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The Scarlet Letter
Words: 449 / Pages: 2 .... him.
Dimmesdale is going mentally insane because of the effects from guilt. He sneaks out at night to stand on the platform, but why doesn’t he confess. He is a reverend, and should be able to tell everything. That is why it is so hard for him. He is trapped between a rock and a hard space. If he tells the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
Words: 1020 / Pages: 4 .... Lastly they turned to the sea to seek their
fortune. When Juana set sight on the "Pearl of The World." she felt as
though all her prayers had been answered, if she could have foreseen the
future what she would have seen would have been a mirror image of her
reality. Juana's husband was caught in a twisted realm of mirrors, and
they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so
soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the
trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began.
The fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions.
Soon even Juana who had alwa .....
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Literary Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird
Words: 554 / Pages: 3 .... many times Scout was
told her father defened niggers, and was a nigger lover. One of these times
would be when Francais states, “I guess it ain't your fault if Uncle
Atticus is nigger lover”(83). And although Scout didn't truly know the
meanings of these statements seemingly rooted into the core of many Maycomb
populants, she did sense that they were not statements of reverement.
Another type of prejudice in the book would be the sexism and
resulting stereotypical views of how women and men should act, dress, and
what they can and cannot do. A good example of this being the many times
Mrs. Dubose made statements like, “What are you doing in .....
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The Color Purple
Words: 513 / Pages: 2 .... she felt like she was experiencing it all over again. In , there are many conflicts, which arise from the theme. First of all, Celie is against Pa and Mr._____, that shows the conflict of man Vs man, and unfortunately, Celie doesn't have the power to fight back physically. Secondly, Celie and herself that show the conflict of man Vs him/herself. She can't win over herself and that is why she doesn't have enough courage to stand up and be in command for her own life. Thirdly, the tradition of men had high social status then women. That shows the conflict of man Vs society. At the end of the book Celie eventually fight over the tradition. Men ar .....
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Northanger Abbey: Reader's Response To Heroine
Words: 2639 / Pages: 10 .... from a more realistic point of view. Throughout this maturing process Jane Austen's reader is invited to feel every emotion with Catherine, while maintaining a certain detachment which allows us to recognise Catherine's foibles and touching innocence.
Many of the mistakes that Margaret Oliphant talks about in her description of Catherine in the title above come from Catherine's extreme innocence. Jane Austen's heroine arrives in Bath as a young debutante and, entirely inexperienced in the ways of the world, is immediately impressed by the more sophisticated Isabella. After their first meeting this is clear as she watches her leave; "(she) admired .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Thoughts And Feelings
Words: 720 / Pages: 3 .... a cheap motel until
Wednesday, when he is to return home. His plan shows the reader how very
impetuous he is and how he acts on a whim. He is unrealistic, thinking
that he has a foolproof plan, even though the extent of his plans are to
"take a room in a hotel.., and just take it easy till Wednesday."
Holden's excessive thoughts on death are not typical of most
adolescents. His near obsession with death might come from having
experienced two deaths in his early life. He constantly dwells on Allie,
his brother's, death. From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves
and misses Allie. In order to hold on to his brother and to minimiz .....
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Brave New World: Comparing Life In The World State With Life In The US Today
Words: 1148 / Pages: 5 .... partner you want, who wants you, and sooner or later every partner
will want you. Children are taught through hypnosis that "everyone belongs to
everyone else." In this Utopia, what we think of as true love for one person
would lead to a passion for that person and the establishment of family life,
both of which would interfere with the community and its stability. Nobody is
allowed to become pregnant because nobody is born, everyone is a "test-tube"
baby. Many females are born sterile.
The ideas and ways of obtaining happiness are not too much different in
the brave new world than in our lives here in the United States. The only
diffe .....
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Hesse's Siddhartha: Siddhartha's Character
Words: 1087 / Pages: 4 .... for
their thirst, and most importantly he stood for their ultimate quench; He
stood for the insatiable feelings that all people have and need to
eventually fill.
As the Brahmin's son, Siddhartha could not contain himself. He was
restless and felt that he had learned all he had to learn amongst his
elders, and he was right. He chose to follow another path in life, a path
that would show him another part of how people in his world lived.
Siddhartha did not allow himself to stick to something that he could not
feel to be right, thus he could not stay and worship the gods his father
worshipped. He, as discontent people long for, set out to .....
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A Medieval Contest Between The
Words: 2421 / Pages: 9 .... Malory in his Le Morte d’Arthur shows this Round Table as a military group loyal not only to their King but to one another. King Arthur is given the Round Table as a wedding gift by Gwynevere’s father. It consists of one hundred knights. Often
the knights join together to defend the honor of another knight by killing the one causing the dishonor. The Fellowship bands together with the common purpose of destroying the Ring. The Ring can only be destroyed by throwing it back into the Cracks of Doom in Orodruin, the Fire Mountain, in Mordor, home of the Emperor of Darkness known as Sauron. The Ring should Sauron get it would give .....
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John Updike's "A&P"
Words: 699 / Pages: 3 .... to college and those who couldn’t afford it didn’t. A time when a pair of jeans meant you were either a farmer or a worker. A&P was right in the middle of town where “people hadn’t seen the ocean for twenty years.” So to see three girls walk into a convenient store five miles from the beach wearing nothing but their bathing suits would catch anyone’s attention. As the narrator, Sammy, describes in the story, “A&P was right in the middle of town and women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street.” It was the appropriate thing to do. To Sammy, however, it was appropriate only i .....
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