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- 5511: Symbolism In Lord of the Flies
- ... come to light. Golding is also showing that morals come directly from our surroundings, and if there is no civilization around us, we will lose these values. Other secondary themes include the following: People will abuse power when it's not earned. When given a chance, people often single out another to degrade to improve their own security. You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out ...
- 5512: Fanon's Three Stages Related to the Indigenous People of Chiapas
- ... ways would have been regressing. When the natives objected to the forced assimilation, the colonizers smothered the rebellious efforts with stronger, more lethal weapons. Fanon compares the colonizer to a mother who restrains her "perverse" child so that he will not commit suicide.(Fanon 211) The analogy implies that the colonized must be protected (by the colonizer) from self-destruction. In the minds of the European colonizers, this idea of protection ...
- 5513: The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities of Life
- ... and through his efforts, brought numerous championships back to the Bronx. However, as was the case with Dimmesdale, looks were deceiving. Mantle's career and life were prematurely ended because of a dark secret: alcohol abuse. Just as Dimmesdale cowardly ignored the problems facing him, so to did Mantle. Using drinking to escape reality, Mantle developed cirrhosis, which later claimed his life. This was just one of the many people who ...
- 5514: Fahrenheit 451: The Meetings Between Montag and Clarisse
- ... Montag's awareness is triggered at the point in which Clarisse states " But you're just a man, after all " (7). This statement by Clarisse makes Montag think of a time when he was a child during power failure, and he wishes it not to end. In Montag's second meeting with Clarisse, the two of them find a dandelion and Clarisse tells Montag of rubbing it under his chin. Clarisse ...
- 5515: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... he condemned all mankind. I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. (pg. 135) He wanted to be accepted and to be human, but everyone he sees scorns and hates him. Even an innocent child despises him. You are an ogre Hideous monster, let me go! (pg. 136) He now hates the world and himself. The monster has all the connections to Romanticism, such as his temper being parallel to ...
- 5516: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... by fear. She proclaims she wishes to return to Ndotsheni, but feels unworthy because of what she has become. She agrees to go back to her homeland, but in the end, abandons Kumalo and her child. Kumalo's brother, John, is the next of his family to be confronted. "[John] is corrupt and deceitful, and betrays his brother and nephew at the first opportunity" (Hogan, 206). Msimangu, though, feels that if ...
- 5517: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- ... The Adventures of Huck Finn, a symbolic death is very apparent during the scene in which Huck sets up his father's cabin to look like Huck was brutally murder. Huck emerges as a runway child and now must be careful of what he does, so that he does not get caught. Huck also tells people false aliases for himself so that no one knows his true identity. Every time that ...
- 5518: The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
- ... catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.'" (173) Holden wants to protect the innocence of his sister and every other innocent child in the world. Before Holden meets Sally for their date, he stops in front of the Museum of Natural History and begins to reminisce. He thinks about the way he visited the museum when he ...
- 5519: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... the mother of all the earth, renewing the world with her compassion and love.13 Hunter makes several conclusions from this scene. First he notes that it is an imitation of the Madonna and her child, baby Jesus. He also states that by giving life to the stranger she is symbolically giving body and wine. In doing this she accepts the larger vision of Jim Casy and her commitment fulfills the ...
- 5520: Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy
- ... Tenorio, whose desire is to destroy her spirit, he realized he or Ultima could both be exterminated. During the run, Tony thought of the future, which he hardly thought of before this event. Almost every child Tony's age was preoccupied with activities, such as playing and horsing around, and certainly not thinking what the future could pertain. This proves Tony understood the aknowledgement of reality, unlike most of his peers ...
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