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- 3271: Bartleby The Scrivener A Stran
- ... her fellow man. Bartleby's focus passes through three main stages before his death, the first of which is his obsession with performing a single action to the exclusion of everything else. Initially, Bartleby works day and night, "as if famished for something to copy." (Melville paragraph 18) His goal, it seems, is to single-mindedly to accomplish as much copying as is humanly possible. The first few attempts on the part of the narrator to tell Bartleby to do something else, no matter how moderate the task, are met with the simple refusal, "I'd prefer not to." (Melville paragraph 21) The narrator reasonably chooses not to punish this insubordination because of both the quality, and the quantity of Bartleby's regular work. After a series of requests from the ...
- 3272: Book Report A Voyager Out
- ... letters. One of Mary s final letters never got mailed to its recipient. The letter told of the stench, the washings, the enemas, the bedpans, and blood (295) that she had to deal with every day. Those were the things that Mary s entire life consisted of. She began her life by taking care of her ill mother, crusaded all of her life by helping Africans and British who were overcome by sicknesses found in Africa, and then later died from being surrounded by diseases all of her life. She always took care of others, never worrying about herself. One day she began to feel the same symptoms that she had for so many years treated. She tried to keep silent, not wanting anyone to see her weakness. Finally, it was impossible to hide the fact that she was sick. Mary s final days were spent in bed. She woke up one day with an intense stomach pain. She was rushed into surgery performed by one of the doctors she worked with and had become close to. He was convinced that the surgery had fixed her problem, ...
- 3273: Angelas Ashes Summary
- ... poor throughout the novel. They wear patched shoes, rags for diapers, and drink sugar and water when they are hungry. On some nights they are lucky enough to get a piece of bread. If the day comes when the children receive meals like meat and potatoes, it is given to them from someone else out of pity. This novel is set in Brooklyn in the beginning, prior to the first World ... s mother is originally from. Here, Frank and his brother Malachy Jr. are enrolled in catholic school. They both learn the ways of the Catholics and Franky is soon making his first Holy Communion. The day comes later in the story, when Frank is in the sixth grade, and he makes his Confirmation. These two things are done in the church and are acts of catechism and show faith in God ... It shows us the reality of the struggle to stay alive and for that it should be recognized. It tells the true story of a young boy, on the edge of starvation each and every day of his life. Struggling to survive in a small house sleeping six in one bed. This novel should be merited for the fact that it allows us to understand and peer into the life ...
- 3274: A Review Of The Scarlet Letter
- ... him with a letter emblazoned on his chest. While standing there, Hester and Pearl arrive. He asks them to stand with him, which they do. Pearl then asks him to stand with her the next day at noon. When a meteor illuminates the three people standing on the scaffold, they see Roger Chillingworth watching them. Dimmesdale tells Hester that he is terrified of Chillingworth, who offers to take Dimmesdale home. Hester ... an inspired sermon for the Election Sermon. Hester finds a ship that will carry all three of them to the Old World, and it comes to pass that the ship is due to sail the day after Dimmesdale gives his Election Sermon. However, during the day of the sermon, Chillingworth gets the ship s captain to agree to take him on board as well. Hester does not know how to get out of this dilemma. Dimmesdale gives his Election Sermon, ...
- 3275: An Essay On Ben Mikaelsens Cou
- ... almost costed them their privilege to go to space. Then Elliott realized that his disliking had to reasonable justification and they became the best of friends for the last four months of training. Then the day came, when Elliott was really going to become the first teen in space and his only duty was to speak to anyone on earth throughout NASA s space mission. While all of this was happening ... a very dynamic person in which he carries many different traits throughout the entire story. This fourteen year old has learned a lot through his experiences and in the beginning was a very caring: You d be dead if I haven t found you (1), and selfish person: ,..he had crossed the line and cheated (108). In the end, he shows to be a very respectful: If that s how the ...
- 3276: A Tale Of Two Cities - L0ve An
- ... she'll bring him to London and away from his previous sufferings. Later in the story, the night before Lucie is to be wedded to Charles Darney, we learn that Lucie has saved her last day as a single woman to be with her father and to reassure him that she'll still be with him even though she is to be married. "Lucie was to be married tomorrow. She had ... comfort in the thing that kept him from going ultimately crazy during his period of captivity in the Bastille, and secondly, he knew that if he carried on the way he did, Lucie would worry day and night and hence be affected by his behaviour, and not be happy when she's supposed to be. In the first parts of Book Three, Dr Manette helps to protect Charles Darney after he ... father, and that in turn shows his love and respect for Lucie and her wishes. "But I love her. Heaven is my witness that I love her!"( Pg 122 ) " But do not believe, .... being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I must at any time put any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I now say. If I ...
- 3277: Analysis On Hamlets Madness
- ... the revenge. Seeing the opportunity, Hamlet says, Now might I do it pat, now a is a-praying; And now I ll do it, and so he goes to heaven, And so am I reveng d. That would be scann d; A villain kills my father, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. (III, iii, 73-79). This shows, Hamlet has a ... room. He tries to make her feel guilty enough to confess her sins. He says to his mother, Why, look you there! Look, how it steals away! My father, in his habit as he liv d! Look, where he goes, even now out at the portal! (III, iv, 132-136). I believe another reason for Hamlet to feign madness in front of Claudius is as for her mother, he wanted ...
- 3278: Amazing Grace A Book Report
- ... conditions or anyone for the matter. The stories of people s bravery in the face of so much adversity affected me the most. I am amazed by the people who live in these terrible conditions day after day year after year yet still have the drive to go on and encourage others that things will be better and that one day everything will be all right. I greatly admire the people like Mrs. Washington who raised a boy on her own, with no husband, taught him to live morally in such a place where it ...
- 3279: Addison And Steele
- ... She then helps him get hired at the local bakery. The two just seemed to have a special connection that could not be broken. As time goes on they live so happily together until one day she falls ill and dies. Then he remembered how things went wrong and he had learned from his mistakes by not drinking and lounging around. This was a happy story yet a sad story. The ... steal just to survive, then finds a job to get a little cash. He maintains that job for about two weeks then is booted because he starts living their and stealing from the place. One day he steals a purse from an old lady on the streets and for some reason he feels bad about it. He ends up returning the purse and the lady told him to stay awhile. The ... he would like to stay for a little bit and he accepts the offer. The boy ends up living with her and she loved him as if he were one of her own. From that day on the boys life had a complete turn around and he became one of the finest young men in town. All that this boy needed was to feel loved to make a real man ...
- 3280: Black Boy By Richard Wright
- ... s her health is improving. Chapter 4 Richard is twelve years old. The poetry of religious hymns inspires Richard to write his own poetry. Richard isn't religious his granny tries to convert him. One day at church he tells his grandmother that if he ever saw an angel he would believe. His grandmother misunderstands him and thinks that he has seen an angel. His grandmother tells everyone that he has ... he is in the 7th grade and that he wants to be a writer. The white woman tells him that he will never be a writer. He doesn't return to the job the next day. Chapter 7 Richard is now in 8th grade. When he writes a story for a local black newspaper everyone is confused by it. This wasn't expected of a Black Boy. Chapter 8 As Richard ... resign from the communist party. That he would be publicly expelled. Chapter 20 From the Federal Experimental Theater he was transferred to the Federal Writers Project. There he was ostracized by the communists. On May Day there was a march when he tried to join in the march he was shoved out of the way. This made Richard feel even more alone. In the south he had been discriminated against ...
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