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- 5761: Shooting An Elephant
- ... the pressure to do something because I was afraid of what others might say if I didn’t do it. One situation comes to mind immediately. When I was in my junior year of high school, I was faced with the challenge by my friends to jump off of a bridge into a lake below. I had done this type of thing off of cliffs before, but never from this height ...
- 5762: Shawshank Redemption
- ... here", cannot be taken from him.The scenes where the guards are present see them as the dominators of the scene, framed to appear larger than reality and striking figures, almost military like in their uniforms. Their constant presence serves as reminders of the constant and unremitting influence and oppression of the prison. The development of Andy as a "good guy" is aided by the use of film language. The music ...
- 5763: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- ... the house believed that a store owner was cheating him with his money. Another example of racism shown in the story is the white children being able to attend better schools and take buses to school, while black children walk. The readers may become very interested in what this entire book is about and what it was like back then. People may have always wondered how bad the prejudice and racism ...
- 5764: Robert Frost
- ... the age of twelve years old. This wasn’t the way you would think a famous writer would start off his life. The even awkward part of this story is that he graduated Lawrence High School as co-valedictorian of his graduating class. When I saw that I was very struck. I realized that changing is all up to one person and that one person is you. Robert Frost’s life ...
- 5765: Remains Of The Day
- ... a rigid written code of social protocol does not mean that many of us, consciously or not, do not behave in ways similar to Stevens in everyday life. Generally unquestioning obedience to the "household" --the school board, board of directors, union committee, in short, the cultural structure of most jobs—means that Americans’ jobs are a lot more similar to Stevens’ than we would like to think. Fortunately, we are usually ...
- 5766: Reading The Light
- ... found the spot where I think that Laurie first started to tell his lie. "The teacher spanked a boy, though, ... For being fresh" was Laurie’s replay to his mother asking him what happened in school. "Laurie thought. "It was Charles"" (14) When I reread this I thought that this was where Laurie decided to put on his act. I know that young children are capable of a lot of things ...
- 5767: Catch-22 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View of the Institution
- ... 31) The surreal atmosphere in the novel is also a source of humor. The mechanical and dreamlike characteristics in Nurse Ratched and the Black Boys are major factors in the environment of the ward. The uniforms of Big Nurse and the Black Boys are so well starched and so bleach white that they do not look real. This symbolizes that they are simply an extension of the ward. Cogs in the ...
- 5768: Ordinary People
- ... as children, experienced parental indifference or inconsistency. Though a successful tax attorney, he is jumpy around Conrad, and, according to his wife, drinks too many martinis. Conrad seems consumed with despair. A return to normalcy, school and home-life, appear to be more than Conrad can handle.Chalk-faced, hair-hacked Conrad seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world. His family, after all, "are ...
- 5769: On The Road
- Jack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts, in 1922. Kerouac quit school and joined the Merchant Marine, starting the travels which would become ‘On the Road’ his most acclaimed novel. It is said to be an account of Kerouac's ("Sal Paradise’s") travels with Neal Cassady ...
- 5770: Oliver Twist - Summary
- ... is coming to an end and it is time to stop having fun and get serious with my schoolwork. I am glad that I was given this report to complete because it started me with school and now I am ready for this upcoming year.
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