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A Grain Of Wheat And Jomo Keny
Words: 1052 - Pages: 4.... an attention keeper. Kenya at the brink of Uhuru (freedom) from the British, as experienced through the eyes of some interesting and greatly entertaining characters. Amazingly in the midst of this historical event the story is filled with love and betrayal. This is a tragic situation, where there can be no winners. It does not have heroes, heroes do not exist in tragedies- rather it has real people with real feelings, who due to the nature of the system, and their beliefs brought about by years of conditioning must come face to face with brutal realities. The book painfully traces the genesis of the conflict, and as demonstrated with Mug .....
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The Outsiders: Theme
Words: 524 - Pages: 2.... to a fellow Greaser, Dally, who is always
in trouble with the law. Dally helps them by giving them some money, a gun,
and a place to hide. They hide in a church outside of town for a week until
Dally says it's okay to come out. They go out to eat and when they get back to
the church they find it burning. When they see that there are kids inside and
the fire could have been started by their cigarettes, they run inside to save
the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital.
They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital
to fight in a rumble against the Socs. While the Greasers .....
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Love In The Time Of Cholera
Words: 1209 - Pages: 5.... suitor of his time, but one who has admired Fermina's every step from afar ever since the day that she decided that she no longer wanted him in her life. Since that day he feverishly concieved poetry, and claimed a vow of devotion for her. And then finally, more than 50 years later, he was given the chance to renew his fow for Fermina at the Dr. Urbino's wake.
But Fermina is offended by his ill timing and throws him out of her life once again. But by proving his love for her as a person rather than just being a shadow, Fermina eventually accepts him back into her life and they decided to escape all of lifes problems by heading down the r .....
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Crime And Punishment: Complementary Characters To Give Raskolnikov His Redemption
Words: 616 - Pages: 3.... compassionate humane side which suggests self-submissive and meekness. The intellectual side is a result of his deliberate and premeditated actions, such as the theories he formulated about the crime. The other side of his character, the warm compassionate side, operates without an interfering thought process. Unfortunately, he often acts in a warm, friendly, charitable or humane manner, and then when he thinks over his actions intellectually, he regrets them. Such as, when he gives the Marmeladovs his money, then shortly afterwards regrets giving the money away. Raskolnikov would always act in a charitable and humane manner: he would .....
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Vladimir And Estragon: A Symbol Of Man
Words: 671 - Pages: 3.... from his boot, but unable to recognize it. This symbolizes man’s side of using physical ability to answer questions. Vladimir on the other hand continues to look into his hat. Vladirmir constantly “Takes off his hat, peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, puts it on again”2. Through this action Vladimir is shown to be searching for answers in his hat, which symbolizes his using knowledge and his intellectual capability for solving problems. Both Estragon and Vladimir are searching for what the reader assumes to be the key to life’s problems. When they continue to do this throughout the drama, it expresses the fact .....
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Words: 414 - Pages: 2.... With
Muff it was that he and Huck witnessed the murder and Tom came through and
told the truth. Without Tom, Muff could have been hung or go to prison for
a long time.
Tom uses his head in serious situations. For example when Injun
Joe was upstairs and Tom has to be quiet. It seemed nothing else mattered.
Tom works best under pressure because he thinks more about it.
Somehow, Tom had sensitivity for others, even others didn't have it
for him. Like the situation with the torn page of the teachers book. Even
though Tom didn't tear the page he still took the blame for Becky when
Becky was being mean to him. He got a whipping Tom didn't care .....
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Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
Words: 2161 - Pages: 8.... Miss Rosa tells Quentin about the
early days in Sutpen's life. It's here that Rosa explains to Quentin why she
wanted to visit old mansion on this day. She is the one narrator that is unable
to view Sutpen objectively. The first chapter serves as merely an introduction
to the history of Sutpen based on what Miss Rosa heard as a child and her brief
personal experiences.
The narration of Absalom, Absalom!, can be considered a coded activity.
Faulkner creates the complex narration beginning at chapter 2. It ironic that
one of Faulkner's greatest novels is one in which the author only appears as the
teller of the story in one brief sectio .....
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The Republic: Morality And Immorality
Words: 1043 - Pages: 4.... as
we grow older. Power often controls our morality. Yet, moral happiness
should be the road all would choose, as it is the path of highest reward.
Though morality is no more than a personal choice, more people could make
the best choice, if it became monetarily more easy to do so. Truth may be
the founding father of morality, and universally unites morality, and
immorality
Moral rules must be flexible, society changes and with it so does
morality. Morality must be as Agreed upon by, religious and non-religious
alike, because morality, as everything else is part of an evolutionary
process. By manifesting religious or scientific laws you m .....
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Charles Dickens' Hard Times
Words: 618 - Pages: 3.... even though in actuality he was trying to help them.
Stephen was married to a “disabled, drunken creature, barely able to preserve her sitting posture by steadying herself with one begrimed hand on the floor”. She had left him for years and he paid her, but she soon returned. Her returning made the “blackpool” started by Stephen’s co-workers, accept him even more. She was nothing like when they first married. She was now a drunk whom he did not care for anymore. The woman he did care for, Rachael, was the women he wished to marry now.
Rachael, who, “showed a quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of ve .....
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary
Words: 592 - Pages: 3.... hitting the leader of the party. Grafton and his bombardier,
Virgil Cole miss the building completely and just hit a few bystanders and
blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be court-
martialed, President Nixon gives the orders of unauthorized bombings
anywhere in North and South Vietnam. Grafton and Cole fly their next
mission with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This
plane only carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their
radar. But, as they were approximating (approaching, advancing on) the
first SAM surface gun destroyed most of the plane. The crew ejected within
the midst o .....
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