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- 1961: Catcher In The Rye
- ... snob and a saint, I believe that Holden is a mix between the two. The Catcher in the Rye is the choice of nine of ten murders, whackos, serial killers and, oddly enough, disgruntled teenagers. John Lennon was killed to promote this book. In the movie Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer John Hinkley was also a big Catcher in the Rye fan as well. The level of general craziness surrounding the book is so bad the movie Conspiracy Theory made it a running joke, even tracking the ...
- 1962: Brave New World - Compared To Modern Society
- ... utopia and expect our world to transform into it. Some of us always look for the easy way out and drugs allow us that. A further similarity of Brave New World to us, si when John is in the hospital after hos mother's death due to soma abuse, and witnesses the workers receiving their soma rations. John begins to throw the soma out if the window, causing hysteria among the workers. For these workers soma is everything. They cannot imagine life without it. People addicted to cocaine, heroine and other drugs go ...
- 1963: Bartelby The Scrivener
- ... read this I stopped mid-story. This is a common theme throughout Romantic poetry I have encountered. Immediately it reminded me of Shelly’s "To A Sky-Lark" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by Keats. Both of these poems describe unattainable perfection. The skylark’s song is beautiful, but it flies so high we are unable to see the creature and hense, the song seems to come from the heavens. In "Ode…", Keats spends much time describing the beauty of the grecian scene on the vase but then refutes it with "cold pastoral". Those two words could describe this short story. From the outside, Aylmer thinks that everything ...
- 1964: A Separate Peace - Thematic Analysis
- An analysis of John Knowles A Separate Peace brings up the theme of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. What makes this novel unique is that in protesting war, Knowles never overtly referred to the blood and gore ... are human, we are imperfect, and the perfect among us (symbolized by Finny) cannot exist, so that ideal society will never become a reality. This novel illustrates man can be cruel to his fellow man. John Knowles' A Separate Peace demonstrates why men go to war, and why they cannot stop. This remarkable feat is accomplished with the telling of a single unique individual and his death.
- 1965: A Separate Peace - Symbols
- In John Knowle's A Separate Peace, symbols are used to develop and advance the themes of the novel. One theme is the lack of an awareness of the real world among the students who attend the ... one's self." BIBLIOGRAPHY "A Separate Peace." Magill's Survey of American Literature, Vol. 3. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1993. Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 3, pages 1186- 1192. Knowles, John. A Separate Peace. Prentice-Hall Literature, Platinum, 1996 ed.
- 1966: A Separate Peace - Symbolism
- In John Knowle’s A Separate Peace, symbols are used to develop and advance the themes of the novel. One theme is the lack of an awareness of the real world among the students who attend the ... one’s self." BIBLIOGRAPHY "A Separate Peace." Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Vol. 3. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1993. Beacham’s Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 3, pages 1186- 1192. Knowles, John. A Separate Peace. Prentice-Hall Literature, Platinum, 1996 ed.
- 1967: A Separate Peace - A Journey To Maturity
- The novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene ... Finny. Fifteen years later Gene was able to terminate his perennial guilt and forgive himself. Gene had finally matured from an insecure child to a self-accepting adult. Each theme in A Separate Peace by John Knowles has a major impact on the reader. All teens experience the good and bad elements of friendship, conformity, and growing up. This novel helps us all realize that accepting yourself and being true to ...
- 1968: Great Expectations And Oliver
- ... to the poor. In order to conquer these evils, they must first be understood, and explaining the severity of these experiences seems to be a job which Charles Dickens is very good at. Bibliography Carey, John. Here Comes Dickens - The Imagination of a Novelist. New York: Schocken Books, 1974. Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: The Heritage Club, 1939. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1949. Johnson ... York: Simon and Schuster, 1952) 273. 9 Dickens, Expectations 62. 10 Garrett Stewart, Dickens and the Trials of Imagination (Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1974) 187. 11 Marcus 74. 12 Marcus 80. 13 Marcus 83. 14 John Carey, Here Comes Dickens - The Imagination of a Novelist (New York: Schocken Books, 1974) 149. 15 Dickens, Expectations 71-72. 16 Alexander Welsh, The City of Dickens (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1971) 107-108. 17 Marcus ...
- 1969: Minor Characters Influences On
- ... plan goes horribly wrong, perhaps causing the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. If Paris had not wished to be with Juliet, none of the following would have occurred. Friar Laurence gives a letter to Friar John to send to Romeo about Juliet's plans. But Friar John was unable to find Romeo. "Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, So fearful were they of infection". This is another example of a minor character playing an important role. Balthasar brings Romeo the ...
- 1970: Age Of Reason
- The age of reason was a time of Empiricism and of Materialism, which brought out philosophers like John Locke and George Berkeley as well as authors like Swift and Pope. These philosophers and authors belong to the Age of Reason because of their use of anti-emotional thought and the idea of Occam's razor. The use of Anti-emotional thought is shown the most in essays written by John Locke. Locke used an idea that he based all of his work on. That idea was knowledge is only conscious understanding. By that statement alone it makes him a writer/philosopher of the Age of ...
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