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- 7581: Tale Of Two Cities
- ... the rest of the family split apart. Charles continued to work at the blacking warehouse even after his father inherited some money and got out of prison. When he was thirteen, Dickens went back to school for two years. He later learned shorthand and became a freelance court reporter. He started out as a journalist at the age of twenty and later wrote his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He went ...
- 7582: The Painted Bird
- ... to be shocked when the peasants the boy faces demonstrated an extraordinary predilection for incest, sodomy, and meaningless violence. While reading The Painted Bird , the reader gains the impression that religion seemed to be a high priority for the village people. However, Kosinski s use of conventional form to inform his readers that church was a very important part of the culture in these villages seemed to contradict this portrayal. In ...
- 7583: The Crucible By Arthur Miller
- ... forces. The title signifies the suffering and hardship that the town goes through. The town the story takes place in is governed by a theocracy. A quote from the book says For good purposes, even high purposes, the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to ...
- 7584: The Day Of The Jackal
- ... I'm not too bothered that somebody didn't try to muck it up with a new 5.1 mix. But The Day of Jackal also has a street price around $10 less than its high-tech counterpart. My advice is to take that extra ten bucks and get a couple of Forsythe novels at your local second-hand bookstore.
- 7585: The Concrete Dangers Of Abstra
- ... him to beware Macduff!/Beware the Thane of Fife , then informing that no man of woman born /Shall harm Macbeth , and finally reassuring Macbeth that he shall never vanquished be until/Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill/Shall come against him . Evidently, the progression of the play proves these projections to be either implicit or not totally true. In effect, Act Five, Scene Six proves that the wood began to ...
- 7586: Symbolism- The Chrysanthemums
- ... the farm as having a lack of sunshine and the season being December, all attributes to the overall feeling of death. At the begging of the story Steinbeck set the tone of the story. "The high gray-flannel fog of winter made the valley like a closed pot." Here the tone is very plainly presented, it s cold and foggy, a sense of dark, even perhaps death can be seen. It ...
- 7587: Symbolism In The Crysanthemums
- ... wishes that she could free herself. The author uses both the time of year and the location to develop a setting that compliments the feelings of the main character. The story starts off saying, "The high Gray-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from the rest of the world."(Steinback 267)from the first sentence the author is developing a setting that compliments the ...
- 7588: Suffer The Little Children - S
- ... teacher, who is efficient at her job and knows how to keep her students quite in class, when actually she is the one who has a disturbing behavior and ends up surprising her colleague in school when she is found about to kill one more child. King also used an interesting style to introduce a new character to the story: Buddy Jenkins was his name, psychiatry was his game. As soon ...
- 7589: Street Car Named Desire
- ... University of Missouri to study journalism. His father, angry that Hazel Kramer, Williams's childhood sweetheart had also enrolled there, threatened to withdraw him. The romance soon ended, and Williams, deeply depressed, dropped out of school. He survived his depression for awhile through his poetry, plays, and stories, but the strain soon resulted in a nervous breakdown. "Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory" Williams once said. Tennessee used ...
- 7590: Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui
- ... today as a work of genius. The philosopher Aristotle even went as far to consider it the most perfect of all the Greek tragedies. There are several reasons that this work is held in such high regard. One such reason is that it creates a healthy sense of confusion of pleasure and disquietude in the reader. Oedipus Rex takes place during the course of a day and uses flashback to fill ...
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