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- 8631: A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power
- ... Subconsciencely, he is powerful. If he is not, he could never had the mental strength of pushing Phineas out of the tree. This helpless nudge soon became a random act of violence that ended in death. Did Phineas purposelessly tried to take over Gene's life to weaken him and make himself more powerful? Most likely, not. Phineas is the perfectly natural and spontaneous person who is not capable of doing ...
- 8632: Contrasting Marlow and Kurtz and the Theme of Evil In "Heart of Darkness"
- ... exemplifies a lack of civility, which in turn provides the opportunity for the emergence of darkness. At the beginning of the novel Marlow begins his descent into the Congo, which presents a dark image of death and suffering. It was a thing which looked as dead as the carcass of some strange animal. I came upon more pieces of decaying machinery, and a stack of rusty rails. To the left a ...
- 8633: Compare and Contrast on Characters Rayona and Pearl
- ... characters that were very alike in the stories. They are also somewhat different. They lived lives that were very troublesome. Rayona had to go through the tough times of her mother's sickness and the death of her brother. She lived away from most of it, but still had to live with it. Pearl had to go through the tough times of her mother Hester being charged with adultery, she also ...
- 8634: Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes of George Orwell
- ... men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled...that it was just at that moment when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of Death to Humanity!Ή"10 Just as Squealer retold the event to NapoleonΉs benefit,the same thing can be said about Stalin. After he "became dictator of the Soviet Union, he had history books rewritten to ...
- 8635: Fahrenheit 451: Change
- ... woman was not like the rest. This woman refused to leave her books, replying Montag's pleads to leave with, "I want to stay here." She is even so bold as to bring her own death, for "in the palm of the [her] hand was a single slender object." An ordinary kitchen match. The woman's determination to die with the books rather than succumb to the rest of society shocked ...
- 8636: Summary of "Ceremony"
- ... tradition and move on, this being where the path's in the book began to split, then they realign themselves with the start of the war and then branch at the time of Rocky's death. As I said this was the straw that broke the camel's back and made the branch in the path turn into a tangled skein that no one except Tayo could straighten out. Tayo, had ...
- 8637: Catcher in the Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, and Violence
- ... his friends to think he is a coward so he does. Then the rest of them follow. In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once ...
- 8638: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- ... to the few working cameras left on the island and also to some detailed maps. They had two dangerous nights there following this but on the fourth night they found a way out of this death trap. After hours of studying the maps, and thinking they found it. A small building about the size of a two car garage was sitting by the river leading to the ocean. They determined that ...
- 8639: Racism in Wright's Black Boy
- ... life in fear of doing or saying the wrong thing and thereby subjecting himself to the wrath of the whites. He realizes that even a minor mistake in action or word could lead to his death. For most of his life, Wright had dreams of leaving the South. As a young teenager he says, "I dreamed of going north and writing books, novels. The North symbolized to me all that I ...
- 8640: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... s character is an allusion to the story of Lot's wife. He is unable to come to grips with the prospect of a new life, and his recollection of the past results in his death. Lot's wife died in the same manner. She turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back into her past. The parallel is emphasized by the scripture verse, a direct quotation from Lot ...
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