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7691: Catcher In The Rye - Holden An: ... accounts at least give the reader some idea of how an adolescent boy, facing the common experiences and troubles of daily life, views each member of his family. Works Cited Corbett, Edward P.J. "Raise High the Barriers, Censors." America, the National Catholic Weekly Review 7 Jan. 1961. Rpt. in If You Really Want to Know: A "Catcher" Casebook. Ed. Malcolm M. Marsden. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1963. 68-73. Crispell, Diane ...

7692: Candide: ... the story is about the journeys of Candide, and Voltaire did not include significant morals upon writing the novel. In Grimm's review, it is also thought that Candide was not meant to be a high quality piece of work, but rather as something enjoyable. It is written in bad taste, yet filled with gaiety, and the amusing parts make it entertaining. According to Georges Ascoli, "Nothing could be more lively ...

7693: Brave New World - Religion: ... has its own religious interpreter in the seven world controllers. Mustapha Mond controls the thoughts, emotions and happiness of the people under his control. By interpreting the collection of writings revealed by the higher being, high priests or priestesses can provide the answers to man's questions Religion has a number of advantages to society. Many citizens of the world often ponder many questions ranging from classroom philosophy to ghosts and ...

7694: Black Boy By Richard Wright: ... to give him his pension. Chapter 6 Richard gets a job working for a female white. She insults him by giving him moldy bread and old molasses. When she inquires what grade he is in school he tells her that he is in the 7th grade and that he wants to be a writer. The white woman tells him that he will never be a writer. He doesn't return to ...

7695: Beat Movement: ... non-academic setting—coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more popular and more read than anytime in history, not only spoken poetry but also sung poetry of a high order. "The literature, coordinated by pop music, with a way of dressing, with a way of life, it something that has influenced the youth of the world not only in Western countries but Eastern countries ...

7696: A Tale Of Two Cities - Charact: ... Madame Defarge, he is the Christ-like noble figure of the novel. He appears to the readers of A Tale of Two Cities as a worthless drunk and a man who has not acquired any high social position in his life. Also, it seems as though his life has resulted to nothing. At one point he says, “I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for ...

7697: A River Runs Through It By Nor: ... over from Norman’s real life experiences with his brother. “...Paul lived mostly by instinct and bravado, learning early on to gamble, drink and fight (Eastman 54).” Paul’s tendancies of to get into the high stakes poker games without a clear head and then try to fight his way out of debt was what eventually leads to his demise; both in real life and in A River Runs Through it ...

7698: Araby By James Joyce And A Sun: ... in Araby took over his feelings for the girl which were destructive and almost destroyed him. The girl had a negative influenceon him as she occupied his mind taking him away from his sleep and school work. She haunted his him even he was not around her. In “A Sunrise On The Veld”, the character had a purposeful obsession. One that taught him valuable lessons about life, for example, that nature ...

7699: Amy Foster By Joseph Conrad An: ... Yanko. It could be that Amy's love for Yanko has developed into the third love described by Joseph Campbell, a love for one specific person. "For let us note well (and here is the high point of Mann's thinking on the subject): what is lovable about any human being is precisely his imperfections," says Campbell (page 167). Amy begins to love Yanko for the individual that he is, not ...

7700: All Quiet On The Western Front: ... Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during the course of this metamorphosis, Baumer disaffiliates himself from those societal icons--parents, elders, school, religion--that had been the foundation of his pre-enlistment days. This rejection comes about as a result of Baumer's realization that the pre-enlistment society simply does not understand the reality of the ...

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