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- 9801: Lord of the Flies: Success of Golding's Portrayal of the Children
- ... the boys of their parents or other adult authority figures they may have had in their old lives back home. There is also the conch that Ralph holds which may remind the boys of a school bell or a teacher's whistle. Finally, at the end of the novel, the boys turn to Jack to satisfy their need for some much-needed leadership. When the boys are feasting on the meat ...
- 9802: An Analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... and cracked fruit is, as gaudy and fake as the Grangerfords. The male Grangerfords jaunt around wearing startling white linen outfits and panama hats. Huck regards and admires both families, "They [the Shepherdsons] were as high-toned and well born and rich and grand as the tribe of Grangerfords." (103) We the reader see the "grand" Grangerfords and Shepherdsons going gun-toting to Sunday mass, praising peace and harmony. This scene ...
- 9803: The Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- ... Harper Lee was born and raised in the heart of the south. Lee's life and time period influences her writing. Like her father and Atticus Finch, Lee went on to study law. She left school in 1950 so that she could go to New York and become a writer. "Her law studies proved to be 'good training for a writer' because they promote logical thinking and because law cases are ...
- 9804: Review of The Scarlet Letter
- ... 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 ...
- 9805: Foreshadowing and Flashback: Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
- ... also helps one to understand Gatsby's relentless pursuit of the American dream. These two elements of the novel were weaved into a great book that was read and adored by millions of readers and school students. Works Cited Eble, Kenneth. F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1963 Magill, Frank N. "Fitzgerald, F. Scott." Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983 ...
- 9806: The Concubine's Children: An Analysis
- ... beauty, as she soon realizes, is like a curse on her. Winnie, her daughter, is looked down upon for being unattractive, especially when compared with her mother. While these insults hurt, Winnie sees excelling at school as her only ticket out of this horrible life of violence. The major contrast between May-ying and she is done to show how different parent and child can be, and how often the child ...
- 9807: Summary of The Andromeda Strain by Crichton
- ... this as the insanity that affected some victims of the disease, but the organism had actually eaten the rubber. This led to another problem. The seals in the base were made out of the same high tech polymer, and as soon as the organism reached the seals in one compartment, they ripped through the bottom level of the base, engaging the self-destruct mechanism in the base. When the team was ...
- 9808: Wuthering Heights: Use of Atmospheric Conditions to Emphasize Events and Highlight the Mood of the Characters
- ... to tell the story of the two neighbouring households, she describes Old Mr. Earnshaw setting out to Liverpool on a "fine summer morning" (p.34). Yet, when Old Mr. Earnshaw dies she relates that "A high wind blustered round the house, and roared in the chimney; it sounded wild and stormy" (p. 41). Emily Brontλ often uses the weather to accentuate the personality traits and moods of the characters throughout the ...
- 9809: Book Report: Raptor Red
- ... undergrowth of the conifers that bound the edge of mud flats and river beds. The eyes follow every movement among the great herd of plant eating dinosaurs that mills around in the open meadows, feeding high in the trees and sniffing the air for danger. The eyes belong to a female Utahraptor. The female Utahraptor from the book called Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker is an amazing creature that can ...
- 9810: An Analysis of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher
- ... by, the house has deteriorated as have the emotions of the people in it. This is shown in the poem in the following line, But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (211,V) And this is exactly what happens in the house, the inhabitants are full of sorrow. Another use of upper current meanings in Poe's tale is in the many stories the two ...
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