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- 4691: Black Boy Essay
- ... to do so. When Richard got the job at the optical company he had expected to learn the trade, as Mr. Crane had said. Richard worked under the supervision of Pease and Reynolds, and one day after working there a couple of weeks and having not learned anything yet, he asked a question hoping to learn something but when he did they refused to tell him anything. "What are you trying ... that double standard violence was prominent between blacks and whites. Racial prejudice is the cause of several things not just physical violence racial prejudice can cause serious psychological stress. Richard’s friend Ned, who he’d known from school, had a brother, Bob, who worked at a hotel in town; the hotel was known for it’s trouble with black employees, prostitutes, bootlegging and many other things. Bob had been murdered ...
- 4692: Jane Eyre: Changing Seasons and Weather
- ... Morton. When Jane first arrives in Whitcross it is a summer evening, and Jane is able to sleep comfortably on the heath remarking “…it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer-day.” Because Jane was travelling directly from Thornfield, the whether was extremely comforting for her, she took solace in thinking that at least nature had not cast her off. Laying down on the heath Jane notices ... rain. Much like before, the rain has the same feeling of ambiguous prospects; Jane could possibly be met by an unwilling Rochester, or a Rochester who is elated at her arrival. After recuperating for a day, the reader automatically knows the outcome, because Jane wakes to a sunny summer morning. As before, the sun brought a certain comfort and happiness, and the reader assumes that the outcome will be as positive ... sparkling blue was the sky”, in some respects Jane is at the dawning of a seemingly favorable transition. Jane and Rochester are married three days later, which is ironically almost exactly a year from the day Jane left Thorfield to avoid temptation. In Jane Eyre, Bronte uses the changing seasons and circumstances of weather as a way to almost dictate to the reader what the outcome of Jane’s and ...
- 4693: The Scarlet Letter: Guilt, Strength and Revenge
- ... was reminded of the sin and the problems it had plagued her with. Pearl also symbolizes the adultery to Dimmesdale when she asks him to join her and her mother at the scaffold during the day. He refuses her, but promises her that he will someday. "Not so my child. I shall, indeed, stand with thy mother and thee one other day, but not tomorrow." (Hawthorne 15 0) When he says this it can be interpreted in one of two ways. This could be a foreshadowing of his plans to admit to the people of the town ... the young clergyman a miracle of holiness." (Hawthorne 139) At the climax of the story, these factors have their greatest effect on the minister. After he preaches to the whole community on electio 8c6 n day, he reaches his lowest point yet. "It seemed hardly the face of a man alive, with such a deathlike hue; it was hardly a man with life in him..." (Hawthorne 246) As he confessed ...
- 4694: Kitty Freemont
- ... for the power of God was within them!" (uris,pg357) This is yet another passage of Kitty's growing understanding for the Jewish desires and purposes. She is growing to understand more and more each day. She is finally beginning to realize just what it is all about. They are not an ordinary group of people, they have been fighting this war for hundreds of years, and don't plan on ... that I am able to give without reservation or hope of compensation" (kitty,pg475) A great sense of fulfillment passed over Kitty when this understanding finally reached her. She felt complete, and happier than she'd ever been. A woman who had once felt a disliking for the Jewish population was finally beginning to understand and feel much a part of the whole thing. She knew she belonged there, and that ...
- 4695: Essay: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... much despised. The Ewells are given the privilege to hunt out of season, so that the residents of the small town of Maycomb would not have to tolerate their continuous begging twenty-four hours a day for seven days a week. These two families show the respectability of hard workers or, in the Ewells case, can fill their peers with sorrow. The Cunninghams have pride, as for the Ewells, they have ... daughter of Atticus Finch. While in school, a fresh young new school teacher known as Miss Caroline did not know the reputations of the predecessors of these two children. In what looked like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and a total adversity trip for the teacher. Walter Cunningham being raised in a very hard working environment was taught not to take what he could ... to him. For example he drowned his waffles in a lake of syrup. Bob Ewell's son, Burris was also faced in the same way but in an total opposite direction and purpose. The same day as the Walter Cunningham incident there was another incident concerning the Ewells. Burris had "cooties." A "cootie" came frantically flying out of the assumed Afro of Burris's hair, and scared the overseer of ...
- 4696: Comparing 'Casablanca' to '1984'
- ... t be bought or sold, and is seemingly a constant, always there and never too deep into the problems of the world. Sam represents the carefree aspect in all of us, the feeling that we'd just as soon turn our attention away from the war and hum a tune. Parsons could be the Sam of 1984, the escape from reality. Winston wishes he could simply give in as Parsons did ... in the face of defeat, and won their own victories. There are many similarities between the characters and events of 1984 and Casablanca. The line that sums it all up, was spoken by Rick. "That day in Paris, the Germans wore gray, and we wore blue." They dared to be different, and to be human, in a world gone utterly mad with its own evils.
- 4697: An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... stands alone in disbelief. Treatened by the men, to face the rumor or stand for his own belief. “McLendon whirled upon him his furious, rigid face. “You mean to tell me,” McLendon said, “ that you’d take a nigger’s word before a white woman’s? Why, you damn niggerlover.” (line 81) McLendon has set himself in the reader’s mind as the antagonist of the poor barber and also a ... dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars. (line 362) William Faulkner is truly one of the most infuencial writers of his time and still greatly respected to this day. By using the scene of “Dry September” he is able to demonstrate the life of four characters dealing with Southern life and racial segregation. The barber, who seems to stand alone in his beliefs. Miss ...
- 4698: Willy Lowman’s Drug for Sanity
- ... You do make me laugh..And I think you are a wonderful man” (1810). That reassures him and the woman leaves. Once again, Willy gets out of his hardship by using the past. The next day when Willy is fired after finally asking his boss if he can be relocated, is when his next trip to the past occurs. During this episode of the play, which is very dramatic, a flashback ... next flashback, when this time it doesn’t help him out it just hurts him. In this flashback, he is brought back to one of the most disturbing times in his life. It’s the day that Biff had discovered his father’s mistress while visiting him on one of his trips to ask him to come back home and negotiate with his math teacher. You now learn why Willy and ... a drug to cope with the misfortunes of the present. The way he overuses his vivid imagination is sad because the only thing it is good for is enabling Willy to go through one more day of his piteous life, full of bitterness, confusion, depression, false hopefulness, and a feeling of love which he is trying very hard to express to his sons who seem reluctant to accept it.
- 4699: Death of a Salesmen: Freedom And Willy’s Dream
- ... always paid attention to Biff and what he was going too so. As a result he has been neglected and has always tried to win his fathers attention, but to no avail. BIFF: Gee, how’d you know he wanted a punching bag? WILLY: Well, it’s the finest thing for the timing. HAPPY: I’m losing weight, you notice pop? WILLY: Jumping rope is good to. This kind of thing ... comes naturally to him now (P. 107). Happy does this because he is the peacemaker for the family. He wants to prevent his father from knowing the truth about what really happened to Biff that day because it could hurt him. He doesn’t want anyone to fight and he tries hid hardest to keep them all happy. Even after it’s all over and his father is gone he is ...
- 4700: Analysis of the Red Scare
- ... Revolution" which was taking place on American soil. As a result of this panic traveling through American society, a series of bombings occurred. The Socialists were immediately assumed to be responsible. Newspapers had a field day publicizing these bombings. Attorney General Palmer took advantage of the widespread panic of the public and media and asked Congress for fund appropriations to help avoid further danger. Congress obliged, not only supplying funds, but ... cause the Red scare, he only participated in it. What is known as the Red Scare of 1919-1921 set precedent to the witch hunts of the McCarthy era, where he accused two presidents (Dwight D. eisenhower was even a member of his own party) of being Communists Even today, many lessons can and have been learned from this experience. The main lesson learned is that the freedom of expression and ...
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