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- 2011: An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies
- ... development of Ralph, the main character and protagonist of the novel. Ralph's development from innocent, irresponsible, playful adolescent to a tough, self-reliant man shows how the hardships and turmoil of life can greatly effect a person's character. The story takes place on a deserted island after a plane crash strands a group of adolescent boys. The boys are forced to learn how to live on the land without ...
- 2012: A Critical Analysis of "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
- ... 256). O'Connor was not only influenced by her own Catholic heritage but by others as well. Like the other writers from France and England, she is curious about the actuality of sin and the effect that it has on the presence of mankind. Her stories and every characteristic about them was Flannery O'Connor's way of showing reality and qualities that are determiners of fate and destiny. No matter ...
- 2013: Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, and Pessimism
- ... story while also expressing the anger the characters feel toward the ever present fate of nature. The entire story in itself is a portrayal not of the conflict between man and nature, but rather the effect and control nature has on human fate, strengthening the naturalistic ideas and views through this tale of four stranded men. The fact that the waves, the tides, the freezing water and all the other characteristics ...
- 2014: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Love
- ... of everlasting love that she had longed for all her life. Tea Cake one day rescued Janie from a mad dog, but was bitten in his heroic effort. For a few months there was no effect, but when the rabies hit him, it was unbearable. It eventually got so incredibly bad that Tea Cake tried to kill Janie. His did this not out of hate for her but because of the ...
- 2015: A Review of "To Build A Fire"
- ... always known how. Only using his judgment, the man can't understand how to prevent a disaster from occurring. London has already given away the ending, as a result of his constant focus of the effect the environment has on the man not knowing the means of survival that the dog knows. Lured to the plot of the story, we keep on reading always anticipating the danger of the climate to ...
- 2016: The Scarlet Letter: Pearl - The Living Symbol
- ... poor child, so forcibly reminding us of that red symbol which sears her bosom?'"(110-111). Pearls gestures, and the essence which her presence pours forth, insinuate to the child's evil roots and the effect there of. "the child could not be made amenable to rules. In giving her existence, a great law had been broken, and the result was a being whose elements where perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but ...
- 2017: A Review of The Jungle
- ... the characters do in the story instead of bringing the reader on to their level. I couldn't find any passages in the story that illustrates dialogue used effectively. One thing that Sinclair uses for effect in the story is repetition. The whole point of the story is to preach about socialism, so to create the correct frame of mind for the reader, Sinclair must show how bad the way of ...
- 2018: Stoker's Dragula: Devices
- ... to get very cold, and the growing twilight seemed to merge into onedark mistinessthe gloom of the trees... great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlierin the evening." Another example would be when the ship Demeter was coming into port and there was a storm following it and there was also ...
- 2019: An Analysis Of The Effects Of Spiritual Visitations On Scrooge
- ... his "friends" talk so lowly of him even in his death made him realize once again how meaningless his life was and how his death, as inevitable as it was, really didn't have any effect on anyone but himself. The second place we are taken to is the slums of the city, to a pawnshop to be exact, where three thieves pawn off Scrooges valuables. They took everything from his ...
- 2020: Major Themes in Faulkner's "Light in August"
- ... has become. Man perverts the best in himself continually." (Gold, p.42). Christmas is drawn into evil, by a world that would never let him be anything else. Christmas symbolizes the cause and demonstrates the effect of man's falling. His dual coloring is an ironic emblem for the divided society in which he moves (Gold p.42). Finally, Christmas is killed by Grimm, the embodiment of the "divided society" that ...
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