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- 1341: The Outsiders
- ... would interest a young mind, showing many students the seedier side of life. What it would be like to live under such circumstances in constant fear of their lives. It deals with gang warfare, alcohol, drugs, child abuse, murder, survival and growing up. These are areas that a pubescent teenager can easily lose themselves in. It forces the reader to realise that in many cases teenagers have no choice in what ...
- 1342: My Son's Story
- ... her. His motives are not related to achieving ultimate peace anymore. Clearly the knowledge of Sonny's affair is tearing his family up inside especially his daughter Baby. She is slipping into deep depression, taking drugs and slitting her wrists. This, however, does not matter to Sonny. His family is being ripped from the seams and yet he continues his desire for Hannah, disregarding the pain and anguish he is causing ...
- 1343: Book Review of "The Burning Man" by Phillip Margolin
- ... the coverup of the murderer, Kevin Booth, in order to coverup their drug use. Booth's under-cover FBI agent partner helped Steve Mancini uncover the truth, that the gril was killed by Booth over drugs and drug money. Gary ends up free after being convicted of murder while Peter ends up on the same page as his father and in love with the beautiful and intelligent Donna Harmon, whom he ...
- 1344: The Andromeda Strain: Summary
- ... back and every move he took seemed like a dream. He could see the next level just above him as he climbed but he just could not get there. He fought off the gas and drugs with every last bit of energy as he opened the hatch to the fourth level and began walking to the substation. It was so close but it seemed to take hours for him to get ...
- 1345: Hughes' "Black Voices oby the Tales of Simple": Jessie Semple
- ... war years), Semple who is from the urban ghetto is himself free of the problems that plague many ghetto dwellers during this time. Semple is a man who avoids the inhibititions of welfare, crime, and drugs which is something that many of his neighbors do not do, yet in no way is Semple ever shown to possess the intelligence of a genius, not even for his seemingly flawless character. Hughes' character ...
- 1346: Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- ... produced in test tubes and are genetically engineered with standardized traits" (Critical Survey of Long Fiction 2). Children are raised in laboratories were they are conditioned emotionally and socially through technology and the use of drugs. In their adult lives the "children" are part of a social class already predetermined for them before birth. Their predestined lives are filled with promiscuous sex and the shunning of any type of emotions towards ...
- 1347: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World: A Comparison of Themes
- ... world" become less human, but those who actively question the new values of society discover truth about the society, about themselves, and about people in general. An example of this is Huxley's views of drugs as an escape. The conforming members of society used widely a drug called soma, which induces hallucinations and escapes from the conscious world for two to eight hour periods. Those very few who didn't ...
- 1348: A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
- ... He eventually died after he had seen what society really was. This situation is a lot like Mason's situation. Mason moved out of our neighborhood and his new next door neighbor introduced him to drugs, killing that free spirit which made him alive. Society had taken the best of both Mason and Finy, but like Gene, I still had that inspiration which could never be stolen from either I or ...
- 1349: Comparison Between Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451
- ... world" become less human, but those who actively question the new values of society discover truth about the society, about themselves, and about people in general. An example of this is Huxley's views of drugs as an escape. The conforming members of society used widely a drug called soma, which induces hallucinations and escapes from the conscious world for two to eight hour periods. Those very few who didn't ...
- 1350: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- ... that Huxley presents, everyone is happy. There are no differences. Everyone is brought up to be happy, and most do not even know what sadness or anger is. All is cured artificially through surrogates or drugs. Even happiness alone is not unique to the individual. Soma, the hallucinatory drug, the 'perfect drug' that is used by all, even induces the same kind of happiness. The only variant is to what extent ...
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