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- 7871: The Generation Gap in The Joy Luck Club
- ... doesn't exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, we hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really ...
- 7872: Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution
- ... sending Jews and other non-German’s to concentration camps but leaders of other countries did not believe them. The truth about Hitler’s mass killings was not known until after his defeat in World War II. Both Fredrick and Hitler took advantage of many situations. Fredrick appeared to be friendly to purchase the timber from Manor Farm but then used fake bank notes to buy the timber. In real life ...
- 7873: Gulliver's Travels: Political Satire
- ... British Society at the time. The culture Jonathan Swift lived in was not what one would call a utopia. The English culture of the late seventeenth century to the middle eighteenth century was riddled with civil unrest and political corruptness. This setting provided Swift an abundance of topics for which to base his greatest work, Gulliver's Travels. Many political people and events in Swift's time made their way into ...
- 7874: Nick Carraway: A Good Narrator
- ... cousin very much. He also arranged a date for Gatsby to meet his cousin, Daisy. Also, Jay had told Nick all about his life; he told Nick that he was awarded a medal in the war from Montenegro, and he told Nick that he got a lot of money because he had worked for a rich man; the man bequeathed all his money to Gatsby after he's death; and he ...
- 7875: The Lord of the Flies Character Analysis
- ... frees the parachute. Then he wanders to the bottom of the mountain to tell the boys of the news. The other boys decide to join the feast. As night approaches, the hunters do a ferocious war dance, and even Ralph and Piggy jump in. As Simon approaches, he is seen as a mere shadow by the dancers, and they are so barbarian that they viciously attack Simon, not hearing the cry ...
- 7876: Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
- ... of the animals. Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. In real life, this represents the Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact during World War II which Germany eventually broke. Eventually, towards the end of the story, the term, "absolute power corrupts absolutely," is proven, as the pigs, who retained all the privileges for themselves, have evolved into a different ...
- 7877: Animal Farm vs. Marxism
- ... everything was getting out of control. Soviet workers and soldiers formed a special committee and established a government. The same day the emperor abdicated. (“Russian Revolution,” Grolier npa). This actually backfired in Russia and the war continued and the people still starved. Many lessons can be learned by reading Animal Farm that can help countries and governments around the world from making mistakes in wielding their power against their people. If ...
- 7878: The Joy Luck Club: Differences in Generations
- ... doesn’t exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really ...
- 7879: The Piano Lesson: Characters
- ... many years, prejudice, especially in the form of racism, has sparked many hate crimes and wars. Over generations, people have devised strategies to combat these injustices in the most effective way possible, whether it be civil or violent ways of protest. August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, “ The Piano”, is set in the early 1930s at a time when racism was spreading like wild fire. The play takes a close ...
- 7880: Night: A Summary
- Night: A Summary During World War II, Hitler formed many concentration camps throughout Germany and Poland. In these camps the people imprisoned, mainly of Jewish or Gypsy descent, were tortured, starved, put through horrific conditions, killed, and worked to death. One ...
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