The Way A Man Breaks The Bonds
.... 'I just told you. There are these people named Bob and Ruth and Helen.'
'Oh.'
'It's really fun.'"(20)
This quote definitely shows that the stories on their TV's are senseless. After this chat with his wife he realized that TV isn't very interesting. He saw that the TV just feeds a bunch of mindless garbage to people. The TV drove him to change, but he didn't realize this about his world until he met a strange teenage girl.
Clarisse McClellan is an "anti-social" teenager who loved to t .....
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The Way We Live Now
.... of remedies that reach from chicken soup to the patient's favorite jelly beans.
By the end, several of the characters, represented only by voices in the conversation, have had to come to terms not only with the impending loss of their friend, but with their own various and
unsettling responses. The disease, clearly AIDS, is never mentioned by name.
The person at the center of the story serves as a mirror and sign of his friends' own vulnerability. They don't really know how to become a functioni .....
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The Woman Warrior
.... daughter points out that her children can speak both Chinese and English, Brave Orchid immediately points out that her children could do the same. Brave Orchid did not want her family to appear stupid or uneducated. Moon Orchid is just the opposite. She does not worry about her looks. After Brave Orchid meets the second wife, she goes to Moon Orchid and says, “She’s very pretty and very young...you need to sit up straight. Use my powder. Be as pretty as you can. Other wise .....
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Theme In A Pair Of Tickets
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Theme Of Lord Of The Flies
.... Ralph’s leadership he orders the building of a signal fire, for that day that they may be rescued. The idea of the fire enhances the capability of Ralph’s leadership skills and reasoning. This also ensures Ralph the confidence to be more then willing to face greater and more impossible challenges in the near future. Through Ralph’s Leadership, hope was not a dream and it brought reality towards rescue.
Trust destroyed peace within the society Ralph had built .....
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Themes Of The Love Song Of Alf
.... also furthers to develop the theme that we must live true to ourselves because we are all judged sooner or later.
Time is of an essence in this poem as well. Prufrock realizes that time has caught up with him. He does however regret and accept the fact that he is a scared old man. He tries to be optimistic by saying, “there will be time”, but he knows he cannot escape his sad fate of loneliness. This idea is best expressed by the line “But at my back I always hear Time’s .....
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Things Fall Apart 5
.... two more meals to fall back on. If a man's first wife did not produce the sons he longed for, he had other wives to impregnate and hope they would produce the sons he desired. In Things Fall Apart, the book seems to depict men as getting all the benefits of polygamy, or do they?
What about the relationships between the wives? Do they all get along? Are they jealous of one another? Can a man really live with more than one wife in total peace? For example wife number one bears no children. Wife numbe .....
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Tintern Abbey
.... importance beginning with with the “lofty cliffs” (Line 5) dominantly overlooking the abbey. After the cliffs comes the river, , then the forests, and hedgerows of the cottages that once surrounded the abbey but have since been abandoned. After the cottages, is the vagrant hermit who sits alone in his cave, perhaps symbolizing the effects being away from the abbey has had on Wordsworth. Wordsworth professes to "sensations sweet / Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart" (lines 28-29) wh .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bird Atticus
.... he is greatly respected by those in Maycomb “who count” Miss Maudie remarks upon Atticus “We trust him to do right.” Even those who don’t fully agree with his non-racist attitude respect him. Not only is he respected for his character though, as his children find out. Jem and Scout, especially, are disappointed that Atticus doesn’t seem to do anything the other men in the town do. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke and he doesn’t play sport. Yet .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird - What M
.... book only makes those events gain in moral strength, not diminish.
Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem, Miss Maudie...the characters of this book have achieved an iconic status rare in modern literature. And it has achieved this not by making them Nietzschean uebermenschen, but by entering into their lives with fair, enthusiastic frankness. And to end off, this is one of only a handful of truly successful negotiations between the dramatic (eg. theatre, screenwriting) and the narrative (eg. pros .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 5
.... touch the house over there? You’ll get killed if you do.” (13) The children do not know or understand Boo, so they make his property threatening and evil. Society characterizes
both of these misunderstood people as amoral and threatening. Therefore, no one wants to go on the land they own, because their values and lives could be risked by simply being near such a type of person.
Another similarity of their lives exists because most people assume their guilt. Without any evidenc .....
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To Say Or Not To Say Letters A
.... a foolish letter from the Reverend Mr. Collins, who will inherit Longbourn after Mr. Bennet’s death because he is the nearest male relative. In his letter, Mr. Collins proposes a visit to Longbourn and hints at a further proposal of marriage to one of the Bennet daughters. The reader quickly learns of this man’s nature because of the contents of his letter as well as Mr. Bennet’s reasoning behind his acceptance of the proposal. Mr. Bennet makes fun of his unusual writing style and pom .....
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To The Lighthouse
.... by the awesomeness of the nature which surrounds the house. The beach is not the only physical thing that is being pounded by the effects of the sea. The house is beginning to slowly decay and fall apart. The effects of time have slowly begun to their damage, the greenhouse roof is falling down, and even the idea of discussing this destruction, is too much for Mrs. Ramsey. That would mean admitting to the fragility of the protective barrier of the house which she clings to. She may try to hide behind k .....
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Tom And Daisy Buchanon (the Gr
.... dead lovers. Everything was replaceable, no matter what it was and they knew not what they did. The 20's were a time of confusion and recklessness, where the wealthy could do anything they pleased, they drank during prohibition and drove fancy cars irresponsibly. Tom and Daisy were no exception. They lived life as if consequences could never reach them; their money protected them from all harms. They fit in with the times and were not much different from the rest of the East Eggers. Nick's final judge .....
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Tomorrow When The War Began
.... you find out from Ellie is about what the group is going to do to try and stop this force and other various things like bringing live stock into their camp site which is named “hell”. Issues from whom to take camping, to find out how to blow the towns main bridge apart. Issues were the main part for the book if it weren’t for the issues this look wouldn’t be as compelling
The book is written in an indirect way where you see it through a persons eyes by the name of El .....
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