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Like Water For Chocolate: Family Relationships
Words: 698 - Pages: 3.... raising Yuichi.” “If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children.” “By doing that you come to understand your own limitations.” Yuichi’s role was to be faithful reflections and a purpose of Eriko and her life. His existence itself made Eriko like her own life and told her limitation of herself after Yuichi’s real mother died. “ I still went to my part-time job, but after that I would clean house, watch TV, bake cakes: I lived like a housewife.” Even though Mikage was not related to the Tanabe family, she became one of their members after .....
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Life On The Farm
Words: 4394 - Pages: 16.... life.
The pigs, which are considered the most intelligent animals, instruct the others. During the period of preparation two pigs can distinguish themselves, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon is big, and although he is not a good speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker; he has a lot of ideas and is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is a very good speaker, they work out the theory of “Animalism.”
The rebellion starts some months later, when Mr. Jones comes home drunken one night, and forgets to feed the animals. They break out of the barns and run to the house, where the food is s .....
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Hawthorne's Use Of Symbolism In Young Goodman Brown
Words: 563 - Pages: 3.... is shown by the Devil's offering of the
staff to Brown. The Devil goes on to say that Brown's family has had
dealings with evil in the past; examples used are the Salem witch trials
and the killing of Indian non-combatants. This may be Hawthornes way of
dealing with guilt he might have felt over his own forbears' actions during
those times. Brown goes on to say that he could not bear the shame of
betraying his faith while the Devil is naming people known and respected by
Brown to try to show him that it wouldn't really be that bad if Brown
joined the witches' coven. When Goody Cloyse is encountered, Brown learns
how she truly feels about h .....
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A Summary Of A Christmas Carol
Words: 1769 - Pages: 7.... the lesson of the story is to be
learned. In the book, he is made out to be Anti-Christmas and he is constantly
commented about by characters in the book, some feeling pity, others feeling
hostility.
"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm,
no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he…Nobody ever
stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear Scrooge, how are
you? When will you come to see me?'. No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,
no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his
life inquired the way to such and such a place, .....
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Animal Farm Comparison
Words: 962 - Pages: 4.... we could be rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades. Rebellion!”
The simple, but emotional appeal, gets trough to the uneducated and plain animals and, as in all revolutions, the planning begins in euphoria and idealism. No voice is raised to ask relevant question or call for a considered debate.
The appearance of rats at the meeting raises a question: ”Are rats comrades?” A democratic vote results in a ringing ”Yes!”. And Old Major proclaims, ”No animal must ever tyrannise over his own .....
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A Thousand Acres: An Analysis
Words: 478 - Pages: 2.... about it all, then Rose’s breast cancer comes back and she moves back to help Rose and her daughters. Then when they thought that all tragedy was over, their father died of a heart attack. Rose fought her cancer for a while, but in the end she lost her battle.
The major conflict in this book was when Rose and Ginny remember about their father molesting them. Their father thought that he took the secret that he molested them to the grave, but he didn’t. It took a while for Ginny to remember that she was molested. After Rose kept on telling her that they were molested Ginny had some flashbacks and she remembered what happened. Rose a .....
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Grapes Of Wrath And Of Mice And Men: Character Study
Words: 966 - Pages: 4.... Men" may not have
received as much fanfare as the other it is still a great classic that was
recently made into a motion picture.
The focus of "The Grapes of Wrath" Is one family, the Joads, who has
been kicked off their Oklahoma farm and forced to move to California to look for
work. The story has historical significance as it is true that many families
were forced, in the same way as the Joads, to leave their homes to look for
work during the depression. It is in this fact that one can see how Steinbeck's
intention in "The grapes of Wrath" was to depict the hardships people went
through during an actual event in American history. .....
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Jem's Journal: Chapter Summary
Words: 1820 - Pages: 7.... she had been chewing it all afternoon and
that if she wasn't dead and didn't feel sick. She was obviously mad at me for
ruining her chewing enjoyment but I didn't want her getting sick because knowing
Atticus, I'd be the one who would have to take care of her and that wouldn't go
over to well with me since I know I could have stopped her from getting sick. I
think I yelled at her and said that isn't she supposed to know that she isn't
allowed even near those trees. We all know about that weird guy Boo Radley and
we know that property is off limits. I told her that she would probably get
killed if she were caught. She said in defense .....
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Words: 561 - Pages: 3.... from the rest of the world. In addition, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula are looking for solitude. The founding of Macondo was a result of escaping Jose Arcadio Buendia's murder of Prudencio Aguilar. Aguilar's ghost haunted them, eventually forcing them to retreat.
The family seems to remain very involved within itself. Much of this is Spanish culture. In Spanish-speaking countries, it is not uncommon to find many generations of the same family living in one house. The Buendia house always has various relatives within it. Yet, this is not the only explanation. The incest of the family is a theme throughout the novel, and is a sign .....
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All The Kings Men- The Spider
Words: 596 - Pages: 3.... it everything goes wrong, the spider got him. When Jack reveals his findings to Judge Irwin, his father, he ends up killing himself before Jack has a chance to talk to him father to son. Although, for the most part, Jack's goal as stated at the beginning of the book was that he was to pursue truth and knowledge, he needed to leave this alone because it was a pursuit of knowledge, but it had no positive motive behind it, and, as we have encountered in previous books throughout the year and throughout this one, truth is not always a good and noble thing. In this case the truth led to what destroyed the Judge and Jack was pursuing the .....
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