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- 3441: The Truth May Be Hidden In Reality, But Expressed In Fiction
- ... a short period of time working in a blacking factory to take care of himself. Pip worked as Joe’s apprentice. Both of them did these things as teenager. Choosing to be independent paid off big time later on in their lives, although they may not have realized it (Sirs). Since both of them came from families that were not wealthy and barely financially stable, education was not their top priority ...
- 3442: The Gift of the Magi: Themes
- ... that touch the heart. The author expresses those themes in many ways. The two biggest ways that the author expresses the most important themes are through the setting and the characters. Symbolism also takes a big part in this story. In the end irony ties it all together. For instance, Jim and Della live in a flat with just enough money to get by. The setting leads to the theme of ...
- 3443: A Lesson Well Taught
- ... such knowledge gained and a lesson taught. With one trip to the F.A.O. Schwartz, the children see how different their lives are compared to others. “This is mine, that’s mine,” (458) says Big Butt as he looks through the windows at all the toys. It is a child’s instinct to want, and I believe this was a lesson in itself. The fact that the children all wanted ...
- 3444: Mixed Emotions in The Story of an Hour
- ... Mallard has a heart attack. It was a mistake, a horrible mistake that cost her life. The doctor says her death was caused by “the joy that kills.” Her sick heart could not take the big distress. People around her could not imagine how unhappy she was in her marriage. All her new dreams were shattered with her husband’s arrival. The exquisite joy of freedom is abruptly shut off. She ...
- 3445: Dickens and "The Jew"
- ... a very old shriveled Jew, whose villainous and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair"(Dickens 87). This common depiction of the Jew was accompanied by the stereotype that they had big noses and lured orphaned children into their filthy dens and turned them into derelicts. He was a thief because he did not have any skills, nor was he welcome anywhere. On the other hand, to ...
- 3446: To Kill A Mocking Bird: Tom Robinson's Trial
- ... learn a lot about people’s views and beliefs on other people and the strict codes by which people have to live. We learn the most about Maycomb Society through the trial. Town trials were big social events in the 1930s. The trial is described as a ‘Gala occasion’ and many people acted as if they were attending a ‘Carnival’, rather than to see a man on trial for his life ...
- 3447: Go Ask Alice
- ... San Francisco and even her hometown. Alice found drugs quite easily in both of these places. A character in this book that I really disliked was Jan because when her “so called friend” was in big trouble, she lied and got her in even more trouble. The second reason that I dislike Jan was because she gave Alice a Coke (Coca-Cola) with LSD in it without even warning her. Another ...
- 3448: A Woman on a Roof
- ... seems in his mind. The first day he saw her, "she was white" (703) and "looked like a poster, or a magazine cover" (704). He later dreams "she had him into her flat: it was big and had fitted white carpets and a bed with a padded white leather headboard" (705). Even though he does not know her, Tom sees the woman as free from any blemish. Tom thought he knew ...
- 3449: As I Lie Dying
- ... sure that Jewel, Addie's favorite son, will not be at her side when she dies. While Addie's daughter, Dewey Dell, stays with her, her youngest son, Vardaman, goes fishing and catches a very big fish (later, Vardaman begins to confuse the fish with his dead mother, resulting in Faulkner's shortest, and one of his most famous — or infamous — chapters: "My mother is a fish."). Dr. Peabody arrives at ...
- 3450: Brave New World: Beliefs of Sex and Drug Use
- ... people and government on sexual behavior and drugs are totally different, maybe even an exact opposite of our beliefs today. Morality of human creation is also a question that is challenged in the book. The big question is which of these societies is right. The beliefs of sex and drug use in the 21st Century are very conservative and wholesome compared to the beliefs of the society in Brave New World ...
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