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- 2321: Intertextuality Of To Kill A Mockingbird and A Blow, A Kiss
- ... novel this allows for the author Harper Lee to introduce more complicated and intertwined themes, for instance the during the process of Jem and Scout maturing they both begin to realise the harshness of their child fantasies of making Boo Radley "come out". Longer time in the book allows for these issues to be dealt with in a more in depth view rather than letting the reader identify with an already ... is her way of symbolising the inappetence of another person based on their colour. Tim winton also writes a powerful piece on the inacceptance of the poor bond between father and son due to the abuse of alcohol. Tim Winton’s views expressed in the story are obviously very anti-alcohol as this is evident due to the large factor of alcohol in the story, The bike rider is under the ...
- 2322: The Count of Monte Cristo
- ... Villefront, Monte Cristo slowly reveals to Villefront that he knows about a love affair that Villefront had long ago with Madam Danglars. He also revealed to him, by hints, that he knows about the illegitimate child whom he fathered, a child whom Villefront had believed to be buried alive. The child lived, however, and was now engaged to Mademoiselle Danglars, who is really his half-sister. Ironically, Villefront's wives proves to be more villainous than her husband, for she poisons her parents and her ...
- 2323: Inhalents
- ... fetal bloodstream. However, except for evidence of birth defects among petrol inhalers, the evidence that use of other inhalants or solvents can damage the fetus is inconclusive. All drugs have some effects on the unborn child including chromosomal and fetal damage EXTENT OF USE Young people (ages 7-17) are more likely to use inhalants because they are available and inexpensive. Inhalants rank fourth in popularity behind alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana ... since 1979. Statistics from a 1991-92 Pride USA survey shows that inhalant use among 8th graders went from: 5.1% in 1990-91 to 5.9% in 1991-92 o3.5% of 6th graders abuse inhalants o15% of students who said they use inhalants use them daily o29% of those who said they use inhalants said they started before their 10th birthday.
- 2324: As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros
- ... town, the reality that believed in faith. Her father represents the realm of rational and reason. On the one hand the community that she grew up in introduces to her a Christian reality. As a child, the protagonist was fascinated by the community's religiosity. When the narrator recalls that in childhood it was important for her to attend Sunday school in order to 'fit in': " When I started school myself ... to be allowed to go to Sunday School, like everyone else; I wanted to find out, also I wanted to be less conspicuous" (Atwood 59). Religion had an important impact on the narrator as a child. However, as a child the narrator also: "prayed to be made invisible" (Atwood 78), this detail suggests that she felt that she did not belong to the Christian community that she grew up in. On the other hand, ...
- 2325: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- ... listens to Jim and his views on life, the soul of man, and the fellowship of mankind, the less he focuses on himself and his needs. He then begins to focus on the plight and abuse of the homeless farmers. He starts to realize that in order for the migrant workers to survive and succeed they must unite. He knows that if they band together as one, they can demand that ... she is carrying that she does not realize that her family is falling apart. She whines and moans her way through most of the book until her baby is born dead. The death of her child seems to transform her. At the very end of the novel she breast feeds a dying man. To me this is symbolic of drinking from the milk of human kindness. She gives of herself to ...
- 2326: Oedipus Rex - Plot
- ... sister of Kreon. Oedipus, continuing with the rising action, then questions Iokaste, the widow of Laios, what she knows. She tells him that Laios death was foretold. That he would be killed by his own child. To prevent this, Laios took their three-day-old son, pierced his ankles and left him for dead in the mountains. Iokaste also gives Oedipus the king's description and tells that she heard that ... to the shepherd regarding the baby. The messenger tells that that the baby is Oedipus. The shepherd learning this, does not want to tell about the baby. Oedipus questions him until he reveals that the child, Oedipus, was the child of King Laios and Iokaste. Oedipus realizes that all the prophecies had come true. Oedipus did marry his mother and killed his father. His fate had been fulfilled. This is the climax and the ...
- 2327: The Prince and the Pauper
- ... would always know what they were thinking. In the novel, Prince Edward VI switches identities with a pauper Tom Canty, who is exactly identical to him, so he can experience the life of an everyday child and be released from his prim, proper, and boring life. When the prince realizes palace life is a lot better than begging in the streets, he has to find a way to get back to the palace and reclaim his rightful throne. Along the way he suffers many predicaments including starvation, abuse, and jail. Mark Twain’s style in writing The Prince and the Pauper was very unique. Since the novel takes place in the sixteenth century the dialogue and narration is written in the language style ...
- 2328: Hester Prynne: Learning and Changing
- ... and changing throughout the course of a novel. She is a new mother and a publicly condemned and ostracized woman in a highly moral and tight knit Puritan community. Her very position in life, first child in hand and scarlet letter on bosom, demands that she learn and grow in some direction, for she is a woman strong enough to endure public shame and go on. It is not insignificant to ... impart lessons to her: "I can teach my little Pearl what I have learned from this...this badge hath taught me, - it daily teaches me, - it is teaching me at this moment,- lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and the better, albeit they can profit nothing to myself." (111) Years of thought (which estrangement from society made room for and forced upon her) reinforced for Hester the value of ... will benefit her daughter and "profit nothing to [her]self" is born out in the novel's conclusion. For all that she has felt, thought, and learned as a result of the "sin" of her child's conception, and the public ignominy she is forced to wear in symbol on her bosom, she remains bound to gray solitude in the small Puritan village. Henceforth, her daughter is able to venture ...
- 2329: Say A Prayer for the Youth of America
- ... a common thing among younger people. Not necessarily among races, but more along the lines of good kids versus bad kids. Society’s perception of who’s good and who’s bad really affects a child’s perception of who they should or shouldn’t be seen with. Ellen at the beginning of the book is somewhat ashamed of Starletta, because she eats dirt, and also feels sorry for her because ... now that although her life has been the pits, there is someone who could have had it worse off. Ellen’s fictional pre-adolescence, though much harsher, is essentially the same as that of any child. She experiences the same confusion and events as any other regular child, but to a much greater extent. Also, she is much more aware of her emotions, and is very capable of expressing them. All in all, her life really isn’t that different from any ...
- 2330: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- ... fever. Soon after her father Charles Godwin remarried and Shelley entered a battle as the victim of a fight for love. In her novel the emphasis of isolation and rejection are demonstrated in her "deformed child." Victor Frankenstein's mother dies of a fever but this is a mere representation of her life. What is most significant is the abandonment the monster feels throughout the story. He expresses it by telling ... had the habit of continual posing although one won her love and the other irritated her yet captivated her. With her husband, Shelley shared the tragic losses of their children, leaving them only with one child, Percy Florence. The losses didn't end here, they endured the suffering of the deaths of Mary's half- sister Fanny Imlay and the endless hunger and struggle with money is concluded from the monsters ... it forever with the bitterest remorse." Pregnancy at most times was tabooed to be discussed in the presence of a man but Shelley overpassed this fear and actually made the man the bearer of the child. The desire to conceive life in her story can also be the desire to bring back to life what is dead. Frankenstein is also seen as the perfect example of the Romantic era and ...
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