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- 5071: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... Connie has committed the motherly act of protecting "her almost child [Dolly]" (20); she is within the clutches of the vile modern system. Connie no longer has the rights given to the free individual. The war has begun; she will no longer tolerate the abuse that has been dealt to her throughout her life. The patriarch society has interfered too long to sufficiently achieve happiness within Connie. For her whole life ... to achieve a sense of self. After being exposed to this paradise Connie is equipped with self-worth and respect giving her the ability to conquer the oppressive doctors. "I killed them. Because it is war" (375). Judith Gardiner writes: "Deprived of her own daughter, Connie dedicates her assassination to ‘you who will be born from my best hopes'" ( 75). This statement truly exemplifies Connie Ramos as a heroic nurturing mother ...
- 5072: Tribulation and Comedy in Lucky Jim
- ... Jim into something he is not aware he is being involved: "It had seemed only natural for a female lecturer to ask a junior...male colleague up to her place for coffee, and no more civil to accept. Then suddenly he'd become the man who was `going around' with Margaret, and somehow competing with this Catchpole" (Amis, 1953, p. 10). Margaret's imposition of this title on Jim without his ... Jim. Then, at the Summer Ball, Carol Goldsmith affirms this opinion: "Throw her [Margaret] a life belt and she'll pull you under" (Amis, 1953, p.121). Simply, Carol is saying that when Jim is "civil to accept" Margaret's invitations, he is setting himself up to be used, which is exactly what she will do, she [Margaret] feigns sexual avidity to entice, then denounce Jim...she shows no sympathy when ...
- 5073: An Analysis of Gulliver's Travels
- ... Gulliver is at the littlenders and the enemy is the bigenders which live on the island of Blefuscu. Gulliver helps the Littlenders to defeat the bigenders. In this book Swift emphasises the stupidity in the war between England and France and also every war which starts over a stupid reason, he also points out the meaningless in courtlife were they do nothing but waste the states money. At he lilliputians he builds a raft which he uses to sail ...
- 5074: An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies
- ... keep the signal fire burning because it is their only hope of being rescued. The other boys do not listen to Ralph's suggestions and begin to act as savages Ralph becomes the defender of civil behavior and common sense. By the end of the novel, Ralph begins to breakdown after the others ignore his views. He begins act more as a savage and strays from the ideals of civil behavior. His savageness is portrayed in a ritualized hunt of a boy, where Ralph is among the people who kill the boy. In the last chapter, Ralph is the one who is being hunted and ...
- 5075: Analysis of The Most Dangerous Game
- ... a higher level, the hunt for human life, Rainsfords life! This story takes place in the Caribbean, on a secluded island. The author chose an ideal place for his setting. The story consists of a war between the two main characters, and what better place then an island which has such excellent geographical features to support this struggle. Some examples are the dense trees, trails, and some quicksand. This setting also makes the two characters display all the skills and tricks they have learned over the years, and then wage war against each other. The setting plays a sufficient role in the story's overall development. Without this setting the story would not reveal the game of “cat and mouse” which is going on. The setting ...
- 5076: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn as the Narrator
- ... from the truth. "They [royalty] don't do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around." "No; is dat so?" "Of course it is. They just set around, except, maybe, when there's a war; then they go to war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking— just hawking…when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But ...
- 5077: Lord of The Flies: Conflict Between Ralph and Jack
- ... from a civilized way of living. Comments made by Ralph and Jack show the boys that Jack is resorting to savagery. Ralph and Jack both agree in the beginning while they are reasoning in a civil manner. Throughout the novel the two leaders stray from one another because of differences in motivation. Jack told the boys “We've got to decide about being rescued” (Golding, 20). This statement illustrates Jack's civilized concern for the whole group. Jack seems to put the group before himself. This unselfish concern soon dissolves as the internal beast prevails over the civil Jack. “I ought to be chief because I'm chapter chorister and I can sing C sharp,” (Golding, 21) displays Jacks own arrogance. After the boys accept Ralph as chief, Ralph gives power over the ...
- 5078: Summary of Gulliver's Travels
- ... Gulliver to leap over, although he would not dare do that, for he must be very careful not to crush anyone or break the buildings. The country of Lilliput is in the process of a war with Blefescu, the neighbor island to the north east. Gulliver becomes aware of the complexities of human ways and our helplessness. After returning home for ten months, Gulliver sets sail on another trip. After a ... be the exact opposite of those on Lilliput. During his stay on Brobdingnag, Gulliver recognizes the simplicity enjoyed by these people and learns from his conversations with the king of this land the silliness of war, the corruption of politics, and the selfishness of people. He presents the essence of our grandiosity through these Brobdingnags. On his third journey he visits the lands of Lappet, Balnarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan. All ...
- 5079: Evaluation of The Lord of the Flies
- ... 1954 about a number of boys marooned on a tropical island and left to fend for themselves. While on the island, they discover quite a bit of evil within themselves. A few years after World War 2, a planeful of boys as young as 5 or 6 but most no older than 11 or 12 crashes near an uninhabited tropical island. As soon as they land, one of the eldest assumes ... Finally, I would be interested in knowing what particular event he witnessed or was part of in real life drove him to write this book. Could it have been an experience he had in World War II? What could have been so bad as to inspire a book of this passionate intensity? Although I disagree with Golding's view of the world as basically evil, his book is certainly a good ...
- 5080: Black Boy
- ... against brother in one of its bloodiest battles of all time over black slavery. Racism survives not simply as an intangible historic fable but as a real modern problem, also. In current civilization Arab Palestinians war with Israelis to find a homeland; the Ku Klux Klan draws its biggest membership influx in over 20 years; and in the U.S. where freedom reigns, Americans have never to date voted a person ... national companies accused of extolling racism in this "apartheid America." Although less subtle in the lives of Americans then, racism also thrived in the souls of people living during the 1920's. Even though the war on slavery was over in the battle fields, white racists were blood thirsty lions at heart, as was demonstrated in the book Black Boy. The setting of Black Boy is in the deep south of ...
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