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- 8611: Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Pudd’nhead Wilson
- ... slum home, and her quickness to judge, condemn and cast out Maggie symbolizes the entire Bowery world. It is appropriate then that it is actually Mrs. Johnson who literally drives Maggie into prostitution and eventual death. She refuses to let Maggie back into the Johnson household after getting dumped by Pete. This makes her stay with Pete or go into prostitution. Mrs. Johnson actually thinks it was Maggie that brought all ...
- 8612: The Symbolism of Color In The Great Gatsby
- ... end of your dock." (p. 94) Said Gatsby. Gatsby had a car with a green leather interior too, "He felt the hot green leather of the seat." (p.121) When Michaelis was first describing the death vehicle to the police he thought it was green. "…--he first told the police man that is was light green." (p. 138) Weather green is the color of new money, the color of an unattainable ...
- 8613: 1984: Satire of the Middle Class
- ... is a big event in Oceania. The citizens prepare for it like Christmas. Instead of jolly songs with family and friends over punch, Hate week is celebrated with fists in the air while chanting about death, Goldstien, and whatever the party wanted the citizens to disgust. Winston hates the party and Big Brother. He hates the "pure" ones, also. Everthing about Winston's life drives him closer and closer to a ...
- 8614: The Member of the Wedding: Summary
- ... plan is thwarted when she is stopped by the police and brought back home. Much later, Frankie and her father move in to a house with her aunt, and uncle, because of her cousin’s death; and her cook quits. Frankie finds a sophisticated friend, in which she can relate to. The relevance of this theme is that change is a necessary part of life, and can’t be stopped from ...
- 8615: Ordinary People: Dysfunctional Family
- ... his anger on himself and expresses in extreme and dangerous depression and guilt. Guilt is a normal emotion felt by most people, but among survivors it takes on special meaning. Most feel guilty about the death of loved ones whom they feel they could have, or should have, saved. Some feel guilty about situations in which they behave selfishly; Conrad held on to the boat even after his brother let go ...
- 8616: Fahrenheit 451: The Books And Symbol Of The Phoenix
- ... is connected to the books as birds in an important value in the story. In respect to the actual definition of the word, the phoenix is a legendary fiery bird known to burn itself to death by building a pyre and rising fresh and young from it’s ashes. However, each time it burns itself, it doesn’t realize it’s mistake of killing itself over and over and taking it ...
- 8617: The Ambivalent Relationship of Nick and Gatsby
- ... parties long after he is sickened by the familiarity with Gatsby’s uninvited guests (Ornstein 61). Nick becomes Gatsby’s suitor as a friend and constantly returns to Gatsby through memory (Layng 2). Gatsby’s death can’t cure Nick’s misanthropy or open the gates of his emotional reserve ( Donaldson 138). Carraway’s return to the West seems like a sad retreat from the destroyed promise of the East( Ornstein ...
- 8618: To Be A Slave: Analysis
- ... mats, and even then they were lucky. Most of the time, slaves barely even saw wooden floors much less walk on them. The harsh beatings the slaves endured were enough to make a man welcome death. A man named Northup, known as Platt on the plantation, tried to make life a little less painful for the slaves on the plantation. Northup trained himself very carefully in the arts of the whip ...
- 8619: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... was dreadful lonesome.” Finally, Huck had enough; he was going to get out of there. After a long vigorous fight with his father he managed to escape. He then found a raft, faked his own death, and headed down the river, the river of freedom. On the river he met up with a run away slave, Jim. The rest of the novel consists of the two of them continuing down the ...
- 8620: Inman
- ... the drake would float there until the ice clenched the webbing in its feet. The drake would flap to try and free itself but his attempts would be useless. It would be pulled to its death. Inman thought to shoot and change its fate a little but he decided against it. He hated to kill an animal and not even eat it. So, he left it alone. Inman kept walking. The ...
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