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- 3941: With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
- ... got into trouble over them. He knew that what he thought was right was often in stark contrast to what his society deemed proper. He disagreed with the social hierarchy of Russia and paid the penalty. He may have paid a penalty for standing by what he thought was right, but he knew inside that he was doing the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He was relatively miserable his whole ...
- 3942: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... the chances for a better society. He feels that man must better himself in order to accomplish this improvement, by releasing the anger and hatred that is contained within. Absalom's arrest and sentence to death is another powerful proclamation, in that it signifies what may become of man if he does not improve these conditions. Similar "to the rebellious son of King David" (Alexander, 16) in the bible, Absalom goes against the ideals of his father. After he commits the murder of Arthur Jarvis and is given a death sentence, we see a change in Absalom, an image of what may have become of Absalom had he chosen a different path. Contained within him is regret and remorse, as he considers the alternatives to ...
- 3943: The Lottery 2
- ... This event takes just a few hours to accomplish. The losing family then has to draw to decide who will lose in the household. The person who draws the dot will then get stoned to death. This is a ritual for the townspeople each year. There are people who agree and disagree with this annual event. The older people in the town are accustomed to this event; therefore, it is easier ... that she has pulled the piece of paper with the dot on it. She faces reality when everyone from the town has picked up the stones. The towns people now have to stone Tessie to death. Her own family does this cruel act of stoning to her also. The controversy goes even farther with Old Man Warner. Old Man Warner is the oldest man in town. He has been there for ...
- 3944: The Lord Of The Flies 2
- ... Piggy, and Simon. Now Piggy did not stand a chance from the beginning. When they first get on the island all everyone does is make fun of him and that does not stop until his death in the end of the story. The thing that the others do not notice is that Piggy is a smart kid who knows what he is doing. He knows that if he sticks on Ralph ... without leadership they wouldn t have all these kids following them around doing whatever they told them to do. Piggy and Simon are some of those followers and this is what ultimately leads to their death.
- 3945: Shermans March
- ... greatest sin and Southerners who supported the Confederacy. Confederacy deserved to be treated like criminals. To those who submit to rightful authority, all gentleness and forbearance, he proclaimed. But to petulant and persistent secessionists, why death is mercy and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. (Nevin, 8) This quote shows a very hard man, one who could not forget why he was destroying Southern plantations in the ... the soldiers felt toward the enemy. Got copy of Augusta paper of last Saturday, 26th, ridiculous editorial- where is that fellow Sherman anyhow? Urges rebel General to make the Oconee (river) Shermans river of death; Funny to read this after crossing the Ogeechee, and seven days after he crossed the Oconee- both rivers crossed without a shot. (Hitchcock, 120) In conclusion, Sherman and his men evolved a comradeship unlike no ...
- 3946: The Huckleberry Finn Controver
- ... just the USA, try to be censor and shelter the children. I think that it is wrong to censor things, this book is supposedly wrong because it says the word nigger a lot and has death in it. I think that although the word nigger was used frequently in this book it showed the separation between the slaves and the owners and how Huck overcame this separation and saw through the ... than just a fairy tale world where nothing goes wrong, because in real life things do go wrong and people do get shot and killed. It is hard to read these kinds of things with death that are gruesome but it helps form feelings for the characters. Also it was necessary for them to find the dead man so that Huck didn t have to worry about pap taking his money ...
- 3947: A Tale of Two Cities: Reversal of Characters
- ... love for Lucy changed him greatly though the course of the novel. He stopped drinking when he visited, and even pledged his life to her, and everyone she loved. Carton changed even more dramatically when death on the guillotine was approaching. He waxed philosophical about the future, and even quoted a few scriptures. This is most certainly not the man first seen at the Old Bailey with the sideways wig. Another ... illustrated that they could be just as heartless as their rich counterparts, the aristocrats, when it came down to it. For example, anyone who was an aristocrat, or even associated with aristocrats, was sentenced to death. As the novel went on, the French people grew more heartless, for the executions continued without end. This last reversal in character is the most disturbing, because it holds true in the real world. These ...
- 3948: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... pride. This flaw causes Victor to rush into something, for which he is not prepared. He fulfills his ambition and makes the biggest mistake of his life by creating a monster. Finally, just before Victors death, he has his catharsis. He tells Robert his story and cleanses himself. seek happiness in tranquillity, avoid ambition (pg. 205) This paradox, that he created a creature to help society, but it turns out to ... caring and Romantic. The monster is born as a romantic, but because of the worlds transgressions on him, he becomes an anti-Romantic and a Gothic character. The monster become dark, and wants to bring death and destruction to everything around him. Now, when he sees beauty, he becomes jealous. but she, shall suffer; the murder I have committed because I am forever robbed of all that she could give, had ...
- 3949: The Odyssey: Odysseus
- ... his emotions. There were times when Odysseus wanted to give up. Before arriving in the lad of the Phaecians, he tossed about for two nights and two days on the rolling waves, always looking for death. (70). The physical pain he was experiencing under the direction of Poseidon was too great for even this strong warrior, and he felt death would be his only relief from earthly suffering. Yet, in this hour of trial when the entire world seemed to forsake him he managed to survive once again. He made it to land, where he ...
- 3950: Same-sex Marriage
- ... benefits to marriage. Studies show that, generally, married couples are more economically stable. When Sandra Rovira's life partner died in her arms from cancer, her partner's company, AT&T, denied any and all death benefits to her. AT&T made it clear that if the law recognized homosexual unions, so would they. Twelve years earlier, Ms. Rovira and her partner, Ms. Forlini, formalized their relationship in a ceremony where ... legal recognition of their constitutionality and the constitutional sanctity and importance of their marriage, 7) insurable interests in each others lives, 8) next-of-kin status in medical emergencies, and, 9) in the event of death, the right to one-half of each other's estate." (www.clark.net/pub/quaker "Love and the Law") These rights are for all people who love each other. Not only heterosexuals. In 1988, three ...
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