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- 5661: The Hobbit: Summary
- ... the had the chance, and they were also great craftsmen. At first, they just considered Bilbo the burglar, but, as Bilbo saved them time after time, they began to respect and admire him, and ironically, abuse his contract with them. Gandalf the Wizard - he was a very old, very wise, person, who helped the adventurers with his wisdom and his magic in many situations in the story. His greatest feat during ...
- 5662: Lord of the Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm of Society
- ... theory. Ralph's first call to come together by blowing the conch implies a reference to the neonatal oral state, during which Freud postulated was the first conflict between desire and self-control within a child. Other references to problems in getting the younger children to adhere to toilet etiquette for health concerns allude to the anal stage, which psychodynamic theory hypothesized to be a period of increased awareness of bowel ...
- 5663: Lord of the Flies: Simon, the Christ Figure
- ... threaten Simon, as the Devil had done to Jesus in the desert. "There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast." . . . "This has gone quite far enough. My poor, misguided child, do you think you know better than I do?" There was a pause. "I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to ...
- 5664: Lord of the Flies; Creating a New Society
- ... s intense imagination is a prim example of how fear can get the best of how fear can get the best of any person. Some feel that Simians dream represents the hallucination of a sensitive child about to lose all control of rational facilities (Rosenfield, 128). This is true because throughout the book thus far Simon has been very rational i n his actions and at this point his fear of ...
- 5665: Les Miserables: Jean Proves That He Is Trustworthy
- ... on her deathbed that he will bring her daughter back, and fulfills his promise: On the evening of the same day that Jean Valjean had rescued Cossete from the clutches of the Thenardiers.. (95) The child is Cossete, she was given away to the Thenadiers, a family that deceives Fantine, and uses her daughter for labor and money. Later in the novel, Jean Valjean meets a family in poverty, by the ...
- 5666: Hesse's Siddhartha as it Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- ... taken part in learned men's conversations..." The fact that educated men included a youth in their conversations indicated that they held him in high esteem and didn't think of him as just a child. Later on in the book, Siddhartha must struggle to escape his natural desires for belonging and love to pursue his more lofty goal of enlightenment. He spends many years of his life learning the arts ...
- 5667: Summary of Orwells' Animal Farm
- ... Napoleon took over as president of the farm and decided what needed to be done and when it needed to be done. But after a while Napoleon took things out of context. He began to abuse his power to fit his own needs, he changed the Seven Commandments so he could do what he wanted and when he did this and the other animals noticed Napoleon called it "explaining what they ...
- 5668: An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies
- ... on the island. As leader of the group, Ralph has a great deal of responsibility and must learn how to work with this responsibility. Through the course of the story, Ralph changes from an adolescent child to a mature person, but ends up breaking down at the end of the novel. This aspect of Ralph's character is a way that Golding depicts human behavior in society, which is the main ...
- 5669: The Touch of Magic by Lorena Hickok
- ... be the third event that led up to Annie' s success. At first Annie thought she could get through to Helen, but later found that it wouldn't be that easy. Helen was a dangerous child, like an animal, but what do you expect if you can't hear or see? After a few days Annie tried to get through to her by being gentle, but during one of Helen's ...
- 5670: Summary of Tracy's "Home Brewed, the Unauthorized Biography of Drew Carey"
- ... totally different person than he appears to be. Behind the buzzcut, horn rims, white shirts and skinny ties, lies a different man. He was man that was decimated by his family when he was a child. I would have never figured that unless I would have read this book. Drew would be an interesting guy to meet. It would to be fun to talk with him about his wild college days ...
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