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- 4671: Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books
- ... moments before he was about to end Beatty's life. In all effect, the relationships in this novel proved to be very relevant and well thought out. Fahrenheit 451 was an excellent book that would interest many different types of people. It contains a plot that brushes very close to a dystopia that could happen in our culture today. Therefore creating a unique element of suspense. Fahrenheit 451 is also a ...
- 4672: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: McMurphy
- ... dismissed from the hospital without Nurse Ratched saying he has been cured. However, the other inmates are not satisfied; they want him to lead a rebellion. McMurphy's rebellious nature goes from that of self-interest to that of devotion to helping the other inmates find their freedom and individuality. By doing so, he also sees a means of escape for himself. The first display of his new strategy for defying ...
- 4673: The Scarlet Ibis
- The Scarlet Ibis Brotherhood can either be "the state or quality of being a brother, or an association of men united in a common interest, work, etc., as a fraternity." That statement says that someone really does not need to have another sibling to be a brother. Friends can act like brothers, or people in a fraternity can be brothers ...
- 4674: Summary of 1984
- ... s job was to change recorded events, predictions made by the Party, and documents to make then ³ correct². In actuality his job was to falsify history to whatever was in the Party¹s current best interest. Whatever the Party said must always be correct and undisputable, there fore history was constantly being rewritten by people like Winston. One of the Party¹s slogans was ³He who controls the past, controls the ...
- 4675: To Kill a Mockingbird: Summary
- ... that there was only one person in town who has not already at work fighting the fire and that was Boo. Now that Jem and Scout realize that Boo is basically a kind person, their interest in the Radley family begins to fade. In the meantime, they learn that their father has become the defense lawyer for Tom Robinson, who is charged with raping Mayella Ewell. As the trial of Tom ...
- 4676: The Great Gatsby: A Full Spectrum of Character
- ... cheating and is tends to bend the rules when it suits her, such as during a game, or during her relationship with Nick. Jordan seems to be a standard of semi-corruption, of naked self-interest, that the other characters on the extremes of the scale of moral and social considerations can be measured. Thus, The Great Gatsby presents an extremely interesting set of moral imagery. It can be said, then ...
- 4677: The Night of the Hunter: The Preacher
- ... merely changed His mind when Preacher's life was in danger. There is a contradiction in “God's words” and clearly the preacher is merely using his “conversations” to aid in his own egotistical self-interest. The fact that Preacher lies to most people that he meets is a way in which he puts up the holy act to mask his evil soul. He is an expert in sandwiching lies between ...
- 4678: Heart of Darkness: Ignorance and Racism
- ... indifference of unhappy savages" (Conrad 19). Achebe, also, detected Conrad's frequent use of unorthodox name calling, "Certainly Conrad had a problem with niggers. His in ordinate love of that word itself should be of interest to psychoanalysts" (Achebe 258). Conrad uses Marlow, the main character in the book, as a narrator so he himself can enter the story and tell it through his own philosophical mind. Conrad used "double speak ...
- 4679: Great Expectations: Themes of Love, Redemption and Isolation
- ... Estella tells him, "I have no heart", he does not believe her. Does Estella believe what she says or is she trying to convince herself? Is she using her unattainability to perversely keep Pip's interest? Redemption is attained by Miss Haversham when she humbles herself to ask Pip's forgiveness. After the cruelty she has endured at the hands of Compeyson, Estella emerges a more compassionate person. Pip's forgiveness ...
- 4680: The Catcher In the Rye: First Person Narration is Critical
- ... people who try to look good in other's eyes. Therefore, since it is obvious that Holden is bright, the reason for his flunking out of school would seem to be from a lack of interest. Holden has strong feelings of love towards children as evidenced through his caring for Phoebe, his little sister. He is protective of her, erasing bad words from the walls in her school and in a ...
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