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The Great Gatsby: Nick Carroway A Good And Neutral Narrator
Words: 812 - Pages: 3.... him. It can be seen in the last chapter on the novel,
when Gatsby was murder, Daisy went to somewhere else with her husband, and did
not go to Gatsby's funeray.
I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him,
called her instinctively and without hersitation. But
she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
Therefore, Nick Carroway's analysis was right by these clear
observation.
However, Nick Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen
and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about
something at a time .....
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Summary Of The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Words: 1565 - Pages: 6.... with her. Unfortunately,
they were too poor to have a wedding, since Ona's father just died. In the
hopes of finding freedom and fortune, they left for America, bringing many
members of Ona's family with them.
After arriving in America, they are taken to Packingtown to find
work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry
is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable
efficiency and speed att which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked,
packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The
tour guide specifically says, "They use everything about the hog except t .....
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Turgenev's Fathers And Sons
Words: 1602 - Pages: 6.... and not caring and assures his father that
their quest Bazarov doesn't care either.
At the arrival to Marino they are met by Prokofitch who is
described as a simpering old servant. Arkady is then met by his uncle Pavel,
Pavel shakes hands with Arkady but abruptly puts his hand away when he is
greeting Bazarov. We can see from the actions of Pavel that he immediately
doesn't like Bazarov. After Arkady and Bazarov leave to go to their rooms,
Pavel begins to ask about the "hairy creature" that is visiting with Arkady,
and Bazarov begins to mock Pavel by comments his European demeanor and
finds him "terribly affected for someone livin .....
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The Riddle Of St. Leonards
Words: 1431 - Pages: 6.... mystery series featuring medieval sleuths, the Margaret Kerr Mysteries
and the Owen Archer Mysteries. Ms.Robb researched a lot for these novels.
Candace read a lot of depressing readings, both in statistics and in handbooks for
physicians that were written in the period. Through many letters, sermons,
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and the plague handbooks, she tried to get a sense of how the people fought to
survive with the horror of the plague. She also had some help from a friend who
was an expert on St. Leonard’s Hospital. Her name was P. H. Cullum, she was
very educated in the studies of medieval hospitals. This was beneficial to
Ms.Robb, especially whe .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
Words: 1019 - Pages: 4.... When Juana set sight on the "Pearl of The World." she felt as
though all her prayers had been answered, if she could have foreseen the
future what she would have seen would have been a mirror image of her
reality. Juana's husband was caught in a twisted realm of mirrors, and
they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so
soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the
trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The
fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions.
Soon even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted .....
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Lord Of Flies: Animal Instincts
Words: 801 - Pages: 3.... part and are enjoyable. At the beginning of the story all of the children, including Jack were in favor of having rules and following them. One of the rules was that the children would come to gather for an assembly upon hearing the sound of the conch. It is stated that in the beginning of the book, " By the time Ralph finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded." (p.32). This shows that in the beginning of the story the children were very obedient to following the rules. As the story progress, though, Ralph becomes aggravated. He states, "Things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We began well. We were all happ .....
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Imagery Patterns In The Seafar
Words: 2423 - Pages: 9.... and “The Wanderer,” both being poems from the Anglo-Saxon time period, the anonymous authors portray the universal theme of the harshness of life through imagery patterns of the sea and winter, and in the conclusion of both poems it becomes evident to the subjects of the poems that the only way they will find contentment in life is if they accept the fact that the things that happen to them are all a part of God’s plan.In both poems the unknown authors use the imagery of the sea to represent the trials of life. In both, the reader must understand that the theme presented, the harshness of life, has had a specific .....
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The Cruicible
Words: 446 - Pages: 2.... the community “to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might challenge the church’s institutional values.”
In The Scarlet Letter, Boston even held special Election Day sermons. These were then followed by a special procession given by the town for the “minister whom they so loved.” However, these beloved church leaders were not the perfect devout workers of God that they professed to be. Reverend Dimmesdale, was an adulterer and father of an illegitimate child. Reverend Danforth of The Crucible, was a money hungry old man who appeared to be preaching for his own greedy .....
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The Gradual Development Of Cha
Words: 805 - Pages: 3.... move from civilization to anarchy lies the use of face paint among the boys on the island. Some of the boys, like Ralph and Piggy, never wear face paint. This shows that they stay civilized throughout the story, while the other kids do not. Early in the story, when the hunters chase after a pig, they all where mud, clay, and charcoal as face paint to be “like things trying to look like something else-” (Lord of the Flies, William Golding, p. 66). Later, when Jack forms his own tribe they go hunting with masks of pig blood on their faces, as masks. Golding suggests that the children are able to disguise themselves behind these ma .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Words: 627 - Pages: 3.... at some time or another and you might travel to Germany to meet them. The plot is not linear, and in most cases I would say that this is a negative thing. However, in the book the author actually uses it to enhance the storyline by not dwelling on any one scene for too long. Many chapters end and you find yourself wondering if there was supposed to be more. By the end, you realize that it actually enhances the plot greatly. One moment the people might be eating and bathing in the barracks, and the page after they are fighting on the front lines. It skips around a lot, but I became used to it. I may even grow to miss it in the future .....
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