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- 961: To Kill A Mockingbird: A Summary
- ... whether to defend or not to defend Tom Robinson. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. The story begins during the summer when Scout and Jem meet a new playmate named Dill who has come from Mississippi to spend the summer ...
- 962: Ordinary People: Dysfunctional Family
- ... seventeen year old, making him think, He wishes himself, for a moment, back inside the hospital were things were predictable. Mercifully dull(21). He turns 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 ...
- 963: Stephen Coonts' "Flight of the Intruder": Summary
- ... the first few pages Jake's best friend and B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese soldier's rifle. In this mission their target was a "suspected truck park." Jake goes into despondency (depression, despair) for a days and tries to convince his squadron leader that the targets are worthless, that thousand of Americans have died en route and returning from these. The leader replies that he is not ...
- 964: 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 ...
- 965: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... work. By publishing these experiences and trials of the migrants he achieved an effect that won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. The writing of The Grapes of Wrath coincided with the Great Depression. This time of hardship and struggle for the rest of America gave Steinbeck inspiration for his work. Other peoples' stories of everyday life became issues for Steinbeck. His writings spoke out against those who kept ...
- 966: Morrison's Beloved: A Review
- ... Her faith in God and self makes her the prominent legacy. As she rose above slavery so have other individual rose above persecution and hardship across the years. For instance, World Wars, Holocaust, and the depression to name a few. Morrison throughout Beloved offers realism of the times and consequences that occurred with the slaves. Morrison paints a picture post -Civil War life that leaves many black people lost in America ...
- 967: Life During the Civil War
- ... Russell, 136). Most Negroes had fled their plantains and would not go back except under government control(Private and Official Correspondence, 33). It appears that the people of the United States were falling into a depression due to their lack of ways to make money or get paid. Most people over reacted to what was nothing important at all. While on the other hand, some civilians were getting there houses burned ...
- 968: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... name is but think of me as a rejected outcast. (Dickinson 23) The mood of a damp, drizzly November in the soul, sets the whole mood for the whole novel. It is a state of depression, emptiness, and alienation from life values. (Glien 60) Herman Melville experienced many hardships in his life; Beginning with his unstable childhood and the slight rejection by his mother, more of a favoritism toward another sibling ...
- 969: The Chrysanthemums 2
- ... masculine and the feminine. Elisa generally wears bland, baggy clothes that tend to de-gender her. Her husband Henry is more practical, with greater involvement in physical concern; but is confronted by a woman whose depression is partially due to a confusion of sexual identity. Henry withdraws from the masculine role of leadership, leaving Elisa to flounder between aggression and submission. Here Steinbeck offers no solution for the psychological conflicts that ...
- 970: Emily Dickinson On Drugs?
- ... her after this life. Once again, in her poem "Because I could not stop for Death," Dickinson is writing about her death, only she's talking in the past tense like she's already dead. Depression? Withdrawal? Crack? Will someone please tell me what the hell is wrong with this woman? This lady is obsessed with her own death; my suggestion to her is to get a life before she really ...
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