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- 4581: Summary of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
- ... long drought and the family were not making enough profit to keep the land. The trip to California begins the Joad family which includes: Grandpa, Pa, Tom, Noah, Rose of Sharon, Ruthie and Winfield, Uncle John, Al, Ma, and Tom who has just got out of jail brings along a former preacher Jim Casey. They buy a used truck and pile their belongings on to it. At the last minute Grandpa ...
- 4582: Grapes of Wrath: The Hardships of The Common Man
- Grapes of Wrath: The Hardships of The Common Man The novel Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, illustrates the hardships of the common man in great detail. The one aspect of this book that displays life as it exists in the hostile real-world is the third chapter, in which the ...
- 4583: Dandelion Wine
- ... big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity for his father. Also, Douglas got extremely sick and was dieing and there was no information on what kind of illness he had. Douglas took ...
- 4584: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... with God. Her secrets: humility and love. Like her father, Sonya recognizes her unworthiness before God. Her knowlege that God alone gives her worth allows her to love others unconditionally, including Raskalnikov. To paraphrase I John 4:19, Sonya loves because God first loved Sonya. Against Sonya's meekness and love, Raskalnikov begins to break. At first, he is argumentative, mocking Sonya's childlike faith. She's a holy fool! (Dostoyevsky ...
- 4585: Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- ... wants, she takes Nicholas because she wants to, just as she ignores Absalon because she wants to. Lines 3290-5 of the Miller's Tale show Alison's blatant disrespect for her marriage to "Old John" and her planned deceit: That she hir love hym graunted atte laste, And swoor hir ooth, by seint Thomas of Kent That she wol been at his comandement, Whan that she may hir leyser wel ...
- 4586: A Comparison of "Of Mice and Men" and "The Great Depression An Eyewitness History"
- ... to Lennie and George's life. I would like to give a comparison of George Milton and Lennie Small to the Great Depression. The time that this story took place was during the Great Depression. John Steinbeck captured the reality of this most difficult time. During the Great Depression people needed to travel together to share chores and duties to make a living until something better came along. That is the ...
- 4587: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... he reads not an essay, but a tale of horror from a young man who has fallen victim to the spirit of perverseness he had so well portrayed. One can also bet that Poe had John Allan in mind when he formulated the plot for this episode. The narrator devises a scheme that will secure his fortune from his benefactor-to-be. He poisons the wax of a candle and exchanges ...
- 4588: Art as an Insight into Jane Eyre's Life
- ... devoid of loving and nurturing contact and shunned by humanity. Two excerpts from her stay at Gateshead illustrate this fact, her reading of Bewick's History of British Birds, and her punishment for striking Master John, the stay in the red room of Gateshead. In the opening scene, Jane is found perusing a copy of Bewick's History of British Birds, concentrating on the descriptions of the certain landscapes in which ...
- 4589: The Summary of Grisham's "The Client"
- The Summary of Grisham's "The Client" The Client by John Grisham is an action, suspense novel about boy who learned to much from a Mafia lawyer. Mark is an eleven year old boy who is growing up in a trailer home with his mom Diane ...
- 4590: Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
- ... long the entire crew abandoneds their ship and reminisces with people from their past. That night all of the crew members settle in with their long lost families, and just a little too late, Captain John Black realizes their fatal mistake. The martians, endowed with the gift of telepathy, create an elaborate illusion to fool the humans into vacating their ship and leaving them defenseless. As the crew lies silently in ...
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