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- 12031: All Quiet on the Western Front: Tragedy of War
- ... All Quiet on the Western Front. I found the young men in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front were expected to take part in military training and battle. When the boys were in school their teaches would try very hard to persuade them to join the army. Most times these teachers successfully persuaded them. Paul, the main character in the novel, realizes once he had reached the front, how ...
- 12032: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden Was A Twisted Individual
- ... Rye. The Catcher in the Rye was about an odd young boy that was not trusting, and constantly depressed. The novel main character was Holden Caulfield Holden is a sixteen year-old junior at a school called Pencey Prep; he has just been expelled for academic failure. Holden is deep and twisted individual, Holden wants to save the world. Mr. Antolini was Holden's former English teacher. He told Holden mature ...
- 12033: In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Poem Cafe: Natural Laws Over Man Laws
- ... knows what is right and wrong but he is also very impressionable. What people say influence him a lot. An example of this is when he knew that Tom’s plan for attacking the Sunday school picnic was wrong but he still went along with it, to be accepted. Tom is Huck’s best friend. He is hard to influence and is always looking for an adventure and will stop at ...
- 12034: A Rose for Emily and Antlers: The Struggle against Loneliness: A Search for Human Affection
- ... her community (Faulkner, 411). An example of the respect Emily expects in her town is when she is summoned for taxes, but refuses to pay because of her hereditary tradition. Emily sees herself as a "high and mighty Grierson" who earned honor and admiration from her family legacy (Faulkner, 409). Emily’s fear of loneliness is first seen when she refuses to admit that her father had died and would not ...
- 12035: The Joy Luck Club: Relationship Between Mother and Daughter
- ... is true, though, in a way--Asian parents try to raise their children with a strong work ethic, and although the kids are lazy compared to the parents, they generally tend to do well in school because of their upbringing. June knows how her mother feels (but doesn't quite understand), but there's nothing that either can do about it. But despite this small source of tension between mother and ...
- 12036: Summary of All Quite on the Western Front!
- ... gradually gets drawn into the center and trapped in it. But unlike a whirlpool, which only pulls him in physically, the front drags him in mentally as well. All the knowledge he has learned in school is lost now, and everything he knows and hold dear rotates around war. The front drags them in physically, mentally, and emotionally. It pulls them in physically because they get sucked in the middle of ...
- 12037: Catcher In the Rye: Holden's Love FOr Children
- ... often feels that he must protect children and keep them innocence. He demonstrates this when he gets very upset because he sees that someone had written a curse word on the stairs in Phoebe’s school. He can’t imagine that a child could have written such a word and decides that a teenager must have come in and written. He quickly rubs the word off. Holden also portrays this feeling ...
- 12038: Dandelion Wine: Douglas
- ... forever. When we were little, we had no cares, so the life we lived seemed so innocent. As we fall closer and closer to this wall we must climb; this wall that is ever so high, and ever so slick; we lose a little of the child within us. This wall, or barrier we must breach, is no more than a simple introduction. An introduction to the first day of the ...
- 12039: Significance of Dewey Decimal System With To Kill a Mockingbird
- ... 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 ...
- 12040: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huckleberry Finn's Experiences
- ... Huck to be civilized and educated, but Pap hates that idea. Pap would keep Huck locked up in his cabin so that Huck could not go back to the Widow Douglas and could not attend school. One evening, Pap came back to the cabin so drunk that he attempted to kill his own son. He [Pap] chased me round and round the place with a clasp-knife, calling me the Angel ...
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