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- 12451: To Kill A Mockingbird: Character Analysis of Jem
- ... by his father, Atticus. But after the court convicts Tom Robinson of rape when Atticus had clearly proven that Tom could not have done it Jem sees his first real glance of corruption in the world. It upsets him as well as making him see and believe in evils in the world, such as racism. His beliefs in why Boo Radley stayed in the house all the time changed too. When he was young he thought Boo was just crazy and that's why he stayed in the house. But he comes to believe that Boo stays in the house because he doesn't want to come out, because he doesn't like the world outside. His interests change too. When he was young his main focus was Boo Radley. He worked all summer, every summer, to try to get Boo to come out. But as he gets older ...
- 12452: Foreshadowing and Flashback: Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
- ... trying to get people to come to Gatsby's funeral. During this flashback Nick finally meets Gatsby's father, Mr. Gatz, who came to his son's funeral. "Next morning I sent the butler to New York with a letter to Wolfshiem which asked for information and urged him to come out on the next train. [for Gatsby's funeral]...When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to ... of the American dream. These two elements of the novel were weaved into a great book that was read and adored by millions of readers and school students. Works Cited Eble, Kenneth. F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1963 Magill, Frank N. "Fitzgerald, F. Scott." Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983. 953-967. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1925.
- 12453: Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis
- ... way. Someone's personal epitaph is just a place where their head rests and Even "Fair Science frowned" on the aspects of the person's life and now the incapacity that they have toward this world. Their one and only sole purpose in this world is to waste space in the earth and rot away for eternity. Gray's style is very intriguing. He speaks of god and how there are certain things around that are only now known as ... be life. Gray speaks out against the way this person was treated in society which is symbolic of how people are being treated as a whole and the hollowness and shallowness of people in the world. Now the person is dead, there is no other help that you could give him. "Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere" was how the man lived, and although his soul was a ...
- 12454: Lord of the Flies and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Similarities of the Characters
- ... and is overwhelmed that they are alone without any adults but as the book progresses he starts maturing and understanding about surviving on your own. Jack instantly connects to the environment because he is the brave one who does the hunting and the men's stuff. The environment gives the boy's the freedom and experience of being alone and surviving wildlife. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde there is no such environment , it takes place in the real world in London. The environment is not very significant except for those who are around Dr. Jekyll that changes him. These two novels have a slight connection in ways of good and evil , like in The ...
- 12455: An Analysis of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Devil and Tom Walker
- ... and differences. "Rip VanWinkle" and " The Devil and Tom Walker" are two good examples. To start of with there all around feeling and theme. Now one can tell "Rip VanWinkle" is set in a fantasy world right of the bat by the way Irving sort of zooms in on the scene, first he tells of the mountains and then the town and down till he's in the room with Tom ... they wanted. In Rips case he wanted to get rid of his wife and his jobs. He goes to the forest to escape from his wives verbal abuse. He gets his wish by getting a new life basically. In Tom case he wants money and doesn't want his wife. He meets the devil and the devil wants to make him a deal. Tom wants to make the deal, but he ...
- 12456: The Neurosis Of Passion
- ... daughter, Estella, to disregard emotions and to make everyone love her while she herself should love none. Thus does Estella become the medium through which Miss Havisham s unrequited desires may be avenged upon the world. This bitterness and resentfulness drives her to sustain her physical form in the closest state of decay, but always hanging to life by a thread. Though, only forty she strikes young Pip as an old ... insane. Bibliography Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1996 Small, Helen. Love s Madness Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity 1800-1865. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996 Lubitz, Rita. Marital Power in Dickens Fiction. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 1996
- 12457: The Great Gatsby: The Destructive Effects of Wealth
- The Great Gatsby: The Destructive Effects of Wealth Victor " Whenever you fell like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had all the advantages that you've had. " These words by Nick Carraway's dad should be taken into consideration when looking at one of the themes of the first chapter: the destroying ... of people, and Tom's and Daisy's overall feeling of each other. Adultery can often be an effect of too much wealth. Tom showed this by the fact that he had another woman in New York. It showed the destroying effect of wealth because Tom felt that since he had enough money, he didn't need to be faithful to Daisy. Instead, the superficial power of money has led him ...
- 12458: Juanita Platero's "Chee's Daughter": Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal About Personality
- ... setting is how he has a "garish blue door which faced north to the highway."(78) Navajo Indians face their hogans, homes, to the east so that they awake with the sun which symbolizes a new beginning. Lastly Old Man Fat's setting reflects his personality is when he has his grand-daughter, Little One, stand in a hogan so that tourists could "see inside a real Navajo home 25 c ... to have his grand-daughter shown-off like an exhibit. In the story two contrasting settings display opposite personalities. Old Man Fat's disrespectful, greedy nature clashes with Chee's respectful and unselfish ways. This world would be a whole lot better if it was filled with more people like Chee instead of those profiteering gluttons like Old Man Fat.
- 12459: Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- ... not inflicted upon women, rather, women inflict these woes upon their husbands. In setting forth her views of marriage, however, she actually proves that the opposite is true: "Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough for me To speke of wo that is in mariage..." (WBPro. 1-3) The Wife of Bath, in her Prologue, proves to her own satisfaction that the Miller's perception of marriage ... Cited Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Canterbury Tales". The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F.N. Robinson. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1933. 19-314. Huppe, Bernard F. A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. Albany: State University of New York, 1964. Robertson, D.W. (1962). "Concepts of Pilgrimage and Marriage". Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ed. M. Andrew. 1st ed. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1991. 87-90.
- 12460: The Rime Of The Christo-marine
- ... between a man and his god? Only death, as the passage illustrates. In the following stanza, "And straight the Sun was flecked with bars," the perspective is that of a prisoner looking to the outside world the sailors are imprisoned, both in life and in the ocean. Death is all that keeps life contained from grace, so the bars across the Sun (god) are fitting symbolism. A biblical allusion referred to ... usage of color to signify life and death. Green is typically regarded as the color of living things, such as when spring comes after the grays of winter, bringing life and color back into the world. "Her beams bemocked the sultry main,/Like April hoar-frost spread;/But where the ship's huge shadow lay,/The charmed water burnt away/A still and awful red." [ln 268] The Mariner was on ... exceptional writer, would not have been dissatisfied, it seems, to have been a man of the cloth. From Rime of the Ancient Mariner alone, he makes an impression of how a great deal of the world mimics Christian belief. Although not intended to be factual, nor construed as such, Rime is a well developed, character-based morality play.
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