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- 5331: Fahrenheit 451 - Similarities To Our Society
- ... get where they want a lot faster. Clarisse and Montag make it obvious to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet each other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' she said. 'If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he ...
- 5332: Exiles
- ... and how she was exploited. The author uses this as a voice because it tells how her mother also used her hands at her jobs. The author also shows where she received her traits in house cleaning from her mom. The author feels that "I sometimes find myself thinking that if worst comes to the worst, I can always earn a living with my hands"(655). "If you want something, you ...
- 5333: Everyday Use
- ... upset when the family home burned to the ground while she was just a girl, "Why don’t you do a dance around the ashes? I’d wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much." (486) Dee’s character in the story is a direct relation to any number of people in society that do not know or are confused about their heritage. She is struggling to create ...
- 5334: Everyday Use
- ... perceive that the idea of prejudice appears related to the fact that Maggie feels bad about her sister. Maggie is extremely jealous of her sister; she does not like the presence of Dee in her house. As her mother says in the story, " Maggie will be nervous until her sister goes…eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe." She believes that her sister gets everything she wants; all ...
- 5335: Eveline
- ... De La Salle Institute, he attended a preparatory school, Betts Academy in Stanford, Connecticut. From 1906-1907, he attended Princeton. After a year, he was kicked out for breaking a window in a stationmaster’s house. Throughout these years of education his home life, or life on the road, wasn’t very good. According to George H. Jensen in the Dictionary of Literary Biography , Eugene’s home life was crucial to ...
- 5336: Ethan Frome
- ... The use of the wind and the snow in Starkfield help to place a label of despair on the town. The narrator says, ‘The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in all its plaintive ugliness. The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped from the porch, and the thin wooden walls, under their worn coat of paint, seemed to shiver ...
- 5337: Emma
- ... and she was spoiled by her old, affectionate father. Her mother had died when she was only a child and her sister, Isabelle, had married at an early age. This made her mistress of his house from a very early period. Emma’s self image is very strong and she is doubly pleased with her match-making skills, which turn out to be disastrous for her friend Harriet. Harriet Smith is ...
- 5338: Educating Rita
- ... character from achieving this goal. This assures us of conflict. And conflict is drama. " Denny, Rita's husband strongly opposes her spending time on education. He wants her to have a baby and become a house-wife and throughout most of the play he is trying make her quit what she is doing. Denny is definitely the opposition character. In the play Rita tells Frank that Denny has burnt all her ...
- 5339: Editha
- ... war and even encouraged his friends to do the same. His friends even nicknamed him Captain because of his leadership in encouraging them to sign up. George showed up late that night at Editha’s house to tell her that he signed up for the war. Editha was very excited but tried not to show it. She did not want him to think that she was the one who pushed him ...
- 5340: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... stories such as this one Poe rejected democracy, social reform, and the doctrine of progress. He had no faith in democratic institutions and no belief in natural goodness( Blair Hornberger Stewart). The Fall Of The House Of Usher is yet another story by Poe that is saw as a remembrance of his late wife Virginia. The way that this is seen is through Poe’s use of symbolism such as, he ...
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