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- 5571: The Theme of Carelessness in The Great Gatsby
- ... Obviously, Tom did not want everyone to know what he had been doing, but his careless actions revealed the truth. Gatsby was a spendthrift with his money. He spent thousands of dollars on parties, his house, and all of his possessions just to impress his lover, Daisy. In other ways, Gatsby was overly careful. When Daisy killed Myrtle Wilson with his car, he took great precautions about the situation. He told ...
- 5572: Great Expectations: Themes of Love, Redemption and Isolation
- ... her to his true nature, as Herbert remarked, "too haughty and too much in love to be advised by anyone." At Compeysons desertion her anger and sorrow became extreme and she threw herself and Satis House into perpetual mourning and a monument to her broken heart, shutting the world out and herself from the world. Her only concession is in her adoption of Estella. Miss Haversham has ulterior motives in adopting ...
- 5573: Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults in the Creation
- ... brought about. Works Cited Lowe-Evans, Mary. Frankenstein: Mary Shelly's Wedding Guest. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. Oates, Joyce Carol. "Frankenstein: Creation as Catastrophe." Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Shelly, Mary. Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus. New York: Penguin Books, 1978. Tropp, Martin. Mary Shelly's Monster. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
- 5574: An Education in Escape: Madame Bovary and Reading
- ... of escape start to dominate. But these are merely visual images and even these images are either religious in nature or of similarly confined people. She wished she could have lived in some old manor house, like those chatelaines in low wasted gowns who spent their days with their elbows on the stone sill of a gothic window surmounted by trefoil, chin in hand watching a white plumed rider on a ...
- 5575: Deliverance
- ... see life as a game, but instead as a struggle that will pass you by as long as you to do not interfere. He is a normal man with a lovely family, a delightful suburban house, and a good job. Drew is often seen as a self-made-man that has been living in the city too long and has forgotten how to be independent. He has spent so much of ...
- 5576: The Scarlet Letter: Darkness Illuminated
- ... his dark tale, one follows Hester as she goes to Governor Bellingham's mansion. Light is reflected by almost every aspect of the extravagant dwelling. Through the narrator's words, we see the Governor's house as Hester sees it: "...though partly muffled by a curtain, it [the hallway] was more powerfully illuminated by one of those embowed hall windows..." (Hawthorne 101). One can envision the brilliant sunlight streaming though the ...
- 5577: Cry The Beloved Country: Book Review
- ... to his point. I think that the theme that Paton was trying to get people to see to forgive people for something they have no control over. He shows this when Kumalo goes to Jarvis house to apologize for what his son did. Also, he shows the theme when Jarvis tells Kumalo that he will build him a church. When he decides to build the church it is his way of ...
- 5578: Call of the Wild: Character Sketch - Buck
- ... his food as fast as possible so as not to have it stolen. At about this point in the book, we see Buck start to go through a metamorphosis of sorts. He transforms from a house dog to a more primitive, savage version of his former self. It was as if hundreds of years of knowledge, learned by his ancestors, were dug up and brought out. Buck proceeded to lose all ...
- 5579: Black Rain: Reader Response
- ... 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 ...
- 5580: As I Lay Dying
- ... Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press, 1973. Howe, Irving. William Faulkner: A Critical Study. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. William, Faulkner. As I Lay Dying. New York: Random House, 1985.
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