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- 9471: Beautiful Blueberries (About Into The Wild)
- ... doesn't glorify Chris McCandless' life or even try to hide his personal weaknesses. Instead, that which becomes evident is a vivid portrait of McCandless' journeys and an examination of why people are attracted to high-risk activities. Krakauer begins the book with Chris McCandless hiking into the Alaskan wilderness to his ensuing death. He does not return to this scene until the next to last chapter, effectively forcing the reader ...
- 9472: Battle Royal - Symbolism
- ... segregation of schools, restaurants, and other public facilities were issues that were fiercely fought over. These battles are directly represented by the barbarous fighting by 10 boys in a ring, being witnessed by whites in high social standing. Totally engrossed by the fighting these men yelled cruel things and became frenzied. This is representative of the how our nation’s white population treated African Americans for many years. Often they took ...
- 9473: Battle Royal
- ... is a level of invisibility that does directly result from the prejudice of the white men. The white community is unwilling to look beyond their stereotypes of the role and place of black men. The school superintendent that had requested IM's appearance at the ballroom to give his speech was also the same man that brought the black men into the ballroom with the words, "Bring up the shines, gentlemen ...
- 9474: Battle Royal
- ... ideas were pushing me to the brink of madness, my mind began to click. The swirling messy cocktail of two abstract ideas started taking shape as I began remembering what I had learned earlier in school, and from my summer readings. At this point I came to the realization that a persons reality, that is that persons mental reflection of the society and or time in which he or she live ...
- 9475: Battle At Trafalgar
- ... French battle line was separated and the English could surround each ship as need be. The fight lasted till dark and the French were totally destroyed losing 20 ships to destruction or capture. Casualties were high on both sides. The French lost over 14,000 seamen while British losses numbered around 1,500. The most significant casualty for the British was that of Nelson. Ever the warrior, Nelson while standing on ...
- 9476: Bartleby
- ... turn will lead to depression and perhaps death, for he will have nothing but a wall always obstructing him. From the beginning Bartleby is isolated within the confines of his work place. "I procured a high green folding screen, which might entirely isolate Bartleby from my sight, though not remove him from my voice."( pg 111) In this quotation the narrator put Arnold, Page 2 up a screen to separate his ...
- 9477: Bartelby The Scrivener
- ... it reminded me of Shelly’s "To A Sky-Lark" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by Keats. Both of these poems describe unattainable perfection. The skylark’s song is beautiful, but it flies so high we are unable to see the creature and hense, the song seems to come from the heavens. In "Ode…", Keats spends much time describing the beauty of the grecian scene on the vase but then ...
- 9478: Barn Burning: Abner Snopes Character Analysis
- ... and his family traveled to their next house where things got off to a bad start. Just a few days had gone by and Abner took Major DeSpain to court claiming his fine was to high for the damage he did to his rug. The court ruled in DeSpain’s favor fining him, "to the amount of ten bushels of corn over and above your contract with him, to be paid ...
- 9479: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... as a victory for her country, too. -STRYVER Dickens dislikes Stryver. You may be hard put to find a single lovable feature in this "shouldering" lawyer, who has been "driving and living" ever since his school days with Sydney Carton. Yet the ambitious Stryver--his name a neat summing up of the man--is making his way in the world. With little talent for law, he pays the doomed but brilliant ...
- 9480: A 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 ...
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