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- 5631: 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 ...
- 5632: Ellison's "Battle Royal"
- ... there was nothing I could do, but face them. Everybody has to deal with something in their life. My battle was dealing with the pain I brought onto myself. Although there was never any physical abuse that went on, the emotional is hard to deal with as well. My battle becomes easier with each day, and I can safely say now that I am better. Makes me happy just thinking like ...
- 5633: Black and White
- ... of Wilson. Twain also shows Roxy as a black that is in a small way superior to the townsfolk. She is able to outsmart the entire town, including her own master, by switching her own child with her master's son. Ironically, the only white who figures out this scheme is Wilson, the person the townspeople labeled a “ pudd'nhead.” Here, Twain again satirizes the whites of the south by showing ...
- 5634: In Cold Blood: A Review
- ... in bad relationships with women. Dick was forced to separate from his first wife Carol, whom he truly loved, in order to "do the right thing by another young lady, the mother of his youngest child" (131). Dick despised his second wife and never recovered fully from the pain of having to leave his first wife. Capote has a definite reason for devoting so much space in his book to the ...
- 5635: Walking Across Egypt: Mattie Rigsbee
- ... about their well-being very much. The love she radiates is extended to more than her children, like at the end of the novel when she finally decides to take Wesley on as a foster child so he can have a nice home and so he can go to church every Sunday. Through the whole book, Mattie has proven beyond a shadow-of-a- doubt that she is one of the ...
- 5636: The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold
- ... all the townspeople. In this case, the criminal is Hester Prynne and the crowd has gathered to witness her shame. The first scene at the ominous platform is Hester's first public appearance with the child and the scarlet letter. Hester's husband, Roger Prynne (Chillingworth) makes a sudden reappearance and is among the onlookers. The Reverend Mr. Dimmsdale is also there but he does not stand with Hester on the ...
- 5637: The Good Earth: Success in Wang Lung's Life
- ... however, there were a few things that undermined the whole experience, and these are the things that went wrong. The first major thing to go wrong was not long after the birth of his third child. This event was the lack of rain and the famine that ensued from that. He was forced to move to the north until the drought was over and he could accumulate enough wealth to return ...
- 5638: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense of Fairy Tales
- Enduring, Endearing Nonsense of Fairy Tales Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through ...
- 5639: Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
- ... if not more eloquent than men. As Dante continues her conversation, she quotes the Bible in response to the ongoing attacks of the men at the dinner table in the presence of women and a child: Woe be to the man by whom the scandal cometh! It would be better for him that a millstone were tied about his neck and that he should scandalise one of these, my least little ...
- 5640: Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms
- ... The main character's wife got pregnant and she was off to have her baby when problems started occurring. They had to have a caesarean, and the baby dies, and when the mother of the child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it was over for his wife and he was right. From the beginning of the book until the end, the action was up. Ever since the front page Henry ...
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