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- 3361: Munro's How I Met My Husband: Edie's View
- ... her romances. Throughout the story Edie experienced many different feelings from things that made her feel good to things that made her feel horrible. She tells us that she loved being left alone in the house, to do her work when she felt like it. In this paragraph she also said how she loved the lighting in the kitchen and she loved the double sink. Then she compares it to her ...
- 3362: Grapes of Wrath Essay
- ... evicted from their farms and told to move some fifteen hundred miles away. The Joads’ lives had all of a sudden drastically changed, "The family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle."(128) Their change in values, was the first step in adapting. The change of environment came progressively: first ...
- 3363: If Eveline Were a Man
- ... is because of her sense of responsibility. Even though her father was an alcoholic and treated her horribly, she still selflessly supported him. Eveline's family life was disfunctional. There was no love in their house. The father was an abusive man. He never showed his children love. Eveline remembers once when her father put on her mother's bonnet and made the children laugh. This is one of the only ...
- 3364: The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- ... the pope by which people hoped to gain a share in the merits of the saints and escape more lightly from the pains of Purgatory after they died. This particular Pardoner works for a religious house notorious for fraud in this trade. Just as the indulgence bought with money seems to make confession, absolution and repentance unnecessary, so the fact that pardoners had permission to preach in the churches led to ...
- 3365: The Themes of Great Gatsby
- ... corrupted by the pursuit of wealth. The characters are mid-westerners that have come east in pursuit of this new dream of money, fame, success, glamour, and excitement. Tom and Daisy must have this huge house, a stable of polo ponies, and friends in Europe. Gatsby must have his enormous mansion before he can feel confident enough to try to win Daisy. It isn’t the American Dream itself, which is ...
- 3366: Huckleberry Finn: On the Surface…
- ... Huckleberry Finn is a satire. Twain makes fun of everything from religion and feuding, to ignorance and Romanticism. When taken literally, his sarcastic outlook could appear quite racist. When Huck arrives at Aunt Sally’s house, for example, she asks why he was late. Huck responds: “‘We blowed out a cylinder- head’ ‘Good gracious! Anybody hurt?’ ‘No’m. Killed a nigger.’ ‘Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt ...
- 3367: To Kill A Mocking Bird: Tom Robinson's Trial
- ... themselves after; they become role models. They set distinctions that result in the traditions of the town. The Black church in Maycomb, which was a place of worship on Sunday, is described as a gambling house for white men on week days. This again highlights that segregation was not only evident in public buildings but places of worship too. When Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to her church the Black members ...
- 3368: 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale: Lives of Dystopia Can Be Changed
- ... book. Offred could be considered to be unsuccessful because on page 273, she starts contemplating methods of suicide. She says, “There are a number of things I could do. I could set fire to the house. I could bundle up some of my clothes, and the sheets, and strike my one hidden match. I could tear my bedsheets into strips and twist it into a rope of sorts and tie one ...
- 3369: The Awakening: Edna and True Love
- ... important to her becoming an individual. The entire pre-Robert time was in preparation to finding him. Arobin's importance was evident with Edna's actions immediately following this affair. She decided to close her house up and move to a smaller, less desirable one. The fact that it is less desirable is a key factor. This makes it impossible to assume that she was moving out to live a better ...
- 3370: The Gift: Review
- ... s future. The setting of the book is placed during the 1950's. It is situated in a small midwestern town where there is a high school, a downtown, a skating pond, and a movie house. This was during the time when life was quite simple and when everybody was a little more free-spirited then now. People believed in dreams and believed that they could accomplish them even if it ...
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