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- 4131: Winterbourne And Prufrock
- ... that link them together, both being prime examples of emptiness and despair told through theses writings. The central concern in Daisy Miller is of the "analogies and differences" between people. In this story, a young American man, Winterbourne, is confused and intrigued by the behavior of a young American woman, Daisy Miller. Winterbourne had wondered about all of the cold shoulders that had been turned towards her, and sometimes it annoyed him to suspect that she did not feel at all. He said to ...
- 4132: Voices Of Women Writers Lesson
- ... with a talk story from her mother in the first chapter, No Name Woman. Unlike Kincaid s portrayal of a generalized mother-daughter relationship, Hong Kingston specifically addresses the mother s influence upon her Asian-American daughter. In this novel, Hong Kingston describes the puzzling pursuit to understanding not only her identity as a woman, but also as an Asian-American woman. Hong Kingston displays the Chinese dissenting view of women by using anecdotes and talk-stories, specifically her mother s story about her aunt s suicide and adulterous pregnancy. This specific talk-story is her ...
- 4133: Twelve Angry Men
- Twelve Angry Men The American legal system, based on the ancient idea of "innocent, until proven guilty;" has its share of advantages and disadvantages. They all serve to build a system that has suffered years of trials and tribulations, having lost much of their usefulness in today's world. The cornerstone of the American legal system is the "trial by jury," in which a citizen who has been accused of a crime, has the right to be judged by a group of his fellow citizens, who will have the ...
- 4134: The Twelve Angry Men
- ... taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. This drama explores the lives of a dozen American men from very diverse backgrounds as they are forced to decide whether a young man accused of homicide is innocent or guilty. For several of them, thoughtful discourse is unfamiliar and the jurors find their ... to the revealing of the truth in this case. It took Lemmon s character the most arduous time and effort to help this juror come to realization. A third example is that of an African American male that had very adamant views on society itself and in particular, Caucasians. He speculates that the white man is out to get him. For him this case is a way for him to get ...
- 4135: The Red Badge Of Courage 2
- ... the United States and England could not believe that he had never seen war. His sources were teachers athis small private school in New York State. The book's genius is now regarded as an American masterpiece of psychological writing. Unfortunately, it seems he was probably haunted by the experience of this book and ultimately went to join the Spanish American War. He was disqualified from fighting due to tuberculosis, but he continued into Cuba as a reporter for Pulitzer and Hearst. He contracted malaria there and several years later died at the age of twenty ...
- 4136: The House Of The Seven Gables-
- The House Of The Seven Gables- Personal Reflections of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathanial Hawthorne. Considered to be one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century. But did you know that he hated portraits, and it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant ... the books : Lecture's on Withcraft and History of Witchcraft and Salem Village. The Maule name was derived from Thomas Maule, a Quaker merchant living in Salem at the time of the trials. In Nathanials American Notebooks he records that his great great grandfather Judge Hathorne, the judge in the witch trials, injured a neighbor named English once, who never forgave him. Yet English's daughter married Hathorne's son. In ...
- 4137: The Great Gatsby 4
- ... To make themselves appear better to the other crowd, they lose some of the moral fiber that was there to begin with. (Fitzgerald, -page 83-) Loss of morals in the 1920' in America caused the American dream to vanish. The god-like character of the book Gatsby, was a good person but he did bad things like bootlegging and joining in organized crime. Affairs happened in the elite crowd between Tom ... her over then blaming it on Gatsby. This causes the deaths of three people. (Fitzgerald, -page 100-) In summary, Gatsby struggled to gain acceptance among his social class and failed. He could not achieve the American dream or reach his dream for his true love. He changed himself into saying stuff like "old sport" and other stuff to make him be into impure. The complicated struggle for class distinction continued as ...
- 4138: The Great Gatsby 2
- ... a moralist, who wishes the world "to stand at moral attention forever." This trait differs from the standards that the other people in the novel live by. While Nick tries to claw himself to the American dream the others have already given up hope in pursuit of wealth and other materialistic intentions. Nick is to represent the norm, while the other characters such as Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby each represent another ... as a microphone, and lets Nick criticize what Fitzgerald meant to. Consequently, it can be assumed that Fitzgerald felt most comfortable with Nick presenting the novel, since letting him criticize what Fitzgerald felt about the American society and it's appetites, also relates greatly to the outcome of the plot.
- 4139: The Natural 3
- ... the rest of the characters are like those from the story. Roy Hobbs plays the Arthur figure. Roy is a country boy, innocent of the temptations of the urban jungle that is already taking over American life in the period between the world wars. His ability as a baseball player is as innate as his essential goodness. Like a king over a country, he is born with the power to rule ... by Harriet, and his signing by the New York Knights, Roy drifts, we are told, around the country, unable to return to his true love Iris and the son she has borne him, a veritable American Odyssey. The thunderclaps and lightning bolts that accompany Roy's greatest triumphs, and also split the oak tree, from which his bat Wonderboy is fashioned, suggest that Malamud is also invoking the aid of the ...
- 4140: The Killer Angels
- ... Michael Shaara. It is one of the best novels I ever read. It describes four days at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863 in what many consider to be the turning point of the American Civil War. When I was reading this novel I had a feeling that I saw all events by my own eyes. It also made me realize how hard the life during the war is, especially ... arm" Stonewall Jackson, had been killed and his replacement General J.E.B. Stuart was keeping Lee uninformed. I did not read a novel in my life that so nearly allowed me to understand the American civil war. And I would advise everybody to read it.
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