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- 5081: Barn Burning 2
- ... an idea of the conflict that will arise in the story. The setting focuses on one thing for the boy Sartoris - justice. From the beginning in the courthouse to his walk to Major DeSpain s house he walks toward justice while his father is heads in the opposite direction. This presents the conflict between them. In Barn Burning the major theme is the conflict between father and son who portray family ...
- 5082: Fifth Business Character Foils
- ... a criminal price for a pair of shoes. I changed my shirt twice a week and my underwear once. I had not yet developed any expensive tastes and saw nothing wrong with a good boarding-house. (Page 113) This shows us that where as Percy was in pursuit of money and possessions, Dunstan was concerned elsewhere. Dunstan bluntly states that Percy was materialistic: To him the reality was of life lay ...
- 5083: Fahrenheit 451
- ... without literature -- everything from newspapers to novels to the Bible. Anyone caught with books hidden in their home is forced out of it while the firemen force their way in. Then, the firemen turn the house into an inferno. With pride, Montag carries out just that...Until one day he meets a young girl of seventeen who changes his mind about everything. Clarisse McClellan knows many things that Montag has never ...
- 5084: A Rose For Emily
- ... the town." Emily is somewhat of a recluse. After her fathers death, she is not seen for a long time. Two years later, after her lover Homer Barron disappears, she stays alone inside her house for at least ten years. During this time, her only relationship with another person is with her manservent, or Negro, Tobe. This relationship mimics that with her father in that she holds power over him ...
- 5085: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... attempt to make Huck into what the y believe will be a better boy. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would civilize me; but it rough living in the house all the time considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways (Twain 11).This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act ...
- 5086: American Beauty
- ... how sex an achievement into adulthood. The characters are shown to be mere objects to men, and sex is only a tool required to transport them to their belief of the American dream: little yellow house with a white picket fence, couple of kids, a dog, and a wonderful hard working husband as shown on television. Young women are warned, "Men only want one thing!" Older women have been heard to ...
- 5087: A Farwell To Arms- Book Report
- ... his of his affair with Catherine he leaves his previous wild life of prostitutes and drink. He states in the novel that spending the night with Catherine is better then spending the night in a house of prostitution even though his feelings for her are not deep at that time. He becomes aware of an element of stability in their affair and realizes that the war that he is involved in ...
- 5088: Analysis Of Frankenstien
- ... the creature come to life. He fled the room because he thought the creature was so hideous, even though he had chosen all the best body parts for its creation. When Frankenstein returns to the house when he became assured that my enemy had indeed fled, I clapped my hands for joy(55). Even after all his work he is ecstatic that this horrible beast has left him. Victors ignorance is ...
- 5089: American Dream
- ... and in the governments. The first aspect of the American dream is freedom from want. For the plantation owner, freedom from want might have meant owning more land and more slaves and building a bigger house. For the slave, the dream might simply have been eating decent food, wearing warm clothes, perhaps saving enough money to purchase his manumission. (McLennan, S.) Toward the later part of the nineteenth century, the picture ...
- 5090: Analysis Of Beloved By Toni Mo
- ... Some things just stay. I used to think it was my re-memory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the picture of it-stays, and not just in my re-memory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around outside my head ...
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