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- 4451: Mark Twain Wishes to Bring Attention To Man's Often Concealed Shortcomings
- ... He realizes that people will not change, but feels that they should be aware of who they are, of what comes with this thing we call humanity. That is Mark twain's main purpose in writing this novel.
- 4452: Lost Heritage in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
- ... for not understanding heritage when, in fact, Dee fails to really understand heritage. Dee mistakenly places heritage wholly in what she owns, not what she knows. Works Cited Walker, Alice. "Everyday Use." Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1994. 288-295.
- 4453: Of Mice and Men: Loneliness
- ... some books to read. He also usually rubs his own back with liniment because a horse kicked or threw him when he was younger. Another thing that showed his loneliness is that he had his personal belongings scattered around the room. He also had this stuff scattered around the room because he was crippled and was a stable buck, which meant he was more permanent then most of the other people ...
- 4454: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... work and perseverance, the two boys (Rueven and Danny), find out who they really are, and what lives they will lead in the future. The novel concentrates on the desire to conceive a person's personal wants while conforming to tradition. The basis of all the conflicts in the entire novel stem from the differences in family life which are brought on by the discrepancies of religious beliefs. Rueven, who is ...
- 4455: In Contempt by Christopher Darden: A Review
- ... always told Chris never to use drugs. Throughout the book Chris Darden refers to his brother as a good role model for him no matter what he did. I feel the purpose of Chris Darden writing this book is to try to show the hardships he had to go through as a black man trying to become a lawyer. Also I feel that he is trying to reveal the truth behind ...
- 4456: Huckleberry Finn Learns He Must Grow Up Fast If He Wants to Survive Life
- ... He will use every technicality to get off with doing something completely wrong, but is ok by him. Huck is not all evil as one would think by this introduction. He in fact believes in personal freedom, something which he never really has had. Jim, a supporting character, also has to deal with many problems of society. The greatest one in fact is, the fact that he is a slave. Jim ...
- 4457: Heart of Darkness: Ignorance and Racism
- Heart of Darkness: Ignorance and Racism Joseph Conrad develops themes of personal power, individual responsibility, and social justice in his book Heart of Darkness. His book has all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale - mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, unexpected attack. Chinua Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on ...
- 4458: Heart of Darkness: Cruelty
- Heart of Darkness: Cruelty In Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness the Europeans are cut off from civilization, overtaken by greed, exploitation, and material interests from his own kind. Conrad develops themes of personal power, individual responsibility, and social justice. His book has all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale - mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, unexpected attack. The book is a record of things seen and done by ...
- 4459: Great Expectations: Themes of Love, Redemption and Isolation
- ... feels emotionally and geographically isolated on his arrival in London. Jaggers isolation is his deliberate rejection to human involvement, he substitutes these with the mechanical process of law. Jaggers uses the legal system to avoid personal responsibility for the fate of his fellow man. This profession has imprisoned his better instincts, leaving him isolated within the system. Magwitch, however, is isolated by the system, he uses Pip as his agent of ...
- 4460: Ethan Frome: Fantasy is an Escape From Winter
- ... s will to survive and the buildings he constructed to shield him from this environment. As the narrator explains, "I had a sense that his [Ethan's] loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it the profound accumulated cold of many winters" (Wharton 15). The description of the weather is also used to foreshadow events and set the ...
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