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Roman Fever
Words: 999 - Pages: 4.... keep women from venturing out at night.
It is difficult to ascertain which of the two older women is the true antagonist and protagonist, as they both accomplish some unfriendly activities within the story line. As one of Alida's encounters as antagonist, she attempts to harness her jealousy, guilt and vindictive gratification regarding the fact that Grace double-crossed her in love. It seems that Grace feigned an illness one evening in their youthful years, begging off any further activities following a late night sightseeing expedition. What really occurred, which did not escape Alida's knowledge, was the fact that Grace had a rendezv .....
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The Great Gatsby: Nick Was A Neutral Character
Words: 812 - Pages: 3.... be seen in the last chapter on the novel, when Gatsby was murder, Daisy went to somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's funeray. I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hersitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them. Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear observation. However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about something at a time, he does not believe it is true. After he proves it, he will accept the truth. Mor .....
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Metamorphosis2000
Words: 536 - Pages: 2.... eyesight begins to fail him. As his former self, he would spend hours looking out the window, studying, and reading; however, he now finds nothing more than a skewed perception of reality when doing these things. The whole worlds now looks and tastes different for Gregor. The world's perception of him drives him away, and now his perception of the world drives him away even further. Alienation feeds upon itself. With the taste of moldy cheese in his mouth and the sight of nothing but a desolate gray
expanse in front of him, Gregor's leisurely activity of snacking and staring out the window has been reduced to a sentence of .....
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The Sword In The Stone
Words: 886 - Pages: 4.... when the fish-king tells him to leave. He has grown bored of
Wart, and if Wart does not leave he will eat him. The king uses his size
as his claim to power, therefore his subjects follow him out of fear.
In Wart's next transformation into a hawk, he soars into the castle's
mews. All the birds in the mews have a military rank. Their leader is an
old falcon, who Sir Ector keeps for show. The birds who rank below the
falcon, hold her in highest regard because of her age. She applies her
power over the other birds with no concern for their lives. In one
instance, Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of a crazy hawk wh .....
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Black Boy
Words: 717 - Pages: 3.... he could not come back in the house unless he got the groceries. So he went walked back to the store and met the same group of kids. Once again, they took his money and beat him up. Richard then went back home, and begged her to let him in. All she did was give him some more money, but this time, she handed Richard a stick. Richard, scared and terrified, went back down the street to the store and saw the same group of kids. Richard started to swing the stick like a crazy man and hit those kids in the head. His mother showed Richard how to stand up for himself and that anything is possible.
Another influence on Richard’s life was wh .....
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The Stranger: Mersault
Words: 658 - Pages: 3.... content to be indifferent, possibly protected from pain by his indifference. Mersault rarely shows any feeling when in situations which would, for most people, elicit strong emotions. throughout the vigil, watching over his mother's dead body, and at her funeral, henever cries. He is, further, depicted enjoying a cup of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a smoke with a caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes to the beach and meets a former colleague named Marie Cardona. They swim, go to a movie, and then spent the night together, Later in their relationship .....
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The Heart Of Darkness: Symbolism
Words: 764 - Pages: 3.... inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of
unhappy savages"(Conrad, 80). Marlow's advancements into the jungle, acted
parallel with my discovery: In our deepest nature, all men are savages.
Marlow connects with the very backbone in which constitutes Conrad's theme
"The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the beside of the hollow sham,
whose fate it was buried presently in the mold of primeval earth. But both
diabolic love and the unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated
fought for the possession of that soul satisfied with primitive emotions,
avid of lying fame, of sham distinction, of all the ap .....
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Things Fall Apart: The Loss Of A Tribe's Livelihood
Words: 1550 - Pages: 6.... most valuable tool we can harness to provide us a means of escaping the destruction of the mistakes we have made in the past.
In Things Fall Apart the Igbo village Umuofia fell apart in two distinct fashions. The first aspect of Igbo culture to break down was the village's spirituality, which was led by the arrival of the Christian mission. Second, this mission acted as a channel to allow a new government to infiltrate Umuofia and challenge the laws and customs that held together the former Igbo way of life.
Igbo spirituality weakened in two waves. First Christianity provided answers that the inhabitants of Umuofia and Mbanta were seeking .....
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Grapes Of Wrath
Words: 1741 - Pages: 7.... choice, but to move. The Joad’s journey to California is as slow as a turtle. Heat in the desert, car problems, and the death of the grandparents make the journey long and painful. A turtle shelters himself by pulling his head, legs, and tail inside his shell. The Joad’s gather together as a family to comfort and shelter themselves. A turtle feels safe when it enters his shell and the Joad’s feel safe when they gather as a family. There is symbolic significance in the names of characters throughout The . Tom, one of the main characters, is hitchhiking home when he stumbles upon a preacher by the name of Jim Casey. Jim baptized Tom, bu .....
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Coming Of Age In Mississippi: Anne Moody
Words: 607 - Pages: 3.... mother Anne and her family was much worse off. Her mother moved around a little and had very little money. Anne's childhood consisted of meals of beans and bread and poor clothes. As a child she is not immediately too aware of the difference in skin color between the whites and the blacks. She and her sister were friends with two white children across the street and this led to one of her first experiences in realizing her black skin made her appear inferior to the whites. Anne and her sister accidentally followed their white friends into the white section of th4e movie theatre, not realizing they were not permitted and their mother i .....
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