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- 1841: Into The Wild
- ... him a new car he became enraged. He had a car and couldn t understand why his father would buy him a new one. Chris took the money that his family had left him for college and donated it to Oxfam which gives food to the hungry. This is ironic because Chris eventually died from starvation. Many people criticize McCandless for not keeping in touch with his parents and family. Chris ...
- 1842: Huck Finn: Essay On Each Chapt
- ... to the reader, and we know how Twain wants us to feel. The same thing is true in the second part of Pap's harangue, in which he berates the government for allowing a black college professor to vote right along with a white man like himself. Twain makes Pap look ridiculous for suggesting that he is superior to the professor, simply because he's white. Huck listens to all this ...
- 1843: Great Gatsby 3
- ... his love for Daisy in these "sentimental" terms? Is not this excess of sentiment in fact Nick's sentiment for Gatsby or perhaps Nick's attempt at displaying those "rather literary" days he had in college? Or both? We should consider the distance that Fitzgerald has created between his presence in the story and Nick's and their implications. Fitzgerald has created a most interesting character in Nick because he is ...
- 1844: Frankenstein Biography, Settin
- ... a dark fascination which began as a child, with "the raising of ghosts or devils... a promise liberally accorded by my favorite authors" (20). First manifesting itself as a deep interest in science while a college student, it grew into an obsession with the dead. While listening to his professor speak, increasingly tormented Victor lamented, "I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the ...
- 1845: Frankenstein
- ... dark fascination which began as a child, with the raising of ghosts or devils... a promise liberally accorded by my favorite authors (Shelley 20). First manifesting itself as a deep interest in science while a college student, it grew into an obsession with the dead. While listening to his professor speak, increasingly tormented Victor lamented, I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the ...
- 1846: Flowers For Algernon 4
- ... characters of the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual involved in a remarkable experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at the special education faculty at Beekman College who taught Charlie how to read and write, the professors who performed the experiment on Charlie, Fay, one of Charlie's aquaintances which he meets as the book progresses, and last but not least Algernon ...
- 1847: Familiar Mysteries
- ... Review "Familiar Mysteries" Familiar Mysteries is a scientific and comprehensive study on mythology, its appearance,and significance in our lives.The author , Shirley Park Lowry , a former professor of English at the Los Angeles Valley College , teaches mythology to nonspecialists and is a respected authority on the subject.The author's purpose in writing this book is to provide the general reader with an interesting , hystorically linked , and scientifically based insight ...
- 1848: Fahreheit 451
- ... towards the river and drenches himself with whiskey to trick the mechanical dog. He makes it to the river and swims downstream. He wakes up in the country, where he finds a camp of old college professors. One of them has a portable TV and they watch the police apprehend another guy they identify as Guy Montag. He meets many professors and intellectuals that show Montag their method of saving literature ...
- 1849: Everyday Use By Alice Walker
- ... I been saving em for long enough with nobody using em. I hope she will! I didn t want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style. Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they d be in rags. Less than that! [ ] Well, I said, stumped ...
- 1850: Everyday Use
- ... the eldest daughter, was always ashamed by the way she lived during her childhood years. As she was educated more and more, her feelings of hatred for poverty and ignorance grew intensely. After she finished college her abhorrent feelings grew immensely, and she tried to take advantage of those less educated than her. Dee always hated the way she lived when she was being raised by her mother. Dee was obviously ...
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