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- 4291: In What Way Is Lizzy Newberry A Highly Unusual Woman For Her Time?
- ... is on her way to aid the smugglers even though Mr.Stockdale doesn’t approve, as on page 118 which shows she has a lot of character for a woman of her time. In previous stories by Thomas Hardy the women in the story are portrayed as being helpless with no confidence such as Rhoda Brook in the ‘ Withered Arm,’ she is just a milkmaid with a son who is jealous ...
- 4292: The Old Man and the Sea
- ... really catch my interest. Hemingway goes into too much detail in certain items. Take away the detail and the 125-page story would be a lot shorter. I do not plan on reading any more stories by Ernest Hemingway.
- 4293: Animal Farm
- ... believing that they did not like apples and milk, while he and Napoleon were stealing the food for themselves. In Russia, the Bolsheviks carried out propaganda on the people by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspapers that were not true. They told workers, soldiers, and peasants to not trust their own hands and to take away land from the landowners. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 80). Another item that is ...
- 4294: Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June and Her Mother
- ... more than her own life, but June did not realize this until her questions were answered and she began to understand her mother's intentions in life, and where her hopes origi nated from. The stories of Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo reveal some of Amy Tan's main themes in the novel. One important theme is that we must get to know and understand our parents in order to fully ...
- 4295: Blood And Belonging
- ... reasons for the extreme violence present there today. The author states, "A Croat, thus, is someone who is not a Serb. A Serb is someone who is not a Croat." This quotation profoundly expresses the short-sighted mentality present in their conflict. In his travels in Germany, the author points out an important question. Does the nation make the state, or the state the nation? This question by far does not ...
- 4296: The Red Badge of Courage: Henry Fleming
- ... burden when he runs away from his first battle. What causes Henry to run in the intensity of war? Henry's lack of confidence ignites the feeling that he might run. The veteran soldiers tell stories to the rookies about the horrible sights they witnessed while fighting. They portray visions of blood, fire, and smoke. Henry begins to wonder how he might react to this situation: "He had to mathematically prove ...
- 4297: The Ambivalent Relationship of Nick and Gatsby
- ... acts (Donaldson 132). Nick thinks Gatsby is despicable. Even though Nick doesn’t know much about Gatsby except for rumors he’s heard from Gatsby’s uninvited party guests, he doesn’t believe Gatsby’s stories of his life in Europe. While Nick is listening to Gatsby’s historically untrue story he begins to understand why Gatsby’s guests feel he is an insidious person. “He hurried the phrase ‘educated at ...
- 4298: Depression 7
- ... races, but most studies indicate that women are more often afflicted. There are two major forms of depression . One form is called depressive disorder. It is diagnosed only by episodes of depression. Episodes can be short or long but are usually brought about by an incident in a person's life. An example of this is if someone close to them dies. The other kind is called bipolar or manic depressive ...
- 4299: Frankenstein
- ... thinking. Society has mislabeled this creature as dumb, savage, and brutal, whereas he is actually intelligent, kind, and humane. This creation knows absolutely nothing when he first begins to exist and yet in a very short amount of time (compared to human learning) can walk, talk, read, write, and think logically. He learns to read, write, and talk from the family. Proof to his logical thinking is throughout the novel but ...
- 4300: Frankenstein: What Makes it a Gothic Novel?
- ... creation who is shunned by all of mankind yet still feels and yearns for love. The monster then seeks revenge for his life of loneliness and misery. The setting can bring about these feelings of short-lived happiness, loneliness, isolation, and despair. Shelly's writing shows how the varied and dramatic settings of Frankenstein can create the atmosphere of the novel and can also cause or hinder the actions of Frankenstein ...
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