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Wuthering Heights
Words: 1467 - Pages: 6.... supersedes any other factor throughout the story. To understand this sense of inwardness, one must explore the novel itself. The story begins in the early 1800's (c. 1801) and one Mr. Lockwood removed from the narrative. The novel begins to take shape, only after some degree of reading, when we realize what is happening at in conjunction with Thrushcroff Grange. Soon afterwards, Nelly Dean makes her appearance, while she herself is somewhat unpreceptible. Overall, content and structure is rather fractured, although a so-called Satanic hero begins to emerge as a creature of darkness as well as rebellion and passion. Conversely, pressures on .....
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
Words: 1310 - Pages: 5.... child. Together they had three children; Lorenzo, Octavia, and Vincenzo. Just as Lucia Santa began to care deeply about her husband, he was killed in an accident at work. After her husbands death she had to raise her two young children alone and give birth to a fatherless child. After her husbands death many of the other women on the street offered Lucia Santa help, but soon after the pity and condolences they turned their backs on her, except for one, Zia Louche. As a pregnant widow Lucia Santa with her new wiser eyes got past her misfortunes and married her second husband Frank Corbo. Frank was an older man that had never been married; .....
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The Scarlet Letter; Rev. Dimme
Words: 658 - Pages: 3.... (and some encouragement), he re-grows to once again be a strong man, perhaps more so than he was before.
As we first meet Author Dimmesdale, he was a “…young clergy man... His eloquence and religious fervor has already given the earnest of high eminence in he profession.” (p. 62. 3rd paragraph)* The people loved and respected him. He was thought to be “…a godly pastor,”(p. 48) of Hester. But the people do not know his secret. They do not know the dark sin that he holds in the deep recesses of his heart. This causes him much pain.
“It is inconceivable, the agony whit which this public veneratio .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Personification Of Evil
Words: 801 - Pages: 3.... of man wounding earth is the scar that the plane left when it crashed, “All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat” (7). Golding calls it a “scar” to demonstrate that the island, or on a greater level, the earth, is a living thing. The personification shows how man has no regard for his surroundings and will, for example, cut down hundreds of acres of rain forest to make a neighborhood. While exploring the island, Ralph says, “’this belongs to us’” (29). This statement epitomizes mans attitude towards our planet. People believe that because it’s not bolted down and nobody has written th .....
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Smee
Words: 561 - Pages: 3.... Jackson, who is the narrator went to a party at the house. He was late for Christmas eve dinner so at the dinner table he was not able to be formally introduce to everyone. He see one of the girl who he wanted to get to know but didn't. After dinner they all decided to played . The rules of the game are simple. "Every player is presented with a sheet of paper. All the sheets are blank except one, on which is written "". Nobody knows who is "" except "" hims! elf-or herself, as the case may be. The lights are then turned out and "" slips from the room and goes off to hide, and after an interval the other players go off in search, wit .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
Words: 722 - Pages: 3.... of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen when Amanda sends Laura to go to the store: Laura trips on the fire escape. This also shows that Laura's fears and emotions greatly affect her physical condition, more so than normal people.
Another symbol presented deals more with Tom than any of the other characters: Tom's habit of going to the movies shows us his longing to leave the apartment and head out into the world of reality. A place where one can find adventure. And Tom, being a poet, can understand the needs of man to long for adventure and romance. But he is kept from entering reality by Amanda, who .....
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The Webb Story And The Efforts To Rebut It
Words: 2286 - Pages: 9.... and the Washington Post, who respond most swiftly to the needs and requests of their CIA sources.
For those who follow such matters, the special connection between these papers and the CIA is no secret. Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein once wrote in Rolling Stone that the CIA’s "relationship with the [New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about 10 CIA officials were provided Times cover...[as] part of a general Times policy ... to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible."
The situation at the Washington Post was hardly different. In 1988, the paper’s owner .....
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Animal Farm
Words: 1165 - Pages: 5.... boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way" (Orwell 25). He dominates the political scene on Manor Farm, controls the education of the youth, and is a brilliant strategist when it comes to rallying support for his cause. Napoleon, throughout the novel, fails to present an idea that is original, but tends to take credit for the ideas of others (Meyers 108). Like Stalin, Napoleon is not a good speaker and is certainly not as clever as his political opponent. However, he makes good use of his resident "smooth-talker," Squealer, to insure that his subjects see the purpose of hi .....
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Loss Of Innocence
Words: 1603 - Pages: 6.... lost his trust in the world and as a consequence, lashed out at everyone around him. Paul Morel from Sons and Lovers lost his innocence at a very young age. He was confronted with disappointments which changed his life throughout the novel. Both of these novels demonstrate that a is inevitable and is caused by a lack of care in a society to prevent the youth in that society from growing up not trusting the world. This is done through a child seeing his father beating his mother, a child who finds out Santa Claus is not real, a worker whose coworker takes credit for his ideas or even a child who is abused by someone.
The novel Montana 1 .....
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Pride And Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet
Words: 1728 - Pages: 7.... of our imitation. She is a
model because she is different from all the other characters, except Darcy,
and because she does not adhere rigidly to the standards set forth by
society, "where the family and the community...tend to coerce and even
predetermine the volition and aspirations of the self"(Tanner 125). She is
self-reliant and independent, while "contemptuous of all the conventions
that restrict the individual's freedom"(Litz 65). Darcy observes Elizabeth
as "...sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention...disgusted
with the women who were always speaking, and looking and thinking for
[men's] approbation alone"(Ghent .....
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