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- 7001: Kerouac's On the Road: Living in Clip
- ... 18) Kerouac's astounding life on the road expels enthusiasm and joy by confidently executing, glorifying, and glamorizing acts of Bohemian nature. Such articulation subordinates the reader into a fixation of mediocrity. From the drug abuse in The Dharma Bums to the carelessness and freeloading of On the Road, Kerouac's novels each examine the vagabond existence. The Dharma Bums was written in the same vein as On the Road, and ...
- 7002: Drinking: A Love Story - A Review
- ... year battle with alcoholism, why people drink, why people become alcohlics, and how hard it is to break the cycle of alcoholism. Caroline had her first drink at age fourteen, she was a very shy child who felt uncomfortable in most social situations, even those consisting of just family members. She never felt sheltered and protected by her parents who showed her no physical affection and never said ‘I love you ...
- 7003: The Life of Eveline
- ... Eveline maintains an optimistic view of each situation. The father is an abusive alcoholic who Eveline feels is threatening. Treatment programs are not available for Eveline’s father to receive help for his drinking or abuse. Therefore, Eveline must maintain an optimistic outlook on her life. To illustrate Eveline’s view on her family life she thinks of all the positive and thoughtful things her father has done. For instance, Eveline ...
- 7004: The Grapes of Wrath
- ... the book she had dreams of settling down with Connie in a white house and having her baby there. She then in the course of the novel is abandoned by Connie and has a stillborn child due to under nourishment. After all this though she becomes a better person than she was before. Throughout the novel she was self-centered and complained a lot. At the end though she gives her ...
- 7005: Catcher In The Rye
- ... In his own fantasy world, Holden describes how he would like to be the catcher in a rye field where children are playing. He’ll stand on the edge of the cliff and catch any child who falls off the edge. This fantasy that Holden describes, is symbolic of his unwillingness for children to grow up, where falling off the edge represents that point in life when they hit adulthood. In ...
- 7006: Jane Eyre
- ... of new and unexpected friends; however solitary one’s may appear in the world. The discern of my “spiritual isolation” represents the human condition that I repeatedly see in myself (Howes 89). The suffering and abuse through life itself, awakens my consciousness. With no family connections to support me either financially or emotionally even and I “survive” “thrive” on my own to establish a possibility to fulfill my necessities (Howes 59 ...
- 7007: Analysis of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... people. He will present himself, as increasingly liberal and gain favor with is people. The quality of mercifulness is not an adverse quality for a prince, but he should be alert as not let anyone abuse his mercy. Cruelty can be used for good, like when Cesare Borgia unified Romagna. Cesare Borgia's cruelty restored Romagna to peace and order, while on the contrary the Florentine's mercy allowed Pistoia to ...
- 7008: Dante’s Tools Of Character: Love And Choice
- ... opinions on convictions and deep self-knowledge. Choice is humanizing and strip us our dignity. Dante’s poem urges us to make conscious use of this exquisite gift of choice. We can use it or abuse it but it is absolute torment to refuse to make choices. Making choices is difficult because accompanying every choice is a subtle limitation of freedom, a road not traveled. Many refuses to make a choice ...
- 7009: Obasan
- ... has just died, so Naomi goes home to help her elderly aunt. When she arrives, she is distraught to see her aunt is barely a shell of the strong woman who raised her as a child. Her brother, although now a famous musician who has abandoned his Japanese self, grudgingly agrees to return as well. While she waits, Naomi discovers a package left by another aunt, a political activist and teacher ...
- 7010: Kitty Freemont
- ... and sense of caring. The loss of a daughter had been too much for Kitty, and seeing Karen seemed to soothe this loss. Was this a bad thing? Kitty wanting someone to replace her lost child, that someone being Karen. The introduction of Karen to Kitty was what started Kitty off on a lifetime adventure. Karen smiled. Already she liked Kitty and she knew instinctively that Kitty wanted-needed to be ...
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