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The Pardoners Tale
Words: 1298 - Pages: 5.... entirely by greed.
The pardoner is supposed to forgive sins, however, he views his position as a scheme to make money and turns it into a fraud. His excellent speaking skills allow him to turn this profession into a scam. He attracts the people with his storytelling and his sermons, which are pleasing to them, “By God, I hope I shal yow telle a thyng / That shal by reson been at youre liking,” (457-58). One example of a sermon about his motto is the tale of the three rioters. This tale gives an ironic explanation related to the rioters deaths, due to greed and the pardoners practice of his profession, which is also driven .....
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Night
Words: 1221 - Pages: 5.... Sighet onto the train and had started the journey towards Auschwitz. The condition on the train is something I don’t think I could have stood for. The Germans were put in charge of the train in the middle of the journey. The officers were told to collect any valuables from the people on the train and if they refused to yield their valuables, they were to be shot. As I have said I hated carrying around this gun but I did have a job to do and I was willing to follow orders if need be. Luckily I never had to unload a single shot on that train. Some people on the train were in very bad shape. They were hallucinating and many of them s .....
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An Analysis Of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" And "The Devil And Tom Walker
Words: 482 - Pages: 2.... Tom and his wife. In "The
Devil and Tom Walker" the author gives some info on the situation and the
charters and then just jumps into the story. In both of the stories you get
the feeling of something supernatural is going to happen. Also in both they
take place in remote areas.
Next we have the husband wife relationship in both cases. Now Rip
was sort of a say nothing do nothing when it came to his house and wife.
His wife would bad mouth him and yell at him, but Rip wouldn't do much
anyway. He would just go off and sleep. Now Tom and his wife on the other
hand would battle to the death. Tom would yell and scream and so would his
wif .....
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Beloved: American Experience With Slavery
Words: 766 - Pages: 3.... to a life of enslavement. The entire novel revolves around this horrific act; the entire story is slowly unraveled through the remembrances of Sethe and others. These memories and "re-memories" do not follow chronological order. However, when they are all pieced together, the whole picture of slavery, Sethe's act, and its aftermath emerges.
A universal characteristic of the survivor's tale is the subjectivity and incompleteness of the survivor's knowledge. The author works to provide a more objective view of events by including several storytellers. Digression also provides a more complete picture by including minute details, such as the .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Platform Of Sin
Words: 1054 - Pages: 4.... The scaffold allows Hester Prynne's sin to be
publicized and marveled at by the New Englanders. It is here that the
reader becomes aware of Hester being shunned as an outsider, when she is
placed on the scaffold: “Knowing well her part, she ascended a flight of
wooden steps, and was thus displayed to the surrounding multitude, at about
the height of a mans shoulders above the street . . . . The unhappy culprit
sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a
thousand unrelenting eyes” (63-64). At the same time, the first scaffold
scene is the setting for the introduction of Roger Chillingworth,
Hester'shusband, a .....
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Comparison Of Animal Farm To The Russian Revolution Of 1917
Words: 565 - Pages: 3.... oppressive government were staged at different times by students, workers, peasants, and members of the nobility (“Russian” Microsoft).
The Revolution in Animal Farm, clearly based on the Russian Revolution, did not keep nationalism from disappearing, a point Orwell makes clear. The animals, after revolting, are so proud, that they take a green table cloth and pain a white hoof and a horn on it similar to the hammer and sickle of the former Soviet Union (“Animalism”).
The animals on the farm do many other things that are very similar to what the people of Russia were going through in their everyday lives. Just like in the nov .....
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1984
Words: 1421 - Pages: 6.... the Allies lost in World War II. The government in
this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because
they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a
crime punishable by death. By employing literary devices such as diction,
foreshadowing, and symbolism, Orwell composes a novel "1984" which proves
to be a gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism.
Orwell wrote 1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism.
Orwell's word choice drives the plot of the story in that they introduce a
new dimension, a world where everything takes place in a modern controlled
society. The .....
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As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner
Words: 734 - Pages: 3.... clue that Jewel is not Anse's
son, since Anse is extremely lazy and would never work as hard as Jewel did for
a horse. We also see the tension between Anse and Jewel. We see the lack of
respect Jewel has for Anse. It is rather ironic when Anse says "He's just lazy,
trying me" (p. 129) Since Jewel has been working really hard, and it is Anse who
is lazy. Furthering on Jewel and Anse's relationship, I feel that it is fairly
evident that Jewel knows that Anse is not his father. This is illustrated in the
following section on page 136: "Jewel looked at Pa, his eyes paler than ever.
'He won't never eat a mouthful of yours' he said. 'Not a m .....
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Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff's Love For Catherine
Words: 1028 - Pages: 4.... for her, explaining to Nelly that "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same…" Their love for each other is so passionate that they can not possibly live apart. At Catherine's death, Heathcliff hopes that she will not rest, but will haunt him until he dies. This absurdity contradicts the traditional norm that one should pray that the dead rest in peace. Near the end of the novel, we learn that Catherine has haunted Heathcliff, allowing him only fleeting glances of her. This shows that despite their physical separation, nothing can part them spiritually. When Heathcliff dies and unites with Catherine once again, the neighbor .....
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