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Street Car Named Desire
Words: 533 / Pages: 2 .... He survived his depression for awhile through his poetry, plays, and stories, but the strain soon resulted in a nervous breakdown. "Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory" Williams once said. Tennessee used his stories to express his childhood pain. Alcohol was a prevalent theme in his childhood. His father's drunken attacks on his mother had a great impact on Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.
"Drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!" screamed Stella Kowalski at her husband Stanley. Stanley had just finished throwing their radio out the window, because it was interrupting his poker game. After a small dispute Stanley hits Ste .....
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Chrysalids
Words: 813 / Pages: 3 .... that deviations should be killed or isolated. These characters are very distinct and all have a significant importance. There are a variety of opinions produced by John Wyndham's characters who cause many conflicts.
The main character, David has the strongest beliefs and these beliefs become even stronger as the story develops. Throughout his whole childhood, he has always been taught to honour the Repentances. After he meets Sophie, he thinks that there is nothing wrong with her and that she's harmless for she can definitely not be a mutant. However, in his society she is considered to be a deviation and a mutant, because of her extra toe. From this .....
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A Comparison Of Catcher In The
Words: 2100 / Pages: 8 .... is the basis for the themes these two stories present. Some of these themes go unconsidered and this leads to many misunderstandings in the world. This is why Pygmalion and Catcher in the Rye are not just stories but, in fact, lessons that are presented in their themes. These themes teach that being middle or upper class does not guarantee happiness, treating others with good manners and equality are important, and pronunciation and terminology can “put you in your place” in terms of class.
Throughout the world’s history, pronunciation and the way a language is spoken indicates one’s place in society. This is quite a .....
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Frankenstein Protagonist And A
Words: 549 / Pages: 2 .... The role of antagonist and protagonist changes throughout the rest of the novel, but nevertheless, Victor is the antagonist because of the theme man cannot augment nature without destroying the very thing he is attempting to perfect.
When the monster (also Nature) is created, the role of antagonist and protagonist changes due to enforcement. When the monster was created, it wasn’t the antagonist. It tried to do many good things such as saving a small girl. Those good deeds were never rewarded, causing the monster to be disgusted with humanity making it, by enforcement to be come the antagonist. Victor at this point becomes the protagonist .....
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary
Words: 592 / Pages: 3 .... that if they succeed, they'll have a good
chance of hitting the leader of the party. Grafton and his bombardier,
Virgil Cole miss the building completely and just hit a few bystanders and
blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be court-
martialed, President Nixon gives the orders of unauthorized bombings
anywhere in North and South Vietnam. Grafton and Cole fly their next
mission with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This
plane only carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their
radar. But, as they were approximating (approaching, advancing on) the
first SAM surface gun destroyed most of the pl .....
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Call Of The Wild: Buck
Words: 513 / Pages: 2 .... one day they had a big fight and Buck killed Spitz. Buck was the new leader of the pack. The dogs that could not make it would be shot. Francois and Perrault sold all the dogs including Buck to the Scotch half-breed man. The man beat all the dogs until one day they stopped at a bar and it was time to leave, but Buck couldn't move at all and the Scotch half-breed kept on beating Buck, then John Thorton went up and beat up the Scotch half-breed cut Buck free from the harness and the man left without Buck. Buck joined Thorton's team of dogs. They went to a bar; Thorton made a bet with a man that Buck could pull one thousands pounds of equipment by himsel .....
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Jane Eyre
Words: 724 / Pages: 3 .... in the room in which her Uncle died, for the whole night, as punishment for misbehavior. D. Jane is a girl who is used to unjust treatment. Most of her life she had to live in a house with no one who cared for her and no one she cared about. When she leaves Lowood ( the school she attended as a child and teenager ), I believe she is looking for happiness. Jane is extremely independent, for instance when she walked all the way to town to mail her letter. She is also very cynical like when Mr. Rochester asks if she expects a present from him and she replies that she has done nothing to deserve a present. Mr. Rochester is the other main character of t .....
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A Homicide For Emily
Words: 784 / Pages: 3 .... Emily kept his body in her house. A few days after Emily’s father’s death a couple of ladies came to give their condolences. But Emily came to the door dressed in casual clothes and showed no signs of grief. The townspeople were about to resort to law enforcement when she finally broke down and told them that her father was dead. The townspeople did not believe she was crazy, even though they knew insanity ran in her family. They thought Emily did this because they remembered how the father drove all the young men away. Now she was a figure that could be pitied by the town, alone and penniless.
Eventually Emily met Homer, a Yankee .....
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Gillian By Laurel Oke Logan
Words: 799 / Pages: 3 .... the kitchen. At first Gillian
was very excited but when she began to think about it the whole idea scared
her to death. Going off to a place outside of the United States where she
had never been and leaving her family behind, she just didn't know if she
could go through with it.
A few days after debating about going she called the lady and got more
information about it and she decided she would give it a try. Gillian was
to leave in about five days so her mother and she went to go buy the right
clothes to wear in Canada and some other things she would need. The day
finally came for Gillian to leave. As Gillian, her family and friends went
to .....
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The Mysterious Stranger: Dependence On Others
Words: 733 / Pages: 3 .... God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans."(279) They are taught to be followers of God and all that symbolizes Him and His power which leads to the importance they place on the idea of Moral Sense. Moral Sense is "the faculty which enables us to distinguish good from evil," however Eseldorf's citizens only know what is religiously virtuous so this is how they define Moral Sense. The people think that their freewill is what separates them from the "beasts" but they do not have enough understanding of reality outside their village to utilize their freewill. All the decisions they make are based on their b .....
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