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- 5401: Catcher In The Rye
- ... first encounter with Sunny. He starts talking to her and states his (phony) age. Sunny responds, "Like fun you are." (123) Then, Holden recognizes she is just a kid; prostitution is no way for a child to live. As Holden tries to reach out to her by initiating a conversation, instead of sex, she only pushes him away by stating, "Let's go." (125) Sunny eventually leaves and again Holden feels ...
- 5402: Candide
- ... name Candide comes from the Latin word candidus, which means white, and symbolizes innocence. Perhaps Candide very readily believed in optimism at first because of his innocence. Candide grew up as a naive and vulnerable child in his own Eden and was only exposed to the brighter side of life and the idea that everything in the world happens for the better. He did not know what to expect in the ...
- 5403: Brighton Rock
- ... see that Roses' faith in Pinkie is finally broken when he goes to far and asks her to commit suicide. Rose a kind hearted woman who may have been able to ignore, or forgive the abuse she had received from Pinkie, but this time he went to far. What he asked her to do was absolutely inexcusable, and proved to her as well as the reader that he didn't love ...
- 5404: Black Pawn: White Pawn
- ... dancing in the woods by Reverend Paris. He began accusing them of practicing dark arts. Betty had feigned a powerful lokking illness to avoid having to say anything about the incident. She played the vulnerable child until Abigail had embarked upon her plan. Tituba was present and the girls had been dancing to conjure up the dead of Goody Proctor. When Tituba entered the scene, Abigail made her move. She accused ...
- 5405: Black Cat
- ... the following description of the reply to his rapping on the wall: "I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! - by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman - a howl - a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of ...
- 5406: Beowulf - Norse Mythology
- ... as companions (Cohat 10). No one had complete control over the other. If a god did not perform to a worshipers expectation, then the human would not hold back, but turn away from the god, abuse him, or even kill the priest involved! This made the gods even more like the humans; they had to worry about pleasing the people who worshiped them, and what might happen if they did not ...
- 5407: Beowulf
- The Hero Beowulf It is very common that a favorite tale told to a small child before he goes to sleep is actually a great epic story that has lived on for many centuries. The tale of Beowulf is just that. Beowulf was written during the Anglo-Saxon era, when heroic ...
- 5408: Beloved: The Human Condition
- ... and by slowly draining the life out of her mother, Beloved could truly possess Sethe, both body and soul. Both mother and daughter seemed to have loved too much; while Sethe wanted to save her child from pain, Beloved wanted to satiate her own ravenous love. At first overjoyed that her daughter had "come back like a good girl" (223) and that she would get a chance to make up for ...
- 5409: Bella
- ... There were apartments, where I spent especially long time. One of them was on the second floor. There lived a family: mother, father, two children and a huge dog. A little bit later a third child and a turtle appeared. If it wouldn’t be for the interesting books, which they possessed, and remarkable records with music, I would have left a long time ago, because no one had such a ...
- 5410: Babylon Revisited
- ... in the boom", his world, wife, money, and then his daughter (Fitzgerald Babylon 229). A man such as this would not be expected to love as he did his wife and he does to his child. Through his character, an "awfully anxious [man] to have a home" can be seen who is trying to find a place where love is present in a loveless world (Fitzgerald Babylon 219). He could receive ...
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