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- 2141: Irving's The World According to Garp: Analysis
- ... children, draining the blood from their faces. The irony of Garp's protective nature emerges when Garp starts writing books that he feels are to violent for them to read. Garp ends up providing the violence he is protecting his children from The circumstances that surround the children also end up being incredibly violent. Their Grandmother is Gunned down by a madman, and they watched it on television. Their brother is ...
- 2142: Themes in Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil
- ... inner reality, and those thoughts and feelings which are not immediately apparent. As he explored this internal nature, he not only found the source of dignity and virtue, but also certain elements of darkness and violence. In The Minister's Black Veil, these elements are treated as real and inescapable forces in human existence. The unifying theme is the conflict between the dark, hidden side of man and the standards imposed ...
- 2143: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... Geraldo arrives Dolly and her unborn child are threatened. His plans to abort the baby encourage the nurturing mother instinct within Connie to protect her helpless niece. Elaine Hansen describes the scene: The instrument of violence she chooses- presumably because it is nearest to hand- carries marked symbolic weight. As we learn a little later, the bottle, one of the few decorations in Connie's bleak two-room flat, contained dried ...
- 2144: To Kill A Mockingbord: Atticus Finch
- ... view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”(movie). He was a very opened minded person when it came to parenting. The one thing that really bothered him though was violence. “I forbid you to fight.”(movie). Atticus is an excellent parent who's strong sense of morals has rubbed off onto his children. A black man was on trial, usually no one would defend him ...
- 2145: Frank Norris' "McTeague": The Three Major Themes
- ... many of the characters come together. For example, Marcus and McTeague become friends, Trina and McTeague get married, Maria and Zerkow get married. As the story ends, the friendships of the characters breaks down into violence and death. First, Zerkow killed Maria and himself, next McTeague kills Trina, and then Marcus tracks down McTeague in the desert and they both die as McTeague kills Marcus and then dies himself of dehydration ...
- 2146: Crime and Punishment: Protagonist and Antagonist Essay
- ... any crime without remorse. The critical difference that differentiates Raskolnikov from Svidrigailov is that Raskolnikov is not the extraordinary man. Raskolnikov has morals while Svidrigailov has jettisoned his morals. Raskolnikov is sickened by acts of violence. He is able to accept crime intellectually, but he is unable to be "extraordinary" because his moral sense prevents him from being a monster. Raskolnikov did not repent after he murdered the pawnbroker because he ...
- 2147: The Great Gatsby: Unfaithfulness and Greed
- The Great Gatsby: Unfaithfulness and Greed The love described in the novel, The Great Gatsby, contains "violence and egoism not tenderness and affection." The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, writes on wealth, love, and corruption. Two coupes, Tom and Daisy Buchanan and George and Myrtle Wilson, match perfectly with these categories. Both couples ...
- 2148: Interpretation of Rushdie and Kazantzakis' Stories
- ... between them and the supernatural spectrum. The angelic Gibreel was now only capable of exhibiting feelings of order, peace and love; while the demonic Saladin was forced to perform grotesque feats of chaos, hatred and violence. Before their transformations into socially unacceptable deviants, Gibreel fought long and hard in his prophetic movie career and Saladin enagaged in truthful, honest business negotiations. Their emotions and mental status was drastically changed by this ...
- 2149: The Moon is Down: The Effects of War
- ... role as a colonel and as a human being. He only knows how to communicate as a soldier. He is sad and repelled because of his position in the interest of order based upon senseless violence. According to Richard Astro, "But despite his love for this world and the people who inhabit it, Steinbeck orders his novel to show beyond all doubt that it is as doomed to eventual extinction as ...
- 2150: The Island by Gary Paulsen
- ... He also likes watching nature. He is very tall for his age-6 feet 2-but well-built and strong. He is honest,cares about others and prefers to talk things through than resort to violence. The title is good because the book is very much about the island and about Wil finding himself on this island. The island also becomes a very prominent point in Wil's life. By comparison ...
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