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- 7031: Moll Flanders
- ... of forty-eight, when she could no longer earn a living having sex for money. The first time she steals something she feels guilty. She starts her career by stealing a watch from a small child, and she even contemplated killing him. After which, she starts running and eventually she stops and questions what she has done. She doesn't like where she has gone in her moral standards, but she ...
- 7032: Voltaire's Writing Techniques In Candide
- ... name Candide comes from the Latin word candidus, which means white, and symbolizes innocence. Perhaps Candide very readily believed in optimism at first because of his innocence. Candide grew up as a naive and vulnerable child in his own Eden and was only exposed to the brighter side of life and the idea that everything in the world happens for the better. He did not know what to expect in the ...
- 7033: Babylon Revisited
- ... his daughter. I believe even though Charlie Wales lived an unpredictable lifestyle at one point, he should still be able to raise his daughter. Despite what some may believe, being the biological parent of a child has a lot of value. Charlie Wales realized that his life wouldn’t be complete without his daughter. He didn’t want to miss out on her childhood, which is the most influential part of ...
- 7034: Allegorical “Young Goodman Brown”
- ... by the devil, the forest, and a hanging twig and the coldest dew. The pink ribbons worn by Faith symbolized the innocence of Goodman Brown’s faith. Pink is associated with being sweet, playful, and child like. It is when Goodman Brown sees the ribbons floating down from heaven that he knows he has lost his faith and that innocence has been tainted with evil. The staff symbolizes a type of ...
- 7035: Themes of Struggle, Social Oppression and Money in The Pearl
- ... in little huts that hardly protect them from the weather. Kino struggled with both things because his canoe was destroyed and his hut was burned. Scorpion attacks are also a factor in Mexico. Kino’s child, Coyotito, was stung and poisoned by one. Kino also has to worry about the Spanish people who are desperately attacking and trying to steal the pearl from him. These were the kind of things that ...
- 7036: Wuthering Heights
- ... of his childhood disturbances and harsh treatment, Heathcliff became a very hardened person filled with rage and dark features. He is described as having, "black eyes withdrawn so suspiciously under their brow" (1). As a child Catherine was always misbehaving. "Her spirits were always at high water mark, her tongue always going - singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. A wild, wicked slip she was - but she ...
- 7037: The Shining: Summary
- ... told him that Jack was going to blow up the hotel. Danny immediately yelled for Hallorann, remembering what he had told him. Jack's drinking started to take him over and he was started to abuse his son again. One time he was so involved with his issues, that he forgot to release the boiler pressure, Grady eventually came to him and warned him that he had to hurry to the ...
- 7038: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... After the two exchanged words, Mr. Hyde lifted his heavy walking stick and clubbed the old man to death. This tells us the reader that Mr. Hyde has grown in fury. From trampling over a child in the first scene, he now commits murder for no reason. I believe Hyde killed Sir Danvers because Sir Danvers was described as being a peaceful and good man. Hyde represents pure evil, so naturally ...
- 7039: A Tale of Two Cities: Faults of the Social Structure
- ... between the classes. It is not just the difference between the poor and rich but also between the rich and the royalty. While Monsieur the Marquis is driving through St. Antoine, he runs over a child. All he does is toss a few gold coins out to the father and drives away. This is showing that all the aristocracy cares about is money. Another place in the novel where Dickens shows ...
- 7040: THe Catcher in the Rye: Summary
- ... are purely symbolic. The meaning is as the children are running thorough the rye they do not see the cliffs ahead and the plummet they will make. When they make this "fall" they lose their child-like innocence. This fall could be related to a moral dilemma like maybe the city in the raw. Where he/she would be exposed to prostitution, drunkenness, and maybe drugs. Holden Caufield sees himself ruined ...
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