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- 7041: To Kill A Mockingbird: Cruelty Against Blacks, Lawyers and the Poor
- ... His children were made fun of and picked at about the person that their father was defending. Scout Finch knew that she was different because of her father. “ I saw something only a lawyer’s child could be expected to see…” (Lee 213) is one example of how she knew that she was known as different. People would ask if they were “ashamed of him” (Lee 102). The children of the ...
- 7042: The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
- ... own various native tribes for centuries. In The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano recalls the slavery in his own tribe the Ibo. The slavery system of his African tribe that he witnessed as a child differed from what he experienced as an adult. First, a man could not be kidnapped and made into a slave within the African community. In fact, a man could become a slave as a punishment ...
- 7043: Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath
- ... ballad titled "The Geste of Sir Gawain," in which he is the rapist (seducer?), and must endure an ordeal as a result thereof. In this alone of all forms of the rape version is a child born of the union. This ballad is mentioned only because it connects the rape/ordeal tale with Gawain. Gower's tale may be called a quasi-Gawain: Florent (or Florens) is named by both Chretien ...
- 7044: Charles Dickens' Hard Times
- ... if I was to live wi’ her an’ not marry her-saying such could be, which it never could or would, an’ her so good- there’s a law to punish me, in every innocent child belonging to me”. After being pushed into the symbolic “blackpool” all his life by his co-workers, wife, boss, and the government, he finally fell into an actual “blackpool”, a well. This took place on ...
- 7045: Byblis and Myrrha
- ... has my mind led me?” (339). She does not know if this incestuous passion is unlawful because “[she has] not heard that any god or written law condemns the union of a parent and his child” (Crane on-line). She decides that “human scruples” repress unions like these; envious law forbids what nature permits (Mandelbaum 339). Later, she states she does not want to “defile the code of nature with a ...
- 7046: The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Advice to Dimmesdale
- ... repent for his sin. By accepting Hester Prynne’s advice to escape their problems by running away, the minister, Arthur Dimmesdale figuratively signs his soul over to the devil. He condemns himself to becoming a child of evil and wanders away from the grace of God. His personal morality as a priest and an individual of conscience does not allow him to take the path that he believes to be that ...
- 7047: Invisible Man: Denial Of Education For Blacks
- ... I did not realize that the men were still talking and laughing” (30). As the reader can see, the novel Invisible Man accurately depicts the American black life during the 1800s. The cruel treatment and abuse that the white race brought upon the black is horrible and the novel only shows that things like that still happen. “Here I thought they had accepted me because they felt that color made no ...
- 7048: Jasmine: Taylor's Significance
- ... place. Her first experience with ordinary American family was with Taylor, Wylie and Duff. "I became an American in an apartment on Claremont Avenue across the street from a Barnard College Dormitory¡KDuff was my child; Taylor and Wylie were my parents, my teachers, my family." (p. 146) In addition, Taylor provided her the environments to live like an American, although she could not get use to the new kind of ...
- 7049: Visitors From Oz
- ... morning. So Samuel made sure that he was there right on time, it’s not like something like this happens to you every day he was getting ready to actually meet the people from his child hood story’s. So as soon as they arrived, you can imagine how excited he was. After Samuel introduced himself he took them to his apartment. He had the rest of there week all planned ...
- 7050: Demian
- ... dreams serve as a function to provide the reader with a better understanding of the direction the novel and where its characters are moving in. Hesse's use of dreams help develop Emil from innocent child to educated man. The first significant dream occurs on page nineteen. Emil dreams that he is on a boat, "surrounded by absolute peace and the glow of a holiday." He dreams of how his sisters ...
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