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A Review: The Day Of The Jackal
Words: 495 - Pages: 2.... it! One hundred and fifty bullets will have passed through the
presidential car by the time it comes abreast of the van. By God we've got it."
All this points to Fredrick Forsyth's amazing mood setting talent in this novel.
The reader feels at one with the many characters as they each take part
in the many small ventures that give rise to the climax. In a scene where the
Jackal is purchasing a fake identification card, the reader can tell that the
man making the card is an expert. Not because it was mentioned, but because the
man has such a large amount of information about I.D. cards to offer. This same
writing talent that displays the .....
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Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
Words: 1647 - Pages: 6.... but his lack of concern for his
family shows that he did not care for much else other than himself and the
farm.
Yet along the trip there are many members of the family that stand
out in self-conceit. One person is Tom Joad, one of Ma and Pa Joad's
children. He has recently been released from prison and seems to be
concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for
money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many
lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy,
a man representative of Jesus Christ in both his initials "J.C." and in his
beliefs. The preacher is the o .....
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Of Mice And Men: George And Lennie's Lonesomeness
Words: 1378 - Pages: 6.... hope of buying a small farm of their own someday. While working at one ranch they meet a co-worker named Candy whom tries to help them financially. Before this dream can happen, Lennie kills the wife of the boss's son. As the novel concludes, George has to kill Lennie for his benefit. Later he goes into town and abandons his dream by spending his money.
The main cause of George and Lennie's lonesomeness and that of all the people at the ranch was a lack of a home. The only thing that kept the two men going was their friendship with each other and the hope to soon get a place of their own. In the novel George and Lennie mention what their .....
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The Canterbury Tales: Picture Of Society
Words: 478 - Pages: 2.... to find the answer to her question of what women desire most. The Wife of Bath describes the Knight’s quest for the answer to this question. It appears that he has failed in his quest until he meets the lady in the woods. She gives him the answer that he is seeking. The listener is pleased by this and the listener is even more pleased by the request that the old woman has for the Knight. This part of the tale would keep a listener listening to the speaker. The listener would want to know what happens next. The lesson of the tale comes in the latter stages of the story. The trust that exists between a married man and woman is the lesson th .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Words: 833 - Pages: 4.... libidos a-blazin'." Harding tries to drawl like McMurphy; it sounds funny with his high, breathy voice. (21-22)
A further linkage of McMurphy with the heroic (male) American past is forged by the fact that he wears a pair of shorts decorated with "big white whales" which recall Melville's Moby Dick.
Indeed, so that the reader does not miss the allusion, Kesey has McMurphy relate that the person who gave him the shorts was "'a co-ed at Oregon State, Chief, a Literary major'" who made him the present "'because she said I was a symbol'" (69). Melville is a by no means unambiguous writer. Indeed, in Moby Dick, the white whale may be seen as a .....
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Blindness In King Lear
Words: 922 - Pages: 4.... Lear's last words to the only daughter that truly loved him were;
".....for we/ have no such daughter, nor shall we ever see/ that face of hers again. Therefore be gone/ without our grace, our love, our benison." (Shakespeare 1, 1. 262-265)
Lear's blindness also caused him to banish Kent, one of his most loyal followers. Kent tried to stand up to Lear in Cordelia's honor, but Lear would not listen to what Kent was trying to tell him. To Kent's opposition; "This hideous rashness, answer my life, my judgement,/ Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;" ( 1,1. 150-151) Lear responded with, "Kent on thy life, no more." ( 1, 1, 154) .....
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Commentary On The Road Not Tak
Words: 881 - Pages: 4.... in the same line “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” gives an almost organic-like appeal. This helps us to integrate roads into the natural environment and it gives an impression that the decisions that we have to make are natural. The divergence of the two roads into the same place (a yellow wood) symbolises Frost’s departure into the real world (because of the singularity in “wood”). This could mean that the wood is being compared to the “unknown” world. Again, in the first stanza there is the start of the ambiguity in the very colour of the wood. A strong believer in the view that Frost has given a regretful tone to .....
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The Miseducation Of Victorian Women
Words: 2338 - Pages: 9.... issue in the Victorian era that many women wrote about it. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was certainly not the only one who saw this as problem. Two other women of this time that spoke out against the “miseducation” of women were Frances Power Cobbe who wrote Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself, and Harriet Martineau who wrote What Women Are Educated For. Their views support what Barrett Browning communicates in Aurora Leigh with additional insights into the reality of the Victorian education of women.
The main focus of the instruction of young women in the Victorian era, which they referred to as an education, was on making t .....
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Mary Shelleys Frankenstein- Th
Words: 1127 - Pages: 5.... humane qualities, including compassion, loyalty, and intelligence contrast to the wretched traits of his creator, making the horrible references much more suitable for Victor.
Unlike Victor, the monster shows great compassion despite his appalling appearance. For instance, he demonstrates his love for others during his time spent observing Felix and Agatha while in the village. He wishes “to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in [him] such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for [his] protectors…” (106) Even though the monster had neve .....
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The Reaper's Image
Words: 1141 - Pages: 5.... it started off really
slow and worked it's way into a really interesting plot. I liked the end
because it never really finished, it left the ending up to the reader. This
seems to be a common theme in a lot of Stephen King's stories. He likes to
leave the reader in suspense, and keep them wondering.
Here There Be Tygers
This story is about a little boy named Charles who is in elementary
school. He has to go to the bathrrom really bad, but he is afraid to ask
because the teacher does not like him. Finally the teacher sees him squirming
and asks him if he needs to use the restroom. He says yes and is very
embarassed in front of the c .....
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