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- 1931: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
- ... God, strives to find her own voice throughout the novel and, in my opinion, she succeeds even though it takes her over thirty years to do it. Each one of her husbands has a different effect on her ability to find that voice. Janie discovers her will to find her voice when she is living with Logan. Since she did not marry him for love, tensions arise as time moves on ...
- 1932: Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books
- ... wanting to change his life around. "Go ahead now you, second hand litterateur, pull the trigger." (117) This was how Montag was treated moments before he was about to end Beatty's life. In all effect, the relationships in this novel proved to be very relevant and well thought out. Fahrenheit 451 was an excellent book that would interest many different types of people. It contains a plot that brushes very ...
- 1933: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: McMurphy
- ... of the inmates. Just as in the law of the conservation of energy (energy can neither be created nor destroyed), McMurphy's vitality must be sapped in order to give the other patients life. In effect, McMurphy has sacrificed his own sanity to make the others sane. The final conflict between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy occurs when McMurphy attacks her and reveals her sexuality by uncovering her large breasts(305). McMurphy ...
- 1934: Grendel
- ... besides his own mother. He doesn't want to except his role in society which is to be the Great Destroyer. Man creates a huge problem in Grendel's life and has had a major effect on the way he lives with man. Grendel is unhappy in many ways. He wants to be accepted by man but never knew why he was always shunned out of there society. Grendel in the ...
- 1935: A Clockwork Orange
- ... of prison life, Alex is introduced to prisonization by the same system which incarcerated him. Showing him one must be tough and violent to survive within the penal system. The term prisonization refers to the effect when an offender is subjected to the culture, morals, rules, and values of a penal institution. Then this is inscribed into his or her own behavior and deems them fit as a norm. This is ...
- 1936: Why the Name "Things Fall Apart"
- ... that event. First Okonko was unable to sleep for the following three days. He also kept on getting drunk, and that was a sign that he was depressed. This incident also had a long-term effect on Okonko. From then on his family would look at him as if it were his fault that Ikemefuna is dead. This episode can be seen as an event where Okonko looses some faith from ...
- 1937: Alvarez Shows Language is A Tremendous Difference In Everyone's Lives In His Story
- ... used the assignment as a chance to get attention, to be noticed. Yo shied away from anything of the sort. She was quiet, and shy, he was loud, and liked attention. This was another side effect of language. In learning the strict Hispanic values, Yolanda had learned that children were supposed to be quiet, proper, etc. Rudy just did what came natural. He wasn't taught to fear anything, so he ...
- 1938: The Necklace: The Downfall of Mathilde Loisel
- ... the story opens, Mme. Loisel's husband comes home with an invitation to a ball at the palace. He had hoped that this invitation would lift Mme. Loisel's spirits but it had an opposite effect. She insisted that she could not go because she had nothing to wear. Mme. Loisel's husband reluctantly gave her the money he had been saving for a gun so she could buy a "suitable ...
- 1939: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... one of any privacy they have. This deprivation of privacy, and how happy the people are about it, demonstrates exactly how the Well Doer is able to subtlety take away other rights. The most startling effect of the United State's control of all actions is their regulation governing the sexual act. "The United State, having mathematically conquered hunger, directed its attack against the second ruler of the world, against love ...
- 1940: Mark Twain Wishes to Bring Attention To Man's Often Concealed Shortcomings
- ... point of view is expressed by the author. His point of view is that of a cynic; he looks upon civilized man as a merciless, cowardly, hypocritical savage, without want of change, nor ability to effect such change. Thus, one of Mark Twain's main purposes in producing this work seems clear: he wishes to bring to attention some of man's often concealed shortcomings. While the examples of Mark Twain ...
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