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- 6131: Lord of the Flies: Essay on Jack Merridew
- ... each of the boys to be able to speak their mind. At the beginning of the book the position of Jack and Ralph is more or less equal. They are both well - conditioned boys of school age, who find themselves on a lonely island with some other boys of various age, but not older than themselves. They share similar opinions about their situation and its solution. They both want to be ...
- 6132: Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
- ... world full of "phonies," and maintaining individuality. With such views in mind, Holden begins alone in the story, and he stays as such throughout the entire story. He establishes concrete individual existence as he abandons school and goes to live in New York by himself. He understands that life must not be lived as a game, although he agrees with Mr. Spencer in order not to sound inferior to him. A ...
- 6133: The Worth of Huckleberry Finn
- ... a view of the world that had a rather loose grasp of reality. An example of this fact would be the incident where they ambushed the "A-rabs" (who turned out to be a Sunday school picnic), and the fact that Huck later quit the group because he was disappointed they hadn't actually killed anybody. At another point in the book, we see Tom's over-active imagination and romantic ...
- 6134: The Genji Monogatari
- ... of the structure. I leave you in the capable hands of Michael Chrichtons' Ian Malcom: "Fractals are a kind of geometry, associated with a man named Mandelbrot. Unlike ordinary Euclidean geometry that everybody learns in school--squares and cubes and spheres--fractal geometry appears to describe real objects in the natural world. Mountains and clouds are fractal shapes. So fractals are probably related to reality. Somehow... "For example," Malcolm said, "a ...
- 6135: Summary of Pike's "Remember Me"
- ... reading that book, or series, the reader has to wonder if he has experienced death himself, and some how come back. The story is mainly about a teenage girl, soon to be done with high school, that is thrown off of a balcony, and dies. She wakes, in her own bed, and does not know she is dead. She then proceeds to go down to the kitchen only to be ignored ...
- 6136: Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man"
- ... s loyalty, in specific to Ireland, which is shown in Chapter 1. This is where we receive the first hints about Stephen's thoughts of exile from his Mother Ireland. While he is at boarding school, Stephen feared exile from his mother, which relates to his experience with Ireland. He feels great anxiety because of his separation from home. When one of his peers asks Stephen about kissing his mother, these ...
- 6137: Overview of "Catcher in the Rye" and "Death of a Salesman"
- ... actualy did things. He did do a lot of things for other people though. He helped those nuns. He gave them ten dollers for their charity box. He also had a lot of troubles with school. He got kicked out of other schools, and he really didn't care. All he wanted was to be left alone. He did not want to talk to alot of people. He wanted to be ...
- 6138: Summary of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" With Background About Steinbeck
- ... thought it had a nice theme. I believe the book could of been better if it did not use so much profanity. The overall book was above average. I would recommend this to junior high school students as a group reading project, and the principal authorizes it. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, Monterey County, California. He was an American author, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize ...
- 6139: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... birthing is no longer the accepted norm of society. All humans are born from a machine called the "Brooder". "All in a sluggish row, babies bobbed. Mother the machine
.Languidly they drifted in a blind school." While viewing the mother machine Connie sees, "One dark female was kicking" (102). This scene reflects to a statement Connie makes earlier in the novel when she is watching children play on a playground. "Yes ...
- 6140: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- ... worth, and threatens to tell everyone of her aunt's treatment, declaring that she is "bad" and "hard-hearted." (Bronte 39) The prospect of a ruined reputation frightens Aunt Reed and Jane is sent to school with "the first victory (she) had gained," (Bronte 39). Jane's victory over John is not a deliberate vanquishing confrontation, but rather a situation in which both he and Jane get what they deserve. Throughout ...
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