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- 8701: Grapes of Wrath: Awakening Of Tom Joad
- ... re helpin' to starve kids." moments before his head is brutally crushed by a pick handle. Enraged by the actions unfolded before him Tom grabs a pick handle and clubs one of the officers to death before hastily fleeing from the scene. This event finally made possible the awakening of Tom Joad. He recognized that if a common man were to ever get a fair chance to live their life, they ...
- 8702: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolism
- ... the Joad family will grow again. The rain contributes to the theme by showing the cycle of nature that give a conclusion tot he novel by showing that life is a pattern of birth and death. The rain is another example of mature against man, the rain comes and floods the living quarters of the Joads. The Joads try to stop the flood of their home but yet are forced back ...
- 8703: Gatsby's Dream
- ... the symbolic automobile can be seen as a demonstration of how an ideal based on materialism alone can be destructive. This was the fatal car which kills Myrtle Wilson and indirectly leads to Gatsby's death. Appearance is another important factor toward Gatsby's dream. In his quest to win Daisy's heart Gatsby chooses to wear his best outfit. “...the front door opened nervously and Gatsby in a white flannel ...
- 8704: Frankenstein: Victor
- ... laid there and recovered from his sickness enough to tell his entire tale to Robert Walton. He quickly got very sick and eventually died. That night Frankenstein's monster came to see him in his death-bed. He met Walton, who hated him very much, and told him of the rage he felt, and how his objective was nearly over.. all he has to do now is kill himself. He would ...
- 8705: Frankenstein: Morality
- ... of wickedness; but they confirm me in determination of not creating you a companion in vice."( pg. 163) Frankenstein will not sacrifice his morallity because of persuation from a monster. Although beholding the threat of death and misery Frankenstein held his ground and did not sacrifice his moral. When and if Frankenstein creates another monster he can not feel as if he has done the morally right thing. From creating the ...
- 8706: The Great Gatsby: Forces of Corruption
- ... the pretty illusions he concocts to the harsh reality of the obsession he allows to corrupt his life. Gatsby's character is probably the single most important factor in the story of his life and death. But Daisy and a society which rewards corruption play a part as well. F. Scott Fizgerald's depiction of the soured American Dream dramatizes the internal and external forces at work in a modern tragedy ...
- 8707: Fifth Business: Search for Self Identity
- ... create a completely new one and Paul asks Dunstan to write an autobiography that "in general terms that he was to be a child of the Baltic vastness, reared perhaps by gnomelike Lapps after the death of his explorer parents, who were probably Russians of high birth." (Davies' 231). The scenery of this autobiography seems significantly Canadian, but Paul does not want his book to represent his past life in Deptford ...
- 8708: Ethan Frome: Life As A Failure
- ... with Ethan, that she suggested in order to stay together forever, was to die together. It was Ethan's job to steer into the tree with the sled so that it looked like an accidental death instead of suicide. Instead of running square into the tree, he did not hit the tree right and it did not kill either of them. Instead it just injured them , and these injuries stayed with ...
- 8709: Steinbeck's East of Eden
- ... she gets more evil and displays her monster and animals like characteristics. She knows she is powerful and indestructible. She has manipulated and tricked many people her life causing them to go to the extreme... death. Catherine "Cathy" shows her evilness and her moster like behavior in many scene throughout the book. Steinbeck illustrates Cathy as being a monster , "I believed there are monsters born in the world ... It is my ...
- 8710: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- ... Utterson must have felt the first time he saw Mr. Hyde. This novel really reminds me of the time when I was playing a game on my computer with all these monsters and images of death and hatred. I remember it being about 10:00 p.m. at night when a thunder storm broke out. I paused and felt the shivers going through my spine and out through my feet. I ...
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