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- 4991: Elephant Man
- ... his waist and large quantities of skin growing randomly all over his body, no one wanted to befriend John Merrick. Everywhere he went screams of horror and looks of disgust greeted him. As a young child, his mother passed away leaving him a homeless orphan. So, because of his hideous looks, being displayed as half-man and half-elephant at a freak-show became normal. His life consisted of torment and ...
- 4992: Love Poetry
- ... not stirred, And yet God has not said a word!" He thinks that he is not going to be punished by God. This is the same as Johanne Agricola an Antromian who believed that a child of God could not sin and therefore could not be punished by God. Porhyria's Lover is a dramatic monologue that follows an ABABBA scheme. If we take the first lines to demonstrate this we ...
- 4993: Everyday Heroes, On To Kill A
- ... Jem admires his father and cant figure out why society convicted an innocent man. His faith in the social system to do right is crushed, as the system does a grave injustice that even a child can see. His childhood is slowly slipping away, with each incident he experiences. He is growing much more adult. Whether for better or worse, he sees adult society for what it is, unequal and prejudiced ...
- 4994: Lucy Grealy
- ... on the surface. Lucy found hers within as she accepted her obvious disfigurement. After this revelation she experienced a moment of freedom: "I'd had [freedom] behind my Halloween mask all those years. As a child I expected my liberation to come from getting a new face put on, but now I saw it came from shedding my image" (222). Throughout her life she tried to overcome the teasing, the stares ...
- 4995: Eveline 2
- ... of keeping the home together as long as she could. The story, told in third person point of view, starts off with Eveline recalling her childhood and how much better thing where then. As a child her mother was still alive and her father had treated her better than he did at the present time. Then she describes her room. Her description shows that everything in her life is old. The ...
- 4996: Miracle Worker
- ... book chronicles the life of a remarkable girl, Helen Keller, who was both deaf and blind. The Keller family took Helen to one specialist after another, desperately searching for answers. Most people saw this frightened child as a wild animal, without the slightest hope of becoming normal. However, Annie Sullivan, a kind, patient young woman saw potential in Helen. She struggled with Helen and eventually succeeded in making her not only ...
- 4997: In Societies Throughout The Wo
- ... assumed to be profoundly retarded when in fact she has a very quick mind. April could also lip-read as fast as a professional lip reader thus making her understand all the nasty remarks people abuse her with. In the conclusion of Loving April, the last page of the novel captured my interest the most because finally everything was fine. Tony is back with his father living his usual life while ...
- 4998: Essay On The Shining Houses By
- ... to Mrs. Fullerton, reassuring Mrs. Fullerton that not everyone in the community is against her. Latter on in the story, when the petition to get Mrs. Fullerton out of the community is presented at a child's birthday party, Mary's hope is once again present. Mary is the only person to voice concern for Mrs. Fullerton when the petition is presented. While the other members of the community were all ...
- 4999: Ecclesiates
- ... chats were. The lessons learned from those casual conversations last a lifetime. Qoheleth does an excellent job of passing on his wisdom drawn from his experience, just as the old storyteller does for a young child. The secrecy of the author s identity, its numerous modern connections, the deep relation with Proverbs and the main themes of the book all go together to make this book one worth reading again and ...
- 5000: Mark Twain
- ... to be an American boy. Apple pie, baseball, cornfields for miles, all American icons, were included in Twains stories. Twain wrote of what it was to be an American, what it was like for a child in this country, skipping school, down by the river, images familiar to everyone, especially to Americans. He discussed their relationships their hardships dealing with life, and all the time in his unique literary form that ...
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