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- 1201: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... she wishes to return to Ndotsheni, but feels unworthy because of what she has become. She agrees to go back to her homeland, but in the end, abandons Kumalo and her child. Kumalo's brother, John, is the next of his family to be confronted. "[John] is corrupt and deceitful, and betrays his brother and nephew at the first opportunity" (Hogan, 206). Msimangu, though, feels that if John were not corrupt, he would not solve problems, but "plunge this country into bloodshed" (Paton, 187). As a charismatic speaker, John has the ability to raise the blacks against the whites, but is too ...
- 1202: Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
- ... tuned his ability to tell his own story through the life of another character or cast of characters. Born on the evening of February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second child of his parents, John and Elizabeth Dickens. His parents lived in Portsmouth, which is located on England's southern coast. The family was in the lower division of the middle class. Charles Dickens' father, John, was a clerk at the Navy Pay Office in Portsmouth. Dickens's mother was very affectionate and rather foolish in practical matters. John was a vivacious and generous man, but often lived outside the boundaries of his tight pocketbook. Later in life Dickens used his father as the basis for his fictional character, Mr. Micawber and his ...
- 1203: A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
- ... unempathetic and intellectually uninteresting well- being. Apparently, taking soma doesn't give Bernard Marx, the disaffected sleep-learning specialist, more than a cheap thrill. Nor does it make him happy with his station in life. John the Savage commits suicide soon after taking soma [guilt and despair born of serotonin depletion!?]. The drug is said to be better than (promiscuous) sex - the only sex the brave new worlders practise. But a ... be happy for a reason: unlike people, a good drug will never let you down. True, soma-consumption doesn't actively promote anti-social behaviour. Yet the drug is all about instant gratification. Drug-naive John the Savage, by contrast, has a firm code of conduct. His happiness - and sorrow - don't derive from taking a soul-corrupting chemical. It is based on reasons - though these reasons themselves presumably have a ... been eradicated. That's one reason its citizens' behaviour is so shocking. BNW's positive immorality is all too conceivable by the reader. Typically, we are indignant when we see the callous way in which John the Savage is treated, or when we witness the revulsion provoked in the Director by the sight of his own physically ageing mother. Above and beyond this, all sorts of sour undercurrents are endemic ...
- 1204: The Stone Angel: Hagar Shipley
- ... were the causes of her failed relationships and lack of love in her life. Her excessive pride destroyed her relationships with her father, brother and husband. It also led to the death of her son John. Her stubbornness caused her marriage to dissolve, Marvin to be unhappy, her daughter-in-law's frustration, and her own death. Hagar's overwhelming pride was the reason she could not show love nor affection ... know how she felt about him: "... I never let him knew. I never spoke aloud... I prided myself on keeping my pride intact" (p.81). Hagar's pride also destroyed her relationship with her son John. One night John brought Arlene home to stay but Hagar was to proud to let her stay and refused. They were later killed in a car accident and Hagar then realised that if she had compromised then ...
- 1205: "The Miller's Tale" and "The Reve's Tale": Similarities
- ... His talent is illustrated when he turns his eye to the Carpenter's wife and makes love with her. The situation is very similar to "The Reeve's Tale." In that tale the Miller lets John and Alan, two scholars, who lost their horse from the Miller's own doing, stay at his house. However, since the two boys are "Headstrong
and eager for a joke" (110), Alan proceeds to rape the Miller's daughter, while John sleeps with the Miller's wife. It is apparent that these situations are very similar, in that the scholars are having adulterous sexual intercourse with both the Carpenter's and the Miller's wives. This ... tales also share common traits in the fields of immorality and sexuality. For instance, "The Miller's Tale" contains several different occasions of lying and cheating, including the scene where the Miller cheats Alan and John out of a fair amount of grain, and the scene where John moves The Miller's wife's baby to confuse the her into sleeping with him. In comparison, "The Reeve's Tale" has ...
- 1206: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... missionaries to Hawaii to bring the word of Jesus Christ." Abner Hale, who attended the sermon, was deeply moved; so moved that he went to apply to the mission, along with his friend and classmate, John Whipple. Similarly, in 1809, in truth, history records that a certain Henry Obookiah stirred the emotions of religious New Englanders. He was sent to school, for he was a promising candidate to return to Hawaii ... in 1818, he died of typus or pneumonia. His death caused much grief, and among those who felt the impact were Reverend Hiram Bingham, and Reverend Asa Thurston. It is possible that Abner Hale and John Whipple represent Bingham and Thurston in Hawaii. In the novel, eleven missionary couples and Keoki Kanakoa went to Hawaii on the brig the Thetis. They left on September 1, 1821, after prayers . In fact, there ... realized the mental as well as physical anguish that the lepers suffered from. The next problem that confronted the characters in Hawaii dealt with the sugar and agricultural industries. Whipple Hoxworth, the grandson of Dr. John Whipple, decided to utilize a large area of the Hawaiian islands. But they were barren, with no water to support the produce he wished to grow. He thought of boring miles through the neighboring ...
- 1207: The Grapes of Wrath: No One Man, But One Common Soul
- ... No One Man, But One Common Soul Many writers in American literature try to instill the philosophy of their choosing into their reader. This is often a philosophy derived at from their own personal experiences. John Steinbeck is no exception to this. When traveling through his native Californian in the mid-1930s, Steinbeck witnessed people living in appalling conditions of extreme poverty due to the Great Depression and the agricultural disaster ... the novel as a way of expressing the idea of an oversoul. The end of the novel defeats the accusation that the Okies are animals with no human characteristics at all. The characters of Uncle John and Pa help to build a dam to prevent the rising waters from entering the boxcar that they are living in. Steinbeck shows this image as a common goal among the combined souls of the ... selfishness, respectively. Noah represents a childlike innocence and a feeling of belonging to society. Connie represents youthful aspirations of the future, and Pa stubbornness and a refusal to give up the fight against life. Uncle John represents guilt, and Grandpa represents heritage. Ma represents hope, and strength (second to Tom). Tom represents idealism, and strength, while Grandma represents family unity, and Al represents the wildside and youthful rebellion (Critical 4). ...
- 1208: The Touch of Magic by Lorena Hickok
- ... became a celebrity. Everyone was interested in Helen, who wouldn't be? During their long time of fame, Helen and Annie met a lot of neat, interesting people including a very nice young man named John Macy. He worked for a magazine and was one of the greatest supporters Helen and Annie ever had. When Helen grew up, John decided that he would ask Annie to marry him. Annie at first wasn't sure because he was eleven years younger than her. She finally said yes and they were married on May 2, 1905. Annie was now thirty-nine and John was twenty-eight. The marriage only lasted eight years before John decided to sail to Europe. It wasn't a divorce, but more of a separation. Annie knew that she could count on him ...
- 1209: Protagonists Journal for Jane Eyre
- ... he was quick to take her in as his own. Mrs. Reed only would say that he pitied her, but we all know there was more. She enchanted the lives of Mr. Rochester and St. John. Both men, in or near there thirties, proposed her twice. She accepted both of Mr. Rochester 's proposals. She also did something remarkable; she refused St. John's proposals of marriage. Jane Eyre was a very special woman of her time. Jane's life story is greatly admired by women around the world due to the nature of her character. She searches ... did not accept her in the time she went back she made a friend of Mrs. Eyre's daughter, Elise. Jane also found acceptance in the harsh Mr. Rochester, and the unwilling household of St. John. She was always taken in her lowest hour and raised up to a great triumph later. While at St. John's she found the family in whom she had searched. She was financially secure ...
- 1210: Examination of Puritan Philosophy in Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
- ... God was punishing him. According to Bradford, the sailor's cursing, and mistreatment of the other passengers displeased God, so God punished him accordingly. In the same chapter, Bradford tells of another ship passenger named John Howland. At one point in the trip, the Mayflower came upon a violent storm. The winds of the storm were so fierce, and the seas were so high, that all the sailors and passengers had to "hull for divers days together". During this storm, a young man named John Howland was thrown into the sea, and as Bradford tells us, "it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length". Howland caught hold of a ... he was hauled up. Bradford reasons that the man was saved because he was blessed by God. He goes on to say that he "became a profitable member in both church and state, implying that John Howland was one of the so called "Puritan Saints". To the Puritans, Saints were people whom God was to save, so these people received God's blessings, and therefore were profitable in Puritan society. ...
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