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Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
Words: 957 / Pages: 4 .... workers, nothing could persuade
capitalists change their ways. In other words, peaceful progess toward
equality and socia justice was impossible. The only way to establish
justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means
of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against
their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to
lose but your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches,
help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion,
according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working
people to forget about .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
Words: 1181 / Pages: 5 .... a character that reflected her own strong belief that the most important mission we have is to discover ourselves.
Janie Crawford was raised in the household of her grandmother, Nanny Crawford, a maid and a former slave. Janie, like her mother before her, was born of rape, and Nanny is committed to protecting her from the sexual and racial violence she and her daughter endured. She pushes Janie into marriage with an older man named Logan Killicks, a farmer with some property. Her life with Killicks is full of boredom and hard labor, so she runs off with Joe Starks, a handsome and well-off storekeeper who moves her to the all-black town of Eatonville, .....
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Alice Walker's Everyday Use
Words: 1034 / Pages: 4 .... importantly healthy sense of pride
gives us the courage we need to interact with others.
It is the need for pride and what it or the lack of it can cause
that is so beautifully communicated to the reader in Everyday Use. I
understood why some characters were unsure of themselves. I was puzzled by
why some did not feel surer of themselves and their heritage. I was also
surprised that some had the pride that could carry them through any
situation.
Maggie is a classic example of poor self-esteem. She has little
pride in herself. She is not as pretty or smart as her sister is. She was
also scared in a fire. She has spent her entire life playing second .....
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Dolores Claiborne
Words: 517 / Pages: 2 .... She then withdraws from everyone and tries to forget about the fact that it ever happened. In the movie, however, Salena has come back from New York to defend her mother after she has been accused of killing Vera Donovan. She has developed a drug abuse problem, just like her father. Salena is the reason for many of the scenes throughout the movie, as she is remembering them and discussing what really happened with her mother.
In both the novel and the movie, the story of the eclipse and the events leading up to it are told in a flashback. The difference is that in the novel, Dolores is telling her story to the police in the form of a confession. .....
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Slaughterhouse Five
Words: 989 / Pages: 4 .... illustrates that the narrator and Billy are not the same person. The narrator was the
American disgusted by Billy. Vonnegut places the narrator in the novel in subtle ways. While describing the German prisoner trains, he merely states, “I was there.” By not referring to Billy as I, Billy is immediately an individual person. I is the narrator, while Billy is Billy. Their single connection is that they were both in the war.
Kurt Vonnegut places his experiences and his views in the text. He begins the book by stating, “All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true...I’ve changed all of t .....
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Summary Of The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Words: 1565 / Pages: 6 .... met Ona at a horse fair, and fell in love with her. Unfortunately,
they were too poor to have a wedding, since Ona's father just died. In the
hopes of finding freedom and fortune, they left for America, bringing many
members of Ona's family with them.
After arriving in America, they are taken to Packingtown to find
work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry
is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable
efficiency and speed att which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked,
packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The
tour guide specifically says, "Th .....
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Animal Farm: Notes
Words: 630 / Pages: 3 .... that said that Snowball was
incohutes with Jones. Snowball also spread a lot of lies around about
Napoleon.
Events in Summary:
What happened first: The first thing that happened in my book
Animal Farm was that the animals over took the Manor Farm. The
"revolution," as they called it, was achieved with great ease. Jones had
gotten so drunk at a bar that he did not get home until noon and then went
to sleep until late that evening. The animal had gone unfed that whole day.
Then one of the cows could not stand it any more and broke the door to the
store-shed. She and the rest of the cows started eating the feed in the
shed. Thi .....
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Good Versus Evil: Wars In A Separate Peace
Words: 1266 / Pages: 5 .... the battles with Finny. We learn as the story begins that Gene and
Finny are best friends. They go almost everywhere together and they even
share a room at their school. We enter the story at what is called a
"summer session" which could be described as today's equivalent of summer
school. But, as the story unfolds, we are forced to ask ourselves, are
they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they
mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint with this quote at the point Gene
thinks Finny is finally going to "get away" with something he did. "This
time he wasn't going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming
unex .....
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Kafka's The Trial
Words: 1156 / Pages: 5 .... he had with his father. As a result of the abuse, Kafka suffered with feelings of inadequacy and oppression and had difficulty making decisions throughout his life. Just as Joseph K is accused of a crime but is never told what it is he has been accused of, Kafka is haunted by his father's voice constantly accusing and criticizing him for being different. Joseph K is unsure of the correct action to be taken when he is first arrested and is influenced by those around him. Even though initially he does not see the need for an advocate, he allows himself to be persuaded by his uncle to engage one. No matter what he does to try and prove his in .....
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Brian's Search For The Meaning Of Life In W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen The Wind
Words: 815 / Pages: 3 .... pigeons. When his
father explains how these pigeons were made, Brian understands that birth is the
beginning of life. Four years later, a similar conversation comes up when
Brian asks his father how rabbits are born. With this new found knowledge,
Brian also sees another newborn. But this time it was a two-headed calf, who
dies at birth. Because of this, Brian comes to the realization that "God isn't
very considerate"(166), for sometimes he lets things like the two headed cow
come into this world, only to suffer and then die.
The Second instance in which Brian is confronted with the meaning of
life, comes to him when he sees death, and asks hi .....
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