’s how this book is connected into our class studies of the American dream. Chris’s and Thoreau American dream is different then everyone else’s. Nobody really knows why they think this way but that’s what makes this book so interesting. The audience wants to know why Chris’s wants to go on this journey so bad. We want to know what his goal is and why he hates the nice l .....

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Invisable Man - Black Leaders

.... of who they are. He called for racial pride. Because of his persuasiveness and his eloquence people started to listen to Garvey. Blacks became proud of who they were. Booker T. Washington said to bow down to the whites and accept being inferior. When they heard Garvey say he was proud of his race and his heritage they listened to him. The black community gathered around him and accepted his message. Here was a man who was happy to be black: not only happy but also proud. Garvey’s racial pride movement .....

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Invisibility Of The Invisible Man

.... is. At some points in his life, identities are given to him, even as he is still trying to find himself. While in the Brotherhood, he was given a "new identity" which was "written on a slip of paper." (p.309) He was told to "starting thinking of [himself] by that name … so that even if [he were] called in the middle of the night [he] would respond." (p.309) In a similar sense, the narrator was given an identity while working at the Liberty Paint factory. Upon first me .....

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