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- 4171: Joy Luck Club
- ... a genius, or greatly wealthy in order to be successful. Another important theme is that we need to make our own choices in life and find our own life's importance. When June was a child, her mother was constantly pushing her to try different things that she had no interest in. Because she did not care about any of these things, she did not really try to be successful, and ...
- 4172: Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)
- ... friends when she escaped to Yugoslavia. If one were to look through the pages of a few holocaust books, they would be sickened and would have to force themselves to continue. Horrorful accounts of genocide, abuse, starvation, and death fill the pages of these books telling stories about the suffering of Jews in concentration camps. Concentration camps were setup throughout Europe for one single purpose: to get rid of Jews. Many ...
- 4173: Things Fall Apart
- ... purpose was to show people what it is like growing up in a traditional African Society, and Achebe did a good job a showing that. The book is chronologically organized, starting with Okonkwo as a child and ending with his death. I feel that the audience level for this book would be high school and above. I think that there are a lot of implied messages and ideas that mature readers ...
- 4174: The Jungle
- ... out that his family has moved into an even poorer neighborhood, and Ona is in labor at that very moment. Due to his current lack of funds, Jurgis finds a Dutch lady to deliver his child for $1.25. Even with the help of the Dutch lady, neither the baby, nor Ona, who went into labor two months early, survives. Jurgis pulls himself together for the sake of Antanas and gets ...
- 4175: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... on the decisions you make. The bond brought between Danny and Rueven is remarkable, a quest to absorb as much knowledge as possible like they did, is incredible. The strange way of bringing up a child in silence rubbed off on Danny a bit, he became a strong independent person on his own, with a little help from Rueven. In the end, Danny conforms with tradition and lives up to his ...
- 4176: Scarlet Letter
- ... that at some point he would have to pay for his sins. The book was a mockery of his hypocrisy, how he condemned Hester for what she had done and cursed the father of the child for not stepping forward even though he knew in his heart the baby was his. He had committed the same crime as Hester, and yet she was the only one punished for it. He stood ...
- 4177: New Women Of The Victorian Era
- ... again. They have two children and care for his son from his first marriage with Arabella, Little Father Time. Little Father Time murders Sue and Judes children, then kills himself. Sue is expecting another child, but it is stillborn. Sue can not handle these tragedies. It is the last straw in her much maligned life. She feels this is her punishment from god for her divorcing Mr. Phillotson. She says ...
- 4178: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... before he came home for a Mother's Day visit (Amer. Lit. Bio., 301). He once wrote: [Suicide] has always been a temptation to me, since my mother solved so many problems with it. The child of a suicide will naturally think of death, the big one, as a logical solution to any problem, even one in simple algebra. (Streitfeld, C13) In fact, Vonnegut himself made a suicide attempt in 1984 ...
- 4179: King Arthur
- ... along the lines of the industrial development of the late nineteenth century. The Yankee married Sandy, and they have a daughter named "Hello-Central." Returning to Camelot after a trip to the seashore for the child's health, Hank finds King Arthur dead and the entire Kingdom divided into two forces. A fight between King Arthur and Sir Lancelot has taken place over the king's wife, Queen Guenever. The established ...
- 4180: Jane Eyre
- ... treatment. Most of her life she had to live in a house with no one who cared for her and no one she cared about. When she leaves Lowood ( the school she attended as a child and teenager ), I believe she is looking for happiness. Jane is extremely independent, for instance when she walked all the way to town to mail her letter. She is also very cynical like when Mr ...
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