The Invisible Man A Mask For A
.... because the Invisible Man is black he should do whatever a white person tells him to do. That Invisible Man has accepted this mask is indicated by Invisible Man's servile attitude towards Norton. After Bledsoe censures the Invisible Man for taking Norton to the Quarters and the Golden Day, the Invisible Man resolves to do everything that Norton wishes; a clear submissiveness to the will of the trustee. His illusion that, if he works hard, he is sure to succeed is very well imprinted in his brain. Eve .....
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The Iron Heel
.... magnificent man just to see him swat and swallow these reputing creatures so he can have his fun with them. At first she is another disbeliever but he sends her to research and understand these poor people. This is where we meet Mr. Jackson. Mr. Jackson worked in a huge factory in the mid west. One day an object went into the machinery and he dove in to get it. Just as he retracted his arm, it was caught in a spoke and savagely torn off. Without a doubt, he thought he was getting compensated for his loss .....
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The Joy Luck Club Essay
.... the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own l .....
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The Jungle
.... compensated. Jurgis, frustrated with the current conditions in the meat packing industry, that uses the men the same way they use swine (every part), joins a Union, as does Marjia, and various other members of his family. Investing money into a home and life into his job gets a Jurgis no where. Positions of power tend to go only to the corrupted characters. Bribes and kickbacks come as commonly as unemployment and job insecurity. He finally realizes that even a physically strong man, willing to work hard, .....
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The Jungle 2
.... bringing many members of Ona's family with them.
After arriving in America, they are taken to Packingtown to find work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable efficiency and speed att which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked, packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The tour guide specifically says, "They use everything about the hog except the squeal."
Jurgis' brawny .....
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The Jungle 3
.... including those of sick animals dead on arrival to the stock yards, for consumption. He witnesses beatings, graft, and dirty deals.
As winter approaches, the marriage of Jurgis to Ona becomes cheerless. The pressures of work, poverty, and illness stifle their spirits. Jurgisą father dies.
Vexed by the working conditions of Packingtown, Jurgis joins a labor union where he begins to learn English. He develops a cynical attitude towards democracy. Eventually, the deteriorating working condit .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
.... to conceal the fact that Boo killed Bob Ewell, Scout says, "Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it" (276)? If mockingbirds do no harm to the world, then persecuting Boo Radley would truly be "like killing a mockingbird." The character of Tom Robinson is that of yet another unjustly treated "mockingbird." It is here that the significance of the title "To Kill A Mockingbird" directly correlates. Tom Robinson is an innocent man and not favoured for the simple re .....
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The Little Black Boy
.... how his mother sits with him under the shade of the tree and shares with him the love of God. The little black boy, being influenced by society during this time, believes that once his black skin passes away, then the English child will love him. In hopes of changing his view of himself and his skin color, the boy’s mother tells him that there is an advantage to having black skin. The mother implies that black skin can bear more of the beams of God’s love than the white skin. “ .....
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The Lords Of Discipline
.... Of Dicipline is a book about four young men, Will, Pig, Mark and Tradd, who are trying to recieve an education in this twisted military school. It's a school where "the system" rules instead of the teachers. The "system" is run by upperclassmen, obsessed with upholding the school's reputation for turning out the finest men the country has to offer to the war. Will watches as the boys in his class are dismantled and reassembled to become military men. He watches as boys are tortured because of their .....
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The Magnificence Of Autumn
.... he died. Some of his best-known poems were published after his death, including "Eve of St. Mark" (1848). Keats's letters, praised by many critics as among the finest written in English, were published in 1931.
"To Autumn," by John Keats, soothes the heart and eases the mind with its tranquility. Written in iambic pentameter, the rhyme scheme is composed of ababaccac. This poem contains three stanzas of comparison. Through the author's use of versed diction, the poem magnificence is noted.
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The Martian Chronicles
.... describes a night on Mars when everyone starts singing and humming an alien song.
This was a little weird. I was wondering how this song got into their minds.
The Earth Men
This story tells about people from Earth landing on Mars. The Martians give them a hard time as if they were not from Earth. This was later explained when they were thrown into a mental institution. They later showed the doctor their rocket, but he thought the men were telepathic so he killed them and later killed himsel .....
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The Martian Chronicles (isolat
.... and therefore felt insignificant and petty compared to the people of Mars.
The author uses characterization of typically evil and ignorant people to convey his message that premature advances in science lead to isolation and the feeling of insignificance. The evil character, Biggs, is used to show how humans must see, hear or do something familiar in order to beat the feeling of isolation. This evil character performed a christening ritual in which "Biggs… carried six empty bottles and dropped t .....
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The Masque Of Red Death
.... there was no light of any kind. In there stood giant ebony clock “whose pendulum swung with a dull heavy activities clang." All activities ceased with the sound of each hour. Everything stooped as if dead. “ But when the echoes had full ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly…..”
The first 6 rooms crowed unlike the 7th, until the clock struck midnight. Everything ceased like before until the last echo of the clock sounded. Many people became aware of the maske .....
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The Masque Of The Red Death
.... Curiously enough, both women voluntarily accept the roles that society would impose on them again at the close of the plays. It is important to note though, that they freely resume these roles, and that they do so out of their own sense of self. For each woman, it is a personal choice based on their desires. In the case of Katherine, she realizes that propriety is as much a signature of self-respect as respect for others, and she has a husband whom she need prove nothing to because he already respects he .....
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The Metamorphosis
.... Gregor’s metamorphosis, many of his attributes remained similar. He still cared most about his work; that was pretty much all he thought about even when he first turned into a bug. “The next train went at seven o’clock; to catch that he would need to hurry like mad and his samples weren’t even packed up, and he himself wasn’t feeling particularly fresh and active”(786). He had made up his mind that he would have to catch the train - completely ignoring the fact tha .....
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