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The Theme Of Love And Loneliness In Great Expectations
Words: 994 / Pages: 4 .... to his true nature, as Herbert remarked, "too haughty and too much in love to be advised by anyone." At Compeysons desertion her anger and sorrow became extreme and she threw herself and Satis House into perpetual mourning and a monument to her broken heart, shutting the world out and herself from the world. Her only concession is in her adoption of Estella.
Miss Haversham has ulterior motives in adopting Estella, this is not a loving action on her part, but a calculated manoeuvre to turn the child into a haughty, heartless instrument of revenge against men. Estella is encouraged to practice her disdain on Pip and to break his heart. Paradoxically, .....
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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Good And Evil In Nature
Words: 348 / Pages: 2 .... around the house. My mother counts on me to help out. I am very responsible and I can be counted on to do errands around the house. I am very proud of my good traits; I try to show them as much as possible.
Unfortunately I am not as proud of my evil traits. I am a very sarcastic person. My sense of humor does not always make people laugh. At times I can also have an attitude. If you catch me at the wrong moment, beware! When I am extremely tired and overwhelmed, I get frustrated and take my anger out on the people around me. When I feel repressed I often have a bad temper. Sometimes at my job I feel overworked and exhausted, and I have no .....
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The Giver
Words: 1219 / Pages: 5 .... When a person breaks a major rule, is too old, or isn’t right as a baby they get released. Release is killing. In the book there are twins and the smaller one has to be released. His father turned and opened the cupboard. He took out a syringe and a small bottle. Very carefully he inserted the needle into the bottle and began to fill the syringe with a clear liquid. Jonas winced sympathetically. He had forgotten that newchildren had to get shots. He hated shots himself, though he knew they were necessary. To his surprise, his father began very carefully to direct the needle into the top of the newchild’s forehead, puncturing the place where the .....
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Billy Bud
Words: 1334 / Pages: 5 .... is the focal point of the book and the single person whom we are meant to learn the most from. On the ship, the Rights-of-Man, Billy is a cynosure among his shipmates; a leader, not by authority, but by example. All the members of the crew look up to him and love him. He is “strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess [are] recited. Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost”(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude, Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is accepted for his looks and happy personality, “…har .....
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The Invisible Man: Philosophy Through Characterization
Words: 591 / Pages: 3 .... in nude. After staging the "battle
royal" and attacking one another in response to the drunken shouts of the
rich white folk, the boy is brought to give his prepared oration of
gratitude to the white benefactors. An accidental remark to equality nearly
ruins him, but the narrator manages to survive and is given a briefcase
containing a scholarship to a Negro college. This acts a high peak in the
narrator's quest since it sets him for his struggle in searching for
himself.
The narrator adores the college however is thrown out before long
by its president, Dr.Bledsoe, the great educator and leader of his race.
Ironically the narrator had seen Dr. .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities Of Life
Words: 1375 / Pages: 5 .... In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne set out to show the consequences of
leading a double life. Arthur Dimmesdale, to the people of Boston, was a holy
icon. According to the public, "never had a man spoken in so wise, so high,
and so holy a spirit, as he… nor had inspiration ever breathed through mortal
lips more evidently than it did through his" (167). Dimmesdale had risen
through the ranks of the church and had the utmost respect of the people of
Boston. Dimmesdale's "eloquence and religious fervor had already given the
earnest of high eminence in his profession" (48). Hawthorne pointed out that
Dimmesdale was a very influential and po .....
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Political Allegory In The Book Animal Farm
Words: 741 / Pages: 3 .... Revolution. Orwell uses this to form a well
written piece of literature. In "Animal Farm" The Democratic society led by Mr.
Jones the original leader of Manor Farm was overthrown by a policy called
Animalism. Animalism was a theory concocted by the Old Major a Pig. In "Animal
Farm" the pigs were personified as the smartest and the best among animals.
The Pigs take control of the farm. The two major idealists Snowball and
Napoleon have conflicting ideas. These ideas break snowball away from the rest
of the group and make him leave Animal Farm. This lets Napoleon have total
control. They set up a set of rules called the seven commandments. .....
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The Hiding Place: An Analysis
Words: 1499 / Pages: 6 .... these heartbreaking events. The beliefs that she is following in God’s plan enables her to be so brave and strong while painfully watching her world fall apart.
Ten Boom incorporates individual and society into her everyday life. She is conscious of those around her to the point where she acts to correct situations, which she’s unhappy with. The novel begins with ten Boom’s pleasant account of her life. She’s happy unmarried and living with her family. She lives to make those around her happy. This trait is also found in her family. Many of their customers are treated as close personal friends, which many of them are. She’s .....
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Themes Of Unity In The Grapes
Words: 1506 / Pages: 6 .... against injustice. Jim Casy, an errant preacher who is accepted into the Joad family early into the story, changes his beliefs to include all people in a sort of oversoul, as he helps to organize the workers to battle the extreme injustice done onto them by the farm owners and discriminating locals. Whereas the Joads start out as one family, by the end of the story their family becomes one with other families who are weathering the same plight of starvation and senseless violence. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck emphasizes the power of groups over the individual’s power to survive poverty and violence through character evolution, plot a .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Summary
Words: 460 / Pages: 2 .... California. Even then Ma didn't tell the family that grandma was
dead, instead she laid there next grandma's dead carpus until they got to
California. "She looked over the valley and said , Grandma's dead."
She keeps the family together when they want to split up. The first
time that this was showed in the book when they pulled over to help the Wilsons
with the car. Tom suggested that him and Casey stay and fix the car while the
rest of the family go's on to Bakersfield and that they would meet them there.
Ma then let out her fury, she held up a tire iron and demanded that they all
stick together and that they will go to Bakersfield together.
M .....
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