To Build A Fire
.... his hands just like paws. This also shows his increasing relationship to the bestial characteristics.
As the story, proceeds it is also obvious that the dog is picking up more characteristics that are human. These characteristics such as sense allow the dog to steer clear of the man’s fate. “But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold...” The dog knew that they should not be out .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 8
.... that the Jehovah’s Witness try their hardest to be faithful, while people mock at them just for being a member of the Jehovah’s Witness. Furthermore, in people’s minds, they feel that Jehovah’s Witness are fanatic about converting peoples religion. This is just a false stereotype about Jehovah’s Witness which is the basis of prejudice towards Jehovah’s Witness, that they are all “crazy about converting people.” These misconceptions are unfair, in that .....
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Touch Wood
.... life. They settled in France and thought they¹d be safe. Then Adolf Hitler, a German man who hated Jewish people, started trouble all over again. First, seven synagogues were blown up. Then, the Germans created a curfew prohibiting Jews to go during certain hours. Any Jew caught in the street after curfew would be taken as hostage. Also, all Jewish people must wear a Star of David on their shirts. An ordinance is created requiring all Jewish firms to be registered. Then the Jewish are forbidden to go to mo .....
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Trifles By Susan Glaspell
.... John had for Minnie and the attention he paid to the house perhaps forced Minnie to resort to killing. Even the County Attorney, Sheriff, and Mr. Hale could not understand all the difficulties women go through. They criticize Mrs. Wright as well as insult all women. Mr. Hale says, "Well, women are used to worrying over trifles." The actions of just these men show how women were taken for granted in this era. Inevitably, the men are unable to prove that Mrs. Wright murdered her husband but are going to .....
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Turn Of The Screw
.... and actually has her back towards her. Even more illuminating, about two hours later the narrator tells Mrs. Grose "The Children know all that we know - Flora saw!"(30) She is, of course, speaking of Miss Jessel, and how by this time paranoia has caused her to honestly believe that Flora saw her, yet it is clearly shown that Flora is too preoccupied with the water and her toys to even notice Miss Jessel. The end result of the narrator's lunacy and anxiety is Flora contracting a deadly illness and th .....
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T.s Eliot Interpretation Of Wa
.... by echoes, often heroic," of other writers.
The juxtapositions mentioned earlier are evident even at the poem's opening, which begins on a rather sombre note, with a nightmarish passage from Dante's Inferno. The main character, Guido de Montefeltro, confesses his sins to Dante, assuming that "none has ever returned alive from this depth"; this "depth" being Hell. As the reader has never experienced death and the passage through the Underworld, he must rely on his own imagination (and/or subconsc .....
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Tartuffe
.... “Poor fellow!” Orgon is so caught up in his own perception of Tartuffe as a saint, and all that Tartuffe does. It is as if Tartuffe can do no wrong.
When Orgon's son Damis tells his father what he has overheard and that Tartuffe was making advances toward Elmire. Orgon is so upset with Damis, that he disowns his son, and exiles his son from the house and the property. Because of this passion Orgon is stupid and blind to all that is going on around him.
Despite the protestations of his .....
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Tess 2
.... eternally for one mistake. This realization also reflects upon Tess’s maturation mentally. Moreover, because her affair with Alec also resulted in a child, she was forced to mature much more quickly than she would have liked. Tess also had the habit of blaming herself for everything that would not go as planned. The whispering that Tess endures during her visit to Church after her affair with Alec only serves to strengthen her feelings that she was constantly at fault.
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Tess Of The Durbervilles
.... short and blunt. This in turn represents Aschenbach's lack of emotion toward her as one would believe that his only living kin deserves some recognition. Mann leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that Aschenbach has difficulty accepting others or his work.
When Aschenbach travels to Venice to escape being alone, as well as "to make his summer bearable" (Mann, 199), he encounters the young boy Tadzio. His infatuation with Tadzio begins a transformation within himself which enables him to accept an .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... drunk,¡± (page 28), and then says, ¡° I never see a man look so wild in the eyes¡± (page 28 sic). Fourtunately, Pap passes out before he can kill Huck. From there, Huck grabs his Pap¡¯s gun and aims it right at Pap, but falls asleep without ever actually shooting him. The next morning, Pap wakes Huck, taking the gun from him, and then asks why Huck had the gun. Huck, through his use of quick thinking, says, ¡°Somebody tried to get in, so I was laying for him,¡± (page 30) and fools his father. The .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... battling with his conscience, when he realized how close Jim was to his freedom, "…I begun to get it through my head that he was most free—and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn’t get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way." (pg.85) Turning Jim in would be difficult, since he was a benevolent and amiable man. It was not righteous that he should be hurt, but if Huck helped Jim run away, he would have to turn his back on his own people. He would be saying slavery, an .....
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The Alchemist
.... when he returned, she would be waiting for him.
The Soul of the World was also an important force in the priest's son's life in "The Waters of Babylon." Like Santiago, the priest's son also had dreams about his journey that life had in store for him. When he set out on his journey, he also saw good omens. One was when he was saw a buck. He knew it was good luck, so he followed it. Even though it took him to an area of the land were he wasn't supposed to go, he went anyway because of his trust in .....
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The American 2
.... had always been based on the material things, and now he was ready for something new. As Newman is reflecting with Mr. Tristam over the use of money and how it affects a person, James describes how Newman feels about his financial situation in life: “Life for him and been an open game, and he had played for high stakes. He had won at last and carried off his winnings; and now what was he to do with them?” (James 36) Newman had already completed his life and now he was ready for something .....
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The American Dream - Great Gat
.... Myrtle is unhappy with her marriage to Wilson and feels it is not going to take her anywhere. Therefore she knows that she is going to have to find another man to bring her out of the valley of Ashes. Initially Myrtle thinks that Wilson is the man who she had been looking for, when she first saw him in a suit she thought for certain he was the kind of man who she was looking to marry. Only later does she find out that the suit was not his "Crazy, the only crazy was when I married him" (39). While still .....
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The Anglo-saxon Literature
.... carry out their duty. This duty indicates that one does not desert a battleground and retreat in order to save one¡¯s life. Therefore, the heroes share the battlefield alongside their lord and fight until they win or die. Like these heroes of the Maldon, the Rood remains steadfast in sharing Christ¡¯s suffering. It neither decides to desert the Lord nor his suffering. In fact the Anglo-Saxon society views one¡¯s life worthless when one deserts one¡¯s duty to serve the lord.
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