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The Deerslayer: View Of The Native Americans
Words: 2277 - Pages: 9.... symbolically made
clear. The plot is a platform for the development of moral themes. The first
contact the reader has with people in the book is in the passage in which the
two hunters find each other. "The calls were in different tones, evidently
proceeding from two men who had lost their way, and were searching in different
directions for their path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is
symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again
through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest
into the little clearing we are face to face with... two opposing moral visions
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Superstition
Words: 739 - Pages: 3.... the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5).
In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is the size of a fist that he took from an ox's stomach. Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here? But the hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a counterfeit quarter. Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball talks to Jim and Jim tells Huck that it says. "Yo'ole father doan' know yit what he's a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he'll go ' .....
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The Scarlet Letter And A Tale Of Two Cities: A Comparison
Words: 1267 - Pages: 5.... shame, and reminded her of her
sin. Hester*s penalization was a prime example where deception led to negative
consequences in that she would have been spared the entire encumbrance of the
crime if she did not deceive the townspeople. Although seemingly, her paramour
did not escape punishment.
In fact, the father of her bastard child took a more severe sentence.
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale seemed to be an upstanding, young priest. The whole
town liked him and respected him as a holy man. Thus, his deception was much
more direct and extreme when he did not confess that he impregnated Hester
Prynne. Unlike Hester, he was not publicly pun .....
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Aspects Of The Narrator In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”
Words: 729 - Pages: 3.... if any event could actually occur, as the narrator himself is not so sure.
First of all, it is obvious to the reader that the root of all the narrator’s problems arise from his alcoholism; and he agrees that from this sole vice, he has “…experienced a radical alteration for the worse” (Poe 894). The alcohol transforms the narrator into a demon like creature, and because this downfall is so very relevant to many of our own society problems, the story takes on an eerie, human reality twist. Slowly, over time, his personality alters from once a loving, caring, and nurturing man, into a mad, spontaneous killer. It is while the narrator .....
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Around The World In Eighty Day
Words: 1513 - Pages: 6.... late 1800’s, approximately 1872. Mr. Phileas Fogg lived at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens. As the story progresses on and one tiny wager is made, a trip around the world changes the setting of this novel many a times. Some of these settings are London, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and New York. Clearly though one the most important settings was in the Indian forests, which were passed through, in order to pursue to Kandallah. The Carnatic and the Mongolia were also key settings to the novel.
Plot:
In the 19th century, a man by the name of Phileas Fogg, made a wager that he would be able to travel th .....
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Wise Blood: Whose Deformity Is The Most Serious
Words: 1050 - Pages: 4.... to be accepted into civilization. These two
factors attribute most to his defects. His intuition causes him to believe
that his blood is wise and can lead his life. By bestowing his trust in
his blood, he often takes things too literally. For instance, Hazel Motes
preaches that his religion desperately needs a new Jesus, and Enoch,
perceiving this Jesus to be an actual being, follows his instincts and
brings Hazel a three-foot shrunken man whom he honestly believes to be the
savior. Before actually donating the messiah to Hazel, Enoch's blood
directs him to clean his room in order to house Jesus. This particular
misconception may .....
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Antony And Cleopatra
Words: 872 - Pages: 4.... In
reply to this Enobarbus speaks very freely of his view of Cleopatra, even if what he says is very positive: ...her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of
pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This cannot be cunning in her; if it be
she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. (I, ii, 147-152) After Antony reveals that he has just heard news of his wife's death, we are once again offered an
example of Enobarbus' freedom to speak his mind, in that he tells Antony to "give the gods a thankful sacrifice" (I.ii.162), essentially saying that Ful .....
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Foreshadowing Destiny(great Ga
Words: 481 - Pages: 2.... and the lives of others. Nick states to Jordan, "You're a rotten driver. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive." Jordan responds, "They'll keep out of my way. It takes two to make an accident." Fitzgerald attacks the motif of reckless driving vigorously, since it conveys precisely the vision he had of America. He saw twenties society as recklessly careless; the society was "driving on toward death through the cooling twilight."
Through out the novel, Fitzgerald foreshadows the downfall of his own generation. At the heart of the most intense conflict in the novel, where Gatsby finds out that he will never live his .....
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Injustice In To Kill A Mocking
Words: 341 - Pages: 2.... injustice during the time the novel was set in. Through the whole trial, he did not retaliate at the white people, he did not get mad because he was improperly accused, he just showed the level of respect which everyone deserves. He handled the injustice with a manner reserved only for gentlemen, which is a good description of what he really was.
The third person to suffer injustice in the novel was Boo Radley. Many accusations were claimed about him even though they were untrue. Just because he didn't leave his house, people began to think something was wrong. Boo was a man who was misunderstood and shouldn't of suffered any injustice. Boo .....
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Maggie A Girl Of The Streets And Pudd’nhead Wilson
Words: 1004 - Pages: 4.... One was a
slave and grew up as a rich white boy, while the other who was the heir to
the house grew up a slave. After a murder it was realized who was really
who and the mistake was returned to normal.
Roxy, the mother in Pudd’nhead Wilson was first seen as a hero in
the book. She saved her own child from slavery and put her masters child
into it. This idea does not work out and son grows up beating her and
whipping her. Her son turns into the laughing stock of the town. According
to the website http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/applebaum/roxy.html,
Roxy is very naive. Her second sign of stupidity was after she lost all he .....
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