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All Ouiet On The Western Front: What Opinion Of War Does This Book Present
Words: 907 / Pages: 4 .... that they must serve their country to their fullest and they like doing that. But they too long for their past lives, including everything they left behind. After enlisting most understand that they’re leaving those old lives behind for years at a time. They suffer knowing they are in a sense trapped. Paul Baumer says, “Beyond this our life did not extend. And of this nothing remains” (20). The army became the most important thing now. Nothing else counts. Nothing else can count. By enlisting in the army, they chose to give up everyday pleasures. No matter how bad they want out, they’ve made a commitment and must stick to it. It doesn’t me .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of Social Structure
Words: 479 / Pages: 2 .... Monseigneur is having his chocolate
while everyone is waiting to speak with him. When he is done with his chocolate
all he does is walk out and brushes past everyone else as if they are not there.
This shows that all the higher aristocracy cares about is themselves.
Another fault the Dickens points out about the social structure in the society
is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine
get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being
described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little
guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary .....
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Of Mice And Men: Four Major Themes
Words: 757 / Pages: 3 .... a depressed sad additude to a cheerful
excited one. He now has hope of doing something and it came from the "dream
farm". A final example of the value of dreams and goals is when Crooks hears
of the farm. Crooks is a lonely black man who has no future, but when he
starts to think of how he can be a part of the dream he also gets happy and
excited, until his dream is crushed.
Many people of good character have to honor certin moral responibilites.
George is bond by his own moral to take care care of Lennie. No one makes him
do it, he just does it because it feel like the right thing to do. Candy felt
like he neglected his moral responibility .....
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More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
Words: 2387 / Pages: 9 .... like that of Huxley’s Brave New
World.
Thomas More’s Utopia, is a small island where there is no greed or
crime. The inhabitants of this island live as equals, no one does more
work than another person and everyone feels secure with their place in
society. By abolishing money and private property, More would rid society
of greed and social ambition. Most of all, he wants to curtail pride, the
evil he believes is at the root of all evils -- "the infernal serpent that
steals into the hearts of men, thwarting and holding them back from
choosing the better way of life." Likewise, in Aldus Huxley’s Brave New
World, crime and greed have been elim .....
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The Great Gatsby: Moral Decline Through The Interpersonal Relationships
Words: 408 / Pages: 2 .... beautiful, symbolizes
a way of life which is remote from Gatsby's and therefore more attractive
because it is out of reach so he changes himself. (Fitzgerald, -page 54)
Myrtle and Gatsby both want to be part of the same elite crowd. They play a
reflection of each other in the book by wanting the same thing but they
have different methods of achieving it. Gatsby wants Daisy, and Myrtle just
wants to be higher in society. Gatsby plays the god-like character in this
book so his means are good but both him and Myrtle do bad things to get
higher in a crowd that will never take them in. To make themselves appear
better to the other crowd, they lose some o .....
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Raymond Carvers Cathedral
Words: 1247 / Pages: 5 .... steadfast biases, and forces the person to assess their position in the greater schema of humankind. A bias that surfaces early on, is the mention of Robert's wife, "Beulah!" The narrator exclaims, "That's a name for a colored woman." (Carver, "Cathedral," 182) Here, by attaching a stereotype to a simple name, he exhibits the precise indiscretion of a closed-minded bigot,
and then eventually reaches humility through his awakening. The narrator
possesses several other prejudices that also hinder his humility. Later on, for
example, the narrator sees Robert for the first time and the man's appearance
startles him: "This blind man, feature th .....
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Medea: Summary
Words: 1753 / Pages: 7 .... psychology in order to help the reader produce a clear picture
of the characters. Medea features strong dramatic situations and a
stirring part for the heroine, whose attitude of feminine pride and
tradition is still popular in today's world.
Setting: The entire play takes place on the island of Corinth in present
day Greece. Individual places such as Medea/Jason's home, and the palace
of the king and princess are also spoken of and used in the play. It has
an ancient Greek setting as well.
Theme: "What goes around comes around."
The theme of revenge in the sense of Medea's strong desire to seek revenge
on Jason.
Another possible theme of Med .....
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Upton Sinclairs Book The Jungl
Words: 572 / Pages: 3 .... safe and to get good quality food. Upton Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the Stomach" (Blinderman 60). When he said this he was talking about how he exposed the meat industry. Also he made the legislation change. There were some critics on the reasoning Sinclair used in "The Jungle". "His reasoning so false, he is naïve in his disregard of human nature". Also "…his conclusions so perverted that the only effect can be only to disgust many honest sensible folk with the very terms he used so glibly" (Blinderman 103). Sinclair's book "The Jungle" effected the business of Chicago in a good way. "The Jung .....
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Juanita Platero's "Chee's Daughter": Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal About Personality
Words: 511 / Pages: 2 .... that "if he sang the proper songs, if he
cared for the land faithfully, it would not forsake him now..."(82) Chee
is trying to grow food and he thinks that if he cares for the land and
respects it that the earth would in turn make the food grow well. Another
way to show this is how Chee thought that if he "Take care of the land and
it will take care of you."(81) Chee cared and respected the land and in
turn the land gave him food for which he would to barter back Little One
from Old Man Fat. Chee treats the land as an equal. "he felt so strongly
that just now this was something between himself and the land."(82) Chee
treats the land as an equal, re .....
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Examination Of Puritan Philosophy In Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
Words: 1755 / Pages: 7 .... his interpretation of what happens. In Chapter IX (nine) of "Of Plymouth
Plantation", entitled "Of Their Voyage…" , he tells of a sailor "..of a lusty,
able body.." who "would always be condemning the poor people in their sickness
and cursing them daily….he didn't let to tell them that he hoped to help cast
half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end". But, "it
pleased God before they came half-seas over, to smite this young man with a
grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the
first that was thrown overboard". Bradford believes that the sailor died
because God was punishing h .....
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