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- 3411: 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 ...
- 3412: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- ... bounding another fellow brother in Christ. In August 1841, WM. Lloyd Garrison, the speaker in the introduction, attended a slavery convention in Nantucket, and met Frederick Douglass, who had just escaped from the southern prison-house of bondage. (v) Douglass gave his first speech there. It proved his extraordinary abilities as a public speaker. His impressive eloquence persuaded the crowd, his antislavery speech so moving that it carved upon the audience ...
- 3413: A Eulogy for Gatsby
- ... The man then finds Gatsby and shoots him. I wish, like so many others, though they can not come today, that the truth be told earlier, so we could still be partying at Gatsbys house as we have so many times before. The parties which filled the whole community with joy and anticipation, would be hosted by the only man that could possibly pull off such an extravagant party week ...
- 3414: The Scarlet Letter: Guilt, Strength and Revenge
- ... will be for some time to come. The Scarlet Letter, possibly Hawthorne's greatest work, was written during a very bright period of his life. He had recently quit his job at the Custom's house in Boston and moved away. He moved to the socialist community of Brook Farm where other great thinkers and writers, such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emmerson, also lived. Along with this he ...
- 3415: The Scarlet Letter
- ... and her child. After unsuccessfully trying to get the name of her illegitimate partner, he decides that no one is to know that he is her husband. After her release, Hester moves to a small house in the forest. She is a master seamstress, and her clothes sell well, supporting herself and her child. The story moves it's focus from the town's stand on her adultery to Hester's ...
- 3416: Call Of The Wild: A Study of Jack London's Belief in Darwinism
- ... In the novel, The Call of the Wild, Jack London's belief in the Darwinian Jungle is portrayed by animals interacting with humans, each other, and the environment. This can be shown through Buck, a house dog turned sled dog, interacting with his masters, other dogs, and the Yukon wilderness. As Buck travels from master to master throughout the course of the novel he learns, through trial and error, what behavior ...
- 3417: Huckleberry Finn
- ... Huck's father comes back from where ever, he was he kidnaps Huck from Mrs. Watson and takes him to his cabin out in the woods. Whenever his father leaves, he locks him in the house, so he can't escape. Finally, after his dad left one day, he managed to get free and fakes his own death. Now every one thinks he is dead, and this is where Huck begins ...
- 3418: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- ... trip when the patients of us were only suspecting; these finally started to feel as men again. They felt weren't the same bunch of weak-knees on top of the world. From a nut house that they'd watched take their insults on the dock this morning. 9. I noticed vaguely that I was getting The Chief is starting to come around to life so I could see some good ...
- 3419: Fahrenheit 451: The Strength of Beatty
- ... Fahrenheit 451. One of his influential talents is Beatty's ability to confuse in his arguments. He used this ability to weaken Montag. He once said, "So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach mean's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute ...
- 3420: Black Rain
- ... he seems to dwell on finding out what caused this type of destruction. Something else that Mr. Shizuma wants to do is remember every little detail about what happens to everything from what angle the house was on after the bomb to what his wife cooked for dinner with the food rationing. He even likes to write how people cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries ...
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