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Madame Bovary: The Theme Of Fantasy
Words: 217 - Pages: 1.... She was blind to the world around her,
she longed for the romantic fantasy life she had dreamed about since she
was a child. She found her life dull and unfullfilling and was constantly
trying to change reality.
Emma wanted a dreamlover. She wanted a man to fullfill all her
fantasys, a man to rescue her from the life she was living and to take her
into her fantasy world. Emma went through many lovers, searching for the
one love that would last always. She wanted to live through her dreams,
never realizing that she would never find her dreamlover. Emma died
because she would not step out of her fantasy world.
Living in a fan .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
Words: 1832 - Pages: 7.... the french girls, when he went on leave, also the time at the Russian P.O.W. camp, the killing of the Frenchman, and his time in the hospital with Kropp. Beyond this the only significant things are when his friend and companion Kat died, and in the end Paul himself died. With these events in mind this is how the rest of this is organized: chronologically.
Paul and his friends started to lose their innocence the day they enlisted after their school days. In school their master, Kantorek pounded into them an idea that they are men and are obligated to do their duty for the country of Germany. Kantoreks blind patriotism led all the boys, .....
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Character Willie Stark In Jack Burden's Novel
Words: 1637 - Pages: 6.... than go to bed, even though it is three o'clock in the morning. Later in the novel, he spends hours working on plans for the hospital that he has sworn to people that he would build. Furthermore, all of the evidence points toward the idea that he has always been a person who needs little sleep, one who has the drive to use every waking hour profitably.
Another of Willie Stark's primary characteristics is his ability to hold a crowd spellbound, to move them emotionally as he wishes them to be moved. He does just the right things in the drugstore in Mason City in order to make sure that the crowd's allegiance to him is reinforced. When h .....
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Ethan Frome: Life As A Failure
Words: 656 - Pages: 3.... illness. It seemed all she ever did was
complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his
wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her
in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate propensity to her cousin,
Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to
have found someone that cared for him, was always happy and could share his
youth, unlike his sickly wife who always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie,
however he had loyalty to his wife. Being married to the wrong person proved to
be Ethan's first failure. Ethan's second failure was n .....
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Fahrenheit 451: The Strength Of Beatty
Words: 422 - Pages: 2.... shrieked, 'Knowledge is power!' and 'A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the farthest of the two!' and I summed my side up with rare serenity in, 'The folly of a mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn is us, Mr. Valery once said.'" (Pg. 116) This confused Montag to the point that he almost disclosed his passion for reading books.
Beatty has mastered the skill of holding people under his power. Beatty, himself, said, "Knowledge is more than equivalent to force." (Pg. 116) He additionally declared, "I don't think you realize how important we are to our world .....
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You Just Don't Understand: The Differences In Men And Women
Words: 1355 - Pages: 5.... This could have a great
effect on the interpretation and create a bias. One can not know what was
going on in the salesperson's mind. By providing her own evidence in an
example, Tannen limits some of her open-mindedness and replaces it with
bias.
The context of this example can affect the interpretation because
the reader knows nothing about the salesperson except for his profession.
The man might have feared the thought of losing his job if he had not known
how to fix Tannen's camera. The man's boss might have been standing next
to him when this incident occurred.
Tannen's interpretation of this example is that the sales .....
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War Of The Worlds
Words: 956 - Pages: 4.... didn't like. Therefor the father had to save them from the
angry men. In the end of the story the twins decided to stay with their mom and
fight for what they believe in.
B: Essay
This story about the two Indian twins shows a typical problem for imigrants. In
this case the twins want to change the system and the rules wich Indian people
live by. Suki and her sister will not tolerate the rules and live by the normal
traditions. Therefor you can say that the two twins are revulutionary. The twins
want to speak in the Gurudwara, so they can tell the other women and children to
fight for their rights. After normal indian traditions women don .....
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
Words: 728 - Pages: 3.... have more money. After spending the
summer in the east and seeing how money affects people, he decides to go
back west.
I see now that this has been a
story of the west, after all-Tom
and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and
I, were all westerners and and
perhaps we possessed some deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost
his interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy.
Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years be .....
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Green Grass: Lionel Red Dog
Words: 771 - Pages: 3.... held a peaceful
rally in a town, then they all packed up, and moved it to Wounded Knee.
Wounded Knee was the sight of a terrible massacre in the late
1800's. The Natives were traveling to a neighboring camp, when soldiers
came upon them, and "captured" the natives. The natives were asked to give
up all weapons, and a misunderstanding led the soldiers to believe there
was a resistance. The soldiers opened fire on the Natives, and over three
quarters of the natives were killed.
There, at Wounded Knee, The natives set up road blocks meant to
keep tourists out. They did this so that the government would take notice
of their plight. But .....
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