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- 12431: The Awakening: Triumph Over Tragedy
- ... the wonder and beauty of freedom. As Edna stands naked on the edge of the ocean, it seems as if she is on the brink of the universe, on the edge of civilization. With the world to her back she plunges headlong into eternity. The Image of the birds flying overhead serve here to illustrate the freedom of death. They show the grace of nature with no restraints. There is no ... is the epitome of freedom and happiness. At last she is getting what she so longed for. It was not love which she so desired, no man could satisfy her desires. Edna simply wanted the world behind her and to let her spirit flow. She wanted the freedom she dreamt about. She wanted to again run through the fields of flowers as carefree as a child. All of these desires are ... that she may be set free. Death in this case is not tragic because there was total free will involved. Suicide does not denote tragedy; It suggest total control and desire to leave the present world. This is not a characteristic of a tragedy. Rather it is serene and beautiful, not the type of conclusion commonly associated with a tragedy. The Awakening is a powerful work of literature. It highlights ...
- 12432: To Teach or Not To Teach?
- ... among many that illustrate the idea that Blacks can be as caring and emotional as Whites - one of the main lessons of the book. The second main lesson that the book teaches is that the world is full of hypocrites. Huck realizes that through his experiences with Jim that he and Blacks like him are not what he has been told. People like Miss Watson, who represent the established belief system ... done it herself." (Twain ) Huck noticed this double standard even more now because he began to see that not everything Miss Watson told him was true. With this, Huck not only sees Jim in a new light, but begins to see that the people who supposedly know everything, didn't really know anything. Again other critiques of the novel state that as a whole the book is "a masterpiece of irony ...
- 12433: To Kill A Mockinbird: Scout
- ... view. She saw Maycomb how Boo had always seen it. At that point, she understood Boo. Scout learned that you cannot understand someone until you see things through his eyes in that she achieved a new perception of Boo when she observed her town from his front porch. Both of the lessons portrayed are essential in the full development of Scout's awareness of the world. The lesson she learned from Tom Robinson gives her a moral outlook on her behavior toward others. The lesson Boo Radley revealed to her allows her to think before making an assumption about someone. Tom ...
- 12434: Thunder Rides A Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present
- ... as our Western version. Only after reading this book did I realize how artificial "our" calendar actually is. Although this calendar was designed like most others to be the time between which it takes for new moons to appear, it is actually not even close. It takes about 29 1/2 days between moons while for some reason about half of our months have 30 days, nearly half have 31 and ... and application. The second example of the mythic present is the Apache kin-system. Their method of tracing ancestry is matrilineal, meaning only traced through their mothers. This method differs from that of the western world in which kinship is traced through both mother and father, called bi- laterally. This system also applies to Apache customs. The Mescalero homes and their contents belong to women; only sisters and brothers in ascending ...
- 12435: Three Aspects of Destructive Relationships in Wuthering Heights
- Three Aspects of Destructive Relationships in Wuthering Heights Many people in the world are trying to find a perfect companion. Some of these may marry and not know what their new husband or wife is like. This kind of situation often leads to separation or hostility. Other situations may develop between two friends that stem from jealousy, desire for revenge, uncaring parents, etc. Emily Brontλ's ...
- 12436: Book Report on "The Red Badge of Courage"
- ... tells the reader parts of his life up until present, but most of the character is left very much in the dark. It is known however that Henry grew up on a small farm in New York, where his father had died early, and he had grown up fairly sheltered. His mother brings this fact out by persisting that Henry not join the army, and by giving him a stern warning as she sends him off to camp. When we first meet henry with his regiment, the 304th New York, he is bored and even lonesome wishing to return to the farm. As time passes at the camp, Henry begins to realize that being a hero in the war may not be as easy ... by Crane. Young Henry also sees nature as he has never seen it before. From the perspective of a great fear that has overtaken his entire body. He ends up looking at nature with a new found respect that he never knew before. At one point he sees a squirrel that is busily running through the forest. Henry throws a pine cone at the small animal and as it runs ...
- 12437: Babbitt: Conformity
- ... Babbitt loses many friends because of his non-conformist actions, and he begins to see the tru e power of conformity. Babbitt's friends and family turn away from him. Society rejects him because his new ideas do not fit their pre-conceived standards. Babbitt begins to feel trapped between his own ideals and goals and the pressure he constantly receives from family and friends to rejoin conformist society. Late one ... back you. Take your factory job, if you want to. Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith. Nor of yourself the way I've been. Go ahead, old man! The world is yours!".(Babbitt pg 401) In this meaningful ending passage Babbitt admits his failure in life to his son, and tells him to go after his dreams. He hopes that his son will not fear ...
- 12438: Summary of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- ... end of the book, Upto Sinclair shows the reader how to solve Capitalism's problems: replace it with Socialism. The Socialist party is promoted as an international political party that will solve all of the world's problems. Every member of the party was told about the "Socialist revolution", when the entire planet would become Socialist. Not once does the book mention the possibility of failure. It even claimed Socialists would control the country by 1912. The Socialists despised the concept of competition. They considered the commercial world to be the essence of corruptio. The goal of the Socialist party in The Jungle was to end the corrupt and powerful Beef Trust. The Jungle is more than an advertisement for Socialism. It describes ... to work though, or loose their job. Often, the wounds would become infected, and the butcher would die of blood poisoning. The book discusses all the things that were being shipped out to the civilized world as "meat". Sausages were not really made out of sausage meat. They were mostly composed of "potato flour"; an odorless and tasteless potato extract with almost no food value. There were the cattle that ...
- 12439: Friendship of the Musketeers
- Friendship of the Musketeers Everyone in the world has a few really good friends, these friends would do anything for you. Friendship has been shown throughout history in the form of stories, poems, and novels. In the book , The Three Musketeers, you find ... ran in to Athos, who was freshly wounded in a small skirmish with the Cardinal's Guards. D'Artagnan asked Athos to pardon him and let him be on his way but Athos being the brave and gallant musketeer, demanded a better aplogy, d'Artagnan was very insulted by this so he challenged Athos to a duel at twelve o'clock. The d'Artagnan ran towards the door, in the process ...
- 12440: The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis of the Characters
- ... can't do it tomorrow, but promises her that sometime soon, "at the great judgement day" (The Scarlet Letter, p.149), they will stand together. He also makes the comment, "But the daylight of this world, shall not see our meeting." One wonders if Dimmesdale is ever going to confess. His comment shows his fear of what the public will think. Later on in the novel, Dimmesdale and Hester speak with ... lighter. The hand that used to rest ominously over his heart, is no longer there. Dimmesdale is walking straighter and the energy he has, is similar to that of when he first stepped on the New England soil. "Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed, his strength seemed not of the body. It might be spiritual..." (The Scarlet Letter, p. 223) It seems as if a weight has been lifted off ...
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