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- 4721: War And Peace By Leo Tolstoy
- ... serfs was very hard to come by, since they became very close to them. The women from this class served in hospitals and became nurses, like Natasha Rostova did, or hid wounded soldiers in their house from the French army. Men from this class organized their own little armies of peasants and fought with guerilla warfare when the French army was retreating, as captain Dolohov did. According to Tolstoy, these people ...
- 4722: Of Mice And Men
- ... know anybody else in the entire world. They share their hard times and the good, their victories and their defeats, but most importantly they share a common dream. That dream is of having “a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs an’ live off the fatta the lan’”(14), where Lennie can take care of the rabbits just as George has been taking care of ...
- 4723: Nineteen Eighty Four - Fiction
- ... frighten people and give them more power. The Party can do anything they like and when someone questions them they can just say there under orders from Big Brother. Big Brother is everywhere in every house (except proles), every street, wall, and he is always shouting out “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” the text which backs this up is when Winston describes that ‘On each landing, opposite the lift shaft the ...
- 4724: No Exit And Its Existentialist
- ... shock the reader, and provide a good interpretation of Garcin's true character. He states: "Well here's something you can get your teeth into. I brought a half-caste girl to stay in our house. My wife slept upstairs; she must have heard - everything. She was an early riser and, as I and the girl stayed in bed late, she served us our morning coffee." (No Exit, pg. 25) This ...
- 4725: Native Son
- ... novel written about a black boy trying to grow up in a white man's world. Bigger, the main charter, is growing up in a typical black neighborhood. He is the only man of the house so he must help his mother support them. In this novel it is important to understand that Bigger is prone to violence. In every tough situation he gets stuck in he refers to a violent ...
- 4726: Jane Eyre As A Modern Woman
- ... housework and depended on their husbands. Jane, on the other hand, was educated and therefore, she could read well. Jane is actually extremely modern because she started reading as a little girl in the Reeds’ house. For example, before she and John got into a fight, Jane sat down by the window and began reading. “I returned to my book--Bewick’s History of British Birds... quite as a blank.--10 ...
- 4727: Battle Between Sexes Critical
- ... service, but had never went into SEAL training. The roles are changed while Jordan takes on that of a man’s job and her boyfriend goes about his usual job and taking care of the house while she is gone. She is free to do what she wants and he is free to do what he wants. Naturally, he was hoping she wouldn’t make it through because he did not ...
- 4728: Book Comparison Of Sister Carr
- ... dreamed of. Janie meets Joe Starks, who tempts Janie into leaving Logan by telling her “‘You ain’t got no mo’ business wid uh plow than uh hog is got wid uh holiday!…A pretty doll-baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch and rock and fan yo’self…’” (p. 28, Their Eyes Were Watching God). Janie eventually finds unhappiness with Joe but doesn’t do anything ...
- 4729: Beowulf Man Or Myth
- ... publication. WORKS CITED Bolton,Whitney. Alcun and Beowulf. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1978. Donaldson,Talbot. Beowulf A New Prose Translation. New York: Norton Company, 1966. Gardner,John, Grendel. New York: A Division of Random House,Inc., 1971. Greenfield,Stanley. A Critical History of Old English. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Irving,Edward. A Reading of Beowulf. London: Yale University Press, 1968. Kierman,Kevin. Beowulf the Epic Poem. New Jersey ...
- 4730: Yosano Akiko
- ... life. She wants him to carry on the family name of a merchant in Sakai, and to take care of his mother and wife. Their mother is now widowed, and needs her son so the house isn't all alone. In line 29, it says she's pathetic in her grief. So she must be dissapointed in her son for wanting to go. I think the mother is really worried because ...
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