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Ethan Frome: Failure
Words: 656 - Pages: 3.... illness. It seemed all she ever did
was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul.
Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay,
they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate
propensity to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon
his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was
always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always
nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had loyalty to his wife.
Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure.
Ethan's second failure was no .....
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Race Relations With Huck Finn
Words: 1478 - Pages: 6.... of the novel, we see a little bit of the black class, and how they were treated. “Miss. Watson’s big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door, we could see him pretty clear” (14). Jim, Miss. Watson’s run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the sub ordinance that blacks were placed in America, because blacks were not allowed to be in the house, because they were uneducated, and had to be working in the fields.
Another example of the classes we put each other into is when Huck, the main character, and Jim were heading south. Jim and Huck are sitting on the banks of the Missi .....
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Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
Words: 1659 - Pages: 7.... Orwell describes the society of the school from which he is
outcast:
That bump on the hard mattress, on the first night of term, used to give me
a feeling of abrupt awakening, a feeling of: ‘This is reality, this is what
you are up against.' Your home might be far from perfect, but at least it
was a place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting situation, realizes he
is alone in a hostile, harsh environment. .....
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The Great Gatsby: Daisy Buchannon
Words: 766 - Pages: 3.... to come and put on a little act for everyone. This is signifies her life. She is kept in the closet until it's time to show off for company. Daisy becomes radiant and personable. When everyone has gone, she is a bored housewife, of no importance to the world wondering aloud what she is going to do with the rest of her life. She appears to be bored yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocense is false. Simply a materialistic young girl and has little mind of her own is underneath all of that covering. Daisy rediscovers her love with Gatsby because of his nice shirts and large house. Daisy has been well trained in a rich family. She .....
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William Fualkner - A Rose For
Words: 584 - Pages: 3.... her fathers’ death. No one seemed to see much of Emily after the death of her father. The only person they would see was her butler. To everyone’s surprise, Emily did meet a man a few years later, by the name of Homer Barron. The two would ride down the street on Sundays in a buggy. The town hoped that this would be Emily’s opportunity to wed. Time passed, and the town no longer saw Homer come around any more. The last time the town saw Homer, he had gone into Emily’s home through the kitchen door for supper.
Never the less, it finally came time for Emily to pay taxes. The older town people from her fa .....
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Symbolism In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
Words: 1729 - Pages: 7.... This includes the actions of the children, the racist whites,
and the actions of Atticus Finch.
The actions of the children in this novel certainly do have their share of
symbolism. For instance, the building of a snowman by Jem and Scout one
winter is very symbolic. There was not enough snow to make a snowman
entirely out of snow, so Jem made a foundation out of dirt, and then
covered it with what snow they had. One could interpret this in two
different ways. First of all, the creation of the snowman by Jem can be
seen as being symbolic of Jem trying to cover up the black man and showing
that he is the same as the white man, that all huma .....
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Native Son: Character Actions Defines Their Individual Personalities And Belief Systems
Words: 2205 - Pages: 9.... scene when he fiercely attacks a huge rat. The same murderous
impulse appears when his secret dread of the delicatessen robbery impels
him to commit a vicious assault on his friend Gus. Bigger commits both of
the brutal murders not in rage or anger, but as a reaction to fear. His
typical fear stems from being caught in the act of doing something
socially unacceptable and being the subject of punishment. Although he
later admits to Max that Mary Dalton's behavior toward him made him hate
her, it is not that hate which causes him to smother her to death, but a
feeble attempt to evade the detection of her mother. The fear of being .....
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Voltaire And Machiavelli
Words: 1535 - Pages: 6.... castle with great kicks on the backside; Cunegonde fainted away; she was boxed on the ears by the Baroness, as soon as she came to herself; and all was consternation in this most magnificent and most agreeable of all possible Castles (Candide 2)
Voltaire is obviously ridiculing optimistic philosophy, especially that of Leibnitz for whom Pangloss was a follower.
It seems as though Voltaire is condemming metaphysics and theology in general. "Pangloss was a professor of metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology (1). The name alone seems to poke fun at the entire branch of learning. A most appropriate example of this can be made of James, a .....
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Daddy By Danielle Steele And A
Words: 1731 - Pages: 7.... 1990’s in a time when women are equal to men. The time periods that the two characters live in have changed their personalities. If they were to switch places they would more than likely have reversed personalities.
Norman is living in the early 1900’s when the man was expected to be the strong one in the any situation. Norman does this stereotype justice he is in his early to mid 20’s and an upstanding citizen. Norman is faced with the problem of facing his brother’s death. His brother’s death is not a situation that is confined to this time period it is just handled differently because of this time period. Norman handles the .....
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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From The Common Man
Words: 1056 - Pages: 4.... salons.” (92) There is even a “Merton College Library,
paneled with imported carved English oak and thousands of volumes of books.”
(45) There is even a private beach on his property. He also has his own
personal hydroplane. Gatsby also drives a highly imaginative, “circus
wagon”, car that “everybody had seen. It is a rich cream color with
nickel and has a three-noted horn.” (64) It has a “monstrous length with
triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a
labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.” (64)
Amidst Gatsby's possessions, he develops his personal self. .....
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