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- 4861: Transcendentalism Leaves Of Gr
- ... mankind to aspire to the perfection of God, he must merely choose to be such. Whitman had abolished the idea of original sin as casting a pall on the spirit of every man, woman, and child born into the Christian religion. They should not repent and seek redemption, he argued, they should look into this new beginning as a way to create a new self. Whitman thought that man could choose ...
- 4862: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... this in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". In the beginning of the novel, Scout and Jem hold nothing but innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice and racism. Their world is simple, sensible, a child's world, much like a Mockingbirds. However, by the end of the novel, their world has expanded to enclose the irrational nature of humans. Jem and Scout's feelings rapidly change from a series of ...
- 4863: The Chrysalids
- ... p.51) He is a cruel and inhumane person to anyone who has or is involved with a deviation. The reader would see this attitude when Aunt Harriet visits the Strorms and brings her deviant child with her: "Send her away. Tell her to leave the house - and take that with her." (p.71) Joseph did not show any sympathy at all toward his own sister in law. Aunt Harriet is ...
- 4864: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... main character of the book: Huck. Huckleberry not only began to think of Jim as a person but as a friend also. This is one example of how the novel has no intent to demean. Abuse is a major controversial topic that occurs within this publication. Once again it is Pap who demonstrates abusive behavior in one form or another. Pap abused people, alcohol, and the list just goes on. Huck ...
- 4865: Stranger In The Kingdom Vs. Sn
- ... s book unfolds, we find ourselves looking through the eyes of a man that has lived on the island for most of his life. His name is Ishmael Chambers. Ishmael seems to be a perceptive child, and soon gets to know one of the island s many Japanese girls, named Hatsue. As fate would have it, they fall in love with each other in Shakespeare-like-fashion. The problem of them ...
- 4866: Stephen King, Bio
- ... it does deep down relate to himself. The theme of hope and of how Andy overcomes the situation is one that is tied closely to King. It runs a direct parallel with life as a child and how his life has turned out. Just as Andy was thrown into predicament and later escapes and lives his life on his own terms, Stephen, early on was forced to move from town to ...
- 4867: Stephen King
- ... it does deep down relate to himself. The theme of hope and of how Andy overcomes the situation is one that is tied closely to King. It runs a direct parallel with life as a child and how his life has turned out. Just as Andy was thrown into predicament and later escapes and lives his life on his own terms, Stephen, early on was forced to move from town to ...
- 4868: Steinbeck, His Critics, And Of
- ... friendship, intrigues the reader in the same way many comic duos intrigue. It is easy to identify with the "smart guy" who helplessly tries to cope with and control his irrational, dumb and, yet, spontaneous, child-like partner as they lurch from one self-inflicted crisis to another. Steinbeck uses that classic comic routine so that the reader warmly identifies and recognizes the relationship. Steinbeck's narrator establishes and characterizes George ...
- 4869: Song Of Solomon A Search For A
- ... crossed the line to insanity. Milkman begins his odyssey with Circe. He finds her living on a self-imposed island with her beasts, her "pack of golden-eyed dogs, each of which had the intelligent child's eyes he had seen from the window" (240). Circe then shows Milkman the path to the spirit of the cave, or underworld. This experience will lead him in the right direction for his homeward ...
- 4870: Sir Lancelot
- ... of King Claudus. Claudus defeated Ban and forced the king and queen to flee. As they fled, Elaine, Lancelot's mother, puts baby Lancelot beside a lake and the Lady of the Lake steals the child away from her. Lancelot is raised in the underwater palace where he is known as Lancelot of the Lake. While growing up around women and mermen of the Lady of the Lake's palace, Lancelot ...
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