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To Kill A Mockingbird: Analysis Of The Title
Words: 1072 - Pages: 4.... but sing their
hearts out for us" (94). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put
a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting
"gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem's pant that tore on Dill's
last night. Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to
Scout's primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that
she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree.
She never gave anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout
escorts Arthur home and stands on his front porch, she sees the same
street she saw, just from an entirely different pers .....
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Abuse Of Power Within A Clockwork Orange
Words: 1314 - Pages: 5.... element of his choice and free will. When his ability of choice is
robbed in an attempt to better him, he loses his love for music in which he
exclaims, "And all the time the music got more and more gromky, like it
was all a deliberate torture, O my brothers . . . then I jumped"(131).
The music that represents his freedom to choose is now gone. He is left
without any reason to live. When he realizes that he is no longer a man
because of his absence of choice, Alex decides to end his life. The author
illustrates through Alex's violent actions, how they represent his abuse of
power through his freedom of choice. Alex consistent .....
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A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
Words: 1546 - Pages: 6.... new kind of war game called blitzball, in which everyone is
everyone elses enemy. Phineas breaks the schools swimming record, but tells Gene
not to tell anyone, he just wanted to do it for himself. Gene and Phineas of
campus to the ocean to swim. They have a drink at the bar, the spend the night
on the beach, and Phineas tells Gene he is his best pal. Gene is not sure if he
feels the same.
Chapter 4: Gene and Finny (Phineas) wake up and head back to Devon. Gene fails
his trigonometry examination for the first time. Finny tells Gene that he
studies too much. Gene thinks Finny is jealous. Gene wants to earn the
Scholastic Achievement Citation .....
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The Crucible By Arthur Miller
Words: 651 - Pages: 3.... time or situation, which is a crucible. The title itself explains that the story is about a complicated time that will test the place the book is based on. The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1692. It starts after a couple of girls have been caught dancing in the woods by Reverend Samuel Parris, the town’s minister. Two of the girls are related to him. Abigail is his niece and Betty is his daughter. When Betty gets sick, rumors start to spread that there is witchcraft involved in her illness because they were out in the woods all by themselves. Salem is a very tightly sheltered town that is pretty much run by the .....
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The Things They Carried: Necessities
Words: 351 - Pages: 2.... to others would be unnecessary for survival. For First
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross it was pictures of Martha, and also letters from her whom
he loved unrequitedly. Another example and proof of irrelevance to survival was
Ted Lavenders six or seven ounces of dope and nine extra M-79 Grenades which he
was carrying when he was shot in the head. Extras such as these really did
nothing more than give the men a false sense of security, which was probably
necessary to cope with their surroundings.
Last but certainly not least they carried with them love, guilt,
memories, and fear of death. Lieutenant cross, for example carried love, guilt,
and eve .....
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Crime And Punishment: Is There Or Is There Not Such A Thing As Crime?
Words: 1017 - Pages: 4.... a crime, because it is a
law to not kill others; people are not allowed to go cavorting around
killing whomever they please, if they did, civilization would fall. Laws
and rules hold us to civilization.
Another way to define crime is through ethics and morals. Each
person on this Earth possesses a conscience; when we do something wrong,
our conscience makes us feel guilty, although some people feel less or more
guilt than others about certain acts; it varies individually. Based on
this, one can define a crime as the things that make us feel guilty,
although some crimes do not make us feel guilty. Some people do not feel
any guilt when .....
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The True Devils In Salem
Words: 2534 - Pages: 10.... woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I kiss his .....
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The Hobbit By J.r.r. Tolken
Words: 856 - Pages: 4.... at first. But then something happens that changes Bilbo's life. He finds a magic ring that makes him invisible, and has several opportunities to use it to rescue the dwarves from danger and imprisonment. They become quite impressed by him, and even rely on him, just as Gandalf foretold. Bilbo and the dwarves finally reach Lonely Mountain, the home of Smaug the dragon. The dwarves send Bilbo down a secret passage to the dragon's lair. Bilbo has more confidence in himself now and not only steals a cup, but manages to hold his own in a conversation with the wily Smaug (not an easy thing to do).Furious that someone has dared steal a piece of hi .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Beast Within Us
Words: 869 - Pages: 4.... story the characters do and say many
things that reveal their inner devil. One of the characters that we see
the most change in is Jack. By watching Jack we witness many acts of
savagery. When Jack first starts to turn to a savage, was when he changed
himself into someone different by putting paint on his face and acting like
a wild animal. This is kind of like Jack's own way of initiating himself
into a different person. Then after we see Jack as a different person, we
see such acts as the death of Simon, the smeared blood on the children's
faces, and the attempt on Ralph's life. All these things show how his
inner demon's presence. .....
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Silas Marner: Characters In The Novel
Words: 215 - Pages: 1.... a girl who was addicted to opium. She was secretly
married to Godfrey. Godfrey would give her money and instead of using it
on their child she would use that money to buy more drugs. Molly died as a
result of her addiction to drugs.
Dunston was another character in this book that was not a class
citizen. Dunstun committed the second robbery. He was also the person
that got wildfire killed. On page 67 Godfrey said of Dunston " He'll
never be hurt, he was made to hurt other people. The robbery occurred
because of the death of the horse.
Godfrey was a man that did not ever want to acknowledge that he was
married. On page 111 the nove .....
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