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Animal Farm 3
Words: 469 - Pages: 2.... isolation from the world for the development of this society. This makes life easier in the since that it is away from the modern world typical of the Twentieth Century. If this novel was set anywhere other than a farm, the characters would be irrelevant and the story it self would have no meaning. The story would also be hard to understand and follow.
Without the rural setting of this farm, Napoleon would not have been able get the power he so desperately wanted through this revolt. The revolt would not have occurred if this novel had been set in an urban area or city, which in result would stop Napoleon from leading this group of c .....
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Farewell To Manzanar
Words: 2276 - Pages: 9.... This started WWII and all Japanese
were seen as possible threats to the nations safety. It is not difficult to see,
but difficult to justify this view, and therefore Jeanne Wakatsuki, just a child,
was now seen as a monster. Her father was immediately arrested and taken away,
being accused with furnishing oil to Japanese subs off the coast. And now,
Jeanne left without a father, her mother was trapped with the burden of Jeanne's
rapidly aging grandmother and her nine brothers and sisters. Too young to
understand, Jeanne did not know why or where her father had been taken. But she
did know that one very important part of her was gone. .....
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"The Loons"
Words: 850 - Pages: 4.... roadway bore in austere letters name MacLead. It was a large cottage; it was on the lakefront. Everything around the cottage were ferns, and sharp-branched raspberry bushes, and moss that had grown over fallen tree trunks. Above the backdoor there was the broad moose antlers that hung there.
Vanessa loved the summer at Diamond Lake because she loved to listen to the loons all night. She also loved because she would go swimming in the lake. Vanessa also loved to go there because she could spent more time with her father. For example; they would go at night to the lake to listen to the loons carefully because some day they can just disap .....
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Indians Of The United States
Words: 284 - Pages: 2.... of man to explore, the explorers just that to figure out the mysterious Indians. The explorers later theorized that the Indians came from Siberia through a land bridge in the Bering Strait during the time when the water levels were not high. They also realized that it was difficult to predict the times when things happened to the Indians since they did not keep written records. Then they figured out by use of imagination that the Indians crossed over the land bridge to Alaska finding wild game. And following rivers and bodies of water, they moved south covering most of America. Another evidence was found near the site of Folsom, New Mexico .....
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Great Gatsby 3
Words: 3302 - Pages: 13.... events and reactions that might not commonly occur in the "real world", but which have a logic or a plausibility to them in that fictional world.
In order for this to be convincing, we trust the narrator. We take on his perspective, if not totally, then substantially. He becomes our eyes and ears in this world and we have to see him as reliable if we are to proceed with the story's development.
In The Great Gatsby, Nick goes to some length to establish his credibility, indeed his moral integrity, in telling this story about this "great" man called Gatsby. He begins with a reflection on his own upbringing, quoting his father's words .....
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Friendship Is The Key
Words: 1055 - Pages: 4.... Jim and Huck during their pilgrimage down the river.
Huck, being the mischievous boy that he is,often showed much ignorance to others. He did not recognize the feelings of others- as many young boys his age don’t realize. The unrecognizable feeling was ignorance towards others and the way they feel. Many times Huck could be found causing trouble for others. One situation was when Tom and Huck decided to play a trick on Jim by putting his hat above a tree he was lying by, leading Jim to think he was "bewitched" by witches.
Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, b .....
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Madame Bovary: Emma's Escape
Words: 733 - Pages: 3.... at the
convent.
At first far from being boredom the convent, she enjoyed the
company of the nuns, who, to amuse her, would take her into the chapel by
way of a long corridor leading from the dining hall. She played very little
during the recreation period and knew her catechism well. (Flaubert 30.)
The chapter is also filled with images of girls living with in
the protective walls of the convent, the girls sing happily together,
assemble to study, and pray. But as the chapter progresses images of escape
start to dominate. But these are merely visual images and even these images
are either religious in nature or of simil .....
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Romeo And Juliet Vs. West Side
Words: 521 - Pages: 2.... did cruel things to them.
Another act of prejudice in West Side Story was the Jets having prejudice against Anybody's joining their gang. They told her to go wear a dress, she wittily replied that she had scabby knees. She told them that she lurks in the shadows and even provided the Jets with important information. She had a haircut like a boy's and wore boy clothes. This could be a prejudice beyond having a girl in a gang, it could be that they have a prejudice against homosexuals, the fact that the stereotype of lesbians play a role in the character of Anybody's.
There were little prejudices passed around in West Side Story. Some people .....
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Cooper's "Deerslayer": View Of The Native Americans
Words: 2277 - Pages: 9.... symbolically made
clear. The plot is a platform for the development of moral themes. The first
contact the reader has with people in the book is in the passage in which the
two hunters find each other. "The calls were in different tones, evidently
proceeding from two men who had lost their way, and were searching in different
directions for their path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is
symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again
through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest
into the little clearing we are face to face with... two opposing moral visions
of .....
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Catcher In The Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, And Violence
Words: 1041 - Pages: 4.... a drink of alcohol, and the kid doesn't want his friends to
think he is a coward so he does. Then the rest of them follow.”
In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse
is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among
high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week,
75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year.
In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic
beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets depressed,
he turns towards alcohol. in Chapter 12, Holden is at Ernie' .....
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