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To Kill A Mockingbird - Tom Robinson
Words: 814 - Pages: 3.... Tom didn't
help by saying "Yes suh. I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more'n the
rest of 'em--", because black people wern't supposed to care about white
people. It would have been impossible to do to her what she said Tom did
"Tom Robinson's powerful shoulders rippled with his right hand on the back
of his chair. He looked oddly off balance, but it was not from the way he
was standing. His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right,
and hung dead at his side. It ended in a small shrivelled hand, and from
as far away as the balcony I could see that is was no use to him." Tom
Robinson couldn't have done the crime w .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Much Symbolism
Words: 562 - Pages: 3.... token:
he gave Hester the punishment of a very unique child which she named Pearl.
This punishment handed down from God was a constant mental and physical reminder
to Hester of what she had done wrong, and she could not escape it. In this
aspect, Pearl symbolized God's way of punishing Hester for adultery.
The way Hester's life was ruined for so long was the ultimate price that
Hester paid for Pearl. With Pearl, Hester's life was one almost never filled
with joy, but instead a constant nagging. Pearl would harass her mother over
the scarlet "A" which she wore. Pearl would also make her own "A" to wear, and
sometimes she played games wit .....
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Common Human Experiences In To Kill A Mockingbird
Words: 420 - Pages: 2.... to say that
they beleived Tom was innocent they would have to face the people of
Maycomb and then they would be shunned for letting a black man go free.
Boo Radley was also the victim of prejudice. The people of Maycomb
county did not understand Boo, he was not seen outside of his house and
people did not know what to think. They made up their own ideas of what
he was like and made him out to be some sort of monster. They pre-judged
him because he was different than they were. Scout later met Boo and
discovered that there judgements of him were false.
The second common human experience is courage. Atticus displays two
different t .....
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“Playing Solo Through Life”
Words: 1278 - Pages: 5.... had a special gift they devoted all their attention to him. Renne acknowledges his parent’s intentions when he says:
Originally they had planned to have more children, but in view of my father to focus all of their attention and resources on me. (Salzman 4)
This is the first example of Renne being a soloist, in which he is the only child and his parents are going to keep it that way so he can be the best at his talent. In school he was different from other kids because he loved music and he wasn’t that interested in playing sports, his mother forbidden him to play. She excluded him from contact with other children after he moved to G .....
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Bennet's: The Executioner
Words: 2166 - Pages: 8.... of
the story.
This plot begins when Bruce , an 18 year old high school boy was at a
bar with his best friend Raymond, and a few other friends named Ed, and
Elaine. Unfortunately, Bruce got intoxicated, but still decided to drive
the others home from the bar. On the way home, Bruce began arguing with Ray,
(the only sober one), and the car was steered of the road into a tree.
Raymond was killed by the accident. However, everyone thought that Bruce
was not intoxcated at the time, and the car just accidentally swerved off
to the side.
Throughout the next chapters, Bruce keeps facing the guilt of killing
Ray, and tries to admit to ever .....
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In What Way Is Lizzy Newberry A Highly Unusual Woman For Her Time?
Words: 938 - Pages: 4.... whether he
can ‘keep a secret’, and then she reveals the barrels to Mr.Stockdale that
contain spirits from France and this is a very unusual thing for young
women of her time to be doing, because it would usually have been men that
would do all the smuggling.
Lizzy realises that Mr.Stockdale is very surprised, and tries to
defend herself by saying ‘’Smuggling is carried on here by some of the
people,’’ and ‘’It has been their practice for generations, and they think
of it as no harm.’’ Then to astonish Mr.Stockdale even more, she begins to
show him how to extract the liquor from the barrels, by tapping one of the .....
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Murray Davis' Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology
Words: 1712 - Pages: 7.... believes soft-core
pornography is describing "a sexual experience", which conveys characteristics
of the participants that are not described by hard-core pornography. Hard-core
pornography describes "sexual behaviour" which involves more of the act of sex
rather than the characteristics and feelings involved with sex. (Davis, p.
xix) Although Davis admits that the vocabulary of sex is changing (Davis, p.
xxv), he also states that hard-core pornography uses considerably more vulgar
terms that are associated with lower-class activity, such as, "prick, fuck, and
suck" (Davis, p. xxiii). Davis believes that hard-core pornography, induces .....
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Stand By Me: Loyal Friendships And Families
Words: 670 - Pages: 3.... strong theme of friendship as a substitute for each of their broken families.
The family life of Gordie and Chris are both dysfunctional but due to that, the family situations bring Gordie and Chris closer together. At most times, Chris is Gordie’s father figure, only because Gordie’s true father treats him as if he is nothing. Gordie’s father makes him feel like he should have been the one to die, instead of his brother, Dennis. At the times when Gordie needed somebody the most, Chris was there to comfort him and talk to him. This was first significantly shown when Ace and his friend had taken Dennis’s hat. Dennis was Gordie’ .....
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Words: 1063 - Pages: 4.... in her "deformed child." Victor Frankenstein's mother dies of a fever but this is a mere representation of her life. What is most significant is the abandonment the monster feels throughout the story. He expresses it by telling Walton "...I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." He claims he is the victim of his wrongdoing and affirms: "You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in detail which he gave you of them, he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions." He t .....
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Critical Review Of 1984 By George Orwell
Words: 604 - Pages: 3.... who stood in a shadow that
covered his face. This was to make him anamous and unrecognizable. The
figure was called "Big Brother" and this figure was placed on posters and
put all over the place with the saying, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." This
was used to let the people know that no matter where they go the could not
escape the watching eyes of the controling government.
The government itself was very mysterious and had several parts that were
very suspicious to the main character, Winston, who worked in one part of
the government. It was divided up into four parts. The Ministry of Truth,
where Winston worked, was incharge of educat .....
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