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- 2121: Mark Twain and His Masterpiece: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... resolution called for in the original conception of the story. But this approach emphasizes the structure of the novel, and structure is a big part, but it is also a mechanical part of the story. "Robert Miller believes that the conclusion can be defended in the very area where it seems the most vulnerable, characterization. If the final chapters of the novel seem to divest both Huck and Jim of their ...
- 2122: Frankenstein: Victor
- ... was, after a very long chase on dog- sleds, was nearly killed by breaking ice and rescued by a ship. He laid there and recovered from his sickness enough to tell his entire tale to Robert Walton. He quickly got very sick and eventually died. That night Frankenstein's monster came to see him in his death-bed. He met Walton, who hated him very much, and told him of the ...
- 2123: Catcher In the Rye: The Quest For Love
- ... them through their innocence. These thoughts eventually lead him to the yearning to be a catcher in the rye. Another child that has fallen, and still is falling is a neighbor of Holden's, Old Robert Ackley. He has horrible hygiene and an annoying curiosity, in that "He started walking around the room, very slow and all, the way he always did, picking up your personal stuff off your desk and ...
- 2124: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions to Classical Mythology
- ... hero, who must overcome his personal weaknesses and the oppression of his environment to gain spiritual enlightenment. Bibliography Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Adams, Robert M. James Joyce: Common Sense and Beyond. Random House, 1966. 232. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ed. Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985. 16:234-37. Anderson, C.G. "The Sacrificial Butter". Accent ...
- 2125: In Our Time: Review
- ... didn't really know what to gather from the stories. I've never honestly read any Hemmingway previously. I've started to read The Sun Also Rises about ten times and gotten waylaid by Batman, Robert B. Parker, and the like each time. I think I read The Old Man and the Sea ages ago in high school, but it was so long ago that it has slipped completely from my ...
- 2126: The Catcher In the Rye: First Person Narration is Critical
- ... all." He'll stand on the edge of a cliff and catch anybody who starts to fall off the edge of the cliff. He got this image from his misinterpretation of a line from the Robert Burns poem, " if a body catch a body comin' through the rye." When situations are described, in person or in a book, they are influenced by the one who describes them, and by his or ...
- 2127: Call of the Wild
- ... strewn across the street. The next incident proves their stubbornness to adapt to the environment. After many weeks of toil Charles, Hal, and Mercedes reach White river, where they find Thorton, a mail courier with frost bite. The team drops dead in the traces. Hal's philosophy pertains to the use of the whip. Beating after beating occurs but the team does not get up. Buck, the lead dog, gets the ...
- 2128: Living, Loving, and Learning: Buscaglia Reflection
- ... emotional needs. I had the opportunity to work with some of the students enrolled in Special Education at my high school. The first term that I did this, my job was to help a student frost sugar cookies to be sold in the school bookstore. What a challenge! Each day this beautiful girl had to be retaught how to scoop the icing onto the cookie and how to spread it around ...
- 2129: Zane Grey
- ... on her. She receives a new understanding on life and comes to be regarded as an equal. At the turn of the century there was a revival of an interest in nature, a period that Robert Nash characterized as the area of the "wilderness cult". During this time Grey set his work to magic. Grey was also a huge fan of nature and vividly used it to depict scenes in all ...
- 2130: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Thoughts and Feelings
- ... all." He'll stand on the edge of a cliff and catch anybody who starts to fall off the edge of the cliff. He got this image from his misinterpretation of a line from the Robert Burns poem, " if a body catch a body comin' through the rye." When situations are described, in person or in a book, they are influenced by the one who describes them, and by his or ...
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