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- 4381: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... on his feet, until a cheery man comes around and helps Henry to get back to his regiment. At his regiment he confronts John and has his wound on his head attended to. After a short rest he again gets back into battle. After the regiment lost the battle, the generals had the regiment marching again. Henry felt the generals were a lot of "lunkheads" for making them retreat instead of ...
- 4382: Response To The Scarlet Lettr
- ... the closet? However, other questions were involving larger situations. Why did the minster keep quiet when he knew he wouldn't live for much longer? What made Hester finnally remove her scarlet letter (for a short period of time)? The Puritanic age was a harsh and brutal period of time. At many times, citizens had no rights whatsoever. The persecuted depended on the fate of the few elite, or the top ...
- 4383: The Story of Sweetheart of the Song of Tra Bong: The Use of Setting
- ... her purest form. There is a slow transition, as she appears in preppy clothes, and she moves to "the habits of the bush. No cosmetics, no fingernail filing. She stopped wearing jewelry, cut her hair short and wrapped it in a dark green bandanna." (109) She finishes in a bizarre fashion, wearing her culottes, pink sweater, and tongue necklace. "She had crossed to the other side. She was part of the ...
- 4384: Stephen Crane
- ... 145. Colvert, James B. “Stephen Crane.” American Realists and Naturalists. Ed. Donald Pizer. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 100-24. Vol. 12 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Garland, Hamlin. “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.” The Arena June 1893. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Critcism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 1983. 121. Karlen, Amo ...
- 4385: The Cast Of Amontillado
- ... journalist, editor, poet, reviewer, critic, and fiction writer, have been emphasized as characterizing his brief life” (Lent 3). Poe’s many writings were greatly affected by his problems in life and his experiences. One such short story is “The Cask of Amontillado.” The main character, Montresor, who is vengeful, intelligent, and fakes sincerity, causes the death of Fortunato. “The Cask of Amontillado” starts out with Montresor, the narrator, saying, “The thousand ...
- 4386: The Scarlet Letter: Review
- ... living in any permanent manner. To an individual or group who was battling something backward in the Puritan society, as were many things, this would have been an inspirational book and possibly a revelation. In short, this book could have been exceptional; it had all the elements of a superb book. Unfortunately, Hawthorne found himself a rather large thesaurus and added a bunch of mindless prattle that mellowed out the high ...
- 4387: The Pearl
- ... Kino then threw the pearl away. Kino is a determined man , and he does what he thinks is right, like on selling the pearl to the towns pearl buyers. He has a small mustache and short black hair. Juana, kino's wife has long black hair and smart. A conflict in the story is when Kino had a choice between selling the pearl to the pearl dealers in his town or ...
- 4388: The Pearl: Depictions of Life
- ... successful. Steinbeck, a novelist known for his realistic depictions of life, portrays this motif through Kino, the doctor, Coyotito, and the town of La Paz. John Earnst Steinbeck, author of The Pearl and many other stories, was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, 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 ...
- 4389: The Pardoner's Tale: Irony
- ... satisfaction. He even admits to his greed. "And thus I preach against the very vice I make my living out of avarice."(p. 259) The Pardoner makes a mockery of the entire church by fabricating stories about his phony relics. Chaucer shows how the Church is so corrupt, that even a Pardoner who admits to his evil ways, can still cheat the people out of their money. The Pardoner begins his ...
- 4390: The Outsiders: Theme
- The Outsiders: Theme The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs. This novel suggests the stories' content because the Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits. This novel's theme is very specific; people, no matter what their social background, strive for the same goals and experience the same ...
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