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- 1001: To Kill A Mokingbird
- ... of the treatment and attitudes toward African-Americans, times have improved and changed tremendously. Calpurnia was the black cook and housekeeper for the Finch family and had been for generations. During the time of the Depression, the family could not really afford to keep her, but Mr. Finch felt that during such a trying time, she really needed the money she earned by caring for his family. The Finch children appreciated ...
- 1002: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... This is how the children changed, matured and to saw things differently (Johnson,4). The novel was written about the 1930's. During this time the country was in the period known as the"Great Depression". Many people were jobless and homeless, many people lived in shanty towns, with shelters made of sheet metal and scrap lumber lean-tos. All over America it was common to see unemployed men and women ...
- 1003: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Unfairness of Life
- ... one of the poorest in Maycomb County. "Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest." (Lee, 21) He, like others during this time period were suffering from The Great Depression, and unfortunately there was nothing he could do about it. Although the Cunninghams are poor, that doesn't mean they appreciate help from others. In fact they are embarrassed to take charity. The Cunninghams are ...
- 1004: Materialism and Happiness in America: The Gatsby Era and Today
- ... s was an era, like the 1980's, of "mindless materialism and consumption and the pursuit of private wealth over public purpose (Denton)." The "Roaring Twenties" of Gatsby's day was followed by the great Depression, which although it included painful economic restructuring, had a positive side by forcing us to refocus our materialistic and human priorities. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a social commentary. Literary critic Marius Bewley suggests ...
- 1005: An Analysis of "The Grapes of Wrath"
- ... John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. The bank took possession of their ...
- 1006: Personal Writing: My Room
- ... and they show up in my room. From a baby till now, my mind has held a lot on in. It has held death and life, good and bad. It has gone through bliss and depression. My floor too is holding a lot on it. There are piles of clothes all around, and stuffed animals coming out of everywhere. Some say, how could I live with a room like this? I ...
- 1007: Madame Bovary: Destiny
- ... that an affair only brings happiness for a time and then it only brings misery. Her affair with Leon is the cause of many of her later problems, such as her debt, her sickness, her depression and her eventual death. Death. This brings us to the final fork in the road of Emma's life. She chooses to take the Arsenic as she feels overwhelmed and sees this as the best ...
- 1008: Personal Writing: Going to School in the United States
- ... my life. With this pressure at home in the United States, the most significant event that I had to deal with was my parents unhappily marriage. Receiving the news about my parents divorce brought severe depression and confusion towards my thought on life and why they sent us here to the United States. During this moment, I felt the reason that they sent us to America was only a excuse for ...
- 1009: Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
- ... the factory his father was thrown into jail for failure to pay his debts, only to be released three months later. This period of time affected Dickens greatly as he went into a period of depression. He felt abandoned and destroyed by this evil roller-coaster ride of life he was on. From this time period come many of the major themes of his more popular novels. Perhaps the most popular ...
- 1010: Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- ... the theme of the novel. The dystopian setting is brought about by technology and by higher authorities. As technology increases, the use for human beings in the work force decreases leaving an overwhelming amount of depression among humans. Therefore, a way to continue the production of technological findings is by bringing up humans from day one to accept their unhappiness as normal. By "breeding" human beings to accept the fact that ...
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