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- 8831: "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville: Captain Vere
- ... Budd. Nobody can truly fault Captain Vere for his decision, for Billy had killed Claggart on ship. However, Captain Vere is still a tragic hero. His decision cost the man his sanity, and upon his death all he could say was “Billy Budd...Billy Budd....Billy Budd...”. His concept of order, discipline, and legality remained in place, and Captain Vere paid the price for that.
- 8832: White Lilacs
- ... Not just because of the poor soil conditions but he never could replace the real ³Garden Of Eden² - The close friends and family of Rose Lee had a great morning to overcome. Due to the death of Grandfather Jim and the fact that they had lost so much. The time of the book is in the spring through the fall in the year of 1921. This is until the end when ...
- 8833: Ellison's "Battle Royal"
- ... The woman dancing represents the sick pleasure derived from the boys' torture. Ellison shows us a picture of the human mind, in seeing something to lust after then watching young men being beaten nearly to death as a form of entertainment. He does this to show us a view of human nature. In oppression to the torment the boys developed a sort of counter attack. The boys were so eager for ...
- 8834: Summary of Burk's "Runs With Horses"
- ... to jog three miles up a mountain and three miles back with a mouthful of water without swallowing it, and by wrestling all other boys his age with no mercy until one is very near death and the adults must pull him off of the other. Runs With Horses is the boys name. He completes the jog up and down the mountain, actually leaving behind the warrior who went with him ...
- 8835: Catcher in the Rye: Holden and His "Phony" Family
- ... prostitute. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me (Salinger 2). The way that Holden interacts with his sister, Phoebe, and the way Allie's death still affects Holden are two direct examples of the effects sibling relationships create. The relationships people share with siblings are often the longest-lasting they will ever have (Crispell 1). This idea, multiplied with the ...
- 8836: Art as an Insight into Jane Eyre's Life
- ... of Bewick's “History of British Birds,” concentrating on the descriptions of the certain landscapes in which some of the birds live. Her words paint a mental picture, one that represents her childhood, “Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive. The words…gave significance to the rock standing up ...
- 8837: Transfer of Power
- ... remains calm and collected. Ursula not only uses her power to help herself she maintains it for nearly a century. Incredibly Ursula is able to maintain her power for more then three generations after the death of Jose. Ursula accomplishes this not by making decisions that are always necessarily agreed upon but by standing by her decisions and not wavering. When money is found in a statue of Saint Joseph, whose ...
- 8838: The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold
- ... stood hand in hand before the town. Dimmsdale relieves his conscience and denounces Chillingworth for his lust for vengeance. After this final catharsis, Dimmsdale “sinks into a deep repose” and receives some closure before he death (233). “ ‘There was no one place so secret, no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me save on this very scaffold,' ” says Chillingworth (231). In the end, the place of their ...
- 8839: The Pearl: Selfishness and Greed
- ... with a dead body next to him. She gave Kino his pearl and told him that he had killed a man and that they had to leave immediately. By now, the pearl has caused the death of one person, turned everyone in town against Kino, and caused his family a lot of pain. All because of others jealousy toward Kino's new found wealth. In the end, Kino and Juana finally ...
- 8840: Heart of Darkness: The Symbol of Ivory
- ... out on a stretcher the evil has so overtaken him that, “I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arms waving. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze”. The evil has now grown to encompass his entire body, and ...
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