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- 12021: Lord of the Flies - A Symbolic Interpretation
- ... speak regardless of his status in the group. Ralph used the conch as a tool in his democracy. " ‘We can’t have everyone talking at once. We’ll have to have ‘hands up’ like at school. Then I’ll give him the conch.’ ‘Conch?’ ‘That’s what the shell is called. I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking. And ...
- 12022: Comparison of To Kill A Mockingbird With the Dewey Decimal System
- ... also had its classification system. In the book, Jem confused the Dewey Decimal System with John Dewey’s philosophy of education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teaching technique, I could only look around me” (Lee 37). Dewey’s educational philosophy was the ...
- 12023: The Call of the Wild: The Effect of the Environment
- ... a large part of his environment. Many of Buck’s masters helped to transform him into the wild, emotionless dog he became. Each sled driver’s expectations of his or her dogs were truly too high. In five short months, Buck traveled three thousand miles while pulling his masters sled. In order to maintain discipline, the dogs were whipped and beaten until they accomplished many unthinkable tasks. After losing thirty pounds ...
- 12024: The Pardoner: Chaucer's Religions Diction
- ... s head as having "hair as yellow as wax / hanging down smoothly" with "no hood upon his head" is next (695-696,700). He rode "in the latest mode," expressing that he wants to be high in fashion with the time (702). More description of his head, "a little cap, …bulging eyeballs," with a holy relic on his cap," stress the face of the Pardoner (703-704,705). Descriptions of the ...
- 12025: Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo's Life
- ... choose what he wanted to negate, and what qualities in his father he wanted to imitate. It can be argued that Okonkwo should have been a more compassionate man, and I personally hold compassion in high regard. But who is to say that Okonkwo should have been ideal in all of his virtues and actions? If Okonkwo was more compassionate, then he would not have been himself, and he would not ...
- 12026: The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression
- ... hope. In this story though, the window has bars on it, symbolizing imprisonment or oppression. An additional symbol of the narrator’s oppression is her husband, John. He is considered to be “a physician of high standing” (p.630). This along with the fact that he is her husband makes any opposition from the narrator seemingly impossible. To make matters worse, John treats the narrator not as his wife, but more ...
- 12027: The Lottery: Theme and Irony
- ... story giving no specific details except that the box, in which the names are drawn from, is black. It is a great, clear and sunny, summer day for a gathering. The children are out of school and relaxing. Everything is appears to be positive in the village. The village gathers together for the drawing of the lottery from the black box, giving the reader the impression that these people must want ...
- 12028: The Call of the Wild: Effect of the Environment
- ... a large part of his environment. Many of Buck’s masters helped to transform him into the wild, emotionless dog he became. Each sled driver’s expectations of his or her dogs were truly too high. In five short months, Buck traveled three thousand miles while pulling his masters sled. In order to maintain discipline, the dogs were whipped and beaten until they accomplished many unthinkable tasks. After losing thirty pounds ...
- 12029: Maus
- ... the bunkers they stayed in. “In the kitchen was a coal cabinet maybe 4 foot wide, inside I made a hole to go down to the cellar. And there we made a brick wall filled high with coal. Behind this wall we could be a little safe” (110). The description of this bunker shows one of the ways in which Vladek and Anja survive. Throughout Maus, Vladek’s story compares to ...
- 12030: How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room
- ... by adding in little pieces of information that will be explained later on in the story, in my experience when an author does this it is very effective and this on its own will create high strung tension. He adds things about the past history of the castle which only make the slightest suggestion of what really happened, if the reader carries on reading they will find the answers later on ...
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