Langston Hughes
.... door holds for this child:
The simple silly terror of a doorknob
on a door that turns to let in life
From lines 4 to 10, we can assume that we are reading of a child who is terrorized of the grownups that live with him; perhaps he is an abused child:
on two feet standing,
walking, talking,
wearing dress or trousers,
maybe drunk or maybe sober,
maybe smiling, laughing, happy,
maybe tangled in the terror
of a yesterday past grandpa
Lines 11 to 15 reinforce the terror .....
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Animal Farm
.... people (the farm animals, in Jones’ situation) and his denial of the current bureaucratic state. Before his abdication in 1917 (as is parallel to Jones’
escapement from his spiteful farm of animals), the Tsar is known to have partaken in excess alcohol consumption along with his men. It was for this same reason that Jones has lost control of the farm, which initiates the ideal of revolution to the animals. Old Major stirs the other animals by showing his disagreement as per Jones’ selfish method of .....
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Miadventures Of Don Quixote
.... grasp of reality. I will refer back to the windmills because that is the clearest example: Sancho tried to tell Quixote that the giants were only windmills, but he didn’t listen and Sancho couldn’t fathom that his master was mad, so he shuts the incident out of his mind, displaying some of the madness of Don Quixote in our supposedly sane squire. When Quixote does something unreasonable, Sancho despises the fact that his master might be mad and accepts some of the lunacy to make his job easier. When Q .....
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The Great Gatsby
.... based on beauty and not friendship. The placement of the above
quote was essential because it allows us to experience early in the novel how Gatsby had a
relationship with Daisy. This first example of flashback by Fitzgerald proves to be
effective and its placement essential because of the way it is used in the play.
A second example of flashback that Fitzgerald uses is on page 104. Here, Nick
explains to the reader how “James Gatsby” got his name Jay Gatsby. He chose the name
Jay because .....
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Mark Twain, The Adventures Of
.... with Jim that he has not felt with the other major characters in the novel. With Jim, Huck can enjoy the best aspects of his earlier influences. Jim's meaning to Huck changes as they proceed through their adventure. He starts out as an extra person just to take on the journey, but they transform into a friend. "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger."(chap. XV) Huck tries to squeal on Jim but can't because he remembers that Jim called him "de bes' fren' .....
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Romeo & Juliet Basic Summary
.... her to tell Juliet to meet her in Friar Lawrence's cell.
He marries them.
Tybalt and Mercutio fight in street. Romeo blocks Mercutio from fighting and Tybalt slays him from the side and he dies. Romeo then slays Tybalt. Since Romeo killed Tybalt, and Tybalt was to be killed anyway for killing Mercutio, Romeo is banished from Verona.
Juliet is in morn over Romeo's banishment. Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potant to put her in a coma for three days until Romeo can come from Mantua.
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Psychoanalysis Of Hamlet
.... because of the hurt he feels when she lies to him. At this part in the play, Hamlet insults Ophelia by telling her, "Or if/ thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know/ well enough what monsters you make o f them. To a /nunn'ry, go, and quickly too" (3.1.136-139). At this part in the play, it is extremely difficult for Hamlet to differentiate between his mother and Ophelia. Therefore, making his true feelings for his mother become more obscure.
When Hamlet's father dies and his mother r .....
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Candide- A Contrast To Optimis
.... had for his judgment was the sight of two outwardly content people, yet somehow he was compelled to characterize them as unhappy. Martin’s pessimistic outlook on life is the antithesis of Leibniz’s theory that this world is the best. The evil that Martin perceived blinded him from the good that existed in the world. The land of Eldorado was the realization of Leibniz’s theory that this world is the best. In reference to Eldorado, Candide stated that “there’s no comparison between this country and the .....
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Cathcher
.... and and did other thi8ngs to make himself look tough.
"Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk
as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." Holden tried all he
could to try to be cool he was faking it just to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life l to make it
seem he was like he knew of his habits. I myself have found me doing this
at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a group and do
things similar to what others do in order .....
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A Street Car Named Desire
.... degenerate. She is disgusted and expresses her disappointment in him. This prompts him to commit suicide. Blanche cannot get over this. She holds herself responsible for his untimely death. His death is soon followed by long vigils at the bedside of her dying relatives. She is forced to sell
Belle Reve, the family mansion, to pay for the many funeral expenses. She finds herself living at the second-rate Flamingo Hotel.
In an effort to escape the misery of her life in Laurel, Blanche drinks h .....
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WOMAN AND ABORTION
.... are out to help us are the very people we fear. This fact is known worldwide, but there is no explanation for this.
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Summary Of The Book Annie John
.... follow the relationship going from being a admiring and respectful mother-daughter relationship to becoming a hatred and dreaded “black creature”.
Many of Annie’s thoughts are quite reflective on the way she was raised and where she was raised. Many if the characteristics also are easy to find within our selves.
I find this book to be an easy read book about universal truths, knowledge, and experiences that most of us have already experienced or if not, should experience.
Annie John is a definite m .....
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The Death Of Ivan Ilych
.... all of sudden the pain went away. He accepted that death was there but it was OK because in the end there would be no more pain. So then "He drew in a breath, stopped in the midst of a sigh, stretched out, and died." With that he died peacefully and full of joy. His entire struggle with mental suffering took a toll on him and at the same time made his physical pain worse.
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Tolstoy was close to the same. As he became more famous and achieved more he began to question his own life and .....
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1984
.... he is captured and tortured,
trying to keep one last shred of personality intact.
b. If he's so heroic, why is he so foolhardy? It makes no sense
for him to create a permanent love-nest when he knows it will speed
his capture. "It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer
to their graves," he thinks. A careful man would never open up to
O'Brien without knowing whether he is to be trusted. You can argue
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MacBeth
.... said, “Be bloody,
bold, and resolute, Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none born of woman shall
harm Macbeth.”( act 4, scene 1, lines 78-81) This meant that no man that was born out
of the female birth canal could harm Macbeth. This statement contradicts the one
statement made by the first apparition. Macbeth thought that since Macduff was human
that he had to have been born through the birth canal. Macbeth did not know that
Macduff was born by c-section, he was unt .....
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