Native Son
.... trial.
"Your honor, I have no desire to be disrespectful
to this court, but I must be honest. A man's life is
at stake. And not only this man a criminal, but he is
also a black criminal. And such he comes into this court
under a handicap, notwithstanding our pretensions that
all are equal before the law" (382).
Max is showing not only the court, but the nation as a whole, that there is no way that Bigger can receive a fair trial. Bigger and Max bo .....
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Never Take Candy From Stranger
.... under their cruel stepmother. During the times the author lived in, child abuse was common in society. The anonymous author uses the character of the wicked stepmother to convey the abuse a child would suffer during those times. The wife of the woodcutter "was forever nagging" him to "abandon" the "two brats". This is only one of the levels of child abuse children had to suffer.
Parents often abused their children. Just like today, children had to be aware of predators that searched for children to .....
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Nihilism
.... his studies confirm his rebellious attitude. Bazarov says, "All men are similar, in soul as well as in body ... and the so-called moral qualities are the same in all of us" (160). As with general science Bazarov feels nothing towards art. "... You assume that I have no feeling for art – and it is true, I haven’t" (159). Art is trivial to Bazarov and accomplishes nothing, therefore he doesn’t
recognize it. It is the same with nature, "Bazarov was rather indifferent to the beauties of nature" (169). Ther .....
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Nathan The Wise
.... the State whose friendship you’d not want?” To which Nathan replies, “No, if your heart is dervish still, I’ll risk it. For your office of State is but a robe” (186). In other words, there is no reason why a position or title should impose upon the goodness of the dervish’s nature on which their friendship is based. Moreover, Nathan revealed to us his concern for the nature of his friend, the dervish, “You back into your desert. For I fear that being among men you might forget to be a man” (189). Bein .....
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No Exit And Its Existentialist
.... in the play is Mr.Garcin. At first glance, he is a very polite, gentlemanly, and moral individual. However, the further into the play that we read, we find that he is none of these things. Instead, he represents some of the worst ails that afflict humankind (according to Sartre). He was graced with a wife that loved him unconditionally, and he loathed for no other reason. In fact, one the first memories that he has of her is how "she got on his nerves". There is one story that is obviously intended to s .....
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Noras Pride
.... After the ball, Trovalts rage and anger, e calls Nora a hypocrite, liar, and a criminal. He says she has no religion, morality, or sence of duty. Then as always he confesses his love to her and wants to take care of her. In the final dramatic scene of the play she explains to Trovalt that she feels like his little doll in a doll house. She leaves and wants no contact with Trovalt or children. Nora wants to begin a new life. All through out her marriage, she was not who she wanted to be, she was .....
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Neorealism In The Bicycle Thie
.... Being able to work is an optimistic endeavor which Bruno wholeheartedly engages in.
The tragedy is not Antonio's previous two years of unemployment- it is that he has no future in his new job, due to the theft of his bike. Antonio must face this tragedy with no public support other than his friend Baiocco. Baiocco's willingness to help with his friends and his optimistic response to Maria constitute another case of human optimism. This form of optimism pervades the film with Antoni .....
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Night, By Elie Wiesel
.... in Hungary, during the early 1940’s. At a young age Elie took a strong interest in Jewish religion as he spent most of his time studying the Talmud. Eventually he comes across Moshe the Beadle, who would take him under his wing and instruct him more in depth of the ways of the Talmud and cabbala. Through Moshe’s instruction, he is taught to question God for answers. Later Moshe is sent away to a camp and upon his return to Sighet presents the reader with a foreshadowing of what will soon come .....
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Night
.... and farther behind
his son, his son runs on, pretending not to see what is happening to
his father. This spectacle causes Elie to think of what he would do if
his father ever became as weak as the Rabbi. He decides that he would
never leave his father, even if staying with him would be the cause of
his death.
The German forces are so adept at breaking the spirits of the
Jews that we can see the effects throughout Elie's novel. Elie's faith
in God, above all .....
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Nine Stories
.... should stare
at them.^ Muriel, however, is unacquainted with Seymour^s wild
breakdowns. She is rather confident that Seymour is perfectly
sane as she reports to her mother on the telephone. Muriel
doesn^t know about this side of Seymour because he has become
alienated from her after the war. Their personalities don^t
match anymore, if they ever did, and he is seeking some sort of
understanding that he knows Muriel can not provide. Seymour^s
relationship with Sybil is making up for Muriel^s .....
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Naturalism In Of Mice And Men
.... This scene contributes to the knowledge of George's honesty, but also shows that George must stifle the honesty of how he feels about Lennie and get on with his own life.
Naturalism in this novel has the overall effect of making the conflict clearer and showing more of a contrast between the opposing forces. The three events mentioned have the overall effect of heightening the conflict and the contrast between Lennie's frank honesty and brute strength with the other men's stifled honesty and false .....
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Night Essay
.... the camp seems awfully horrific. He doesn't seem too bothered by it.. “Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Near him was an SS man, putting his revolver back in it’s holster.” (page 27) This is all he says about the incident. He merely states the facts and seems to leave the human emotion part out of it. Although he has lost some emotion, he still is human, and he is still obviously in shock. “I pinched my face. Was I still alive?” (page 30) “It was no longer possible to grasp anything,” (pag .....
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Native Son (Summary)
.... These series of thoughts rushing through Bigger's mind explains that he did not murder Mary out of rage or anger as a result of the resturant insidence, but out of fear of being discovered by her mother. So he tired to help by keeping her quiet and not revealing his presence but in the process accidnetally killing her. Richard Wright conveyed the emotions of all the characters in the book very clearly by demonstrating the motives behind each action, which in turn revealed to you an overwhelming sense .....
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Novel Outline Of The Pearl
.... Due to the fact that there are not that many characters that have to be introduced in the first chapter as in other long novels which take a whole chapter to introduce characters, the introductions only take about three to four pages. Also, in the first chapter, the background is set: a poverty stricken village on the shore of an island and a wealthier town in the mainland. The conflict, which starts the plot of the story, is also present here: a scorpion has stung Coyotito, Kino’s son, and Kino need to .....
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Night Essay
.... once the deportation of the ghettoes
occurs, Elie’s faith begins to grow weaker. On the day of Rosh
Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, thousands of prisoners attend the
services. The air rang with cries of, “Blessed be the Name of
the Eternal!” But in Elie’s mind, he wonders,
Why, but why should I bless Him? Because he had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because He kept six crematories work-
ing night and day, on Sundays and feast days? How could I say to Him: ‘Blessed art Th .....
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