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- 4701: The Scarlet Letter: Different Levels Of Sin And Evil
- ... perfect, but because of the sinful act of passion that he has committed, his “record for God” has been tarnished forever. After seven long years of struggle, Dimmesdale does triumph over his weakness at the day he predicted, judgment day, the day he would die. Finally, we get to the deformed scholar, whose intellect gives him the title of the most evil and sinful person in the book, Roger Chillingworth. At first Chillingworth seems to be ...
- 4702: Underground to Canada
- ... were given. The overseer, Sims, would take all his anger out on the slaves. He would give 50 lashes if they would come short of 100 pounds of cotton by the end of the working day. The condition of the salves was not nearly as good as the slaves at Massa Hensen’s. The slaves were thin and frail like they were going to shatter any second. The children’s legs ... were done their work they played ring games. On Sundays their would be a priest come in and they would scrounge up a banjo and sing, dance, cook, wash, and stop worrying how the next day is going to turn out. In the mornings they would be given to eat a hoecake and a tin cup of buttermilk which Mammy Sally would pour for them. At the Riley Plantation things were ... o-nine tail whip. The slaves were treated so bad they did not want to come out of their huts because they were afraid of Sims. The hard labour the slaves had to encounter every day was to work at a steady pace, picking cotton from four o’clock in the morning until sun set. This was easy street if they knew how tiring the work was in the Deep ...
- 4703: Voltaire's Writing Techniques In Candide
- ... goes wrong in our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare. By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617 ... Candide tells Martin "At least you must admit that these people are happy. Until now, I have not found in the whole inhabited earth...anything but miserable people. But this girl and this monk, I'd be willing to bet, are very happy creatures" (Voltaire, p. 58). "I'll bet they aren't" (Voltaire p. 58), replies Martin, and he bets Candide that the couple are, in fact, depressed, and are ...
- 4704: Tom Clancy's Genius
- ... make. This is not the story of machines run by artificial intelligence, these are real people, friends, and neighbors of the reader. Bob Toland was a middle-level analyst at the National Security Agency. He’d left the Navy after six years whey the adventure of uniformed service had palled, but he remained an active reservist. His work at NSA dovetailed nicely with his naval reserve service. A communications expert with a degree in electronics, his current job eas monitoring Sovien signals gathered by the NSA’s numerous listening posts and ferret satellites. Along the way he’d also gotten a masters in the Russian language (Clancy 55). The description of Bob Toland could apply to anyone in the Washington D.C. area or any neighborhood across the U.S. With the ending of world communism, reunification of Germany, and breakup of the Soviet Union, Tom Clancy’s books evolved to present more modern enemies ...
- 4705: Vladimir and Estragon: A Symbol of Man
- ... wakes up from falling asleep he says “I had a dream”. Vladimir answers with “Don’t tell me”3. Another example is that Estragon often forgets events as soon as they happen or within a day, while Vladimir, on the other hand, remember past events4. This is shown when Pozzo and Lucky enter into the scene in the second act. Estragon and Vladimir see two men coming. Vladimir recognizes it as Pozzo, from the day before, but Estragon does not recognize him. The conversation starts with Vladimir: Poor Pozzo I knew it was him Who? Godot. But it’s not Godot. It’s not Godot? It’s not Godot. Then ... Vladimir acts as his protector. He sings to him, helps him take off his boots, and covers him with his jacket6. Every night they part, yet they find each other every morning and start another day of waiting. In each act, Estragon and Vladimir talk about hanging themselves form the tree. During this exchange of words, Estragon suggest that they hang themselves from a near by tree. Vladimir is the ...
- 4706: Perfectly Insane - Gulliver's Travels
- ... thing that the rest is overlooked. Someone with love and compassion, and lasting commitment, that is able to control primitive desires. People with rational almost that of the Houyhnhnms, but not as irrational as present day Yahoos. People like this forming a society that rewards for good, and punishes for evil, where there is no lying or fraud. There’d be a government that agrees on almost everything, and can see common sense and use it properly. Expecting anyone to become this unattainable “perfect” being may make Swift seem as crazy as Gulliver at the ...
- 4707: Catcher in the Rye and Generation X: Holden and Andy
- ... also sees sex as the same as aggression. As in his reaction to his fight with Stradlater, he treats aggression in the same way as he does sex. After losing the fight he says, "I'd only been in about two fights in my life, and I lost both of them. I'm not too tough. I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth." Although his swing at ... In many ways, Generation X's main character, Andy has a lot of the same issues, as Holden, without many of the neuroses that Holden suffered from. Fittingly, "Cosmopolitan" Magazine called Generation X, "A modern-day Catcher in the Rye." The book opens with a cartoon whose caption reads; "Don't worry, mother...if the marriage doesn't work out, we can always get divorced." This quotation typifies the social change ...
- 4708: Visitors From Oz
- ... s mother insisted that the books were fiction, he never gave up believing that they were as real as you and me. Even when he started to grow old, even then he still believed. One day after Samuel had grown and had become a big time movie producer, he was thinking about his next movie that he was going to produce. He had come to the conclusion that he would base ... was on-line. So he decided it would be worth a try. So he went into a few chat rooms and asked if anyone knew Glinda the good witch’s E-mail address. The next day he checked his E-mail and there it was, a letter from Glinda the good witch of Oz. In the letter she said that she would teleport Dorothy, Scarecrow, and the Tin Woods Man to Central Park at four o’clock in the morning. So Samuel made sure that he was there right on time, it’s not like something like this happens to you every day he was getting ready to actually meet the people from his child hood story’s. So as soon as they arrived, you can imagine how excited he was. After Samuel introduced himself he took ...
- 4709: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal ... painful experience with his hand which is in great pain and won't move. This is useful in the place where Christ loses his physical self and has less to deal with. On the third day, he recovers himself and returns to his home even though his only remaining treasure was a broken skiff, experience, and a torn up marlin. And in the final conclusion, you can see him dragging ...
- 4710: Flatland: Social Satire of Victorian English Society
- ... classics scholar, and Shakespeare expert (which explains the Shakespearean references in the frontispiece and several quotations in this book), as well as proficient in mathematics. He was headmaster of the City of London School, a day school from which he had graduated. In his book Flatlands: Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott describes the journey of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women who were thin ... the A. Square was speaking about a famous philosopher named Pantocyclus, who was actually stealing some ideas of Predestination which was a doctrine that the salvation and damnation of individuals has been foreordained by G-D; the determination beforehand of future events, destiny, and fate. He said that "neither good conduct or bad conduct is a fit subject, in any somber estimation, for either praise or blame." The one weak point ...
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