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Red Badge Of Courage-henry Fle
Words: 973 - Pages: 4.... Henry begins to think that he will not fight but he will run from battle like a coward. In Chapter Three Henry is tested in battle for the first time and stays and fights
like a man should. This is the first time that Henry sees a realistic viewpoint of war. Henry begins to become angered for his government sending him on this deathmarch, then he realizes that he had enlisted voluntarily. Henry still had an idealistic thought of war and told himself that “a man became another thing in battle.”(Ch. 3) This fight proved to Henry that in battle he will stay and fight like a man. But, Henry sees soldiers retreating
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The Theme Of Sin In The Scarle
Words: 653 - Pages: 3.... a child, she was unable to hide her wrongdoing while Dimmesdale’s analogous sin went unnoticed. Her punishment for her crime was to spend a few hours on the scaffold to face public humiliation, and she was forced to wear the letter “A” on her clothes for the rest of her life. Hester’s punishment for her sin was distinguished in that the results of her actions were for the most part external. Hawthorne describes what Hester’s punishment was like when he states, “In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it. Every gesture, every word, and ev .....
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In Cold Blood
Words: 1157 - Pages: 5.... - the rancher, his wife, and their teenage son and daughter. The bodies are found by two family friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors were routinely left unlocked.
The killers then travel to Mexico, Hickock playing their way with bad checks. Tension grows in the complicated relationship between smooth-talking but malevolent Dick and half-Cherokee Perry, a moody little man with stunted legs who likes to sing and play the guitar. When their money runs out, they return to the States, pass more bogus checks and steal a car. They are finally caught and taken to federal prison where .....
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Flowers For Algeron
Words: 869 - Pages: 4.... possibly have seen a mentally challenged person being treated poorly, or perhaps was related to one and wanted to tell the society it was not right, but put it in a way by which it touched people in their own way, depending on how they interpret the story. In the story, there was a point where Charlie was at a party and they got him drunk, and made him dance with a girl. Charlie had never been with a girl before and didn’t know what to do. They were tripping him when he was trying to dance with the girl. Later after the operation when he is smart he says "…people were laughing and making fun of me…" Maybe Daniel Keyes has seen som .....
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Raymond Carvers Cathedral
Words: 1247 - Pages: 5.... assess their position in the greater schema of humankind. A bias that surfaces early on, is the mention of Robert's wife, "Beulah!" The narrator exclaims, "That's a name for a colored woman." (Carver, "Cathedral," 182) Here, by attaching a stereotype to a simple name, he exhibits the precise indiscretion of a closed-minded bigot,
and then eventually reaches humility through his awakening. The narrator
possesses several other prejudices that also hinder his humility. Later on, for
example, the narrator sees Robert for the first time and the man's appearance
startles him: "This blind man, feature this," he says, "he was wearing a full
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Animal Farm: Power And Control Of The Farm
Words: 445 - Pages: 2.... trying to lure us to our doom." This quote proves that propaganda was used to make Napoleon look good and his opponents look evil. One of many reasons Napoleon and Squealer get away with these false allegations is that the animals are too dumb to remember what happened.
Another way Napoleon uses methods to make him look good is simply changing the rules to favor himself. Squealer again is responsible for the wrongdoing. All of the Seven Commandments of Animal Farm are eventually broken before the commandments are "revised" to prove the pigs did nothing wrong. In the eighth chapter, the commandment that strictly forbids animals to kill one .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression
Words: 1129 - Pages: 5.... responds to her discomfort of the house as a father would respond to a child. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a marriage.” This shows that women were not taken serious and their opinions were merely laughed at. One part of the house that could be misinterpreted in this story is the window in the nursery. In most cases, a window symbolizes a view of hope. In this story though, the window has bars on it, symbolizing imprisonment or oppression.
An additional symbol of the narrator’s oppression is her husband, John. He is considered to be “a physician of high standing” (p.630). This along with the fac .....
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Alice In Wonderland
Words: 547 - Pages: 2.... bottle, this time there was no table,
"There was no label this time with the words `Drink Me' ... `I know
something interesting is going to happen' ... ` I'll just see what it
does',". Alice is like a little girl that is still exploring the world
around her, but she finds that she is more mature than the creatures in
Wonderland.
Alice is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of
Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits
house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fan, "I'd
better take his fan and gloves- that is if I can find them", since Alice is
a guest, uninvited, she foll .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird - Class
Words: 779 - Pages: 3.... belonged to this upper class were Miss Maudie At tkinson,
an open- minded, kind woman, and Miss Stephanie Crawford, the renown
gossip of the town.
The second class in Maycomb County included the blue collar , white
workers, primarily farmers who struggled to make ends meet. The
Cunninghams, Dolphus Raymond, and the mysterious Radley family represented
this group. The third class of Ma ycomb County were the " white trash".
The Ewells, who lived at the dump, and relied on welfare for survival, were
members of this group. It is important to note that the difference between
the second and third class was not a financia .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bird
Words: 289 - Pages: 2.... Only minor events occur such as the introduction of all the characters, Gem and Scout meeting a new friend Dill, Scout attending school, and probably the biggest: the introduction and old wives tales about the mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. Some small events that increase the suspense were Gem’s pants being mended by an unknown person, and during a local fire, a blanket wrapped around Scout by a stranger. After the reader gets a true feel for life in the South, the action starts to pick up. One day during school, a fellow classmate of Scout calls Atticus a "Niger lover." Scout is confused and asks her father what that means. This l .....
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