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5311: Hunger Of Memory: ... Rodriguez realized that his teachers’ actions were ones to appreciate. The conflict between speaking Spanish and speaking English had come to a head. No longer did Rodriguez hear the warm sounds of Spanish fill his house. Speaking English began to separate his family. As he and his siblings began speaking more and more English outside of the home, primarily at school, the parents had a more difficult time communicating with their ...

5312: Huckleberry Finn - Freedom: Huck Finn Journal (Freedom) Chap.1: pg.1 "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time.... so, when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out into my rags and was free and satisfied, but she always took me back." Huck is having trouble adjusting to ...

5313: Huckleberry Finn: ... the nice clothes she gives him stifling. He thinks Heaven ("the good place") dull and would prefer to go to Hell ("the bad place"- the word "Hell" would likely be thought impolite in a "civilized" house like the sisters') if his friend Tom is there. Huck's views are all completely naturalistic, free of any of the pretensions toward refinement that mark the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. Huckleberry ...

5314: Heart Of Darkness: ... her usefulness stops with the money. She is treated as a money tree instead of an individual with thoughts and views of her own. The only African women introduced in the novel is Kurtz’s house maid. She is looked upon as a different sort of object, she is the object of sexual desire. She is described with animalistic qualities by Marlow: "She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and ...

5315: Heart Of Darkness: ... simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies..."(44). Towards the end of the novel, Marlow is invited by Kurtz's fiancee to go to her house to speak of her beloved Kurtz. Upon her asking Marlow what his last words were, Marlow responded "The last word he pronounced was---your name"(131). He lies to her. He does something he utterly ...

5316: Heart Of Darkness: ... of an Ivory hunter named Kurtz. When Marlow found Kurtz in the Congo, Kurtz had "gone native" Marlow found, "a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole," outside of Kurtz’s house and Kurtz had been hunting with tribes in the area (Conrad, 73). When Marlow arrived Kurtz, was ill and dying. Kurtz cried out the words "The horror! The horror!" right before he died (Conrad, 85 ...

5317: Hard Times And The Nineteenth Century: ... succumb to their demands. The factory or mill owners joined together in the districts where a strike would be called and instantly closed the door of the unstruck plants. By the exchange at the public house, where the union meeting was held, and the meeting between Stephen and Bounderby, it is unclear what Dickens' views are towards unions. While he shows Bounderby, the owner of the mill, as a greedy capitalist ...

5318: Hans Christian Andersen: ... fertile women are taken to camps and trained to be handmaidens, birth mothers for the upper class. Infertile lower-class women are sent either to clean up toxic waste or to become "Marthas", which are house servants. No women in the Republic are permitted to be openly sexual; sex is for reproduction only. The government declares this a feminist improvement on the sexual politics of today when women are seen as ...

5319: Great Expectations: ... if they needed help with something. They earned their money the best way they knew how and were happy as could be. Then, came the day when Mr. Jaggers, a lawyer, came by Pip’s house. Mr. Jaggers explains to Pip’s family that an unknown man has "great expectations" for Pip. By Mr. Jaggers instructions, Pip moved to London and began to learn to live like a gentleman. He spent ...

5320: Great Expectations: ... critical step in David's spiritual journey to manhood. Dickens uses the pattern of changing scenes to provide both variety and contrast of mood. The atmosphere changes as the story moves along from the Salem House to Blunderstone, giving the story diversity. Dickens constantly shows how the life of David would have been much easier had he had a decent father figure in his home while he was growing up. David ...

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