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Notes From The Underground: Underground Man
Words: 901 - Pages: 4.... a big development in the character.
The Underground Man seems to be very sarcastic when talking about why people do bad things. If everyone were enlightened and knew their real normal interests then they would become noble and good. His only advantage would be in the good. The only reason he does bad things is because he does not know his own interests. The Underground Man does not really believe that though. He thinks only innocent, naïve people believe it is that easy. In reality, man knows his interests but continues to pursue other things.
The Underground Man has his perspective on life, which is for once close to the way it rea .....
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Animal Farm: Political Satire
Words: 738 - Pages: 3.... led by the prize white boar, Major. Major points out to the assembled animals that no animal in England is free. He further explains that the products of their labor is stolen by man, who alone benefits. Man, in turn, gives back to the animals the bare minimum which will keep them from starvation while he profits from the rest. The old boar tells them that the source of all their problems is man, and that they must remove man from their midst to abolish tyranny and hunger.
Days later Major dies, but the hope and pride which he gave the other animals does not die. Under the leadership of the pigs, the most intelligent of the an .....
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The Prologue From The Canterbury Tales: Clothing As An Insight
Words: 504 - Pages: 2.... man. By humbling oneself, a true hero
lends credence to the fact that flash is not always needed. His armor left
dark smudges on his tunic. Humbling experiences cause humans to step back
and analyze the fortune they have; they learn that they do not have to wear
their achievements. Sometimes people boast their success through fine
clothing. Unlike the flamboyant Yeomen, the distinguished knight wears old
garments.
The Yeomen succumbs to society's inclination that when he dresses
the part he will become successful. He wears a coat with a green hood. From
a low social standing, he believes that the better he looks the more
successful he .....
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Robinson Crusoe
Words: 1264 - Pages: 5.... to Africa. Crusoe agreed and set sail. On the way there they ran into many storms. Three men were killed very soon. The twelfth day was a hard one. The biggest storm hit. Its waves were giant. The ship was in very bad shape and Crusoe had to abandon it. He and the other sailors loaded into the small boat and paddled to land. All of the sudden a titanic wave crashed onto the boat. It drowned everyone but Crusoe. He was lucky to be alive. When he got the strength to walk again he found himself a safe place to sleep for the night, which was between to limbs a big tree. When he awoke the next morning he went he decided to salvage some stuff .....
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A Separate Peace: Brinker Hadley
Words: 306 - Pages: 2.... he loses all
interest in Devon minutia, and he turns his attention to the war. This
attitude represents very well the attitude of most of Devon's students and
faculty.
Finally, Brinker is used by the author to personify the general
happenings at devon school. He is an icon for the rest of the class. He is
"the hub of the class", and "the standard boy's school article." Brinker
gives a name to "the rest of them.
Brinker Hadley is important to the story: he brings out Gene's
misdeeds, he symbolizes Devons change from peace to war, and he embodies
the rest of the class. First, he reveals Gene's misdeeds (jouncing the
limb). Second .....
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Night
Words: 925 - Pages: 4.... into a new ghetto some miles down the road. This new ghetto did not last very long and the Jews were forced to move again. The Germans forced the Jews to board a train and travel to a concentration camp. Elie, Elie’s mom, father, and sister all boarded a train heading for the concentration camp called Auschwitz. When they arrived, the SS separated the men from women. This was the last time Elie saw his mother and sister ever again.
From this time on, Elie only had his father to protect him. The person in charge of their barrack was fairly nice because he treated the Jews like human beings. They were able to eat thick soup with .....
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Alice Walker
Words: 1091 - Pages: 4.... was blinded in the right eye when an older brother accidentally shot her with a BB gun, after which she fell into somewhat of a depression. She secluded herself from the other children, and as she explained, "I no longer felt like the little girl I was. I felt old, and because I felt I was unpleasant to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems." In 1961 Walker won a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta, where she became involved in the civil rights movement and participated in sit-ins at local business establishments. She transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New .....
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Bless Me Ultima: The Growing Up Of A Young Boy
Words: 689 - Pages: 3.... in which he was the priest, he forgave his freind,
Florence, for his sins, even though he stood up to all his peers to do so. When
Tony ran 10 miles home to warn Ultima, a kind whitch about Tenorio, whose desire
is to destroy her spirit, he realized he or Ultima could both be exterminated.
During the run, Tony thought of the future, which he hardly thought of before
this event. Almost every child Tony's age was preoccupied with activities, such
as playing and horsing around, and certainly not thinking what the future could
pertain. This proves Tony understood the aknowledgement of reality, unlike most
of his peers. When Florence, his fr .....
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The Genji Monogatari
Words: 2172 - Pages: 8.... for the escapades of Genji, but it is the
more subtle use of nature that gives us the backdrop for the story (and,
incidentally, the basis for a paper).
The first way that Murasaki employs nature is in her precise
characterizations of the dozens of main and minor players in Genji. From
the season in which the character appears to the clothes that they wear to
the portion of Genji's palace that they inhabit, without a more than casual
appreciation to nature in reading this novel a great chunk of the literary
value is lost. "[Murasaki} is not content simply to describe the charms of
the different seasons, but they are skillfully harmo .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Escape
Words: 1028 - Pages: 4.... Willy's disappointment in Biff and what he has become, which is, for the most part, a bum. After failing to deal adequately with his feelings, he escapes into a time when things were better for his family. It is not uncommon for one to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer themselves up so that they are able to deal with the problems they encounter, but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His refusal to accept reality is so strong that in his mind he is transported back in time to relive one of the happier days of his life. It was a time when no one argued, Willy and Linda were younger, the financial situa .....
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