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- 13521: A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
- ... war is occurring, Finny wonders, "Is there?" (96). Finny refuses to believe in the war when Gene explains that the war comes before sports. Finny comes to the conclusion that old fat men in Washingtion, D.C. "make up" the war to trick the people, and only the fat men understand the trick. The two rivers, the two sessions, and the two settings, reinforce and clearly display the innocence of Finny ...
- 13522: Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Review
- ... has great respect for him. However, there are instances when Stephen is angered by his fathers' actions, and resents his statements. The growing debts incurred by Simon lead to his son's transferring to a day school. Stephens' difficulties at his former educational institution are relayed by his father, much to the chagrin of the younger Dedalus. Later in the novel, Stephen loses even more respect for his father as the ...
- 13523: A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Streetcar Named Desire In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man, man over women, or in what the true definition of ...
- 13524: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... once said of him that "... his agent, publisher, and his entry in "Who's Who" could not provide the exact number of books he wrote." (Baldwin A8). Some of Burgess's works include The Long Day Wanes, The Doctor is Sick, and, perhaps Burgess's most famous book, Clockwork Orange. A Clockwork Orange is an interesting novel that paints a picture of a gruesome violence in the not-so- distant future ...
- 13525: Rand's "Anthem"
- ... Equality and Liberty, on the occasion regarding the discovery of the light bulb, and during the time the two find the house in which they will live in for the remainder of their lives. One day while Equality was tending to his job as street sweeper, he came across a beautiful young woman taking care of the fields. Even though it is forbidden, he decides to go over and talk to ...
- 13526: To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
- ... discriminatory. In the novel, these ideas are explored by a young girl, Scout. The readers see the events that occur through her eyes. In the book, Scout's father, Atticus, tells Scout and Jem, "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember its a sin to kill ...
- 13527: Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
- ... Vronsky and she feels ‘a strange feeling of pleasure mixed with a feeling of vague apprehension suddenly stirred in her heart.'( page 90)This tells of what may be the conflict in the plot. The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know ...
- 13528: Orwell's Animal Farm: Summary of Characters
- ... best for them. In both cases, Stalin and Napoleon get tired of the competition and run them off by turning the animals and people against them. Boxer is a cart horse who works night and day on the windmill and for Napoleon's cause. When he hurts his hoof and is unable to work, Napoleon is uncaring and sends him off to the slaughterhouse since he is of no further use ...
- 13529: Alice Munros Boys And Girls
- ... more as she got older. However, as she grows older, the difference between boys and girls becomes more clear and conflicting to her. Her first experience with this was when a salesman stopped by one day. In the midst of working for her father, she was introduced as her father's "new hired hand," but the salesman, instead of smiling benevolently, remarks " I thought it was only a girl" (425). Being ...
- 13530: An Analysis of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed in Life Due to His Father
- ... out I-O-U's for him, he continued to play, just so that he could stay in the company that he was in. At the end of the night (actually dawn of the next day), Jimmy found himself sitting alone and terribly in debt, yet it seemed as though it did not matter to him for he knew that his father would take of him financially. The support given to ...
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