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- 6331: To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout's Development
- ... surely have found him not guilty, but it sentences him to death, as it is expected to do by the general populace. Prior to the trial, Scout and Jem are mocked by other children at school, which have been told by their parents that Atticus will defend the offending black man. Simply bearing this, as Atticus tells them to, instead of retaliating it physically, which would have been a much more ...
- 6332: The Story of Sweetheart of the Song of Tra Bong: The Use of Setting
- ... so amazed with the fact that a girl can be seduced by the lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if she were the attractive girl from school that everyone knows but nobody dates. " 'You know
I loved her. Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home, how clean and innocent they all are.' " (123) Rat is pushing his views upon ...
- 6333: The Pearl: Depictions of Life
- ... California. Both his father, who ran a flour mill, and his mother, a teacher, encouraged him to write once they saw his early interest in literature. Steinbeck began his career by writing articles for his school newspaper and by taking classes at Stanford University. At the same time, he worked at a local ranch where he witnessed the harsh treatment of migrant workers. These underpriveleged laborers later served as the inspiration ...
- 6334: The Outsiders: Theme
- ... and when Johnny dies and it disturbs the Greasers. It is shown that the Greasers and Socs strive for the same goals when Darry, Ponyboy's older brother, tells him that he should succeed in school and make something of himself, and Bob is always trying to make his father happy with him. These examples show that all people, Soc, Greaser, or whatever, all strive to achieve the same goals and ...
- 6335: The Good Earth: Summary
- ... Wang Lung got back, he repaired his home which was damaged by weather. Within the next six years, Wang Lung bought much more land from the house of Hwang, his first two sons began attending school, and he hired seven men to work the land including a neighbor Ching, and O-lan had borne him twins, a boy, and a girl. Wang Lung also discovered that O-lan had hidden a ...
- 6336: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
- ... and he much rather prefers his individual freedom. Even when living with his pap he enjoys it much better than living in regular society because he does not like living in regular schedules; going to school, waking up at the same time. He prefers doing this out of the ordinary society. Huck Finn is an allegory about good and evil. Huck represents the forces of good, and most of the people ...
- 6337: Fredrick Douglass 4
- ... back. Later Frederick wrote, "At that moment from whence came the spirit I don't know - I resolved to fight." (Adler). From that point on he never lost sight of his freedom. Frederick started a school for blacks that met secretly at night, and with five other slaves he began to plan his first escape. Unfortunately just before the escape date in 1836, one of the conspirators was caught and turned ...
- 6338: Released From the Grip of What He Carried: Freedom Birds
- ... has boyfriends, knows she is closer to men other than himself. The other picture that Cross has is one of Martha clipped from a yearbook. It is a shot of Martha playing volleyball for her school. In the picture, Martha is "bent horizontal to the floor, reaching, the palms of her hands in sharp focus
the expression on her face taut and competitive" (276). The usual glance at a picture isn ...
- 6339: Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clark: No More Laughing for Paddy
- ... not relate to. I had never experienced arguments of such high caliber. But inevitably I had experienced the life of a ten year old. I could relate to Paddy's reactions to certain situations at school. For instance when Paddy and his grade are in line to receive check-ups a joke is made and Paddy says, " I laughed harder than I had to. We all did" (p.144). Doyle was ...
- 6340: Fredrick Douglass 5
- ... more than a cheap source of labor in the North. Learning to read and write was a challenge simply because the resources were not there. He used wit and good natured cunning to trick local school boys into teaching him the alphabet. If he had never sought knowledge, he would never been able to write any of his autobiographies which live on even today as important accounts of slavery. Also, without ...
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