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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Words: 2290 - Pages: 9.... be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the “Great American Epic”.
Finn, “The great American epic,” may be one of the most interesting and complex books ever written in the history of our nation. This book cleverly disguises many of the American ideals in a child floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a black slave. On the outside of the story, one can see an exciting tale of heroism and adventure; however, that is not all. The book sho .....
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Death Of A Salesman - Minor Characters
Words: 589 - Pages: 3.... without the help of an education or job. Willy is continuously misled with delusion illusions of grandeur by Ben. "What are you building? Lay your hand on it. Where is it?"(86). Ben questions the success of Willy's sales job and states that in order to be prosperous, one must physically touch it. Ben represents the success of the American Dream and functions in order to make Willy doubt the actions of hard work.
Charley is Willy's closest friend and he displays the failure of Willy Loman's ideals. He is a very realistic character who attempts to convince Willy that his goals are all wrong. "The only thing you got in this world is what you c .....
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Nature
Words: 883 - Pages: 4.... at a pier or causeway, they flow together in intricate patterns greeting each other and sharing the stories of their journeys. At times, these waves seem to dance as they flow north to south, and then change directions, drifting to the east and then back to the west as if they were gliding smoothly across a newly waxed dance floor. Yet it is not only the crystal clear water that contributes to the beauty of the scene.
The variety of boats that harbor in the bays and ports around Lake Michigan also add to the excitement of a normal day on the lake. The powerboats roar a story of freedom. Everyday, flocks of speedboats propel themselves .....
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King Lear
Words: 793 - Pages: 3.... To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths while we Unburdened crawl to death..."
(Act I, Sc i, Ln 38-41)
This gives the reader the first indication of Lear's intent to abdicate his throne. He goes on further to offer pieces of his kingdom to his daughters as a form of reward to his test of love.
"Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
And here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters
(Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
That we our largest bounty may .....
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Aeneus Emotional Rollercoaster
Words: 1611 - Pages: 6.... of endurance, Aeneus actions and surrounding actions in rage the reader, while also withdrawing pity and the satisfaction of justice.
A reader can start to sense feelings of hatred towards a character, but lack of such emotion would be robbing Aeneus of his satisfaction. When Aeneus retells the loss of his wife, Creusa, he says, "She alone failed her friends, her child, her husband." (A, II, 963-64). Aeneus shows no sorrow for losing her, but blames her for not being next to his side. Although Aeneus made his wife follow him, she is to blame for not making it out of Troy. His insensitivity shown through the loss of his wife charact .....
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Review Of A Time To Kill
Words: 656 - Pages: 3.... brought to trial, the girl's father guns them down and is himself put on trial for murder and attempted murder of a one-deputy. A simple story of revenge - except that this is the South, the murdered men are white, and the girl and her father are black. Thus begins a tale that might have been an examination of vigilantism, and might have been a story about the possibility of equal justice under the law for.
Carl Lee, the father of the violated girl, has planned revenge knowing that the boys will get off for being white, has told his defender Jake of his vengeance. As an officer of the court, Brigance might be expected to counsel Carl Lee .....
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Shooting An Elephant
Words: 757 - Pages: 3.... how he was looked upon by all people from that day forth. Orwell was not the kind to just simply kill something for the mere fact of joy and amusement. He did not want to kill the animal for being wild and dangerous towards the people. He seemed to try to convince himself that all animals go through this stage, however he could not face the fact that the people would think of him as a coward. Orwell made it obvious that he did not feel that it was the right thing to do. However he also brought it to the reader’s attention that the reason he did kill the elephant was because he felt he couldn't face the people if he didn't. He .....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Words: 966 - Pages: 4.... she fell in love with, worshipped, and eloped with a sensitive boy. She believed that life with Allan was sheer bliss. Her faith is shattered when she discovers he is a bi-sexual degenerate. She is disgusted and expresses her disappointment in him. This prompts him to commit suicide. Blanche cannot get over this. She holds herself responsible for his untimely death. His death is soon followed by long vigils at the bedside of her dying relatives. She is forced to sell
Belle Reve, the family mansion, to pay for the many funeral expenses. She finds herself living at the second-rate Flamingo Hotel.
In an effort to escape the misery of he .....
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The Outsiders 3
Words: 710 - Pages: 3.... auto wreck that left Pony in trust of his brothers and fellow gang members. When his best pal, Johnny, kills a member of the Socs, they must take refuge inside an abandoned church in another town to escape the police. After that, a long chain of violent and dramatic events ensues and puts the boys in the most dreadful situation of their lives.
The characters in this book are fairly realistic and believable. They may seem a tad different to a kid nowadays, but keep in mind that this takes place in the 1960's.
S.E. Hinton's plot is not very difficult to understand, since the story rarely gets complicated. It is suitable for readers of .....
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The Perfect World
Words: 894 - Pages: 4.... would be
required to have. Twenty Gigabytes of hard drive space and 100 Megabytes
of Random Access Memory (RAM) ,would be considered a small family computer.
In addition to being faster than today's computers and having more memory,
computers in the perfect world also have many more capabilities. There
would be almost no limits to what a computer would be able to do. In
general, computers in a perfect world be a lot better than computers of
today, and the amount of people who would use computers would be much
larger.
The shared interest of all people in computers would allow for a
much more technological world. With the demand for tec .....
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