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- 5581: To Kill a Mockingbird: Scout and Maturity
- ... In Scout's youth and innocence she had not known the other evil force that could not allow a "not guilty" verdict-racial prejudice. Maturity does play an important role in the development of a child. Every human being needs to have experience, wisdom and a knowledge of common sense to corroborate their beliefs. The lessons that played a huge role in Scout's development of a more positive human being ...
- 5582: Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... Her husband, Connie, takes each day in stride, trying to deal with her incessant complaining. But finally one day Connie falls to his own selfish nature and walks out on his wife and un-born child. This only adds to Rose of Sharon's long list of complaints. She causes all the members of the family to become quite annoyed with her, for on many occasions she is said to be ...
- 5583: Analysis of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", and Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
- ... the book—that are amazingly similar in their function within their respective works and can be paralleled in two major ways. One is Barthes's “Winter Garden” photograph—the photo of his mother as a child that he uses to explore the link between memory and the photograph, and through which he discovers the photograph's amazing power of being able to capture the “air” of a person. The image from ...
- 5584: Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
- ... young Antonio who was coming of age at the conclusion of World War II. His family lived in a quiet and isolated New Mexico valley that was in a state of transition. Tony, the last child was protected and raised mostly by his mother with the help of Ultima, a sickly friend who came to live with the family. She became a teacher and mentor to Tony, showing him her brand ...
- 5585: The Scarlet Letter: Platform Of Sin
- ... will be known” (69)! An example of the scaffold being a constant reminder of sin is when Hester and her daughter, Pearl, stand together on the platform. Pearl's presence, as a three month old child, represents the birth of this sin between Hester Prynne and her lover. The final way in which the first scaffold scene sets the stage for the novel is by foreshadowing Reverend Dimmesdale, the town minister ...
- 5586: Comparison of Conroy's "Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini"
- ... cold aquamarine glitter of her eyes enclosed in a harsh fretwork of line that arrowed out toward her temples which drew my most breathless attention; they were like the rays of the sun in a child's drawing"(p.229) Pat Conroy has a great ability to describe things. He really helps the reader visualize what he is trying to say. The reader can see exactly how Tom changes as he ...
- 5587: Summary of "The Death of Woman Wang" and "The Classic Slum"
- ... of inmates in prison that were Illiterate grew from 1835 from 10% to 80% in 1904 on page sixty nine. On page one twenty it says that men considered pop to be a woman and child drink , that men only drink beer and that beer is a mans food one man was considered to seldom drink less than four quarts a day. The family would work all week to buy food ...
- 5588: To Kill a Mocking Bird: The Ewell Residence
- ... oath on the witness stand to defend his lies. Probably because she was afraid of what he would do to her if she told the truth, but also because she had been living with the abuse from him all her life, and couldn't imagine her life being any different. In direct contrast to the Ewells was the "Negro settlement some five hundred yards beyond the Ewells." As Lee states, "their ...
- 5589: Prejudice and The Pain and Suffering It Has Caused
- ... how to read. "She discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. (p.17)." Scout is treated like it is her fault that she knows more than the average child did. She learned earlier than others so she gets punished unjustly. Tom Robinson is also one who is discriminated by a biased community. Tom is found guilty by the jury in his case against the ...
- 5590: Follow the River: Thom versus Original Account
- ... and her two children, Thomas and George, his Aunt Draper, and Henry Leonard were taken prisoner by the Shawnees. John Ingles also states in his narrative that Colonel Patton, Casper Barger, his Grandmother Draper and child were killed (8). In Follow the River, Thom describes the same people either being killed or taken captive by the Shawnee Indians. Another similarity between the two accounts was the escape of Mary's spouse ...
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