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- 981: The Romantically Impaired Pruf
- ... shifts from his "universe" to his "digestion." The third theme is one of world weariness, which is begun in the line: "For I have known them all already, known them all." This theme underscores his depression from the life he leads. This is shown most effectively in the line: "For I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." Prufrock uses his weariness as an excuse for not doing what his ...
- 982: The Catcher in the Rye: Themes and Symbols
- ... in the Rye that explains the Holden behavior all through the book. In short it said his activities "describes a developing nervous breakdown." And if you think of the symptoms you would a agree. Unexplained depression, show countless time in the story as "I felt depressed as hell." And the why that Salinger keep using the world depressed, not bad or mellow but depressed he may have been hinting at it ...
- 983: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- ... him a quarter, the boy would not take it. Scout made the mistake of trying to explain the reason to Miss Caroline. The Cunninghams were poor country folks who had been hit hard by the Depression and were too proud to accept charity. For her trouble, Scout got her fingers cracked. Thinking that Walter Cunningham was the cause of her difficulty, Scout tried to beat him up. Jem would not let ...
- 984: Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men: Character Study
- ... to look for work. The story has historical significance as it is true that many families were forced, in the same way as the Joads, to leave their homes to look for work during the depression. It is in this fact that one can see how Steinbeck's intention in "The grapes of Wrath" was to depict the hardships people went through during an actual event in American history. Perhaps the ...
- 985: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolism
- ... 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 ...
- 986: To Kill a Mockingbird: 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 ...
- 987: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbols and the Theme of Man vs. A Hostile Environment
- ... 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 ...
- 988: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
- ... to his parents' inevitable wrath. Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression, impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his eventual nervous collapse. However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around Holden as it always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman ...
- 989: To Kill A Mockingbird 3
- ... about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance, hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing up. It 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 Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (The older of Atticus's two ...
- 990: Literature and Life: Of Human Bondage and Beyond
- ... and I would have no experience to share with anyone who may be interested in the uneventful life I had led. After I came to this startling revelation, I grew even more apathetic in my depression. I truly felt that there was nothing I could do to remedy this situation and was at a total loss for solutions. Soon enough, though, I concluded that there was no alternative to hard work ...
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