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- 1911: Chrysalids
- ... are hypocritical. Their theories developed from the experiences of Man, particularly from his tribulation. The Waknuk people are insecure about themselves; therefore, they use God as an excuse for their persecution of the deviates. In John Wyndham's, The Chrysalids, we have the opportunity to view mankind not in the ideal way as most would like, but in a realistic way. The deviate is not perfect and because he is it ... tribulation. However, not all the characters in Waknuk believe that deviations should be killed or isolated. These characters are very distinct and all have a significant importance. There are a variety of opinions produced by John Wyndham's characters who cause many conflicts. The main character, David has the strongest beliefs and these beliefs become even stronger as the story develops. Throughout his whole childhood, he has always been taught to ...
- 1912: Brave New World: The Future
- ... was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate" ( Huxley, p.46 ) He quickly becomes an outcast and does not get along with the opposite sex. Bernard criticizes the utopian civilization until he discovers John the Savage in the savage reservation and introduces him to society. Bernard then becomes somewhat of a celebrity and quite popular among the ladies. At that point, Bernard is always bragging about how many girls ... in Utopia. Once again, if his conditioning had been done right and his intelligence had been controlled, he would not have had a problem with his world. Finally, the third character unhappy in Utopia is John or better known as the savage. As a matter of fact, he should not even be considered as an unhappy civilian because he was not raised in the utopian civilization but in the savage reservation ...
- 1913: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- ... was educated at Stanford University. He first worked as a fruit picker, but then moved to New York. He didn t like it in New York so he moved back and became an author. Style: John Steinbeck s style is to write about something that he knows first hand. He likes to have all the details before writing his stories. Prior to writing The Grapes of Wrath, he caught up with ... been released from prison. He only has served 4 years of his 7-year sentence for manslaughter, but he is now out on parole. He returns and finds that his family is at his Uncle John s. The banks are taking away farms and farmers can no longer keep up with the economy. His family welcomes him back, but they have decided to move to California. They have received handbills that ...
- 1914: 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 ...
- 1915: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... He also belonged to a scientific society, where he met Edward Lesslie, and his son, James. These two would be William s patrons throughout most of his life. In 1820, William sailed to Canada with John, another son of Edward Lesslie. Mackenzie was immediately impressed with Upper Canada. Before the end of the year, Mackenzie was writing for the York Observer under the name of Mercator In 1824, Mackenzie started his ... Mackenzie was voted out of parliament on a vote of 24 to 15. Upon his expulsion, the Colonial Advocate became more strident, and a mob of several hundred stormed the assembly. They demanded that Sir John Calborne dissolve parliament. He refused, but the Tories were soon to find that kicking Mackenzie out was one thing; keeping him out was another. At the by-election on January 2, 1832, Mackenzie was voted ...
- 1916: 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 ...
- 1917: Death, Rebirth
- ... control the people have, until they completely lose themselves. The darkness becomes an unconscious state which destroys the characters within it. Death runs rampant through the characters in “The Dead” and Heart of Darkness. In John Foster’s critical essay of “The Dead,” he explains how the guests are in a morbid state: “Aunt Julia is old and grey; Aunt Kate’s face is... ‘a shriveled red apple’... Mr. Browne is ... must accept their own mortality and consciously fall. He consents this mortality when he says, “one by one they were all becoming shades” (Joyce 181). Even though it says “they” instead of “we,” according to John Wilson Foster’s critical essay: “Gabriel belongs in this category also, ‘they’ being Joyce’s rendering of Gabriel’s own interior ‘we’” (Fitzgerald 243). Gabriel then symbolically falls “to indicate epiphany, at the climax of ...
- 1918: Billy Budd - Criminal Without
- ... you really did not, by a teacher who hated you, and will be expelled because of it? Herman Melville’s Billy Budd relates an allegory of the righteous versus the reprobate by symbolizing Billy Budd, John Claggart, and Captain Vere as Jesus Christ, Lucifer, and God. The protagonist in the novel is Billy Budd. The experiences that Billy undergoes throughout the novel parallel what Jesus Christ endured in his life. Melville ... acting as Billy’s father and consoling him. Captain Vere symbolically stands as God The classic battle between innocence and evil comes alive with symbolism in Herman Melville’s allegory Billy Budd, with Billy Budd, John Claggart, and Captain Vere being portrayed as Jesus Christ, Lucifer, and God.
- 1919: Flaws in Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- ... the time when Huck says, “It's me. George Jackson, sir”(pg. 95). I do have to give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you can only take so much filler. Then when John Wayne (The Duke) and Elvis (The King) come along there seem to be four or five stops along the river that except for one little detail, are the same. Please excuse the jump back, but ... Jim and eventually embarks on a quest. The quest to find Jim. This journey would be much like the journey he and Jim took just a few years ago. This time though, there is no John Wayne and Elvis to make the story drawn out and boring towards the end. Then Huck finds Jim, meets the wife and kids, and goes back home to lead a normal (or as normal as ...
- 1920: The Crucible
- ... Salem Village in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Living a plain lifestyle is not easy, unlike what the name states. Living a plain lifestyle (Plainness) is hard work and can sometimes cause tension between people. John Proctor led a simple farmer’s life. He obviously lived by the Puritan belief of Plainness. He disagreed with Reverend Parris in the way he ran the church. Others too agreed with John Proctor: and in efforts to live simply, they stopped going to church, later fueling the accusations for the witch trials. Abigail did not want to make a big issue of what happened in the woods ...
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