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Catcher In The Ryes Holden Cau
Words: 445 - Pages: 2.... the ducks in the pond, and his constant worry for them, and constant want to protect them. What is this telling us? Holden doesn't like the way society works, and wants to be the "catcher in the rye," protecting society's children from it's evilness and corruption, keeping them safe. Holden has an ephiphany during the novel as he passes the elementary school halls and notices the obscenities scribbled on the walls. His attempt to efface them is unsuccessful, and he realizes that he can't make them go away. This symbolizes Holden's need to protect, and realization that he can't be the savior of society's corruption.
Although the scene in th .....
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Imagery Words And Their Role In Literature
Words: 1519 - Pages: 6.... that all the good things should belong to her. She borrows “a superb necklace of diamonds” from her friend Mrs. Forreister, making herself the most beautiful woman in the party. She spends a wonderful time there, “danced joyfully, passionately, intoxicated with pleasure, thinking of nothing, but the moment, in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, on cloud nine with happiness made up of all the admiration, of all the aroused desire, of this victory so complete and so sweet to the heart of any woman.” After the party, she discovered her necklace was lost. Since then, things change. There are no more beautiful .....
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Frankenstein: Good And Bad Choices
Words: 540 - Pages: 2.... creation. In doing
so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions
he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being,
he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to become a being.
The choice he made would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Zeus finds
out that Prometheus has stolen his fire, he took Prometheus to a top of a
mountain and chains him to the mountain. Every day an eagle comes down and rips
him open and eats his insides. During the night Prometheus would recover during
the night.
After Victor Frankenstein created his being, he called it pur .....
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Comparison Between Novel And Film Version Of "Lord Of The Flies"
Words: 555 - Pages: 3.... clearly notice how Piggy feels and that he is being treated as an "Outsider" but, in the film version it restricts the audience's comprehension of Piggy's emotions. Similarly, other characters such as Simon and Roger are so unclear in the movie that they may puzzle viewers because the movie fails to distinguish their role. The cinema is unsuccessful in establishing Simon as a "Christ" figure and Roger's murderous nature. On the other hand, the novel installs all these ideas and allows the reader to use their creativity. Therefore, due to the film's inability to give audiences more information about the characters, their role and their emoti .....
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Kings Lear
Words: 2163 - Pages: 8.... restores to order when justice prevails.
Its tragic labelling stems from the prevalence of death the just punishment
for many of its characters. The deaths of Lear, Goneril, and Edmund are
prime examples of justice prevailing for evil, and in Lear's case
unnatural, acts.
Lear's ultimate fate is death. His early demise is a direct result of
breaching the "Great Chain of Being" which states that no mortal will
abandon his position in the hierarchy of ranking set by God. Lear's
intention of abdicating his throne is apparent from the outset and is seen
in the following speech spoken during the opening scene of the play:
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The Women Of The Grapes Of Wra
Words: 595 - Pages: 3.... up just for a short time until the car is repaired she threatens him with a jack handle. She knows that all they have in the world is each other and without that themselves to hold on to the have nothing. There is a saying "one finds comfort in numbers" however in this case it is "comfort" is replaced with survival. In addition, near the end of the book, when the boxcars have flooded and it seems all hope has been lost Ma leads the family to higher ground. Despite the despair she feels she overcomes it to do what must be done to insure that they survive to live another day. Her strength gives her the power rise above adversity an .....
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The Joy Luck Club: Differences Between Generations
Words: 688 - Pages: 3.... we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to keep any family members’ promise. Instead of their daughters, .....
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The Horse Whisperer Healing Of
Words: 799 - Pages: 3.... and try not to loose sight of this. In The Horse Whisperer it seems that Grace's mother Annie is so wrapped up in her career that her family is last on her priority list. When the accident occurs, she gets a rude awakening and attempts to make up for not really being there. At the hospital she wants to make sure that her daughter gets the best treatment and she "wants to get to know all of the nurses names"(Evans). The helplessness that a parent feels when they can't save their child from pain is like no other feeling. When Annie sees her daughter's leg amputated, it drives her ambition to help her to be whole again. Grace and Pilgrim .....
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Lord Of The Flies - A Symbolic Interpretation
Words: 2101 - Pages: 8.... in Lord of the Flies is the pigs head. To someone who hasn’t read the book the pigs head would have no meaning to them. The meaning applied to literary symbols would only be recognized by thows who have read the book. Therefor literary symbols are created by the author for the purpose of enhancing the complexity of his or her book, and are only applicable in the context of that book. The book Lord of the Flies is filled with literary symbols. William Golding used the symbols that he created to develop his theme. He did this by changing the importance of symbols throughout the novel. There by changing the way someone would interpret the n .....
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Antitranscendentalism In Melvi
Words: 563 - Pages: 3.... of this time period were opposed to the Transcendental views. The natural opposition to a theory of man’s general benevolence is one of his malevolence toward everything around him; the primary idea behind anti-Transcendentalism was that all human people have a capacity for evil and that, given the proper circumstances, the evil in anyone would come forth in their actions.
The plot and characters of Moby Dick contribute to its anti-Transcendental philosophy; the entire story revolves around the evil of man, which is demonstrated in practically each person portrayed in the book. The story itself is about man being pitted against natu .....
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