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- 3571: A Rose for Emily
- ... wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin flowing calligraphy in faded ink , to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment," (40-41). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the ...
- 3572: The Crucible: Deteriorated Rational and Emotional Stability of Salem
- ... tragedy in Salem. The isolation of the Puritan society created a rigid social system that did not allow for any variation in lifestyle. The strict society that was employed at this time had a detrimental effect on the Proctor family. John Proctor, a hard working farmer who had a bad season the year before and struggling this year was occasionally absent at Sunday service. This was due to the fact he ...
- 3573: The Crucible - Struggles in the Play
- ... the child is to be quiet, and stay out of the way. When Abigail is being considered a witch in the first moments of the story, Rev. Paris is very worried about how this will effect his image, and not of the fate of Abigail. It is this society where Abigail feels the need to break loose and to act the way a teenager should: freely. This is the reason why ...
- 3574: Lord of the Flies
- ... is called at the familiar place and Ralph reprimands them about their irresponsibility. Then the subject of the so called “beast” comes up. Ralph and Piggy try to give an explanation but it has no effect. Eventually chaos spreads though the crowd and the run off led by Jack, and Ralph is thoroughly agitated. That night, an air battle is going on and a dead pilot, with a parachute, lands next ...
- 3575: Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... felt very strongly that Florence needed a militia of it’s own, rather than rely on mercenary troops or the help of allies. He was allowed to put his plans for a Florentine militia into effect and in 1507 a decree was passed for a committee called the Nine of the Militia, in which Machiavelli was chancellor. In 1512, fighting against Pisa, Machiavelli’s troops did not differentiate themselves from the ...
- 3576: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... of the Joad narrative. He shows the individual family to show that the migrants are really people and to bring their plight home to the reader. He discusses the general story to show how its effect on large numbers of people. In the narrative, he trades off each chapter, having one chapter tell the story of the Joads, and then the next talking about the migrants. None of the main characters ...
- 3577: Filling in the Gaps: Ideology in Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... Minnie Cooper, too.’”(Faulkner 439) Immediately after the narrator states that facts are not clear, Hawkshaw is shown, much to the detriment of his credibility, with a strong opinion about what happened. However this negative effect is counteracted later on by the narrator’s portrayal of Minnie walking down the street and noting that the men don’t turn to look anymore. Although it is the narrator stating this fact, not ...
- 3578: Tragedy and the Common Man
- ... validity as a character. From neither of these views can tragedy derive, simply because neither represents a balanced concept of life. Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. No tragedy can therefore come about when its author fears to question absolutely everything, when he regards any institution, habit or custom as being either everlasting, immutable or inevitable. In the tragic view the need ...
- 3579: Analysis of the Red Scare
- ... help avoid further danger. Congress obliged, not only supplying funds, but going one step further. The message was then made clear: foreign radicals were to all be deported. The government had formulated and put into effect their plan to rid the country of unwanted foreign radicals, but the problem remained as what to do with those radicals were citizens of the United States. This was not to go unanswered for long ...
- 3580: Cold Mountain: The Civil War
- ... that she wanted, he gave her. He was a trader who lost his money because of the war, (…”at arm’s length the war, the embargo, the various other expressions of hard times, and their effect on Ada’s income…(61),” which left Ada nothing when he died. Goat woman is an old lady that takes care of goats, and had been far away from the human world. She meets Inman ...
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