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- 4731: The Color Purple By Alice Walk
- ... of the novel until the end. Written in first person, Celie writes a series of letters to God, explaining the torture that she faces, and begging him for some form of mercy. After years of abuse, both physically and emotionally, Celie discovers herself searching for some self-respect. Fonso, Celie’s abusive father, forces her to marry Albert, also abusive by nature. Celie finds a degree of hope through the depiction ...
- 4732: The Eleventh Commandment
- ... the church and it's leaders to guide the masses, their society would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave New World, the whole society is conditioned to "work for everyone else"(Huxley 67) by the abuse and daily consumption of soma. Without the drug called soma, their society would have also collapsed due to withdrawal symptoms. The underlying reality between the two societies is that the masses are manipulated, controlled, and ...
- 4733: The Good Earth
- ... love Lotus when she called Poor Fool an idiot: Now I will not hear my children cursed, no and not by anyone...For he was most angry of all that Lotus dared to curse this child of his and call her idiot, and a load of fresh pain for the girl fell upon his heart, so that for a day and two days he would not go near Lotus, but he ...
- 4734: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
- ... By passing these characteristics onto his fictional characters, Doyle was able to write about something he believed in. Arthur Conan Doyle's life experiences also influenced his novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. As a child enrolled in boarding school, Doyle excelled in many things. Particularly, Doyle was very athletic and he did very well at many sports. The character of Sherlock Holmes demonstrates the same athletic ability as Doyle did ...
- 4735: The Iliad
- ... of others in their struggle for supremacy. At first, discord arises due to the greed of Agamemnon, yet Achilleus prolongs the problem by holding on to his anger. He acts such as a tantrum-throwing child does when Pallus Athene disallows him from continuing his argument. To prove his point, he has to ask his mother to go to Zeus, and plead for him to help the Trojans so “that Atreus ...
- 4736: The Scarlet Letter - Intoleran
- ... in a cottage, her illegitimate daughter Pearl comes into the story. She also is a sign of Hester's wrongdoing, and a constant reminder to the town of the sin. The Puritans automatically despise the child. She is the daughter of sin there fore she also is different. Society avoids both of them from fear they may too become something unknown, may be looked at differently from their peers. So the ...
- 4737: The Scarlet Letter - Plant Ima
- ... by the plant imagery used. Dimmesdale perceives Pearl to be of great value because of her name and by comparing her a “Red Rose” (101) . On the other hand, Pearl remains viewed as a demon child. For no apparent reason, Pearl “threw one of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile” (123). This shows Pearl’s inconsideration towards others ...
- 4738: The Tenth Man By Graham Greene
- ... issue because it can lead to more serious problems because these people were already hurt and now they are hurt worse. In the book after Therese's mother died she was very upset as any child would be, and Chavel felt an attraction towards here. He was warned by the priest not to take advantage of her. He made the right decision in the book by not mentioning it and taking ...
- 4739: Through The Tunnel By Doris Le
- ... other character's revelations. This way, the description remains unbiased, but at the same time coherent with how the various characters see it. For example, after the narrator tells us that "He was an only child, eleven years old. She was a widow. She was determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion.", we are able to understand why the boy is so emotionally attached to his mother and, at ...
- 4740: To Kill A Mockingbird - Plot S
- ... he will use his courage to try his best, since it is morally wrong to Atticus that if he don't take this case just because he have no chance of winning. d. "When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sakes. But don't maje a production of it. Children is children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults......"(p 92) Atticus is saying that if ...
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