|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 12481 - 12490 of 22819 matching essays
- 12481: Comparison of Book and Movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- ... significant points in his childhood. His background is never even brushed upon in the movie. Of course it would have been nearly impossible to tell of Bromdens life in a movie, much less show the world from his point of view as in the book. Bromden is still a very interesting character but the real puzzle to his problems is lost. McMurphy is a very sly, cunning man. He knows how ... having authority over her. In the book she has the ability to get him replaced at any time and he knows this. This is reflected in his willingness to obey her and his lack of new ideas. The movie was probably changed just so they wouldn't have to go into detail about why and how the nurse was all powerful in the hospital Her lack of power was shown most ...
- 12482: Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy
- Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy Throughout the book Bless me Ultima, Tony, the young main character in the story, lost his innocence when exposed to the harsh world since he learned what life is really like. Ultima is a good whitch whom tries to guide Tony by teaching him morals and lessons. Narsico is percieved as the town drunk, but is a good person. Tenorio is the demon in this story, as he wants to destroy Ultima. This book is about Tony's experience in adjusting to the rough world at a relatively young age. Narsico's death with Tenorio's desire to kill Tony made him realize his limitations and acknowledge the reality. Before these incidents, Tony imagined he could control incidents that happened ... religion. In the end, Tony realized everyone must think for themselves and judge on what they think is the best choice. This book was about Tony's experience growing up and learning what the real world can be like.
- 12483: Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... most significant writers of the romantic period in American literature was Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne wrote stories that opposed the ideas of Transcendentalism. Since he had ancestors of Puritan belief, Hawthorne wrote many stories about Puritan New England. His most famous story is the Scarlet Letter. This novel tells of the punishment of a woman, Hester Prynne, who committed adultery and gave birth to Pearl. A minister of Boston, Arthur Dimmesdale, had ... appears during the early stages of Hester's punishment. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the character of Pearl in the Scarlet Letter. Her whole life had many difficulties while living in Puritan New England. Furthermore, Pearl displays much parallelism to the scarlet letter that Hester must wear. Finally, Pearl's birth intensified the conflicts in the novel. Clearly, Pearl becomes the symbol of all the other major characters ... less intense. Therefore, every major conflict has its roots with Pearl's birth. In Hawthorne's novel the Scarlet Letter, Pearl represents the anguish in the lives of the other major characters. Life in Puritan New England presented many difficulties for Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl. Next, Pearl becomes a scarlet letter as the novel progresses. Finally, the most significant part of the Scarlet Letter's plot was the birth ...
- 12484: Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
- ... with those of many famous people who have shared the same ideas, including Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. The Catcher in the Rye demonstrates existentialism by having the main character, Holden Caulfield, isolate himself from a world full of "phonies," and maintaining individuality. With such views in mind, Holden begins alone in the story, and he stays as such throughout the entire story. He establishes concrete individual existence as he abandons school and goes to live in New York by himself. He understands that life must not be lived as a game, although he agrees with Mr. Spencer in order not to sound inferior to him. A Danish philosopher and existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard ...
- 12485: The Worth of Huckleberry Finn
- ... sign an oath in blood in the beginning of the book. In Tom's band of thieves we see a stubbornness in Tom whenever anyone tries to disagree with him, and a view of the world that had a rather loose grasp of reality. An example of this fact would be the incident where they ambushed the "A-rabs" (who turned out to be a Sunday school picnic), and the fact that Huck later quit the group because he was disappointed they hadn't actually killed anybody. At another point in the book, we see Tom's over-active imagination and romantic view of the world go into action again with the escape plan for Jim. In this plan, he says that a good escape should take at least a couple of years, but he thinks that it would be alright ... go to hell than see Jim punished. In conclusion, I feel that Mark Twain wrote this book with no intention of greatness in mind, but as a story for those who needed to see the world through the eyes of a child again. The results achieved, however, were beyond the scope of the time period, and deserve to be read for generations to come. Huckleberry Finn is a book that ...
- 12486: The Bogart By Susan Cooper
- ... in Toronto, Canada. The Volink family inherited a castle in Scotland from Mr. McDevon the mother s uncle. The two children in the story are Emily and Jessup. Emily is the oldest. She is smart brave and very sensitive towards the Boggart, once she understood him. Jessup is very smart, loves computers, and was a member of a computer gang called the Gang 5. The parents of Emily and Jessup were ... it on to a computer disk and sent it to their friend Tommy in Scotland. Tommy downloaded the disk and released the Boggart. The Boggart was glad to be home at his castle with his new family the Maconochies. One of the things I can relate to in the book is how difficult it may sometimes be to improve your innocence. For example when Emily and Jessup s mother thought they ...
- 12487: The Tower of Babel
- ... kidnapped boy, named David, who, through his growing cultural tolerance and open-mindedness, matures from a naive adolescent to a young man capable of dealing with crisis and accepting his role in the culturally divided world. Despite extensive cultural differences, the Highlanders and Lowlanders represent two halves of a society that must intermingle in order to reach their summit of individual and group possibilities. These two definitive cultures of Highlanders and ... to conjure a compromise between two feuding cultures and brought together two sides of the same culturally diverse coin rendered by the friendship of Alan Breck and David Balfour. Only until more writers continually create new novels showing racialism as the corrupt disease that it is and reveal that racialism is morally and ethically wrong. Only then will our society be on the way to a cure of the curse that ...
- 12488: "The Anniversary" and "To His Coy Mistress": The Synchronicity of Pen and Life
- ... is ever changing in "To His Coy Mistress," but this is only to be expected in a poem that seeks to convince by constructing an ideal and proceeding to demonstrate its utopian nature. In the world of would and should that we are immersed in before the pivotal "But" in the second stanza, Marvell presents an idyllic view of lovers engaged in a slow waltz that stretches on for centuries. In ... love at lower rate." This is where we begin a question what has up till now progressed so smoothly, as all good fantasies must if they are to be successful. We begin to question this world of Marvell's creation and see the enigma that lies within the term "lower rate." We have been hearing of an agonizingly slow mating ritual, Marvell has been patiently dancing around his mistress, praising her ... one fantastic claim follows another, we cannot stop to think where they are leading to. We are trapped in Marvell's reality like Alice is trapped in Lewis Carroll's. When released from this fantastic world, it is only to enter a second where the doubts we should have had in the first stanza's reality are utilized to build another perspective. The release is only a temporary respite before ...
- 12489: The Horse Whisperer Healing Of
- ... heal in Grace and Pilgrim, Annie starts to heal herself. She transforms from the high-powered magazine editor into a woman that realizes there is more to life than just being powerful in the business world. The technical elements in the opening scenes are "brutal and beautifully choreographed"(Giles 74). The way Redford used the camera angles to bring the accident to life was chilling. Throughout the movie there are many ... 1998/05/051502.html. Giles, Jeff. "Whisper While You Work." Rev. of The Horse Whisperer, dir. Robert Redford. Newsweek 18 May 1998: 74. Maltin, Leonard, ed. Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide. 1999 ed. New York: Plume, 1998. Schwarzbaum, Lisa. "Saddle Soap." Rev. of The Horse Whisperer, dir. Robert Redford. Entertainment Weekly 22 May 1998: 44.
- 12490: The Canterbury Tales: The Monk
- ... fine clothing and gold jewelry. It did not fit into the Monk's self-indulgent life to follow the tradition of the church. He ignored the old and strict ways because he liked the modern world and the indulgent lifestyle. He completely ignored the rulings of St. Benet and St. Maur. The Monk was motivated by greed and the trappings of the modern world. He put aside all the church rulings that did not suit him, and indulged in all the things the world had to offer him in terms of comfort. .
Search results 12481 - 12490 of 22819 matching essays
|
