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- 4841: Farenheit 451 2
- ... who lived to save them. "It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spouting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of an amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down ... the world he existed. Clarisse's imagination, intelligence, and questioning personality rubbed off on Montag as he too began to stop and look at the world around him. This signified the beginning of Montag's great change. Many things pushed Montag to further change. The second of these events was the alarm at the old woman's home. When Montag witnessed the old woman burn herself with her books, he realized ...
- 4842: Everyday Use By Alice Walker
- ... the house. She behaves like a nervous tourist around unknown culture, capturing it all on film for some kind of display. She also changes her name from Dee to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjol. (2243) To the great surprise of her mother, she says the following: I couldn t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me. (2243) This shows how she wants to change personality, hiding her family tree behind her name. But her name means a lot to the family as she was named after her grandmother and great-grandmother and would be easier for the family to trace down the generations of the family. That s about as far back as I can trace it, I said. Though, in fact, I probably could ...
- 4843: Eight Men Out
- ... and of course Buck Weaver were grouped together with others to have conspired to dump the games. However, Jackson hit .375 including the Series only home run, Weaver hit .324 as well as making numerous great defensive plays, and McMullin in his short role was 1-2 with a single. How did these guys contribute to throwing the games? In the film Buck Weaver is present during the meetings, but doesn ... to see. It is very much a game of wage earners against employers, not the Chicago White Sox vs. the Cincinnati Reds. The Black Sox scandal was an important symbolic event in American history. The great American institution of baseball, which represented our finest traditional values, was revealed to be corrupt. As Steven Riess so appropriately states, "If baseball was no good, what hope was there for the rest of our ...
- 4844: Edith Whartons The House Of Mi
- ... and her predetermined fate , was to marry wealth. For Lily like any good victim, there are always flaws to even the most water tight plans. Lily s first challenge to her goal of , marrying a great deal of money (page 83) is the constant threat of time. Lily Barts physical beauty, is a perishable commodity. Miss Bart is first introduced to the reader at the not so tender age of twenty ... to show Lily a better alternative. For all his objection to the values of the upper class, Sheldon himself sees Lily as a commodity, He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make (page 5). By viewing Lily as a decorative object he has stepped into the role of the society of which he feels Lily is a victim (page 7). So ultimately Lily has ...
- 4845: Edgar Allen Poes Fall Of The H
- ... the narrator is approaching the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, Poe refers to the house as the melancholy House of Usher (718). This could be interpreted as the house being in a state of depression, in reality houses don t have a sense of feeling, Poe is giving the house life with these words. This is the first sign of a supernatural or unusual atmosphere. When the narrator is examining ... he is seeing and how he feels as he looks upon the house, the vacant eye-like windows upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium (718). This statement contributes to the collective atmosphere of despair and anguish, the ...
- 4846: Dickens As A Motivator Of Soci
- ... misleads the reading into thinking that Oliver Twist is no more than entertaining fiction is the deceptively simple plot: action, suspense, obvious "good guys" and "bad guys" and a happy ending. Oliver himself provides a great deal of the action. He fights Noah Claypole, a bullish adopted boy, after Noah makes disparaging comments about his mother (48). As a result of this, Oliver himself is beaten by every member of this ... of. If this one boy can go through such a cruel life and come out as noble as he did, then there is hope for all people. Dickens shows that there is no punishment too great to keep the human spirit down. This message makes the reader more ready to see Dickens other messages about social evils. It is reasonable to assume that during Dickens life there was a large amount ...
- 4847: Critical Analysis Of Huckleber
- ... book still very popular today. Mark Twain is trying to confirm that society is wicked. He uses tone changes to keep the reader interested and for suspense purposes. In my opinion the novel is a great child's book and a great book for older people to fashion their lives after.
- 4848: Crime And Punishment - Russian
- ... necessary to mention him to prove the need for change in Russian society. His liberal education and distress at the outcome of the Crimean War, which had demonstrated Russia's backwardness, inspired him toward a great program of domestic reforms, the most important being the emancipation (1861) of the serfs. In 1861 and 1862 revolutionary leaflets were distributed in St. Petersburg, ranging from the demand for a constituent assembly to a ... he bore little resemblance to his softhearted, impressionable father and still less to his refined, chivalrous, yet complex granduncle, Alexander I. He gloried in the idea of being of the same rough texture as the great majority of his subjects. His straightforward manner savoured sometimes of gruffness, while his unadorned method of expressing himself harmonized well with his roughhewn, immobile features. After repealing a law set forth from his father s ...
- 4849: Comparison Of Alex From Clockw
- ... as a brutal monster. An insurrection soon ensues. Jack and his hunters form their own party on castle rock. Their actions now include sacrifice and barbaric rituals. One for example occurred around the campfire. A great log had been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted and garlanded sat there like an idol (Golding 149). Jack then started a war dance around the fire. Recreating the hunt, they ... not tolerate this any longer, is his suicide attempt. He seeks that final exit where he is no longer made subject of the cruelties of a civilized and hostile society (url http://www.members). The great question is was the cure worse than the condition. Alex himself is the clockwork orange , in his brain washed state the equivalent of a mechanical imitation of a living thing. Ultimately the inability to choose ...
- 4850: Change In Heart Of Darkness
- ... Darkness, going up the river is described to be like: travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, and impenetrable forest (Conrad ?). The river, one which resemble[s] an immense snake uncoiled with its tail lost in the depths of the land (Conrad ?), is dangerous, dark, mysterious, treacherous, [and] concealed (Karl 32 ... and origins (Brooks 109); in the end, they emerge as new-sprung individuals from the experience. In Conrad s Heart of Darkness, which Bogue describes as a book with no moral center (616), Marlow s great lesson is that existence itself has no moral heart; he has not sustained the river experience with his moral perspective intact (Boyle 93) unaltered. In the end, he is a changed man, vastly isolated and ...
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