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- 4621: Book Review of Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squardron
- ... the first- person perspective between Corran and Kirtan Loor. While Corran and the Rogue Squadron are off fighting TIE fighters and Star Destroyers, Kirtan is hunting down information on the squadron and it's pilots. Personal Reaction : I found this book a little hard to read because of the long complicated sentences and the complex words Michael Stackpole chose for his book. I would say the reading level would probably be ...
- 4622: 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 ...
- 4623: An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
- ... remote parts appeared out of the dark, carrying darkness with them, different only in kind to the darkness they encounter. These thoughts and feelings were merely part of the tale, for Conrad had a more personal story to tell, about a single man who went so far from civilization that its restraints no longer mattered to him. Exposed to the unfamiliar emotional and physical demands of the African wilderness, free to ...
- 4624: Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations"
- ... that true goodness comes from a person rather than their social class. This shows that wealth and position can be corrupting. This theme is present today as it ever was during Dickens time. From a personal standpoint, these novels have had an impressive influence on my life and the way I think as it would for anybody of my age and education. By absorbing the themes of true goodness and chance ...
- 4625: "A Man for All Seasons": Common Attitude
- ... world, this philosophy is still the best way to go for some. Today, another teen-ager is abusing an illegal drug because "everyone else is doing it." If the teen does the drug, then his personal life will be better because he has gained more friends. Even though he knows that it is illegal and thus, morally wrong, he takes the easiest route, and "goes with the flow." Thomas More is ...
- 4626: Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
- Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism The Catcher in the Rye creates an existentialist out of Holden Caulfield by giving him a strong personal opinion, a different sense of view, and isolation. Holden's individuality and his different way of thinking creates within him an Existentialist that refuses to accept weakness but holds sympathy for the weak and vulnerable ...
- 4627: Billy Budd By Herman Melville
- ... 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 ...
- 4628: The World as Will and Idea and Young Goodman Brown: Symbols
- ... the heart's purity, while lack of commitment to his relationship with Faith removes him from a fellowship of love. Through the use of universal symbolism of the underworld Hawthorne, estranged Brown from his own personal history, the very history upon which he built the hope of his salvation.
- 4629: Irving's The World According to Garp: Analysis
- ... of blood.(281) Garp is so protective that even the television is an evil praying on his children, draining the blood from their faces. The irony of Garp's protective nature emerges when Garp starts writing books that he feels are to violent for them to read. Garp ends up providing the violence he is protecting his children from The circumstances that surround the children also end up being incredibly violent ...
- 4630: The Genji Monogatari
- ... Third Month, about mid May in our calendar (depending on which year it was set in). Then, after a little time is passed by visitors, the summer rains come. This is a time of letter writing and for thinking of family. Next we come to the brilliant description of Genji looking up to the Harvest Moon, and the "melancholy autumn winds" (p 235) blow harshly on the exiled prince. Winter is ...
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