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- 4351: Wright's "Black Boy": An Oppressionist Impression
- ... much violence and oppression in his early years as was there for any man of the time. His expierences as a young boy shaped him into the man and author he bacame. And through his writing, he shapes his readers with his words. “Suddenly the future loomed tangibly for me, as tangible as the future can loom for a black boy in Mississippi.”
- 4352: Racism in Wright's Black Boy
- ... minor mistake in action or word could lead to his death. For most of his life, Wright had dreams of leaving the South. As a young teenager he says, "I dreamed of going north and writing books, novels. The North symbolized to me all that I had not felt and seen." (Wright pg.186 ). In Black Boy Wright admits that his goal was not to go North, but to escape the ...
- 4353: Billy Budd
- ... done according to instruction, and deviation from that set way of thinking and operation is wrong. This way of thinking is illustrated as Melville commits what he calls a "literary sin": In this matter of writing, resolve as one may to keep to the main road, some bypaths have an enticement not readily to be withstood. I am going to err into such a bypath. If the reader will keep me ...
- 4354: Flaws in Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- ... or not real life is just not that perfect. My other gripe was that Twain seems to ramble on and on and on an..... To me it seems as if the story that he was writing became faint shortly after 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 ...
- 4355: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor
- ... the people around him, much as Marx and more importantly John the Savage saw in their culture. Both authors try to show that with life made easier by strong government control and a lack of personal involvement people will no longer spend their time thinking, questioning or developing their own ideas. Through these various diversions from normal behavior in society, Marx, John the Savage and Guy Montag are able to see ...
- 4356: Go Ask Alice
- ... into thin air, often tail-first, leaving only his grin behind to linger. Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice tells us that the phrase "grin like a Cheshire cat" was common when Lewis Carroll was writing. Cheshire is also the county in England that Carroll himself was born. Finally, the Queen of Hearts is tyrannical and loud. She expects to be obeyed and is quite free with her orders that individual ...
- 4357: Gods And Generals
- ... social, and political differences between the North and the South. Many books have been written on this “first modern war” describing how over 620,000 men were killed. Jeff Shaara goes deeper and explores the personal conflicts of four historical figures, two from the South and two from North: General Lee, General Jackson, Colonel Chamberlain, and Hancock. Robert E. Lee’s story began with a dilemma; he had to decide whether ...
- 4358: Animal Farm
- Animal Farm Eric Blair- Blair was born in Bengal in 1903, educated at Eton, and after working for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, returned to Europe and started writing novels and essays for a living under his pen name "George Orwell." He was a political writer of his time, and usually wrote from his intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated government having complete ...
- 4359: Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
- ... her first two husbands strive. It is only toward the end, when Janie both lets her hair down and condemns Nanny's vision, that Janie sheds the same restrictions that continue to doom others to personal stagnation. In one compelling novel, Hurston ties together the important issues facing her generation without distracting from the tale of one woman's struggle with them.
- 4360: An Analysis of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed in Life Due to His Father
- ... son was to have dinner in such company as he was. After dinner, the guys went out to drink and play cards. Although Jimmy was losing and was actually having someone else take care of writing out I-O-U's for him, he continued to play, just so that he could stay in the company that he was in. At the end of the night (actually dawn of the next ...
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