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- 4851: The Farming Of The Bones
- ... radio listening to bulletins from Spain about the Civil War raging there. And Amabelle can sympathize with him. She says, "Like me, Papi had been displaced from his native land; he felt himself the orphaned child of a now orphaned people. Perhaps this was why he often seemed more kindly disposed to the strangers for whom this side of the island had not always been home." Exile increases the poignancy of ...
- 4852: The Crucible
- ... were, but even at the end when his actions were clearly and knowingly wrong he chose to continue. The play show us how too much power is dangerous, for the temptation is always there to abuse it. Under the justification of a theocratic government, the people in authority in Salem abused their almost absolute power, destroying many innocent people in the process. It illustrates how the law is not always right ...
- 4853: The Chosen 3
- ... 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 ...
- 4854: The Censorship Of Huck Finn
- ... on the teaching aspect of the book were more than irrational. He called the book, the most grotesque example of racist trash ever given to our children to read..., and then continued on to verbally abuse teachers in the past and those who will use Huckelberry Finn in their classes. The four articles though offering some help to the offense, defend Huckelberry Finn in many more ways. This idea was best ...
- 4855: The Brothers K
- ... David James Duncan Theme Statements: 1. The Brothers K represents the concept of social interaction between people, whom have very different belief systems. 2. The novel, The Brothers K, enables the reader to understand a child s idolization of a given sport, in this case, baseball. 3. The novel represents the world and its inhabitants on a miniscule level, by conveying the differences between the characters and how they act towards ...
- 4856: To Kill A Mockingbird - What M
- ... relationship with its reader. Every character is vivid, with strengths and faults, and Lee achieves that difficult amalgam in first-person narratives presented as recollections: A mixture of an adult's rhetorical power and a child's keen, curious eye. The language is fresh and unburdened by the moralizing which frequently cripples prose narrative (especially books which deal with sensitive issues as this one does). Lee made a perfect choice in ...
- 4857: The Woman Warrior
- ... Orchid s children. Why didn t you teach your girls to be demure? Moon Orchid expects the girls to be modest. When she complimented them, they agreed with her! Not once did she hear a child deny a compliment. She is truly surprised. She never expected such arrogance, at least that is what she saw it as. Brave Orchid takes a different stance on modesty. From the text, I can conclude ...
- 4858: The Tragedy Of Oedipus
- ... can destroy, " (Sophocles p1265). Oedipus creates an image of himself to himself and the audience that is infallible and untouchable. This makes him vulnerable and his situation more tragic when he falls. As a small child Oedipus was given away because of the prophecy that one day he would kill his father and marry his mother. He found a home in Corinth where grew up thinking the king and queen of ...
- 4859: The Poem Sympathy
- ... bring the reader into the first stanza by evoking emotion and refection of the beautiful things that all humans should be able to experience. In the second stanza, Dunbar refers to the emotional and physical abuse that imprisonment and enslavement evokes both in the caged bird and the African American. He begins this stanza with, "I know why the caged bird beats his wing." (Line 8) Meaning, Dunbar understands why the ...
- 4860: The Bean Tree
- ... turns into a test of her character and beliefs, and of her ability to face and overcome obstacles. On her way west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she acquires a completely unexpected child. The baby girl is given to her outside a bar, by a desperate Indian woman. Taylor moves on to Tucson, Arizona, with Turtle, as she calls the little girl. There she makes new friends, finds ...
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