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The Crucible - Witch Trials
Words: 2534 / Pages: 10 .... rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts .....
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Demien Realism
Words: 486 / Pages: 2 .... spiral is quite contrived. All of a sudden after just seeing a girl in the park Emil is able to completely change his life around. People work hard for years in rehabilitation centers to fight alcoholism and still even after beating it cannot have another drink in their life but Emil sees this one girl in the park and is instantly changed. Also Emil is so completely changed that later on he is capable of having a drink with Demian and still does not go back to his old ways. However this is very unrealistic and goes against common sense completely.
Hermann Hesse does however do an excellent job in foreshadowing the conclusion of the story. In man .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Summary
Words: 1474 / Pages: 6 .... In the
group, they are responsible for the hunting of the pigs of the island; to bring
in meat. Otherwise, the only thing they had to eat was the fruit of the island.
Later on in the novel, Jack leaves the group of kids to be on his own.
Simon: Quiet, out-spoken by everyone, Simon is one of the hardest-working of
them all. He helps Ralph with the shelters and the little ones with fruit. He is
later killed in the novel.
Sam ‘n Eric: Sam and Eric are twins. They help in various problems during the
novel and survive until the end of the novel. Neither of them play a vital role
in the novel.
Chapter Summary
Chapter 1- In the first chap .....
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Universial Themes In "The Return Of The Native" And "Great Expectations"
Words: 1239 / Pages: 5 .... displays a theme of chance. Book
First, chapter 8 contains a perfect example. Eustacia persuades young Johnny
Nunsuch into helping her feed a fire. She dismisses him and begins to walk home.
Before reaching home, he is frightened by the light coming from the heath and
returns to discover Wildeve meeting with Eustacia. By pure chance, Venn
discovers the boy and quizzes him.
“Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't like to
speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again” [Johnny
Nunsuch]
“ A gentleman--ah! What did she say to him, my man?” [Diggory Venn]
“Told him she supposed he had not .....
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Summary Of Willie Morris' "Good Old Boy"
Words: 724 / Pages: 3 .... the whole town was engulfed in flames. Everything was destroyed
in this blaze. The next day, some citizens went to her grave and to their
horror the chain had been broken. Another legend was one about Casey Jones,
a famous train engineer who was killed while saving his passengers lives.
The last legend mentioned was about a race of giant Indians who supposedly
lived on the land that Yazoo City was built on.
Next, the book told about the childhood life of the author, Willie
Morris. Willie, his dog Skip, and friends had many exciting adventures
together in that small town. They ranged from school day pranks to having
saved the town from .....
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Lord Of The Flies: How Anyone Can Regress Into Savagery
Words: 518 / Pages: 2 .... of hunting and maintaining a fire. Giving Jack this
power was Ralph's first mistake as chief. However things went along
smoothly, rules were set and abided by. All of the boys agreed to give the
conch shell some power by only speaking when they were holding the shell in
their hands. This power was personified by the statement “By the time
Ralph had finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded.” Which
shows how even early on, the group let the conch shell have power.
The assembly moved towards dictatorship when Jack started to
discredit Ralph and the conch. “And you shut up! Who are you anyway?
Sitting there - telling people w .....
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
Words: 1274 / Pages: 5 .... given no insight into the past, and we do not know why she has been driven to the brink of insanity. The “beautiful…English place” that the woman sees in her minds eye is the way men have traditionally wanted women to see their role in society. As the woman says, “It is quite alone standing well back from the road…It makes me think of English places…for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people. There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden—large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.” This lov .....
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Evelina: Madame Duval
Words: 2136 / Pages: 8 .... by doing this so early in the novel we as readers are compelled to dislike anyone else who courts our heroine. We know from experience, that any man (besides our hero) who attempts to solicit our heroine is most likely an enemy. Therefore when we meet Sir Clement Willoughby, we instantly dislike him because of the character he plays in our novel. Our keen sense of depravity is quickly rewarded when we are shown the way in which Sir Clement treats our precious heroine. He is more than an insolent fool who embarrasses Evelina; he also physically violates her throughout the novel and we are horrified.
Evelina and Sir Clement Willoughby first meet .....
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Evolution Of Heathcliff In Wut
Words: 1148 / Pages: 5 .... boy, by Mr. Earnshaw, the master of Wuthering Heights. The orphan child is baptized with the name Heathcliff, the name of an Earnshaw baby that died at birth.
As Heathcliff grows up, he is compared to a “cuckoo” by Mrs. Dean. A cuckoo is a bird who comes into a nest and takes the place of the natural siblings. Heathcliff, like a cuckoo, is an intruder who takes the place of a natural offspring and becomes the sole focus of the family. This circumstance foreshadows a life of a child who tries to be something that is impossible. Heathcliff can never be more than what he is. He can never be accepted as a natural son in the Earnshaw family .....
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Frankenstein Biography, Settin
Words: 10353 / Pages: 38 .... sense of loss and search for identity can be found in Mary's works, particularly in Frankenstein and the creature's search for his creator.
Mary was just fifteen years old when she first met Percy Shelley. He was an ardent admirer of Godwin's works and politics and a frequent visitor to the Godwin's home along with his wife Harriet. Percy’s wife, Harriet, became suspicious of Mary and Percy, thinking they were having an affair she left Percy. Her suspicious were later confirmed when she got word of the couple eloping to France. Not receiving William Godwin’s blessing, Mary and Percy eloped to France on July 28, 1814. They settled in Pa .....
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