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Mark Harris' Criticism Of Doctorow's Book
Words: 740 / Pages: 3 .... by clinging wholly
to his past.” Harris Another reason he says it is uninteresting is because
the two main characters, Joe and Warren (which are hard to determine
between), are vague and hard to understand.
Harris claims that Doctorow's complete abandonment of punctuation
and the formal sentance in this book are reminiscent of Thomas Pynchon, but
it seems as if he is trying desperately, (and badly) to search for his own
style, a way to test his own limits as an author. While the language and
flow of the book is hard to grasp in the beginning, it soon becomes
somewhat more clear to the reader and seems to move the pace of the book
along faster .....
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The Crucible And Death Of A Salesman: Search For Happiness
Words: 509 / Pages: 2 .... had an affair with Abigail, when she worked for the Proctors in their home. After the affair, John, ashamed and guilty, wants nothing to do with Abigail. Hoever, Abigailfeels she loves Proctor and will not feel happy until she is with him. In order to do this, she accuses his wife Elizabeth of witchcraft. Although she causes an uproar in the town along with her friends with their stories and accusations of witchcraft, her plan backfires on her. Instead of doing away with Elizabeth, John, whom Mary Warren accused of being the devil, was hanged. Therefore, Abigail does not attain her happiness due to her vicious, vengeful ways.
Similarly, in the .....
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Great Expectations: Self Conflict
Words: 532 / Pages: 2 .... his entire life and
character to meet her approval. At this point, he rejects the love that
those like Joe and Biddy offer, and feels he will not see himself as worthy,
unless he meets the approval of the cold and haughty miss Estella. This
powers him to accept an offer to become a gentleman, and to be taught in
London, where he starts to stray ever-farther from those who truly love him.
As Pip begins his progression toward being a gentleman, he is
faced with a world that appears frightening, a commercial world of
protocol and etiquette that Pip blindly sees as the answer to the
shortcomings he sees in himself. He meets a man by the name of Magw .....
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Fahrenheit 451: How Montag Is Convinced To Change His Mind About Books
Words: 1126 / Pages: 5 .... his job burning books, but that would soon be changed after he meets Clarisse McClellan.
Clarisse McClellan was Montag's next door neighbor. She elusively convinces Montag to question his own happiness. Clarisse also causes him to question the society he is living in. "Clarisse wonders whether Montag is actually happy leading a death-in-life, and Montag quickly realizes that he is not happy when he enters his sterile and fully automatic house" (Zipes 185). Clarisse opens Montag's eyes to a different world, a world full of books and people communicating with each other. In the novel Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy. At first he denies it, .....
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Bennet's: The Executioner
Words: 2166 / Pages: 8 .... plot will be discussed, for easier comprehension of
the story.
This plot begins when Bruce , an 18 year old high school boy was at a
bar with his best friend Raymond, and a few other friends named Ed, and
Elaine. Unfortunately, Bruce got intoxicated, but still decided to drive
the others home from the bar. On the way home, Bruce began arguing with Ray,
(the only sober one), and the car was steered of the road into a tree.
Raymond was killed by the accident. However, everyone thought that Bruce
was not intoxcated at the time, and the car just accidentally swerved off
to the side.
Throughout the next chapters, Bruce keeps facing the guilt of .....
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Killer Angels
Words: 668 / Pages: 3 .... South took. It is clear where each of the battles were taking place and why the generals try to use the land for their own advantage. It was very interesting to read about the different strategies and tactics the generals utilized in the attempted destruction of their enemies. The well-deserved rave reviews that litter the front and back covers drew me to it, but Shaara's powerful writing style and stunningly human characters drew me into it. Shaara has an amazing ability to portray the major players of the battle, whose real personalities must have since been lost over a century of historian analyzation, as real people. Shaara portrays the terrible .....
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1984: Summary And Reactions
Words: 3005 / Pages: 11 .... at the door and asked him to unclog a
sink. He does it but smells sweat all over the apartment. Mrs. Parsons is a
follower of party doctrine and a fellow employee at the ministry. The children
are members of Spies, a youth that encourages spying and telling on traitors,
including parents. Winston is revolted. He returns home and writes a couple
more minutes before going back to work. He remenbers a dream where O'Brien tole
him he would meet him in a place wher there is no darkness. He washes his hands
and hides the diary
Reaction
Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth
has changed, into 3 main contenien .....
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction Of The Future
Words: 1079 / Pages: 4 .... of what Orwell saw happening in his national government with the coming of English Socialism, but a warning of the consequences of contemporary governmental practices, and what they where threatening to bring about.
Perhaps the book seems so bleak because the events in the book are a somewhat logical projection from current conditions and historical environment that Orwell observed in 1948. Perhaps people would be more comftorble with the book if they could rule out in their minds the possibility of the profecy becoming a reality. In a critique of his own work, Orwell called Nineteen Eighty-Four “A work of a future terrible [sic] because it rest .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bir
Words: 322 / Pages: 2 .... commit, the book made the situation more dramatic because of how well it was described. The book was less emotional because the event just occurred. There were no in-depth descriptions of the situation. Another example of this point was when Boo Radley had saved Jem and Scout from Mr. Ewell. When Scout told Boo it was alright for him to pet Jem, it was better described in the book.
The third point is that the pageant the night that Jem and Scout were attacked was shown in the book but no in the movie. The movie only showed them walking up to the stairs, then the scene changed and they were walking back from the pageant. The book described how sc .....
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Siddhartha's Maturation As Marked By Key Experiences
Words: 817 / Pages: 3 .... meeting with Gautama, the Buddha, is the first key
experience that contributes to his maturation process. After several years
of living the ascetic life of a Samana, Siddhartha decides to seek out
Gautama, “The Illustrious One,” as a possible source of assistance in his
journey to find his inner self. After their meeting, however, Siddhartha
becomes more convinced that the Buddha's methods satisfy his logical and
tangible needs, but will not bring him any closer to realizing his
spiritual and metaphysical needs. The theme of maturity presents itself in
Siddhartha's conclusion that if he is to achieve an immaterial balance, it
must b .....
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