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Reaching Up For Manhood
Words: 2741 / Pages: 10 .... childhood. The social, family, and educational environment must change for the better. This is not an easy task and no one is saying that it is going to take place over night. However, it is known that what we are, what we know, and how we act all reflects on the way in which we grow up and develop. Not to state the obvious, but I was raised very different from what the novel describes as an African-American male. Considering I am a Caucasian female, I was not raised with the attitude that I need to fend for myself. I did not need to learn self-defense in order to stay safe on the playground. My mother did not coach me on which ways to walk home from .....
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell
Words: 2471 / Pages: 9 .... and essays, there is a strong autobiographical element due to the
fact that he spent many years living with Communists in northern Great Britain
(a small number of people started to follow Communism in northern Great Britain
when it started in Russia). George Orwell¹s writing was affected greatly by his
personal beliefs about Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and
by the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the time
of his writings.
George Orwell was a Socialist2 himself, and he despised Russian
Communism3, and what it stood for. Orwell shows this hatred towards Communist
Russia in a letter h .....
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Crime And Punishment: Protagonist And Antagonist Essay
Words: 1691 / Pages: 7 .... most about. In Crime and Punishment the reader cares about Rodion
Raskolnikov. He is the primary and most significant character in the novel.
We are introduced to this complex character in Part 1. We get to know the
poverty stricken condition that he resides in, and we get to know his
family situation as we read the long letter from Raskolnikov's mother.
Then we witness the murder as it is graphically described by Doestoevsky.
After reading this graphic description of the murder, how can the reader be
sympathetic towards Raskolnikov? How can the reader believe that a
murderer is the protagonist? It is, in fact, not hard to accept this .....
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Dandelion Wine
Words: 1007 / Pages: 4 .... out as a boy and by the end he has become more educated about life and learns to handle many difficult situations well.
How many 12 year olds can cope with death of important people at that time of their lives? Douglas is forced to deal with it quite a few times. One day Doug meets an old man named Colonel Freeleigh. The Colonel is 100 years of age. The Colonel is a very old man who is quite sick and lonely. The Colonel is at the point in his life where he needs a nurse to take care of him. The Colonel is overjoyed to receive company. The Colonel regales Doug and two of his friends with stories of when he was younger. The Colonel shares sto .....
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Oedipus Rex 2
Words: 488 / Pages: 2 .... side,
And on the side of the slain man!
But my curse be on the one who did this, whether he is alone
Or conceals his share in it with others.
Let him be free of no misery if he share my house
Or sit at my hearth and I have knowledge of it.
On myself may it fall, as I have called it down!
-Oedipus from Oedipus Rex
When Oedipus pronounces this sentence he has already unwittingly judged himself, and to the excitement of the crowd foreshadowed later events to come. This statement, is a classic example of verbal irony. In it Oedipus thinking that he is directing his pronouncement upon some bandit, or conspirator, in all actuality he is truly c .....
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Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City: You Are The Coma Baby
Words: 801 / Pages: 3 .... as
both dialogue and narration, is strong support for the concept that like the
Coma Baby, the main character wants to avoid facing the harsh realities of life
and continue living isolated in his world of narcotic-induced pleasure. The
author uses the interaction of the main character and the Coma Baby as proof
that the main character will not realize the fallacies of his ways until he has
hit rock-bottom.
The Coma Baby is shown to be the symbolic representation of the main
character through his actions and philosophy toward life, a philosophy wholly
irresponsible and unmotivated. As the main character approaches he asks the
Baby if he's .....
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Everyday Use 2
Words: 813 / Pages: 3 .... means; something that is passed down from preceding generations. This details that heritage has a lot to do with customs, property, reputation, and things of this sort. In Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use" the story begins off by mentioning a possession that can be obtained from inheritance. The mother (or protagonist) describes the yard as being comfortable than most people know. She says, "It is like an extended living room." (351)
Another prized possession of the family was the first house that they lived in. Apparently they felt comfortable living there, because when it was burned in a fire they moved to another one that was almo .....
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Big Brother: Who Is He And What Does He Want
Words: 756 / Pages: 3 .... about Big Brother or writes, says, or thinks anything bad about the party they will be arrested, killed or beaten and tortured into loving the Party. People of Oceania are forced into thinking and believing certain things, this is where Big Brother comes in. People are made to believe that they are always being watched by Big Brother, which they are. In every room of almost every building there is a Telescreen which allows Part members to see and hear anything that goes on in the area of the telescreen. Knowing that anything they say, think or do is being seen by the "Big Brother" people will began to believe and think what they are told is .....
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Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
Words: 2163 / Pages: 8 .... in Portsmouth. Dickens's mother was very affectionate and rather foolish
in practical matters. John was a vivacious and generous man, but often lived
outside the boundaries of his tight pocketbook. Later in life Dickens used his
father as the basis for his fictional character, Mr. Micawber and his mother as
Mrs. Nickleby in the Brothers Cheeryble (Constable 25).
In 1814 John Dickens was transferred from the post in Portsworth to one in
London. Three years later the family moved to Chatham to be closer to their
father who was working steadily at the post. Charles Dickens's mother taught
him to read when he was barely five and for the next few ye .....
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Mark Twain And The Lost Manuscript Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Words: 1533 / Pages: 6 .... Missouri. Hannibal was a town located on the Mississippi river
and would later become the setting for most of his stories (“Twain”). In
1847, when Clemens was twelve his father died. Clemens grew up in an
educated family (Works of Twain: Biographical Sketch). At age twelve he
was apprenticed to a printer and at age sixteen he worked under his brother,
Orion who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early
attempt at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday
Post in Iowa under the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. These letters
contained purposely inserted errors typical of Clemen's later wo .....
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