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Huckleberry Finn: Lack Of Education
Words: 850 - Pages: 4.... an ignorant man and a negligent father. Huck narrorates what it was like to live with his abusive dad. “By and by Pap got too handy with his hick’ry, and I couldn’t stand it no longer. It was all over welts. He got to going away so much too, and locking me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days (p.35).” Pap has no idea that he does anything wrong, even though he is such a horrible father to his son. By showing how uneducated Pap is, and what suffering it causes Huck, Twain argues his point. A speech that Pap gives early in the novel is one of the most affective parts of this story. Pap talks about the efforts that .....
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Literary Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird
Words: 554 - Pages: 3.... and was a nigger lover. One of these times
would be when Francais states, “I guess it ain't your fault if Uncle
Atticus is nigger lover”(83). And although Scout didn't truly know the
meanings of these statements seemingly rooted into the core of many Maycomb
populants, she did sense that they were not statements of reverement.
Another type of prejudice in the book would be the sexism and
resulting stereotypical views of how women and men should act, dress, and
what they can and cannot do. A good example of this being the many times
Mrs. Dubose made statements like, “What are you doing in overalls. If you
don't start acting prop .....
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Of Mice And Men: Loneliness
Words: 724 - Pages: 3.... no one
wants to be near him. This was when blacks were segregated from whites. No one
ever went to visit him. Also, because he's black, he has his room out in the
stable with the horses. The other (white) guys have their bunks in a one room
house type of building. The loneliness affects Crooks so that he remains in his
room when he has some books to read. He also usually rubs his own back with
liniment because a horse kicked or threw him when he was younger. Another thing
that showed his loneliness is that he had his personal belongings scattered
around the room. He also had this stuff scattered around the room because he
was crippled and w .....
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Grapes Of Wrath
Words: 664 - Pages: 3.... who is both strong mentally and physically. Her understanding is acknowledged by the rest of the family to be supreme. Of her emotional strength Tom says. “Her hazel eyes seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken.” (95)
The family felt what Ma felt and let her emotions be in control. “And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her.” (95) Because of this she kept strong. She always wants happiness for everyone in the family, that’s why she stays strong. Ma knew that if she were to weak the whol .....
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The Adventures And Maturing Of Huckleberry Finn
Words: 3407 - Pages: 13.... even though Huck didn't want to be "civilized." Huck's best friend is Tom Sawyer. The two found twelve-thousand dollars earlier and split the profits. The boys kept the money with Judge Thatcher for safe keeping while they continued their normal childhood. Tom and Huck liked to fool the Widow's slave, Jim, and make him believe witches were around. They also formed a gang whose only line of business was to rob and kill; of course the boys only pretended to rob and kill. While out one night, Huck discovers that Pap is back and Huck knows he's after his six thousand dollars. Huck hurries to give his money to Judge Thatcher then asks Jim .....
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Wuthering Heights
Words: 607 - Pages: 3.... made a encounter with a
ghost in his dreams signaling the start of this wonderful story. Wuthering Heights
is the home to Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley, Joseph, Nelly, Heathcliff and Catherine.
At Thrushcross Grange, consisted of the Lintons with two children name Edgar
and Isabel. The plot in this story starts off simple as the reader would think that
this story is just another one of those stories which the disadvantage guy falls in
love with the girl he loves and ends up getting married. True, but the plot that
built up this ending is what made this story truly special. The characters of Nelly,
Cathy (daughter of Catherine and Edgar), Haret .....
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The Pearl: Selfishness And Greed
Words: 723 - Pages: 3.... There will be apparent improvement, and then without warning -
pouf!" Then he poisons Coyotito and tells Kino he will return in an hour.
When the doctor returns he gives Coyotito the anecdote and then asks when
he will get paid.
The next show of greed comes from the dealer that Kino was going to
sell the pearl to. The dealer tells Kino that his pearl is large and
clumsy, and that no one would buy it. Then he offers Kino one thousand
pesos, but Kino knows that the pearl is worth fifty thousand pesos. When
Kino doesn't agree to sell the pearl for a thousand pesos the dealer tells
his servant to go find three other dealers. When t .....
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Response To The Scarlet Lettr
Words: 647 - Pages: 3.... She was then sentenced to wear the scarlet letter "A", showing her guilt "externally". Unable to take it off, she was forced to show her guilt to the entire settlement. However, the Reverend Dimmesdale suffered "internally", with a scarlet letter of his own engraved in his mind, and on his chest as well. He felt like he betrayed God, and beat himself in a frenzy to prove his wrongdoing. He often questioned wheather his authority was true or not. Roger Chillingworth suffered the least, because he only failed to reveal the secret that he knew, the father of the child who Hester Prynne was forced to live with. This small restriction to hi .....
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Frankenstein: Victor
Words: 665 - Pages: 3.... (Victor's cousin and future wife), was executed for
the murder. This devastated the family (especially Victor, who accused himself).
He set of to put an end to this creation.
Victor finally met up with his monster in the mountains near a glacier.
Here he listened to the monster's story. How he studied and grew to love this
family living in a cottage. He wanted so immensely to be a part of their love
and smiles. He learned their language and how to write (by listening to them
teach an Arabian relative). After a very long time he walked into the cottage
when only the blind old man was there and tried to befriend him. He was ve .....
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The Crucible
Words: 916 - Pages: 4.... begins to break this self induced mold and does what she wants. Mary Warren, along with many other girls gets caught up in the hype of getting all the attention and exercising power via initiating and adamantly continuing these "witch trials". Finally John Proctor, the rationalist, shows that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor who are the saintliest of people are accused of being witches, something must be wrong. Mary Warren has a difficult decision to make. She has realized that her whole way of life has been based on injustice. However, how can she extricate herself from Abigail and her friends, not to mention her new fe .....
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