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- 2131: The Concubine's Children: An Analysis
- ... Winnie, her daughter, is looked down upon for being unattractive, especially when compared with her mother. While these insults hurt, Winnie sees excelling at school as her only ticket out of this horrible life of violence. The major contrast between May-ying and she is done to show how different parent and child can be, and how often the child can even be more mature than the adult. These characters all ...
- 2132: Incidents in the Life Of A Slave Girl
- ... doing that, he could have just told her, or even yelled, to cook something different-she would have gotten the point. I guess Dr. Flint, just like many other whites, felt he had to use violence to punish her (even though I totally, strongly, disagree with his decision, it was probably a regular thing to do during that time period. She being a slave, was probably used to it. Chapter V ...
- 2133: Biography Precis -- Black Boy
- ... Richard throughout this book. In the following chapters the Wrights move to the home of Richard's Aunt Maggie. But their pleasant life there ends when whites kill Maggie's husband. Later the threat of violence by whites forces Maggie to flee again. Additional unfortunate events include Richard's mother having a stroke. As a result, Richard is sent to his Uncle Clark's, but he is unhappy there and insists ...
- 2134: In Cold Blood: A Review
- ... murder story "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, the story of Perry and Dick and the night of November 15, 1959 is relived. This fast-paced and straightforward documentary talks about the nature of American violence, and details the motiveless murder of four members of the Clutter family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, but not before the reader gets to know Dick ...
- 2135: Huck Finn: Twain's Cynic Point of View
- ... a discussion of this sarcastic view. In the beginning of the novel, it would seem that both Huck Finn and Jim are trapped in some way and wishing to escape. For Huck, it is the violence and tyranny of his drunken father. Kept in a veritable prison, Huck wishes desperately to escape. Jim feels the need to escape after hearing that his owner, Miss Watson, wishes to sell him down the ...
- 2136: Comparison of Lord of The Flies and All Quiet on The Western Front
- ... is away from society the closer to his view one becomes, the institution of civilization does not escape his criticism. Golding shows through many examples that those who are "civilized" are just as prone to violence and war as those who are isolated. The first example presented in the novel occurs when the boys attempt to emulate the British democratic government. The boys prize the adults that run the government as ...
- 2137: The Sword In The Stone: Kay Gets What He Deserves
- ... better with them. When the Wart meets Robin Wood and Maid Marion, he learns through Marion that women are no different to men and should be treated equally. He is also taught the pointlessness of violence when he requests a joust between Sir Grummore and King Pellinore. Before the joust, Wart thinks that it is noble and brave to fight, but after seeing the Grummore-Pellinore joust, he thinks differently about ...
- 2138: The Color Purple: Real Outcome of Economic Achievement and Alternative Economic View
- ... from the white men, who then interfered with the free market (really the white market) by lynching their black competitors. Class relations, in this instance, are shown to motivate lynching. Lynching was the act of violence white men performed to invoke the context of black inferiority and sub-humanity to the victim, exposing the reality of the economic bases of racial oppression (Berlant 217). The black individual served as a figure ...
- 2139: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... Radley's house has an aura of fantasy, superstition, and curiosity for the Finch children. There was a similar house in Harper Lee's childhood. Furthermore, Miss Lee grew up amid the Negro prejudice and violence in Alabama. In addition, she studied law and visited her father's law offices as a child, just as Scout visits Atticus' office and briefly considers a career as a lawyer. Writing Career Harper Lee ...
- 2140: Revenge in The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter
- ... as the way to get him back, so she screamed witch upon Elizabeth, saying Proctor. Abigail was willing to kill a woman just to get back at John Proctor. Since both of these incidents of violence were the spawn of revenge, we can say that revenge is more than just an angry feeling . Revenge is a deadly feeling. Revenge is the vile product of love gone awry, and both Roger Chillingsworth ...
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