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- 561: ... cannot seize it. They go out to look for it elsewhere instead. Which makes the audience feel sympathizing towards them. They are identity-seeking teenagers alienated from the world by their parents. Jim, Judy and John a.k.a. Plato is searching for understanding, companionship, and a sense of belonging. Jim is confused about his family as to who should be the man of the household . He sees his father as ...
- 562: Billy Budd: A Story of True Goodness
- ... Those who choose the latter are evil plain and simple. By making this choice they are reflecting not upon the innocent, but upon themselves. This reflection is humanity in its darkest configuration. Billy Budd and John Claggart are opposing forces. Billy Budd who is described as “strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess recited. Ashore he the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost.” John Claggart, a man “in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ‘a depravity according to nature.’” These two people who are clearly on opposite sides of the spectrum contrast one another in a plethora of ways. Where Billy is sweet, John is bitter. Where Billy is naïve, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. Lastly, where Billy is good, John is bad. The ugliness that results in the death of both men ...
- 563: Dandelion Wine: Douglas
- ... to realize that all things and people leave in their time and doug still doesn’t understand this. He still thinks that he has a little magic left in him and that he can keep John there with him. “John!” he cried. “You, John! John, you’re my enemy, you hear? You’re no friend of mine! Don’t come back here ever!” Doug has lost so many hopes of happiness in machines, that when he’s losing ...
- 564: John Steinbeck
- Main Characters: Steinbeck describes people as if they were living their lives at the same level of existence as animals. His characters do have their dignity and face life without flinching. They have ideals and that separates them ...
- 565: The Yellow Wall-paper
- ... allow her to rest and recover her health. She is forbidden to work, "So I . . . am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again." (160) She is not even supposed to write: "There comes John, and I must put this away -- he hates to have me write a word." (161) She has no say in the location or decor of the room she is virtually imprisoned in: "I don't like our room a bit. I wanted . . . But John would not hear of it." (160) She can not have visitors: "It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work¡Kbut he says he would as soon put fireworks in ... for anything¡K(164). It seems that her husband is oblivious to her declining condition, since he never admits she has a real problem until the end of the story -- at which time he fainted. John could have obtained council from someone less personally involved in her case, but the only help he seeks was for the house and baby. He obtains a nanny to watch over the children while ...
- 566: The Chamber
- In the book The Chamber John Grisham shares the need for the death penalty in our society. The death penalty has existed as long as humans have existed. The quote "an eye for an eye" is found in the Bible. In ... the death penalty include lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair, and hanging and fire squad. In a 1986 poll 70% of Americans favored the death penalty as a punishment for murder. On February 1, 2000, John Grisham celebrates the publication of his 11th novel THE BRETHREN. Eleven years ago, though, long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a ... PARTNER, and THE STREET LAWYER), and all of them have bestsellers, leading Publishers Weekly to declare him "the best-selling novelist of the 90s" in a January 1998 profile. They're currently over 60 million John Grisham books in print worldwide, which have been translated into 29 languages. Six of his novels have been turned into films (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, and ...
- 567: The Crucible: Hidden Darkness
- ... are many theories as to why the witch trials came about, the most popular of which is the girls' suppressed childhood’s. However, there were other factors as well, such as Abigail Williams' affair with John Proctor, the secret grudges that neighbors held against each other, and the physical and economic differences between the citizens of Salem Village. From a historical viewpoint, it is known that young girls in colonial Massachusetts ... my mouth; it's God's work I do." The other girls all stared at the rafters in horror and began to repeat everything they heard. Finally, the girls' hysterics caused Mary Warren to accuse John Proctor of witchcraft. Once the scam started, it was too late to stop, and the snowballing effect of wild accusations soon resulted in the hanging of many innocents. After the wave of accusations began, grudges ... neighbors out to do them harm. One of the main accusers, Abigail Williams, had an ulterior motive for accusing Elizabeth Proctor. In The Crucible, Abigail believed that if she got rid of Goody Proctor, then John Proctor, her husband, would turn to Abby. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail, but for him it was just lust, while Abigail believed it to be true love. She told John that he ...
- 568: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- ... President Lincoln did not feel that anyone would ever want to kill him. Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865. He was going to see a play at Ford's Theatre. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Booth had been planning this conspiracy for a long time. This assassination was one of many attempted ones by Booth and his fellow conspirators. Booth had carved a hole in Lincoln's box ... article is a summary of the events leading up to, the assassination, and the events after Abraham Lincoln's death. He was killed April 15, 1865. His assassin was a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was planing to attend a play at Ford's Theatre that night. Booth shot him that night. Booth shot Lincoln with a small pistol known as a derringer. Booth managed to escape ... the morning after he was shot. His body was sent to Springfield, Illinois for burial. 3. Peterson, Roger S. “Declassified,” American History, July/August 1996, pp. 22-26. This article summarizes the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963. Also discussed is the investigation that followed. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-Marine. Kennedy was in a convertible, being driven ...
- 569: The Green Mile Card Report 2
- The Green Mile, March 1999 Stephen King, 1947-? Summary: John Coffey is brought to Cold Mountain accused of rape and murder. It becomes known that he has a healing touch. Paul Edgecombe, the superintendent, has sympathy for Coffey and later finds out that Coffey is ... internal struggle between what his job wants him to do and what he sometimes knows is the right thing. Kind and gentle, he recounts this episode of his life from Georgia Pines, his retirement home. John Coffey is a huge, muscular black man but is very slow in the mental sense, brought into a situation where death surrounds him, yet he has the power to heal by his own touch. Other ... Hal (Warden) Moores was the warden of Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Melinda Moores, Hal s wife, is portrayed as a sick elderly woman. She is used in the story to demonstrate the miraculous healing power that John Coffey held. Janice Edgecombe was Paul s wife. She died in a bus accident, setting up the character of Elaine Connelly, who Paul met at the retirement center in his later years. Eduard Delacroix ...
- 570: Jane Eyre 2
- Jane Eyre The story begins when Jane is 10. Her parents are dead and her aunt at Gateshead Hall has taken her care of. There she lives a miserable life with her cousin John who bully's her. After a fight with John she is put in the room where her uncle died. There she has a nightmare. Late at night she is taken back to her room by Bessie, the nurse. She isn't well so Bessie ... morning a servant visits Jane from her aunt who wants to see her on dying bed. Jane gets permission to visit her. Her aunt gives her a letter written 3 years ago by her Uncle John Eyre in which he wants to adopt Jane and make her his heir. After the funeral Jane returns to Thornfield Hall. The guests are all gone and Mr. Rochester asks her to be his ...
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