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- 1991: Jane Eyre: The Settings
- ... trauma of growing up under its "hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart." Gateshead, the first setting is a very nice house, though not much of a home. As she is constantly reminded by John Reed, Jane is merely a dependent here. When she finally leaves for Lowood, as she remembers later, it is with a "sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation." Lowood is after all an institution where ... washed walls and a sanded floor" and a bed to sleep in. Here at Moor house is where Jane learns what it is to be an independent woman. Of course the twenty thousand pounds from John Eyre's inheritance doesn't hurt. In the final setting of the book at Ferndean, this is the place at where Jane will settle down. At the ends she concludes at Ferndean where she has ...
- 1992: A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
- A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes Thesis: The five main characters in John Knowles' A Separate Peace represent social stereotypes, according to some people. In his book A Separate Peace, John Knowles represents jocks with Phineas, a character who believes that sports are the key to life. Phineas is more of a sportsman than a jock. Real jocks only care about winning, Phineas makes sure it ...
- 1993: Grapes of Wrath: Awakening Of Tom Joad
- Grapes of Wrath: Awakening Of Tom Joad Grapes of Wraith by John Steinbeck portrayed the awakening of a man's conscience dealing with his troubling trials throughout the novel. The character that goes through this monumental change is Tom Joad, son of two tenant farmers from Oklahoma ... the first sizable impact on Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awakening. After visiting the land the Joad family had lived on for many years Tom and Jim traveled to his uncle John's house nearby. There Tom meets his family as they are making preparations to leave for California. Tom's family has already sold off every valuable possession they own while living under cramped conditions on ...
- 1994: Zinn's A People's History of the United States: The Oppressed
- ... present-day home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. One-hundred fifteen years later and 1,500 miles to the north, the colony of Jamestown was founded by a group of English settlers led by John Smith; shortly after that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by a group of Puritans known to us today as the Pilgrims. Because of uneasy and hostile relations with the nearby Pequot Indians, the Pequot ... been brought over in sufficient quantity.... As for free white settlers, many of them were skilled craftsmen, or even men of leisure back in England, who were so little inclined to work the land that John Smith... had to declare a kind of martial law, organize them into work gangs, and force them into the fields for survival..... Black slaves were the answer. And it was natural to consider imported blacks ...
- 1995: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
- The Catcher In The Rye: Holden Preface - This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon ... Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have been any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and as a result of the fact that it was 'The Catcher In The Rye', a book describing nervous breakdown, media speculated widely about the possible connection. This gave the book even more notoriety ...
- 1996: Paradise Lost: Milton's Approach To Lust, Sex, and Violence
- ... his time. We must reinterpret him in light of the germane thought of our own age. -James Driscoll The Unfolding God Of Jung and Milton Images and allusions to sex and death are intermingled throughout John Milton's Paradise Lost . The character of Satan serves as not only an embodiment of death and sin, but also insatiated sexual lust. The combination of sex and lust has significant philosophical implications, especially in ... Unparadised" in The Living Milton: Essays by Various Hands (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960) Lieb, Michael. Poetics of the Holy: A Reading of Paradise Lost. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981) Milton, John. Comus in The Portable Milton. Editor Douglas Bush (New York: Viking Press, 1977) ----, Paradise Lost in The Portable Milton. Editor Douglas Bush (New York: Viking Press, 1977) ----, Samson Agonistes in The Portable Milton. Editor Douglas ...
- 1997: Great Expectations vs. Oliver Twist
- ... 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 ...
- 1998: Call of the Wild
- ... the unnecessary baggage was discarded, and the trip was barely completed because of harsh weather, wrong supplies, and poor management skills of the dog handlers. All except a man that went by the name of John Thornton, perhaps the only sane one in the group. After one of the men repeatedly beat on a dog, Thornton became enraged. He threatened to kill the man. A few minutes later, the rest of ... Buck and Thornton to fend for themselves. The time of this book is in the great gold rush era in the Yukon and Alaska. The rest of the book concludes what happens to Buck and John Thornton and some of the great and strange times they have together. I enjoyed this book because it tells about the goods and bads of wilderness life. It doesn't just lean to one side ...
- 1999: Billy Bud: Contrast Between Good and Evil
- ... evil. Billy Budd is "like a young horse fresh from the pasture suddenly inhaling a vile whiff from some chemical factory." Billy's innocence and purity is exterminated at the hands of his main enemy, John Claggort, " much such as Adam presumably might have been ere the urbane Serpent wriggled himself into his company." Claggort's " silken jet curls
and pallor tinged with a faint shade of amber skin" even denote ... Besides from the use of characterization and symbolism, Melville uses irony to portray the battle of good versus evil. Irony is used to contrast the concepts of good and evil. Billy, " the fighting peacemaker" kills John Claggort with a blow "quick as the flame from a discharged cannon." It is ironic that Billy, this innocent Christ like character loses his composure and ultimately does something evil. Through out the novel Billy ...
- 2000: An Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper
- ... page 163. The detailed description that the wife describes really draws much attention to me. It talks about some details that the wife finds looking at the wallpaper. And one interesting point, that she sees John and Jennie put their eyes on the wallpaper too. That she was surprise John and Jennie may see there is something going on about the wallpaper. But I don't know if that is what the wife is determines or have a guess that's what they are doing ...
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