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- 9701: The Story of Sweetheart of the Song of Tra Bong: The Use of Setting
- ... so amazed with the fact that a girl can be seduced by the lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if she were the attractive girl from school that everyone knows but nobody dates. " 'You know…I loved her. Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home, how clean and innocent they all are.' " (123) Rat is pushing his views upon ...
- 9702: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... up and take prejudice himself for trying to correct the prejudice against a black man, and prove his innocence. "Scout, you aren't old enough to understand some things yet, but there's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man. It's a peculiar case- it won't come to trial until summer session. John Taylor was kind enough ...
- 9703: The Scarlet Letter: Review
- ... short, this book could have been exceptional; it had all the elements of a superb book. Unfortunately, Hawthorne found himself a rather large thesaurus and added a bunch of mindless prattle that mellowed out the high points of the book and expanded on the low points. In many chapters all he manages to accomplish is to update the lives of characters, mostly with irrelevant drivel. Also by expanding on the symbolism ...
- 9704: The Pearl: Depictions of Life
- ... California. Both his father, who ran a flour mill, and his mother, a teacher, encouraged him to write once they saw his early interest in literature. Steinbeck began his career by writing articles for his school newspaper and by taking classes at Stanford University. At the same time, he worked at a local ranch where he witnessed the harsh treatment of migrant workers. These underpriveleged laborers later served as the inspiration ...
- 9705: The Outsiders: Theme
- ... and when Johnny dies and it disturbs the Greasers. It is shown that the Greasers and Socs strive for the same goals when Darry, Ponyboy's older brother, tells him that he should succeed in school and make something of himself, and Bob is always trying to make his father happy with him. These examples show that all people, Soc, Greaser, or whatever, all strive to achieve the same goals and ...
- 9706: The Metamorphosis
- ... Initially weak and enfeebled, the father is now "standing there in fine shape; dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, such as bank messengers wear; his strong double chin bulged over the stiff high collar of his jacket...his onetime tangled white hair had become combed flat on either side of a shining and carefully exact parting" (p. 38). It is at this point that the father begins to ...
- 9707: The Good Earth: Summary
- ... Wang Lung got back, he repaired his home which was damaged by weather. Within the next six years, Wang Lung bought much more land from the house of Hwang, his first two sons began attending school, and he hired seven men to work the land including a neighbor Ching, and O-lan had borne him twins, a boy, and a girl. Wang Lung also discovered that O-lan had hidden a ...
- 9708: The Count of Monte Cristo: Revenge
- ... to gradually diminish Danglars' wealth. This in turn made Danglars lose his reputation as a good banker. As a result, Danglars had to run away from the embarrassment of losing all of his power and high stature. We see the same concept of 'an eye for and eye' played out in the Count's revenge toward Caderousse. When the Count escaped from jail he remembered what a love for money Caderousse ...
- 9709: The Changes in the Narrator's View of Sonny
- ... that,' said Sonny, surprising me."(49) Actually, Sonny understood life much more clearly than the narrator, but the narrator did not realize that then. He thought that perhaps Sonny was just too young or too high on drugs to understand what life was about. Finally, the third view changed was the narrator's responsibility towards Sonny. Before the brothers' mother died, the narrator promised he would take it upon himself to ...
- 9710: Brave New World: The Advancement of Science
- ... shaping the minds of society. In Brave New World , one's intelligence depends on the amount of alcohol injected into their embryo. For example, one of the lower classes in society, Epsilons, have quite a high amount of alcohol injected in the decanting process. Mental faculty, therefore, is predestined from the moment of cloning. By creating a world where humans are mass produced, Brave New World demonstrates that advances in biology ...
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