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- 4851: Catcher In The Rye Holdens Sig
- It s nothing new, that everybody feels depressed at some time or another in their lives. However, it becomes a problem when that depression is so much a part a person s life that she can no longer see the happiness right in front her. (As tragically happens to the young boy, Holden Caulfield in J.D Salinger s novel, The Catcher in the Rye.) Mr. Antolini accurately views the cause of Holden s depression as his lack of personal motivation, his inability to self-reflect and his stubbornness to overlook the obvious which collectively results in him giving up on life before he ever really has a chance to ...
- 4852: Call Of The Wild
- ... Buck to the Yukon where he was trained to be a sled dog. There were other dogs that Buck had grown to know well during his training. In a matter of time, Buck became a great sled dog. Francois and Perrault took the huskies and mix breeds from Dyea Beach to the town of Dawson. There were many conflicts with Buck and Spitz, who was the leader of the dogs. From ... about dogs and the arctic. I think that this book has to do with the love from a dog to a man than anything else in the book. Overall, I think that this is a great book and I recommend that you read it.
- 4853: Book Report On A Tale Of Two C
- ... away from them as best as I could, given the situation. I also would have stayed with the brother, and tried to comfort him too, because although he was sane, he was also in a great deal of emotional pain due to the actions of the Evremonde brothers. A Tale of Two Cities takes place in many different settings. As the title states, it takes place mainly in two cities, Paris ... pledges his love for Lucie, and tells her that he would do anything for her or for anyone she loves, and so he takes Charles's place in prison and dies for him. Sydney's great love for Lucie makes it possible for her and her family to live their lives. Sydney Carton is the character that undergoes the most change throughout this novel. In the beginning, he is written as ...
- 4854: Beyond The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... live in villages where clean air and clean social life abound. They either work in the fields or in crafts that contribute to peace. They do not hoard silver and gold and do not acquire great land holdings; procuring for themselves only what is necessary for life. Thus they live without goods and without property, not by misfortune, but out of preference. They do not make armaments of any kind. They ... slavery. They avoid wholesale and retail commerce, believing that such activity excites one to cupidity. With respect to philosophy, they dismiss logic but have an extremely high regard for virtue. They honor the Sabbath with great respect over the other days of the week. They have an internal rule which all learn, together with rules on piety, holiness, justice and the knowledge of good and their minds truly holy. Their exclusion ...
- 4855: Beowulf - Significance Of Scyl
- ... and pay him tribute. He was a noble king! (BEO 4-11). At first glance to any reader, the above passage that opens Beowulf may seem perplexing. Why is this poet rambling about some other great ruler? In fact, another 50 or so lines are dedicated to this Scefing character. Wasn t this poem titled Beowulf? It appears that the poet of Beowulf is rambling, ranting unrelated events and apparently digressing ... buried with heaps of priceless treasure, the spoils of their victories. The poet describes the ship in which Scefing is buried to be decorated with many treasures and adornments from far and wide countless treasures great ornaments golden banners (BEO 36-49). Beowulf s funeral rites are also saturated with riches and treasure, then the wagon was laden with twisted gold, with treasures of every kind (BEO 3127-3134). The reader ...
- 4856: Animal Farm Compare And Contra
- ... 1917 and the events that followed shortly after. In order for the reader to be able to get a firm grasp on the conditions in Russia before, during and after the revolution, George Orwell took great care in ensuring that the all the characters in the book could easily be identified with their Russian revolution counterpart. While reading the book, one should easily be able tell the parallel personality for each character because of George Orwell s very accurate descriptions of the characters. As a result, a great deal of characterization is visible in most parts of the book, as he is constantly building upon the characters. The movie Animal Farm on the other hand is quite different. In the movie, very little ...
- 4857: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... suspicious, hard-hearted, vengeful and rough (p19). When the narrator talks about the difference between his life before the war and his life at the present time, it becomes clear that he has changed a great deal. He says, We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land ... We are free of care no longer- we are terrifyingly indifferent (p88). He continues to realise his change even more. He says, I suppose I am the one who has changed in the meantime. A great gulf has opened up between then and now. I didn t know then what the war was really like- Now I can see I have become more brittle without realising it (p120). Baumer describes his ...
- 4858: A Journey Into The Heart Of Da
- ... the Congo, Marlow and his crew encounter a group of native on the shore. Instead of demeaning the natives, Marlow wishes he could join the natives in their primative behavior. Such a desire is a great step in the progress of Marlow's psyche. His desire to join the natives demonstrates his consumption by the heart of darkness, as he reverts back to a more savaged state of being. Furthermore, Marlow ... finds himself awed at Kurtz's profile, saying that Kurtz and his crew were "no colonist; their administration was only a squeeze; they were conquerors. It was just robbery by violence, agravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind-as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness" (Conrad 63). Marlow, from the very beginning, develops a need to find Kurtz. However, as Marlow travels deeper ...
- 4859: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... p. 223-224). The apparent change in views on the war has become extremely apparent. In a war there is obviously apparent physical scars. As seen throughout the entire book, the destruction of war is great, on not only lives and property, but also on the human spirit. The young men in this book and of those of the times were subject to physical torment. Eyes were blinded from such sights ... innocent men dying in agony. When soldiers take shelter in the graveyard, bombs explode all around them; the living hide in coffins and the dead are thrown from their graves. The destructive power is so great that even the fundamental differences between life and death become blurred. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that portrayed World War I as it actually was. There was no sugar coating what ...
- 4860: Arthur, Tragic Hero Or Merely
- ... the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify, himself. (127) Arthur allows his guilt and self-hatred to destroy his heart and soul, but he still refuses to confess and repent publicly his great transgression. Instead, he is often seen with his hand covering his heart, looking pained and repentant. Arthur allows himself to think the worst of himself, and does not guard his heart against the evil of ... is impossible to feel sorry for him. The final aspect of a tragic hero, however, is the one that fits Arthur least. To truly be a tragic hero, Arthur would have to have been a great and respectable man to begin with. This is not the case. Arthur must have been a weak, dependent man before he ever entangled his life with Hester's. Such weakness is not born overnight, but ...
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