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- 851: Death Of a Salesman
- ... commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure. The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main culprit being big business. "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a god-dam maniac. They time those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16-19) Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that big business lacked compassion. It is because of this that he is abandoned by Biff and disowned by Happy, left babbling in a toilet. It is this flaw which allowed him to die a slow death ...
- 852: Wild Meat And The Bully Burgers
- ... win a Coke bottle. They see Larry and his girlfriend, Crystal, in the games area, and ask her if they could carry around some of their stuffed animals. She says 'yes' and they get a big pink bear, and a snake that Lovey wraps around her neck. When they see girls from their school, they shake up the Coke bottle and dump it on them from the top of the Ferris ... She borrows some money from Katy, and buys a plane ticket to Kauai. She gets a cab there and goes to Kipu. She fills a ziplock bag with dirt, and then goes back to the Big Island. She fills another ziplock bag with dirt from their backyard. Lovey's mother is really mad at her. No one knew where she went, and they were all worried about her. They take her ...
- 853: A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Irony, Characters, and Foreshadowing
- ... about the car that the Misfit was driving also. He explains it as an old beat up black car, and after the family has their accident the car that comes to the scene is a big black hearse-like car. The main characters are the grandmother, Bailey, and the misfit. The grandmother is an important, if not the most important character. She is a woman that manipulates both family as well ... members in their car. Throughout the story, symbolism is a constant catalyst. After the family wrecks their car, the convicts appear on the scene and the car they are driving is described as being a big black hearse-like car, symbolizing death, for example, thought the story, the author mentions the sky quite a few times. At the beginnings of the trip the children use their imaginations while looking at the ...
- 854: White Fang
- ... and the rest of the story is about their friendship. There were many turning points in the story, some are bigger than others. When Weedon first helps White Fang and they become friends is a big turning point in the story. When the Indians first taught White Fang how to fight also was a big turning point because it shows he is wild. Near the end of the story White Fang and Weedon were living in Sierra Vista with Weedon's dad who was a judge. A man named Jim ...
- 855: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Escape
- ... going to ask his boss to be relocated is when the next journey into the past occurs. The point of the play during which this episode takes place is so dramatic that willy seeks a big hit of the flashback drug. Such a big hit in fact, that he is transported back to what was probably the happiest day of his life. Biff was going to play in Ebbets field in the All-Scholastic Championship game in front of ...
- 856: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... touch it. Three nights a week Herbert goes out to a cheap bar because he "had the respectability his mother had hammered into him. But just as priceless as that was an income not quite big enough to go around. It left him no alternative but- in the holy names of wife, child and home- to play piano in a dive, and breathe smoke, and drink gin, to be Firehouse Harris ... a positive message in "More Stately Mansions" that dreams are sometimes better than reality, and that the dreamer is not necessarily bad. The positive message in "Welcome to the Monkey House" is that sometimes the big guy is wrong, and change can be brought about by one small person, along with that we shouldn't as a society be afraid of sex. In most cases censorship indeed seems to be only ...
- 857: Walden Two
- ... not one of them is ever actually publisher. Not even MaritoÕs friends really like his writing. In Chapter thirteen he reads the one about Aunt Eliana to Javier, Aunt Julia, and even to Pascual and Big Pablito. After they hear it, not one of them really has anything nice to say about it at all. So, although writing is one of MaritoÕs passions, it is also one of his demons. It ... is divorce. The main reason Marito and Aunt JuliaÕs family is all up in arms about their relationship and marriage is not because of the age difference, that did not turn out to be that big of a deal; thither is it because they are distant relatives. No, it is mostly just because Aunt Julia was previously married and now divorced. Before Aunt Julia even arrived from Bolivia, the whole family ...
- 858: Symbols In The Lottery
- ... and happy instead of worried or depressed. Another reason that the box was a symbol of darkness is because the narrator refers to the box in a high manner. Th enarrator makes the box a big issue throghout the story. If the box did not symbolize anything, the narrator would not have made a big deal about the box’s shape or color. The box probably would not have been talked about if it did not represent that the lottery was a story about an evil event. The black box ...
- 859: 1984: Lack of Humanity
- ... Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” (Syme, Pg.46) While reducing the range of thought is part of the aim of the Party, the big picture includes reducing the human race to an unintelligent, trained like a dog, population. Like dogs who are trained to obey their masters’ orders, the citizens of Oceania are also trained to follow the Party ... an Outer Party member, attempts to regain his lost identity by rebelling against the Party. He tries in vain to join the infamous Brotherhood, the underground association against the Inner Party and its nonexistent leader, Big Brother. When Winston is captured, he is forced to reform with physical and psychological torture. In the process of reforming, Winston loses his identity to the Party again, and when he is finally released, he ...
- 860: Gender Differences
- ... women since I was a little kid. Both, men and women, are constantly concerned about looking "good" even though they are physically different. In order to look appealing to others, men are supposed to be big, strong, and athletic, whereas women are supposed to be thin, pretty, and big-breasted. I often wonder why we put so much emphasis on the way a person looks. I think females feel more of the pressures of looking "good". In the past, I've talked to some ...
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