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- 4311: Ceremony by Leslie Silko
- Ceremony by Leslie Silko The novel Ceremony, written by Leslie Silko deals with the actions of a Native American youth after fighting, and being held captive during World War II. The young mans name is Tayo and upon returning to the U.S., and eventually reservation life he has many feelings of estrangement and ... show how the War affected the young women from the reservations. She is able to show you how Helen Jeans life was in just a few pages. Silko was able to show how the Native American war veterans looked to anyone who happened to look upon them, but that wasn't one of them. The perspective of the women also helped to debunk a lot of the stories the men told ...
- 4312: Winston Smith's Downfall
- ... an individual and of the fear that the Party invoked into every aspect of life. His decreasing ability to remember events of the past disturbed him, as he wondered what life was like before the Revolution. His rebellion towards the Party begins in a small way, when he begins to keep a diary for the future, the unborn. He began to go to the area of London where the proletariat class, or proles lived, in search of a connection to the past. He finds a man named Mr. Charrington who seems to be the tie to life before the Revolution, the owner of an antique junk shop with rooms for rent above it. His revolt takes a serious twist when he begins a forbidden love affair with a beautiful young girl named Julia. She, too ...
- 4313: Moby Dick
- Moby Dick I. Biographical Insights A. The culture this great author was a part of was the time in American history where inspiring works of literature began to emerge. It was also a time when American writers had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius' flourishing there. B. Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, he was the son of Allan and ...
- 4314: The Major Years: Isolation and Emily Grierson - A Deadly Combination
- ... smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons"(p.26). Backman, paraphrasing Wright Morris in The Territory Ahead, says that flight and nostalgia are essential to American life, "The American flees the raw and uncongenial present for a mythic and desired past"(Backman, p.185). This perfectly summarizes Emily's character because she is trying to leave the present and go back to a happier ...
- 4315: Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism
- Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements ... animals, watching the violent quarrel which follows from outside the parlour window, are unable any longer to distinguish the pig's face from the man's. The final moral is of course, that the animals' revolution has been betrayed by the selfishness and will to power of the pigs who, like the communist party in Russia, have controlled it from the beginning; and the living conditions of the animals are in ...
- 4316: Huckleberry Finn: Controversy Paper
- ... it may hold. Although, it must hold to its meaning, we can not allow it to steer us to the wrong's of the world today. Shelly Fishkin suggests Mark Twain has "obscured" the African American roots when writing Huck Finn. Jim, as suggested by Fishkin, has been plagued with a dialect that should not be represented by the African American race during that time. The question is raised by Fishkin as to if Huck Finn was black? This in turn would take away from the whole basic outcome of the moral lesson that we are ...
- 4317: The Great Gatsby: Moral Decline Through The Interpersonal Relationships
- ... 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 was a good person but he did bad things like bootlegging and joining in organized crime. Affairs happened in the elite crowd between Tom and ... her over then blaming it on Gatsby. This causes the deaths of three people. (Fitzgerald, -page 100) In summary Gatsby struggle 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 him self into saying stuff like "old sport" and other stuff to make him be into impure. The complicated struggle for class distinction continued ...
- 4318: A Tale of Two Cities: Summary
- ... father Dr. Manette, the Defarges, Jerry Cruncher, Charles Darnay, Mr Stryver, Mr. Carton, Miss Pross, a Monseigneur, and Monsieur the Marquis. The people mentioned above are all involved in a fictional account of the French Revolution. Dr. Manette is reunited with his daughter after he has been in the Bastille prison for eighteen years. She is unaware that her father was even alive. Together they go and live in London, England ... There is much blood shed. Eventually the King and Queen of France are killed. Many peasants also die. The main conflicts are resolved mostly by violence as the French peasants take to battle. After the revolution is over many people die at the guillotine. The reasons I did not like this book were because it was worded in old English and the words were unfamiliar. Also, I am not a history ...
- 4319: To Kill A Mockingbird: Lessons Never Learned
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Lessons Never Learned Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, long considered an American classic, is as relevant to today's society as it was when it was published almost 40 years ago. The novel is a comment on the origins and implications of prejudice. Prejudice is born of ... scorned for representing Robinson in the case. The strength of the towns prejudice is evidenced in its quick move towards ending the trial and ultimately killing Tom Robinson. True stories exist from the beginning of American history of similar tragedies to that of Tom Robinson's. It is likely that Harper Lee compiled a number of stories, either overheard or read, into the story of Robinson. In the 1960s, the United ...
- 4320: The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
- ... about the ways America began to achieve its own identity in the world in those years. He shows us how colonials began to become Americans, how a new nation found itself. He also shows an American character emerging as the new nation expanded across the continent. The author highlights many big events in that time period that back his point of view. The government had many achievements during this time period ... a few of the sentences. For example, Yet when all the certainties and possibilities have been added up, there is an extra element of passion, one might call it obsession, about the opening of the American frontier that can not be fully understood in the language of logic or necessity.(4) That sentence gets very wordy, and it is confusing because it is also lengthy. If he shortened the sentence and ...
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