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- 13611: Orson Scottt Card's Ender's Game
- ... s a genius.) He then goes to command school were he learns how to control fleets of star ships. They put him in a simulator and he is given many missions to fly. Then one day his inspectors say that today is his final mission before they grade him. He up agents a whole planet and a vast number of ships. He ends up winning by using a secret weapon on ...
- 13612: Atticus Finch
- ... Dubose, had said to the children that "your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for! "(102). They tried to ignore her, as their father had said, and walked away. One day when the pressure got too much for Jem, he went into Mrs. Dubose's yard and destroyed all her flowers. When Atticus discovered what Jem had done, he was furious and punished him by making ...
- 13613: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Great Identity Search
- ... called many names, so many that everyone started calling her alphabet, "'cause so many people had done named me different names." Soon she started piecing together what she knew of her odd identity. Then one day she saw herself in a photograph and noticed that she looked different, that she had dark skin, and she said, "before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like de rest." From this ...
- 13614: Animal Farm
- ... way to dispute or question any of the statistics he delivered. There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had in Jones s day. On Sunday mornings Squealer, holding a long strip of paper with his trotter, would read out to them lists of figures proving that the production of every class of foodstuff had increased by two hundred ...
- 13615: Is Huck Finn too Mature?
- ... to a nigger: but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd' `a' knowed it would make him feel that way." During Huck's time spent with the Grangerford and Shepherdson families he sees an view of society that he has never faced. Huck does not understand ...
- 13616: Harrison Bergeron
- ... population's way of life. Suppose someone did not have the ability to invent the automobile. It would be difficult to commute to school or work. Imagine if you had to walk to work every day no matter how bad the weather is. Now-a-days people complain about having to simply walk out to their car in the morning and wait for it to warm up. Many jobs would have ...
- 13617: Gulliver's Travels
- ... but he also encounters peoples and places which truly diusgust him in their manner of operation and civility. Overall, Swift gives Gulliver a generally negative and cynical attitude towards the manner in which his current day English counterparts behaved cleverly disguised in the subtext of his encounters with other nations that either contrasted the way they lived, or mirrored unflatteringly his contemporaries lifestyles. In Gulliver's first voyage to Lilliput, his ...
- 13618: Black Boy Analysis
- ... the feelings he has. Richard does not want to give in and be a slave to the white people. He would never give in and become a slave because he has hated that idea since day one. Richard contemplates transferring his hatred and frustration out on other blacks, but knows that will not aid the situation. He decides not to act like his abusive father and care about nothing other than ...
- 13619: The Great Gatsby: Forces of Corruption
- The Great Gatsby: Forces of Corruption The theme of human corruption, its sources and consenquences, is a coomon concern among writers from Shakespeare through J.D Salinger. Some suggest that it attacks from outside, while others depict corruption occuring from within the individual. In the case if The Great Gatsby and it's protagonist's fate, Fizgerald shows both factors at ...
- 13620: Fahrenheit 451
- ... burned. Guy was never really sure what was so bad about the books. He never really knew the reason why he would have to burn down a person's house when one had possession. One day the firemen were notified about a woman that had a large supply of books in her house. When Guy went to commit arson at the house, he slipped a book into his coat pocket. Over ...
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