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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
Words: 654 / Pages: 3 .... a slave state, Huck does not even
know how to doubt the morality of keeping slaves. In his eyes, an idea
must be right if it is believed and practiced by highly respected members
of the community. Even the widow who rescued him from his father owns
slaves. Huck shows his own belief in the practice of slavery when he
discovers that Jim has run away. He has promised not to tell but worries
that people will “call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for
keeping mum....” (43). During the course of their journey, the line that
Huck envisions between himself and Jim becomes increasingly fainter.
Society and its mores seem extremely distant an .....
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Satire In Huck Finn
Words: 675 / Pages: 3 .... boy, Emmiline, a fourteen year old that was dead girl, Bob, Tom, Miss Charlotte, and Miss Sophia. The Grangerfords showed all the signs of being upper class by having an extremely nice house, acting properly, and each member of the family had their own servant. Eventually it becomes apparent to Huck that the Grangerfords are feuding with a neighboring household, the Sheperdsons, this seems to be the central angle Twain uses to satire.
The two chapters dealing with the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud allow Twain to satire aspects of civilized culture. The main aspect he satirizes is the feud itself. The Grangerfords being the representatives of .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
Words: 1054 / Pages: 4 .... is an
unreachable ideal.
Holden begins his story misguided and without direction. After
flunking out of the Pencey School, Holden decides to leave early. Before
he leaves, though, he visits his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and
Holden talk about his direction in life: “‘Do you feel absolutely no
concern for your future, boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all
right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too
much, I guess,'” (14). After leaving Pencey, he checks into a hotel where
he invites a prostitute up to his room. He gets cold feet and decides not
to have intercourse with her, though. Later, .....
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Black Like Me 2
Words: 665 / Pages: 3 .... or jobs. If this was asked to a black the answer would have been related to blacks desire to keep fighting and struggling for desegregation. Of course, nearly any white man would fail to understand this. The white community wanted none of the blacks about in their town.
The ignorance of whites or their "misunderstanding" is clear when Griffin is on the bus and requests to get off at his stop. The bus driver refuses;"I can't leave the door open all night". This was just pure disrespect from the driver for he had nothing better to do than wait for traffic. Griffin at the time was exhausted and he was trying hard not to release his rage towards th .....
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All Around The Town By Mary Hi
Words: 1246 / Pages: 5 .... up to be a twenty-one year old woman. She has blond hair, green eyes and a fragile little body. Sarah Kenyon is present throughout the story. She is Laurie's sister and helps Laurie deal with all her problems as best she can. Bic and Opal were Laurie's abductors. Bic had a beard and his arms had a lot of curly hair. He was a very domineering person towards Opal and Laurie. Opal had long stringy hair and had a plain face. She was passive and did whatever she was told. They were con-artist who fooled everyone they met. They were mean and didn't care about anybody else but themselves. Justin Donnelly was the psychiatrist who helped Laurie .....
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Loneliness And Friendship In Of Mice And Men
Words: 774 / Pages: 3 .... of owning a piece of land where they can live and work on. These two are completely different, but because they have no one else in their lives they come to consider each other friends. When Lennie and George camped out in the forest George said, “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” What that quote means is George and Lennie are not alone; they got each other to care for one another. Next, when George was talking to Slim, a person working at the ranch, he said, “ ‘Course Lennie’s a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin’ around with a guy an .....
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As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner
Words: 734 / Pages: 3 .... recalls
Jewel's purchase of his horse. This is a strong clue that Jewel is not Anse's
son, since Anse is extremely lazy and would never work as hard as Jewel did for
a horse. We also see the tension between Anse and Jewel. We see the lack of
respect Jewel has for Anse. It is rather ironic when Anse says "He's just lazy,
trying me" (p. 129) Since Jewel has been working really hard, and it is Anse who
is lazy. Furthering on Jewel and Anse's relationship, I feel that it is fairly
evident that Jewel knows that Anse is not his father. This is illustrated in the
following section on page 136: "Jewel looked at Pa, his eyes paler than ever.
'He won't never ea .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Evil And Corruption In The World
Words: 991 / Pages: 4 .... on a world which appears completely immoral and unscrupulous. The three days we learn of from the novel place a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The city is decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while he was sleeping, Holden jumped up and ran out thinking tha .....
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The Great Gatsby: Structure Of Novel Influenced By Foreshadowing And Flashback
Words: 1105 / Pages: 5 .... The Great Gatsby also helps to give the reader background information about
the characters. In The Great Gatsby, the structure of the novel is influenced
by foreshadowing and flashback.
Fitzgerald utilizes foreshadowing to the best of its ability to help
organize the novel. "Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at
the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling
fingers and set it back in place. 'I'm sorry about the clock,' he said. 'It's
an old clock,' I told him idiotically." (Fitzgerald, pg. 92) This quote is the
first use of foreshadowing which is in chapter five. It pertains to all of t .....
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Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
Words: 1647 / Pages: 6 .... not
to leave home may have caused his death, but his lack of concern for his
family shows that he did not care for much else other than himself and the
farm.
Yet along the trip there are many members of the family that stand
out in self-conceit. One person is Tom Joad, one of Ma and Pa Joad's
children. He has recently been released from prison and seems to be
concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for
money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many
lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy,
a man representative of Jesus Christ in both his initials "J.C." a .....
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