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- 621: The Devil's Shadow
- ... known to practice Obeah, an African cult sorcery. People who performed or practiced Obeah were said to be able to predict the future, make magical charms, and drive away evil spirits. Tituba was accused of teaching witchcraft to a small group of girls in Salem. Samuel Parris, another main character in this story, was a merchant who attended Harvard University. He was the owner of Tituba and her husband. He had ...
- 622: Lord of THe Flies: Defects of Society Due to Nature of Individuals
- ... He said, "The war was unlike any other fought in Europe. It taught us not fighting, politics, or the follies of nationalism, but about the given nature of man." After the war he returned to teaching and wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies, which was finally accepted for publication in 1954. In 1983, the novel received the Noble Prize and the statement, "[His] books are very entertaining and exciting ...
- 623: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huck Finn
- ... like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place ...
- 624: A Clockwork Orange
- ... Kill the criminal reflex, that's all"(Burgess 105,106). The rehabilitating technique used upon Alex is that of responsive conditioning with the use of drugs and visual aids. Conditioning is the implementation of either teaching or forcing one to feel or think a certain way when given a decision. Alex is therefore forced to feel and think negative responses when shown evil sites or thoughts. Yet the an error had ...
- 625: To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
- ... up. It was the right thing to do. As he told his brother, "do you think I could face my children otherwise"(pg.88) Scout heard this conversation and understood it in later years. Again teaching this gives her a valuable example; Stick to what you believe in. A lesson in effort and commitment was also demonstrated by Mrs. Dubose. After finding out that she would soon die, she decided to ...
- 626: The Summer of The Falcon
- ... Every popular novel must have an interesting story, suitable conflicts, and a theme. In the novel The Summer Of the Falcon, the author Jean Craighead George parallels the maturation of the main character with the teaching of a bird to fly and take commands. June becomes mature and grows form childhood to adulthood, In the end of the story, June is not a child anymore. Neither is the falcon. It has ...
- 627: Zinn's A People's History of the United States: The Oppressed
- ... flexibility, passion and potency, to their partnership with one another and with nature (21-22). In the middle of the first chapter, Zinn uses the historical treatment of Columbus to explain his own view on teaching history. Thus began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European invasion of Indian settlements in America. That beginning, when you read [Bartolomι de] Las Casas... is conquest, slavery, death. When we read history ...
- 628: The Deerslayer: View of The Native Americans
- ... the two men to be seen even more strongly. As William P. Kelly (1983) states, the setting created by Cooper allows the story to have a certain myth-like quality, a quality which makes the teaching of a lesson by Cooper all that much more acceptable. "Cooper does not locate his narrative within the flux of history, but evokes a sense of timelessness consistent with the world of myth. For example ...
- 629: Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream: Imagery
- ... the divorce rate is double the national average." (p.4) In this culture, the importance of the "old ways," such as a long-lasting marriage, are devalued. It is a society where the "dream [is] teaching the dreamers how to live," (p.17) and where reality doesnt hamper peoples obsessions and greediness. In the essay "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream," the San Bernardino Valleys self-indulgent culture devaluates societys morals ...
- 630: Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism
- ... the pigs were the cleverest of the animals, so the work of organising for the Rebellion fell naturally to them. Especially two pigs take over leadership: Napoleon and Snowball. The pigs developed Old Major's teaching into a complete system of thought: Animalism. Rules of equality, formality, and hard work was proclaimed and encoded in The Seven Commandments - an unalterable law. The animals enthusiasm was expressed through a hymn, Beasts of ...
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