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- 12411: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Thoughts and Feelings
- ... in helping the reader to know and understand the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a significant period of his life, three days and nights on his own in New York City. Through his narration, Holden discloses to the reader his innermost thoughts and feelings. He thus provides the reader not only with information of what occurred, but also how he felt about what happened ... traits. One late Saturday night, four days before the beginning of school vacation, Holden is alone, bored and restless, wondering what to do. He decides to leave Pencey, his school, at once and travels to New York by train. He decides that, once in New York, he will stay in a cheap motel until Wednesday, when he is to return home. His plan shows the reader how very impetuous he is and how he acts on a whim. He ...
- 12412: The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath
- ... so well could actually be her husband. Early in the Wife of Bath Prologue, The Wife of Bath declares that experience is more important to her than knowledge. "Experience, though noon auctoritee, Were in this world, is right ynough for me" (p.117, ll. 1-2) She is confident about her knowledge of love, virginity and marriage (after all she has been married five times). Just as men use the bible ... Bath is a widow and therefore it is assumed that she would dress rather conservatively. This is not the case for the Wife of Bath. Her clothing is quite flamboyant with scarlet red leggings, soft new shoes, broad hat, and spurs on her feet. She is obviously not dressed in a typical manner or style of other women in her time (Hallissy 42). She disapproved of her husbands attempts to inflict ...
- 12413: Wright's The Man Who Loved Underground: Summary
- Wright's The Man Who Loved Underground: Summary Richard Wright's, The Man Who Lived Underground, is a surrealistic story about a man who comes to a new consciousness of his own and the actual condition of society as a result of his retreat underground after being labeled a guilty social being. This great irony takes place after a young black man, Fred ... the audible beginning of Daniels' separation from regular society. He decides to hide when he notices a manhole cover on the ground. "The cover clanged into place, muffling the sights and sounds of the upper world. . . the rite of separation is complete; the opposition between "aboveground" and "underground" is firmly established" (Bloom 147). Though at times in his journey, Daniels does go aboveground, he never again crosses that border until the ...
- 12414: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Man Versus Society There Are Five Literary Conflicts In literature, Man Versus Man, Man Versus Nature, Man Versus The Supernatural, Man Versus Society, Man Versus Himself. There Is A New Literary conflict in literature, It's Man Versus Technology, Therefore, Known As the conflict on the 20'th century. A symbolic meaning of this conflict is franticness. Literature, is a type of communication. Poetry is ... she is getting educated. Jim was a very active boy, He has manners. He was the son of atticus. Scott was the daughter and narrator of Atticus. Atticus was a well known man. He was brave because he shot the dog. He was a lawyer. Calpurnia was the housekeeper of atticus, always helping out the kids when they needed them. Boo Radley was given a monster image by the kids. He ...
- 12415: Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
- ... Gileadian area. Offred is representative of an average women also because she has experienced no great traumas. She isn't just ambivalent because of her tendencies but because she has been abruptly interjected into a new society. She is stunned and almost numb. She barely shows signs of life. She doesn't think there is any use to have a sense of hope. She thinks of the woman in "her" room ... her. Her strong sense of life did nothing to help her earn her freedom. She received nothing from her quiet rebellions. Offred is also obviously the perfect narrator because she is a handmaiden. In this new system, almost a caste system, the role of being a handmaiden is not only of great importance, but is also considerably better than other positions, such as an "unwoman", who cleans toxic waste in the ... aspects in the narration of this novel. The obvious contrasts are between other characters, such as between Offred and Moira. There also are the images of past life that Offred creates. These contrast to the new institution of Gilead. Examples of the contrast are the women's rights rallies. Offred would attend with her mother and also Offred's smoking habit. Offred's memories are characterized with a sense of ...
- 12416: Lord of the Flies: The Beast Within Us
- ... Flies. In this story, the lord of the flies is right in saying that man is inherently evil. This presence of evil, is shown through character evolution, my personal views and experiences in the real world and the source of evil itself. During the coarse of the story the characters do and say many things that reveal their inner devil. One of the characters that we see the most change in ... greatest amount of evil is present. Although we see the contrast between inherent and non-inherent evil in Lord of the Flies and even in Frankenstein, we also see the same contrast in the real world. When a serial killer takes one life after another, they are each acts of evil. But then when this person receives the death penalty, it is also an act of evil. So the point is ... up at the wrong moments. In conclusion, the evil that we think of is not something on the outside, but something on the inside. Through character evolution, my personal views on evil in the real world, and the source of evil, we learned that everyone is inherently evil. These boys spent one of the most important times of their lives on an island. They took a journey and they learned ...
- 12417: Summary of Terkel's My American Century
- ... men one the street and the man crossed the street so that he wouldn't run into Ellis. He thought this to be very insulting. This type of thing continued for a while until a new problem arose, the children in the schools began having some racism problem. Ellis of course attended the meeting to try and solve this problem, and a curious thing happened. Ellis and Ann Atwater were elected ... home cryin'.” It was at that time that Ellis started to realize that Atwater was a person too. From this point on Ellis begins and continues to make changes in the way he sees the world. For the rest of the reading you see many wonderful things begin to happen to him, and what he is trying to do for others. The most powerful part of this reading comes in the ...
- 12418: Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Bluejays are viewed as the bullies of the bird world. They are very loud, territorial, and aggressive. The bluejays represent the prejudice "bullies" of Maycomb County, such as, Bob Ewell. Mockingbirds are innocent, and all they do is sing beautiful songs. They would not harm ... and would never harm anyone. The mockingbird also symbolizes Boo Radley, since he is innocent, and would never harm anyone. He just stays inside because he does not want to face the corrupt and prejudice world outside. Atticus does, indeed, represent a hero in this novel. He is rational and impartial, in a world that is senseless, emotional, and prejudice. Symbolism is, indeed, used extensively by Harper Lee in her timeless classic, To Kill A Mockingbird. The symbolism reveals the prejudice and narrow-mindedness of the common citizens ...
- 12419: Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Bluejays are viewed as the bullies of the bird world. They are very loud, territorial, and aggressive. The bluejays represent the prejudice "bullies" of Maycomb County, such as, Bob Ewell. Mockingbirds are innocent, and all they do is sing beautiful songs. They would not harm ... and would never harm anyone. The mockingbird also symbolizes Boo Radley, since he is innocent, and would never harm anyone. He just stays inside because he does not want to face the corrupt and prejudice world outside. Atticus does, indeed, represent a hero in this novel. He is rational and impartial, in a world that is senseless, emotional, and prejudice. Symbolism is, indeed, used extensively by Harper Lee in her timeless classic, To Kill A Mockingbird. The symbolism reveals the prejudice and narrow-mindedness of the common citizens ...
- 12420: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... face to meet the faces that you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed to do, instead of yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with his desires to change his world and with his fear of their rejection. He imagines how foolish he would feel if he were to make his proposal only to discover that the woman had never thought of him as a possible ... an enchanting song, but assumes that they will not sing to him. Prufrock is paralyzed, unable to act upon his impulses and desires. He will continue to live in "the chambers of the sea," his world of romantic daydreams, until he is awakened by the "human voices" of real life in which he "drowns." The "love song" of Mr. Prufrock displays several levels of irony, the most important of which grows ... the man in mocha brown. "And let their liquid siftings fall/ To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.", The nightingales and nature are indifferent to a man's station in life. We are born into this world as equals and will leave it the same way and the nightingales give no honor to anyone. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" were written by T. S. ...
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