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- 9851: The Genji Monogatari
- ... of the structure. I leave you in the capable hands of Michael Chrichtons' Ian Malcom: "Fractals are a kind of geometry, associated with a man named Mandelbrot. Unlike ordinary Euclidean geometry that everybody learns in school--squares and cubes and spheres--fractal geometry appears to describe real objects in the natural world. Mountains and clouds are fractal shapes. So fractals are probably related to reality. Somehow... "For example," Malcolm said, "a ...
- 9852: The Great Gatsby: Time As A Key Dimension to One's Life's Theme
- ... kept an eye on his goals, was eager to get ahead and in fact had a plan to achieve his goals. But the one goal he didn't achieve showed Gatsby he had "paid a high price for living too long with a single dream". Gatsby's dream to make what has already past, his future, and his dream was just out of reach. As a result of living in the ...
- 9853: Overview of "Catcher in the Rye" and "Death of a Salesman"
- ... actualy did things. He did do a lot of things for other people though. He helped those nuns. He gave them ten dollers for their charity box. He also had a lot of troubles with school. He got kicked out of other schools, and he really didn't care. All he wanted was to be left alone. He did not want to talk to alot of people. He wanted to be ...
- 9854: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... birthing is no longer the accepted norm of society. All humans are born from a machine called the "Brooder". "All in a sluggish row, babies bobbed. Mother the machine….Languidly they drifted in a blind school." While viewing the mother machine Connie sees, "One dark female was kicking" (102). This scene reflects to a statement Connie makes earlier in the novel when she is watching children play on a playground. "Yes ...
- 9855: Lord of the Flies: Simon, the Christ Figure
- ... the mountain-top the parachute filled and moved; the figure slid, rose to it's feet, spun, swayed down through a vastness of wet air, and trod with ungainly feet on the tops of the high trees falling, still falling, it sank toward the beach and the boys rushed screaming into the darkness. The parachute took the figure forward, furrowing the lagoon, and bumped it over the reef and out to ...
- 9856: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- ... worth, and threatens to tell everyone of her aunt's treatment, declaring that she is "bad" and "hard-hearted." (Bronte 39) The prospect of a ruined reputation frightens Aunt Reed and Jane is sent to school with "the first victory (she) had gained," (Bronte 39). Jane's victory over John is not a deliberate vanquishing confrontation, but rather a situation in which both he and Jane get what they deserve. Throughout ...
- 9857: Hesse's Siddhartha as it Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- ... The quote illustrates this when Hesse states, "Siddhartha had already long taken part in learned men's conversations..." The fact that educated men included a youth in their conversations indicated that they held him in high esteem and didn't think of him as just a child. Later on in the book, Siddhartha must struggle to escape his natural desires for belonging and love to pursue his more lofty goal of ...
- 9858: Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
- ... is searching for him amid much heat, bugs, natives and immense fog. Marlow approaches Kurtz's place of refuge, described as "the shack of the ‘universal genius' surrounded by a crude row of posts, holding high the severed heads of ‘rebels(Africans)"(Conrad qtd. in Labrasca 290). From these words we can see that Kurtz is no ordinary man. Kurtz himself was described as "an animated image of death carved out ...
- 9859: Summary of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... part of the community, and were taken as some. The first people of the Younger family to associate and try to become friends with the whites is the young Travis. As Beneatha is off at school Travis brings home a white friend one Friday afternoon to play with him. His parents have no objection, and think that he may be the most grown up in the family, because he is willing ...
- 9860: A Critical Analysis of "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
- ... devices used by O'Connor in “Revelation.” After analyzing how the author's background, the plot, and the literary devices contribute to the development of the theme of “Revelation”, one understands why this story rates high on the literary scale of value. “ Revelation” was a doorway for Flannery O'Connor. She used this doorway to reveal her beliefs and disbeliefs about mankind and the mysteries that it beholds. O'Connor was ...
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