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Les Miserables
Words: 954 - Pages: 4.... Bishop, who fed him and offered him a place to stay. Valjean, however, had already fallen partially from the light of reason and when all the others were asleep he stole the silver dinner ware and fled into the night. This act again can be blamed on society for Valjean, realizing that because of his criminal record he would probably never again be able to obtain a job and support himself, saw stealing the silverware as his only choice.
Had he not been caught and returned to the Bishop, Valjean probably would have been forced into a life of corruption. However, to his surprise, the priest told the police he had made a present of the silv .....
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Frankenstein Vs. Dr. Jekyll
Words: 519 - Pages: 2.... the bettering of society did not realize the different rules they were now playing. Neither could predict the horror that was unleashed by their truly limited knowledge and education.
People usually don't set out with a far-fetched and bizarre task of creating "life" out of "death" nor ripping and containing the two side of the double-sided human soul. Events leading up towards the actual decision of pursuing their attempts played a crucial role. After the death of his mother, Frankenstein a long, agonizing period of time grieving over his loss. Jekyll confesses to many youthful thoughtless actions. Frankenstein and Jekyll finally both re .....
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Grapes Of Wrath - Plot Questio
Words: 1282 - Pages: 5.... on to a better place. Living in Oklahoma, really wasn't all that good for the Joad's. They couldn't be very happy at what they had. They where a very proud family and wanted to get away and show everyone that they could do some good in this world for themselves.
2. Who are the members of the Joad family unit that set out for California? Briefly state what happens to each of them.
Ma, Pa, Ruth, Winfield, Uncle John, and Rose of Sharron all where in the barn. Rose of Sharron was breast feeding a old man, after her baby died. I think she was doing it for personal pleasures. I don't think that she was sincere about the feeling to prolong the ma .....
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Hills Like White Elephants 2
Words: 912 - Pages: 4.... that I have read. The man and the woman are at a train station haveing a altercation about weather or not she should get a abortion. She does not want to. It is ovious in the things she says to the man. She says "I dont't care about me. And then I'll do it and everything will be fine"(1). She is saying that she only cares about him, and dose not care about herself. If she did care about herself, then she definatly would not get a abortion. She can not just tell him straight out that she wants to have this baby. The woman is so in love with the man, that she is willing to take the life of her unborn child. The man is in love with her as .....
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The Rich Brother, Pete Exposed
Words: 856 - Pages: 4.... that Donald owes money to some people for sandwiches and coffee. He quickly thrusts his hand into his pocket to throw one hundred dollars in Donald's hand. Donald, acting as if appalled by the money, tried to give some of it back to his brother, yet Pete shoves it right back at him calling the money, "nickels and dimes." While he knows that his brother's pockets are empty, it seems as if Pete enjoys forcing money into Donald's hands to display his wealth, because of the vast amount of jealousy between the two. Pete uses money as a weapon against his brother, and to show that he will always be a few more notches up the ladder than Dona .....
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Cantebury Tales
Words: 921 - Pages: 4.... attempts to capture Alison’s love, but “Alison loved clever Nicholas so much that Absalom could go blow his horn elsewhere.”(Canterbury Tales 65). Nicholas comes up with a plan to trick the carpenter. He tells the husband that he knows another great flood will come and that he, the carpenter, and Alison will be safe if the carpenter builds three separate barrels and hangs them from the ceiling where they can climb to safety. On that night, all three climb into the barrels and the carpenter immediately falls asleep, due to the exhaustion from all of his work. Alison and Nicholas climb down and go into the carpenter .....
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The Crucible
Words: 869 - Pages: 4.... John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth Proctor, of witchcraft, is the fact that she is madly in love with John Proctor. Elizabeth knows this, too, and has even caught her husband with Abigail once. She then got rid of her as a maid, and put her on the road. When she is talking to her uncle, Reverend Parris, she even mentions that "She [Elizabeth Proctor] hates me, uncle. It’s a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman..." (page 12). It is clear that Abigail is speaking with a jealous tone, and that Elizabeth only did what seemed to be the best way to keep her family together. Abigail, however, does not understand nor accep .....
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The Future Of The Race
Words: 1584 - Pages: 6.... Certainly they are taking upon themselves the Talented Tenth’s early twentieth century responsibility to lead the race.
Who is the Talented Tenth? This time-bound phrase comes from Du Bois’s 1903 essay, “The Negro Problem,” quoted in the Appendix of , and begin: “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.” These exceptional men, and Du Bois did mean men, would "guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst.” The Talented Tenth would shoulder the task of uplifting the race without succumbing to money-grubbing selfishness; their formal e .....
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Handmaids Tale Loss Of Identit
Words: 519 - Pages: 2.... to herself that she has been erased from the memory of her daughter, and that to her little girl she doesn’t even exist anymore. To protect herself in her new world, she is forced to hide beneath a submissive, obedient, and mindless mask, yet more and more each day, the mask becomes her real face.
When revolution occurred in the United States, the narrator was not yet known as Offred. Only after they relinquished her job, family, and past, and she no longer had much of an identity left, did they finally remove her name. With a name comes a person’s identity, and even though everything else has been taken away from them, a pe .....
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Exile 2
Words: 1758 - Pages: 7.... (2 Kings 25:12).” This gives us little information to work with, and all that can be assumed is that not many people were left in Jerusalem, and those that were, farmed. Whether they farmed for themselves, or for Babylon cannot be reasonably determined from this one verse. Later on, we see that some underground guerrilla forces were also left in Judah as they assassinated Gedaliah and fled to Egypt. Other than this, we know nothing from 2 Kings 25 about life in Judah during the Exile. The articles, however, give us much more light into life in Judah during these times. Graham illustrates that the people that worked in Jerusale .....
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