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- 4141: The Jungle
- ... he meets Jack Duane, an experienced criminal. After being freed from jail, Jurgis and Duane team up in a luxurious, but risky life of crime. Jurgis learns about the connections between criminals, police, politics, and big business. He becomes a member of this complex network and moves into politics. Ironically, under these evil conditions, he discovers a new confidence and talent for management. He runs into Connor again, and beats him ...
- 4142: The Ingenu
- ... what is proper was beginning to dominate in him"(Voltaire, 249). He has learned of the horrors of the world. He shares in on the radical views of the time. After all of his adventures, big and small, he comes to the conclusion that "an ill wind blows nobody any good"(Voltaire, 255). The Child of Nature becomes enlightened through his experiences with French society by having no prior knowledge, being ...
- 4143: The Blue Hotel
- ... is painted blue and we can wonder about the character of the Swede for long periods of time. These elements combined have made this story very good. The settings in the story are a very big focal point of Stephen Crane. He develops them very well and makes them actually serve a purpose in the story. The color blue painted on the outside of the hotel could symbolize its old age ...
- 4144: Stephen Crane
- ... ribbon, to freshen the appearance of a dingy curtain, she now saw to be piteous. She wondered what Pete dined on (Crane, 20). This shows Maggies first signs of awareness as well as her big reality check. Crane purpose behind is all, simply to be real. John Berryman once found a quote of Cranes Parra 5 which stated, I believe in Irony(55). His belief in this is created ...
- 4145: Reaching Up For Manhood
- ... wasn't enough money in savings to do both at the same time. I thought that was so devastating and so humiliating. I made up a story that my family and I were taking a big frivolous family vacation and I couldn't go. I now feel like I have no reason to gripe and complain. My parents would never have to teach me self defense as a child to stay ...
- 4146: Neuromancer By William Gibson
- ... of its vision was William S. Burroughs' quasi-SF novels like Nova Express, (1964), and the voice of Gibson's narrator sounded oddly like a slightly updated version of old Raymond Chandler novels like The Big Sleep, (1939). Others pointed out that almost all of cyberpunk's characteristics could be found in the works of older writers such as J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, or Samuel R. Delany ...
- 4147: Mockingbird
- ... his cross examination. He continually calls Tom "boy," which is racist when referring to a black man. He also adds to the non-human, bestial representation of Tom Robinson by referring to him as a "big buck." Racist symbolism is mixed with bitter irony during one of Aunt Alexandra's missionary circle meetings, as Mrs. Grace Merriweather talks about the Mrunas in Africa. She tells about how they live in "poverty ...
- 4148: Life
- ... people often try to find what they have not done in life instead of what they have. The past is a play, whether or not you as a character in the great play have a big part or little one it does not matter. What matters is that you appreciate what you did in life and what you have gained from being alive. Bibliography Works Cited Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth. Living With ...
- 4149: Kim Kim
- ... Service. He delivered the message as directed, and then lay in the grass and watched and listened until he learned that his message meant that eight thousand men would go to war. Out on the big road the lama and Kim encountered many people of all sorts. Conversation was easy. One group in particular interested Kim, an old lady traveling in a family bullcock cart attended by a retinue of eight ...
- 4150: Huck Finn
- ... the other members, he quits the gang. Still, Huck ignorantly assumes that Tom is superior to him because of his more suitable family background and fascination with Romantic literature. Pap and "the kidnapping" play another big role in Huck's moral development. Pap is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the bad things that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. However, Pap does not ...
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