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- 5831: Huckleberry Finn
- ... sound, that he responds to with another "me-yow." Climbing out the window onto the shed, Huck finds Tom Sawyer waiting for him. Commentary In a few short dense pages, Twain manages to accomplish a great deal. Most importantly, the two introductory notes and the first chapter establish the author's use of humor and irony, the character of Huckleberry Finn, the novel's theme, narration, and the use of dialect ... not to divulge the group's secrets, but when a boy threatens to do this, Tom simply bribes him. Tom's above-mentioned character traits contrast sharply with Huckleberry's corresponding traits. While Tom puts great stock in the literature of civilization, Huck is as skeptical of it as he is of religion. For both literature and religion, Huck refuses to accept much on faith. In Chapter Three, he rejects both ...
- 5832: Home Burial
- Often it seems that writers have their own personal inspiration that fuels a great work to cause its readers to realize the complexity of the human nature. Robert Frost's "Home Burial" is a masterfully written example of such works, conceived from his and his wife's anguish at ... death, and Frost later reported that she knew then that the world was evil. Amy in "Home Burial" makes the same observati Often it seems that writers have their own personal inspiration that fuels a great work to cause its readers to realize the complexity of the human nature. Robert Frost's "Home Burial" is a masterfully written example of such works, conceived from his and his wife's anguish at ...
- 5833: Hiroshima
- ... Fire This chapter explains what happened after the dreadful flash. This soundless bomb caused a lot of chaos, as houses collapsed, fires arose, and people getting burns everywhere. The characters in the story undergo a great ordeal of pain and suffering. Some characters like Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge, were mostly unharmed, started to help people rather than to run for their lives. They both have God working in their hearts ... Asano Park are waiting for the Naval ships including Mrs. Nakamura. Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge continued to help the wounded. The Japanese soon found out that it was a new type of bomb of great power dropped by a few B-29s- enough power to equal into an amount of 20,000 tons of TNT. (WOW!) They dubbed it the "the largest bomb ever yet used in the history ...
- 5834: Heart Of Darkness
- ... exploring expedition. Kurtz is a first-agent at an important trading post of ivory, located in the interior of the Congo. Both Marlow and Kertz found the reality through their work in Africa. Marlow felt great indignation with people in the sepulchral city after his journey to the Congo region because he discovered, through his work, the reality of the universe, such as the great virtue of efficiency, the darkness in society and individuals and the surface reality. When Kurtz found himself on his deathbed and he said gThe horror, The horror referring to his life in inner Africa, which ...
- 5835: Harrison Bergeron
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.s Too Equal Society The society that the story "Harrison Bergeron" portrays, is one with no passion, no spirit, merely one with no individuality. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. does a great job in satirizing the American political system. Stanley Schatt notices this in his biography of Vonnegut, where he states that Vonnegut writes "political fables that satirize the American political and this countrys relationship with ... to order more weight added to them. In the end without competition between individuals life as we know it would decline and people would not live as long as they do today. Vonnegut makes a great point of where our society is going if people do not just realize that there are bias in the world. All that the people in the world can do now is just try harder to ...
- 5836: Hard Times And The Nineteenth Century
- ... shall be free!" Dickens' has a more exact view of the educational system from a speech on November 5, 1857 he states, "I don't like that sort of school - and I have seen a great many of these latter times - where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged,. . . . . where I have never seen among pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines." It seems even ... Westminster Review in 1854 states, "that Mr. Dickens launches forth his protest, for we are not aware of such a system being in operation anywhere in England. They believed that there might have been too great a part of the studies dedicated to mythology, literature, and history. "In almost every school in the kingdom passages of our finest poets are learned by heart; and Shakespeare and Walter Scott were among the ...
- 5837: Guilt, Duty, And Unrequited Love
- ... guilt operates on a completely different level, a religious one. Like Greta, Sue also had a sick man die after braving the elements just to see her. Yet, unlike The Dead, this event has no great impact on the love triangle between Jude, Sue and Philotson. This three-cornered romantic disaster, because of Sues return to Philotson, had already reached its climax. If anything, Judes death made Sue ... Joyce 2035). This must leave him to wonder whether Greta had felt the same for Michael or whether the love, on that level at least, was unrequited. Greta had answered ambiguously that she had been "great with him at that time"(Joyce 2034). Gabriel wonders if she is being completely truthful. He knows that he does not love Greta the way that Michael did, but throughout their marriage he seems to ...
- 5838: Green Grass Running Water
- ... to a small group of "white" students at the University of Calgary. This Native American woman is lecturing on the "destruction aimed at . . . reservations," a topic integral to her life, and one from which a great deal of passion should be generated. However, her uninspiring and spiritless lesson causes "certain individuals" to "fall asleep," sit "virtually in each other's laps," and enter into a private "conversation." Indirectly her lecture touches ... need the help of friends and family. To accept help from others she will need to forgo her fear of commitment, accept certain parts of herself and her culture, because after all "Family's a great thing." To acknowledge this pregnancy Alberta would be making an important sacrifice, she would be giving up a part of herself for another human being. Alberta's -acceptance of herself leads her to decide to ...
- 5839: Ghost House - Compared To 4 Other Poems
- Five Great Pieces of Thought I think Robert Frost is a understandable, but yet an unconventional poet. Frost wrote in his own style, and as a result, he took quite a bit of heat from the critics ... rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAABCBCB. This poem is brief, but gets to the point (Silberner 78). This poem reminds me of the bud light commercial when the two groups of people say, "tastes great no less filling". The reason why is because there are two sides to fire or ice. "The Oven Bird" shows that although Frost usually analyzes everything, he is capable of enjoying nature. Frost seems to ...
- 5840: Flowers For Algernon
- ... is still kind and loving in his own way. 41. What is the irony of this story? The main irony is that society pushes away someone (Charlie), when he has the power to solve many great problems. Dr. Nemur and the workers at the plastics factory are jealous and hateful of Charlie, even though they should like him and be happy he is so smart. 42. What is the theme of the story? People are so competitive that they would rather push away a great person like Charlie rather than be near him, fearing that they will look stupid compared to him. When Charlie is dumb, everyone likes him because he isn't a threat. Society is foolish because it ...
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