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- 1011: Animal Farm
- ... Stalin. Snowball, the opposing force of Napoleon, is Trotsky. Framer Jones, the oppressive owner of the farm, is Czar Nicholas II. Farmer Frederick, the neighboring farmer who the animals later do business with, is Hitler Germany and Farmer Pelkington, another neighboring farmer, is England (Smyer). Old Major was the main figure of the rebellion although he died before it actually occurred. Animal Farm is a novel perpetuating Marx's convictions of ...
- 1012: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... back and took the blossoms and laid them on his bed. Two days later Paul discovered that he was missing. After a few weeks of Deterings disappearance news came that he had headed back to Germany but was captured by the military police. No more information about him was heard of after that. Tjaden Tjaden was a cunning and somewhat greedy man. After coming back from the front he was the ...
- 1013: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... it was best to convince young men to enter the war to support and fight for their country. They were not told whom they were really fighting for, or the cause. In Paul s case, Germany was under attack from many sides, and it was best for him to head for the front lines and defend his fatherland. Paul was almost brainwashed and was completely convinced that he was doing the ...
- 1014: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... As the war went on, they saw their friends either die or be permanently wounded. Then the end comes when there was only one person left. All Quiet on the Western Front takes place in Germany where a group of young boys are first encouraged to join the military. Thinking that it would be a great adventure, they enlisted, not knowing the fate that lies before them. At first, the group ...
- 1015: Catch 22 And Good As Gold - Sa
- ... they are satires and why they are. Catch-22 is a satire on World War II. This novel takes place on the small island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean sea late in the war when Germany is no longer a threat. It is the struggle of one man, Yossarian, to survive the war. Throughout this novel Yossarian is trying to escape the war, and in order to do so he does ...
- 1016: Bright Shining Lie
- ... Vann also led a secret life that he tried to keep hidden from most people. Vann had the habit of seducing women and keeping mistresses as young as 15 years of age. While stationed in Germany he had and affair with his 15-year-old babysitter, she went to the army and an investigation was launched. He convinced his wife to lie for him, and eventually figured out how to fool ...
- 1017: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... places from his life, and his careers. Each of these elements shows up in his works. His mother's suicide shows up in a subplot of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. While Vonnegut was in Germany during World War II, his mother became depressed and killed herself with sleeping pills the night before he came home for a Mother's Day visit (Amer. Lit. Bio., 301). He once wrote: [Suicide] has ...
- 1018: 1984 Thematic Essay
- ... the society is efficient, it means nothing since the people cannot enjoy anything. The techniques used by the party have happened in different places of the world in history. Hitler changed the history books in Germany during the late twenties and thirties. Stalin and Lenin also had people executed or imprisoned if they did not agree with their ideas. This book compiles all of the worst situations that could possibly happen ...
- 1019: Beauty And The Beast
- ... remain that way until they learn their lesson. Greed will get you no where. The Lady and the Lion, was written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, it in 1812. The Grimm brothers had traveled around Germany and listened to the older womens tales. This was very different from the French version of Beauty and the Beast, as you will see. The Father takes a long journey. The eldest sister wanted ...
- 1020: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... This is mainly through each of the character's personalities, which are so well-developed that you find yourself wondering if these were real people at some time or another and you might travel to Germany to meet them. The plot is not linear, and in most cases I would say that this is a negative thing. However, in the book the author actually uses it to enhance the storyline by ...
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