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- 4331: My Lai 4: A Book Report
- ... followed, and as I read the first 65 pages of this book, I was exposed to the detailed death of 306 civilians, mostly women, small children, and old people. There was no threat to any American GIs ... there were no Viet Cong Solders in the area. I read of the rape of a 14 year old girl by twenty GIs ... in front of the parents. They were all shot after the ... to drop the charges; they thought that there was nothing wrong with the massacre, OR they didn't believe it really happened. As a matter of fact, Lt. Calley had become a hero as an AMERICAN! There was a hugely-supported donation drive to pay for Calley's legal fees. The final outcome: nothing. Calley was demoted to a Army "Office Job" after the murders were proved. The soldiers of Charlie ...
- 4332: Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation"
- Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation" Ernest Hemingway is a renowned American author of the Twentieth century who centers his novels around personal experiences and affections. He is one of the authors named "The Lost Generation." He could not cope with post-war America, and therefore he ... restricted to scenes known to themselves alone. Therefore, Jake suffers in silence because he has learned to trust and rely only upon himself, which is conducive to the Hemingway Code as well. Jake is an American who travels to Europe to satiate his appetite for exotic landscapes and to escape his pain. Jake tries to live his life to the fullest with drinking, partying, and sporting with friends. With these pastimes ...
- 4333: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... are followed by Marks and Loker, slave-catchers in partnership with the trader, Haley. They make there way up to Sandusky, so that they can catch a ferry for Canada, where slavery is forbidden and American laws do not apply. Meanwhile, Uncle Tom is headed down the river, deeper into slavery. On the boat, he makes friends with Eva St. Clare, a beautiful and religious white child. After Tom rescues Eva ... fugitive slave, Burns, was rescued from the United States officers in Boston, Clay urged the investment of the President with extraordinary power to enforce the law,”(Wilson 186). Henry Clay was a patriot, a typical American. The republic and its preservation were the passions of his life. Like Lincoln, who was born in the State of his adoption, he was willing to make almost any sacrifice for the maintenance of the ...
- 4334: The Great Gatsby: The Green Light
- ... could not get over his dream. Through this quotation and through close examination of the green light, one may learn that the force that empowers Gatsby to follow his lifelong aspiration is that of the "American Dream." Fitzgerald, the author of the novel, through Gatsby, was able to make this myth about America and the American Dream of self-fulfillment. Works Cited Beckson and Arthur Ganz. AReader's Guide to Literary Terms. New York: The Noonday Press, 1986.
- 4335: To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
- ... novel centers around the trial of Tom Robinson. To the people of Maycomb county, Tom Robinson is just a "sorry nigger," who committed an unthinkable crime. In the novel, Tom represents the black race in American society. He is a victim of racism, which was the major controversy in our culture at the time. Like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson is characterized by what the people of Maycomb county say about him ... wrong to assume evil things about Boo Radley. Furthermore, it was unfortunate that the people of Maycomb county did not realize their unfair treatment of Tom Robinson. But most importantly, it is tragic that the American society did not recognize the injustice done to the black race.
- 4336: Green Grass: Lionel Red Dog
- ... gun that was lying in the back. Hit by a policewoman, he is taken to jail and, while there, he loses his job. This, in a way, is very similar to what happened to AIM (American Indian Movement) some years back. The natives were upset about the Government's neglect of treaties and grants. The natives held a peaceful rally in a town, then they all packed up, and moved it ... because that was their home. The whole thing escalated until the army was moved in. Eventually, the FBI apprehended the members of AIM and the truth of the situation was suppressed for many years. The American Indian Movement lost much of it's credibility and support. This all happened in 1973. If we were to look at the basic story line to Lionel's history and the AIM occupation of Wounded ...
- 4337: Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution of a Dream
- ... money or prestige. What he wants is his dream, and that dream is embodied in Daisy. Ironically, Daisy Buchanan, is a much more realistic, hard- headed character. She understands money and what it means in American society, because it his her nature; she was born into it. Gatsby intuitively recognizes this, although he cannot fully accept it, when he remarks to Nick that Daisy's voice "is full of money." Gatsby ... redeems this by his exalted conception of himself. Gatsby has dedicated himself to the accomplishment of a supreme object, to restore to himself an illusion he had lost; he set about it, in a pathetic American way. Gatsby is a man with a dream at the mercy of the "foul dust" that sometimes seems only to exist in order to swarm against the dream. It is a strange dream, Gatsby's ...
- 4338: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Survival In Society
- ... that could not have been resolved by just anyone. Huck's sympathy for other human beings, adaptability, and his shrewdness and ingenuity are among the qualities that makes Huck one of the great character in American fiction. Bibliography Salzman, Jack and Pamela Wilkerson, ed. Major Characters In American Literature New York, NY 1986 Simpson M., Claude, Twentieth Century Interpretations Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, England Cliffs, NJ 1968 Bloom, Harold The Adventures of Huckleberry, Modern Critical Interpretations New York 1986 Twain, Mark ...
- 4339: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- ... Awareness of God's grace does not come easily to these people. The truthful illumination of their soul may cost their own life or that of an innocent victim. As pointed out in Masterpieces of American Literature, "God's mercy is not a soothing balm[,] but a burning flame that purifies the sinner" (498). Works Cited Bain, Carl. E., Beaty, Jerome & Hunter, J.P. The Norton Introduction to Literature. 5th ed ... 1976. O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. San diego: Harcourt, 1976. O'Connor, Flannery. Habit of Being. Ed: Sally Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. "O'Connor." Masterpieces of American Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magil. New Jersey: Saturn, 1993. Walters, Dorothy. Flannery O'Connor. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
- 4340: Crying of Lot 49
- ... involving the reader within the text, a hallmark of postmodern literature. Duyfhuizen, Bernard. "Disrupting Story in The Crying of Lot 49," Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Boston: Little,Brown, 1976. Hipkiss, Robert M. The American Absurd. New York: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Johnston, John. "Paranoia as a Semiotic Regime in The Crying of Lot 49," New Essays on the Crying of Lot 49. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991 ... Essays on the Crying of Lot 49 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 6 "Paranoia", p. 4. 7 The Grim Phoenix, p. 15. 8 Crying of Lot 49, p. 49. 9 Robert Hipkiss, The American Absurd, (University of Chicago: New York), p. 90 10 Paranoia as a Semiotic Regime, p. 6. 11 Crying of Lot 49, p. 58. 12 Crying of Lot 49, p. 22 . 13 The Grim Phoenix, p ...
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