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- 9821: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- ... the "glass" garage door windows, essentially trying to escape his anger. The consequence is that he ends up more confused than before even though he now has a realization. The Supreme Test is often the high point of a literary work and the character or hero usually receives some kind of reward after being successful. The fifth and sixth parts of the Cosmogonic Cycle, the flight or flee and the return ...
- 9822: Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
- ... even today. Certainly the academic institutions were still a main factor regarding the formation of the English canon. Like Geffrey and Chaucer who studied classical writers like Virgil, Ovid and Dante, students studied this at school as it was considered the most "valuable" of the texts, again reflecting the "older is better" idea of 'auctoritas`. According to Kaplan and Rose, Dr. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets was the beginning ...
- 9823: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... s father's side originally Scots with connections in the peerage, were Boston merchants. Herman's father, Allan Melville, was a merchant and importer dealing with French goods. Allan Melville's family was not as high on the social ladder as the Gansevoorts were. Allan Melville seems to have been socially charming and sensitive, but basically weak, with a long standing dependence on his father, and more especially on his wife ...
- 9824: A Case of Needing: Serious Revisions
- ... characters. Berry ultimately discovers that a drug-dealing musician was actually at fault for Randall's death. Why did Michael Crichton write this book? The answer seems fairly obvious. Still fairly immersed in his medical school learnings, Crichton must have seen it as a chance to demonstrate just how much knowledge he had gained during his time at Harvard. Numerous medical procedures are described in detail, supplemented by footnotes and appendices ...
- 9825: Catcher in the Rye: Holden and His "Phony" Family
- ... 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 ...
- 9826: Uncle Tom's Cabin: Influence of the Setting
- ... this sort o' handling. The fellow that was trading for her didn't' want her handling. The fellow that was trading for her didn't' want her baby; and she was one of your real high sort, when hr blood was up. I tell you, she squeezed up her child in her arms, and talked, and went on real awful. It kinder makes my blood run cold to think on't ...
- 9827: In Cold Blood: A Review
- In Cold Blood: A Review Upon arriving in Holcomb, a small congregation of buildings on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, Perry and Dick, two men recently paroled for petty crimes, left almost no evidence behind except for a bloody footprint and a radio they stole from the Clutter house. In ...
- 9828: Foreshadowing and Flashback; Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
- ... helps one to understand Gatsby's relentless pursuit of t he 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 ...
- 9829: Humor in Wonderland
- ... this business, the King states that this is very important, when in fact he should have used the word unimportant. The king then makes up a rule which states "All persons more than a mile high must leave the court"(Carroll 93). The end of the trial becomes as humorous as the beginning when the queen states "Sentence first--verdict afterwards"(Carroll 96). The imaginary world of Wonderland shows a great ...
- 9830: Twain and Finn: Breaking the Language Barrier
- ... this statement shows disgust in Huck through not following the moral values of his father, or perhaps this is just merely jealousy on his father's part. Huck's father warns Huck about going to school any more, yet Huck goes anyway, showing great willpower in the character of Huck in that he was gaining an education that he never really wanted in the first place, but soon came to realize ...
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