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- 3451: Forrest Gump
- ... pretty interestin life, so to speak.” Throughout the book, Forrest is always trying to do what is right, but it never seems to turn out for him. For instance, he tries to participate in a big demonstration against the Vietnam War at the U.S. Capitol “at which a bunch of Vietnam veterans is gonna take off they medals an thow them on the steps of the Capitol.” When it becomes ...
- 3452: Fifth Business - Internal Battles of Dustan Ramsey
- ... eight hundred, including those farmers who lived on the outskirts. Within his village there were among five different denominations, and it was understood that each looked after it’s own, unless a situation go to big and then outside help might be called in. Although many did not exhort their religion it was known by all who was of what denomination and what they stood for. Dunstans up bringing had an ...
- 3453: Malamud’s The Assistant: Frank Alpine's Metamorphosis From Bad To Good
- ... having a sister in the neighborhood. Thus, Frank proves that though his intentions were good, he inevitably did something to ruin them. Even though Frank did not present himself to be a trustworthy employee, Morris’ big heart let him stay. He was immediately interested in Helen, Morris’ daughter. Frank would watch her walk, admiring her every step. “The girl was in his mind a lot….he didn’t want to spoil ...
- 3454: Dandelion Wine: Douglas
- ... rot…or maybe never get finished at all, or wind up in garages….” “…like tennis shoes, you can only run so far so fast, andthen the earth’s got you again.” “……like trolleys. Trolleys, as big as they are, always come to the end of the line.” And “You can depend on people because…” “….they go away…” “…strangers die.” “….people you know fairly well die.” “…friends die.” “……people murder people, like ...
- 3455: Summary of Cue for Treason
- ... of my friend. Peter and Kit didn't understand about the theme of sonnet so they decide to go to Sir Joseph Williams. He is one of the Queen's counselors; he's such a big man. But Sir Joseph couldn't figure out too. So they go to t Sir Robert and Sir Francis. They figure out that the sonnet says "SENDNEWSBYPEEL." The first letter of each line in sonnet ...
- 3456: Huckleberry Finn and The Issue of Race In Our Country
- ... rather human nature. Different races at one time or another were slaves to others, however, the blacks themselves traded their own kind of people for money and that is why black people played such a big part of slavery. Lastly, by reading Huckleberry Finn students will learn not to make the same mistakes as their ancestors have made in the past, but to rather show these past incidents as examples and ...
- 3457: The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959
- ... also had access to generals such as Eisenhower, Bradley, Montgomery, Rundstedt, Rakassovskii and Chuikov, so not all of his sources spent time in foxholes. Still, Ryan was unsurpassed in his ability to create a satisfying big picture from so many individual parts. Although recent years have brought more rigorous and scholarly treatments of the operational and strategic aspects of D-Day, this novel remains well worth reading, and deserves the wide ...
- 3458: A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief in the Truth
- ... she lets her home become “an eyesore among eyesores” (p. 119); this being an excellent metaphor of her home and Emily herself. Her home was once grand and beautiful, as was she. “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, …set on what had once been our most select street,” (p.119). Emily had once been just as grand, until her father died leaving her unmarried for ...
- 3459: Fahrenheit 451: How Montag is Convinced to Change His Mind about Books
- ... car had run over Clarisse. When Montag finds this out, he does not know what to do, but he remembers a man that he met in the park a year before. Clarisse has a really big impact on Montag. She is the one that starts all the thinking and questioning within his head. The old woman in the story refuses to leave her house when the firefighters catch the house on ...
- 3460: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... make all other modes of thought impossible."(246) By limiting the choice of words available to a bare minimum, the language accomplishes its purpose of diminishing the range of human thought and expression. (Gardner 49). Big Brother's entire fictitious existence is devoted to the principle of thought reduction that Newspeak embodies. By eliminating even the possibility of thoughts considered heretical by Oceania, thoughtcrime becomes impossible by definition (Howe 32). The ...
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