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- 4711: Great Expectations: Miss Havisham and Disengagement
- ... because of the detail he gives to each character. The book is about loyalty, love, broken hearts, and life. Pip, an orphan, lives with his sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. One day on the marshes, Pip meets an escaped convict who forces him to steal food and a file from the Gargerys for him. The convict is almost immediately recaptured. Pip is subsequently hired by Miss Havisham ... introduced her to buy her brother out of a share in the brewery at an immense price. He told her that when he was her husband he would manage it all for her. The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, and the wedding guests were invited. The day came, but not the bridegroom. When Compeyson does not show up for the wedding, Miss Havisham stops all the clocks in the house at the precise time his letter of regret arrived, twenty minutes ...
- 4712: Holden’s Revelations
- ... end of the book when he is watching Phoebe on the carousel: All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she'd fall off the G-d D-m horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not ...
- 4713: The Scarlet Letter: Who is the Greatest Sinner?
- ... escape the punishments they had to face. It had seven years that Hester had to wear the scarlet letter. The letter was her punishment, and she was to wear it for life. However, on that day in the brook, “she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves (p.198).” In doing this, Hester violated her punishment. How can a person who does not acknowledge their punishment be innocent? Can a person who longs for the day she can escape her punishment be innocent? Hester had long to get rid of the letter for seven long years. On the day that Hester and her adulterer planned to flee, her thoughts of leaving her punishment behind were plenty. She couldn’t wait for the moment when “the deep, mysterious ocean will quench and hide forever ...
- 4714: Bartleby and A Gathering of Old Men
- ... societies: Bartleby chooses to be isolated from society but Candy is very active and involved in her community. Bartleby's coworker tells their boss that Bartleby should be fired: "Prefer not, eh?" gritted Nippers-"I'd prefer him, if I were you, sir," addressing me (the employer)-"I'd prefer him; I'd give him preferences, the stubborn mule! What is it, sir pray, that he prefers not to do now?"(11) Most people realize that they must carry out their job the way they are told; ...
- 4715: The Great Gatsby
- ... from Friday nights to Monday mornings. His house and garden is decorated with thousands of colored lights, “enough to make a Christmas tree of his enormous garden.” (39) “Buffet tables are garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.” (40) He has famous singers that entertain his guests whom are the most well known ... so prestigious. Gatsby is also compared to Hoppalong Cassidy. Both Hoppalong and Gatsby were trying to improve their selves. Gatsby evens has a schedule and “general resolves” that he followed. Hoppalong is remembered to this day because he was a fantasy character like Gatsby. Because of the portrayal of Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby he is seen as a larger-than-life Romantic figure.
- 4716: Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury
- ... loved only death, loved and lived in a deliberate and almost perverted anticipation of death” (Faulkner 336). Because of Quentin’s obsession with darkness, morbidity, and death itself, his point of view is almost futuristic. Day by day, he lives in anticipation, anxious for the day when his biological clock will cease to tick away the minutes of his unfortunate existence. Quentin’s dark point of view contrasts sharply with that of Benjy, and thus weaves another strand into Faulkner’ ...
- 4717: Hunting my own "Bear"
- ... morning and I was thinking to myself: "What am I doing here, when everyone else is sleeping comfortably in their beds." In addition, I was the youngest and the most ill-prepared, so the whole day was just learning how to do this and that, and what not to do. The following days got easier and easier for me just getting used to the schedule, but my uncle had this trepidating ... kind of signaled using my forehead. The most petrifying part of working at the shop was a screwed up job, if you screwed up on a job you would get yelled at, most severely. One day, as I was waking up from a deep, Sunday sleep. I was thinking: why does he always treat me like I can't do anything, what can I do to show him. So all the ... you're thinking, you just go on with your own thing." After he said this to me, I thought to myself maybe I should be more expressive with my thoughts and opinions. So from that day on I have been doing exactly the same. Whenever I feel that my opinions should be addressed, I do it. This has helped me in both school and at home; at school whenever I ...
- 4718: Death of a Salesman : A Social Criticism
- ... do not survive in America's production-based, time-crunch, fast-food and fast talk society. The play opens with Linda, the loving and ever-supportive wife, welcoming Willy home from another grueling and fruitless day's work. Linda loves her husband even though she knows "Willy is essentially a self-deluded man who has lost the power to distinguish between reality and the Walters 2 obsessions that come to dominate ... running off the road on his present sales route. Linda often accommodates these delusions, encouraging her husband that he is successful, handsome, and well-liked, perhaps just a little tired from all his hard work day in and day out. Somehow she makes ends meet at home while New York City grows up around their small, suburban house, blocking out the sunshine and even the fresh air. Meanwhile, Willy's career is stagnant ...
- 4719: The Influence of God In The Characters of The Scarlet Letter
- ... s mind and the last time that everyone is alive. At this point in time, Dimmesdale's fixation on his sin has utterly corroded him to the point of death. After he gives his Election Day sermon, he goes to the scaffold and asks Hester and Pearl to join him because he is so weak that he can hardly support himself (Bloom 265). He finally exposes the truth and tells his ... his retribution (127). Vengeance was also one of the reasons that Chillingworth gives up his identity. The only way he can truly corrupt Dimmesdale is to live with him and be by his side all day, every day. The only possible way to do that is to give up his true identity as Roger Prynne, Hester's husband, and become Roger Chillingworth. Since the only person who knew his true identity is ...
- 4720: ‘A White Heron’ by Sarah Orne Jewett
- ... for treasures’ that she could have, she was still more concerned with the toad and the fact that it was being ‘hindered’ in its attempt get to it’s hole under the stairs. The next day, while Sylvia kept the hunter company, she would once again be faced with her dilemma, “Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he killed the very birds ... in the child, was vaguely thrilled by a dream of love.” This is when we really see Sylvia experiencing feelings and emotions she never even knew she had. In fact, by the end of the day, Sylvia seems to be disappointed that her newfound companion is not having any success in his search for the white heron. “She grieved because the longed-for white heron was elusive, but she did not ... follow. Later that night, Sylvia would remember a pine tree she had seen many times before. “ Now she thought of the tree with a new excitement, for why, if one climbed it at break of day, could not one see all the world, and easily discover form whence the white heron flew, and mark the place, and find the hidden nest?” “What a spirit of adventure, what wild ambition! What ...
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