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Intensity : What An Understatement
Words: 782 / Pages: 3 .... is a 26-year old psychology student working hard to avoid being Edgler Vess’ next victim. Staying in the guest room of a friends house she hears “a soft thump, as though a heavy object had fallen to a carpeted floor.” Then there is “silence sifted down like a snowfall.” Pg.23. Things become suspenseful already. As mentioned in a book review by Mark Harris, Chyna doesn’t act like a horror-movie teenager and run into the hall. She does like most of us would do; she hides under the bed. Koontz really makes it feel like you could be the one squished under that bed. When the killer leaves the room Chyna searches the house undetecte .....
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Old Man And The Sea: Themes
Words: 1458 / Pages: 6 .... to have salt on. This part of the story tells of a cold and harsh sea, that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'.
This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food an .....
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Biological Determinism
Words: 2937 / Pages: 11 .... in most places these
barriers were removed by the democratic processes, and nothing artificial can
stand between the natural sorting process and social status of the people. These
changes can not be considered as historical because the age of democracy is just
two hundred years , and the time when inequality between classes and between
people was a natural situation is almost as long as the history of the world .
The author insists that there is no connection between environmental
differences and genetics. In support of his idea the author state that any
Canadian student can perform better in mathematics than some ancient professors
of mathematic .....
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Invisible Man
Words: 378 / Pages: 2 .... was up to. Sybil was a women in the Brotherhood, who was married. The narrator wanted to suduce her to find out what she knew, but she turned out to know nothing at all.
The symbolic significance of Mary's cast-iron coin bank is of what black people stand for to white people. The coin bank made the narrator angry, because it was symbolic of blacks, being slaves to white people, and how some white people though of black people as entertainment, and were not actually people but where just animals. 4. I believe that the narrator was unnamed for two reasons. One being that most of the novel was a flash back to things that had happened and he was exp .....
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Billy Budd: One Needs To Have Morality And Virtue
Words: 2664 / Pages: 10 .... Budd. Billy is the
focal point of the book and the single person whom the reader is 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.
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, hardly .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hypocrisy Is A Sin
Words: 1280 / Pages: 5 .... or
virtues that one does not hold or possess. All three main characters,
Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, commit the sin of hypocrisy.
Hawthorne shows that hypocrisy is indeed a sin by punishing the offenders.
Hester Prynne is a strong, independent woman who deals with her sin of
adultery very well. Instead of running away from it, she lives with it and
accepts her punishment. However, while succumbing to the will of the court,
she does not for an instant truly believe that she sinned. Hester thinks
that she has not committed adultery because in her mind she wasn't really
married to Chillingworth. Hester believes that marriage is onl .....
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Atticus Finch
Words: 1097 / Pages: 4 .... out that their father would be defending a black person, they knew immediately that there would be much controversy, humiliation from the people of Maycomb and great difficulty keeping Tom alive for the trial. It was not long when Atticus had to leave the house very late to go to jail, where Tom was kept because many white people wanted to kill him. Worrying about their father, Jem and Scout sneak out of the house to find him. A self-appointed lynch mob has gathered on the jail to take justice into their own hands. Scout decides to talk to Walter Cunningham, one of the members of the mob. She talks about how her father Atticus thought that "entailm .....
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Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall Of Young Goodman Brown
Words: 2426 / Pages: 9 .... in God with his wife. He resolves that he will "cling to
her skirts and follow her to Heaven." This is an example of the excessive pride
because he feels that he can sin and meet with the Devil because of this promise
that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony to this promise because
when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with
the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the
reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has
a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time
for his meeting w .....
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Book Review: Nemesis
Words: 1341 / Pages: 5 .... the present. It spans over a fifteen year period, beginning in the
year 2220. Although most of the important incidents occur on the planet Erythro
about 2 light years from our solar system, the novel shifts between Earth, space,
and the Settlement named Rotor, which orbits the foreign planet.
Main Character:
Marlene Fisher is a very intelligent young woman at fifteen years of age.
As a child, all who encountered her sensed that she was different. Her wide
eyes absorbed all that was around her and seemed to know a great deal. Growing
older, her “uniqueness” established itself as a gift in which she is able to
read into the body language of .....
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An Analysis Of The Novel Candide By Voltaire
Words: 753 / Pages: 3 .... to escape. Time passes
and Candide meets some other interesting individuals and has one bad experience
after the next. One day Candide meets a woman who takes care of him and this is
none other than Cunegonde. They amuse each other with stories of misfortune and
travel around the world. At every place Candide goes something unthinkable
seems to happen to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all
have their own interesting story of misfortune and the inhumanities of mankind.
Candide ends up on a small farm, married to Cunegonde and living with two
philosophers. He argues with others at the end of the book if this really is
th .....
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