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- 9731: The Scarlet Letter: The Unavoidable Truth
- ... Hester Pryne felt when she walked to the scaffold to face reality brought out my deepest sympathy and respect for her. Hester, followed by a crowd of "stern-browed men," "unkindly visaged women," and "curious school boys," begins the walk from the jail to the scaffold. She seems to be proud and dignified. However, internally, she feels great agony, for she was scorned and mocked by the accusing Puritans. She finally ...
- 9732: Rosemary Well's When No One Was Looking: Ambition
- ... s When No One Was Looking is a suspenseful story of a girl's ambition, friendship, and love of tennis, that takes her to the top. Although she is not beautiful, rich, or good in school, fourteen year old Kathy Bardy has a natural talent for tennis. One day, Kathy loses a match against Ruth Gumm that should have been simple for her. The next day Kathy finds out that Ruth ...
- 9733: Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
- ... as children, experienced parental indifference or inconsistency. Though a successful tax attorney, he is jumpy around Conrad, and, according to his wife, drinks too many martinis. Conrad seems consumed with despair. A return to normalcy, school and home-life, appear to be more than Conrad can handle. Chalk-faced, hair-hacked Conrad seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world. His family, after all, "are ...
- 9734: Lost Heritage in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
- ... feet were always neat-looking, as if God had shaped them Dee next. A dress down to the ground Earrings gold, too (Walker 291) Also, Dee has a 'modern' education, having been sent "to a school in Augusta" (Walker 290). Dee attempts to connect with her racial heritage by taking "picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie She never takes a shot without making ...
- 9735: Lord of the Flies: Man Is Savage at Heart
- ... irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley 1: 119). The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil nature inherent in man. If a group of well-conditioned school boys can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying to maintain world relations. Lord of the Flies's ...
- 9736: Lord of the Flies: We Hate Piggy
- ... the joy of readers in hating Piggy's character. In the beginning of the novel, when Ralph meets Piggy after the plane crash, Piggy regretfully tells Ralph what the kids used to call him at school, They used to call me Piggy'.(1) Ralph then shrieks with laughter and makes fun of Piggy's nickname, Piggy! Piggy!(2) Ralph goes on and on with giving Piggy a bad time, just as ...
- 9737: The Major Years: Isolation and Emily Grierson - A Deadly Combination
- ... Just as if a manany mancould keep a kitchen properly,' the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons"(p.26). Backman, paraphrasing Wright Morris in The Territory Ahead, says that flight and nostalgia are essential to American life, "The American flees the raw and uncongenial present for a mythic and ...
- 9738: Irony of The Setting in "The Lottery"
- ... reader to focus on what a typical day it is in this small town. The time of day is set in the morning and the time of year is early summer. She also describes that school has just recently let out for summer break, letting the reader infer that the time of year is early summer. The setting of the town is described by the author as that of any normal ...
- 9739: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbols
- ... westerly journey. Steadily the turtle advances on, iron ically to the southwest, the direction of the mirgration of people. The turtle is described as being lasting, ancient, old and wise: horny head, yellowed toenails, indestructible high dome of a shell, humorous old eyes. (Chp 1) The driver of the truck, red ant and Tom Joad's jacket are all symbolic of nature and man the try to stop the turtle from ...
- 9740: First Love: Pathway to Adulthood
- ... her fate was granted:/ She fell in love. For thus indeed/ Does spring awake the buried seed (60)." Like Vladimir, Tatyana fell very deeply for Eugene and lived day to day on an emotional love high. She gave herself completely to him, as if he was her only guardian: "Tatyana's love is deep and true:/ She yields without conditions, boldly--/ As sweet and trusting children do (69)." Tatyana was accurately ...
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