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- 4091: Miltons Paradise Lost
- ... way he handles his situation is based on irrationality and poor judgement. Lester starts to think with his naughty bits instead of using reason, completely ignoring the fact that he is acting like an immature child. All of his actions can be compared to the way that Satan acts in Paradise Lost. Like Lester, Satan questions his actions and becomes angry about choices he made. After a while he realizes that ...
- 4092: Life On The Farm
- ... shown when Boxer suddenly has a drastic decrease in work productivity. But still he is taken for granted by the pigs, who send him away in a glue truck. Truly Boxer is the biggest poster-child for gullibility. Orwell uses the pigs to surround and support Napoleon. They symbolize the communist party loyalists and the friends of Stalin, as well as perhaps the Duma, or Russian parliament. The pigs, unlike other ...
- 4093: Lord Of The Flies 3
- ... to the other boys as Piggy. Piggy is not like the other boys, in the fact that his sense of fun and adventure was replaced with that of worrisome and caution. He is a portly child, which brought on the name Piggy. He also suffers from various ailments, such as bad eyesight and asthma. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments ...
- 4094: Lord Of The Flies
- ... to kill the pig failed, his quote Before I could kill it-but-next time! foreshadowed his future of savage hunting. When Jack shows signs of belligerence by arguing with Ralph, the meaning of a child is stressed. The fighting of Jack and Ralph in the early chapters, foreshadows the future conflicts between them in the future. In chapter four called Painted Faces and Long Hair , Jack s savagery is becoming ...
- 4095: Love Medicine
- ... is another relationship that depicts the strength of true love. In their youth the two were inseparable. They told each other everything. When they grew older they ran off to get married. They had a child together, but June was wild. She would go off for months to do as she pleased with whomever she pleased. Their marriage, when together, was not all smooth sailing either. Gordie was abusive. After her ...
- 4096: John Grishams The Partner
- ... but he wasn't. He knew about his partner's plans to kick him out of the firm, he knew about his wife's weekends with another man, he even knew her six year old child wasn't even his. So he carefully planned everything and when the time was right he faked his death and stole ninety million dollars from his former firm and went into hiding. He hide for ...
- 4097: Jack Londons Apparent Conflict
- ... was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. (Walcutt 8) At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day ...
- 4098: Jack London Stories, The Red O
- ... London wrote about this unknown frontier with a cunning sense of adventure and enthrallment. He keeps the reader on tenterenters books by withholding facts in a way that makes him participate in the action (Charles Child Walcutt 16). He taunts the reader with unfulfilled information that subliminally encourages the reader to continue reading their selection. The tortuously baroque style, it s telling often proves an annoyance (Gorman Beauchamp 297-303). London ...
- 4099: Identity Crisis (joy Luck Club
- ... rejects the women-repressive Chinese traditions when she tells her daughter that she "believed you could be anything you want to be in America" (141). Suyuan continually tells Jing Mei her "Kweilin story" as a child, the story of the origins of the Joy Luck Club as well as her mother's past hardships. Yet despite the importance of the story and the events constituting the story to Suyuan, Jing Mei ...
- 4100: Irony In The Rocking Horse
- ... lucky." The story portrays what it must have been like to be raised in a family struggling to maintain status. The parents are too busy to be bothered with the tedium of raising their own child. The ultimate irony is that Paul's mother, who felt her children were "thrust upon her," is told she is "eighty-odd thousand to the good and a poor devil of a son to the ...
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