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The Irony In "The Lottery"
Words: 530 / Pages: 2 .... thinking that there is nothing wrong and that everyone is
fine. The story starts by describing the day as "clear and sunny"(309).
The people of the town are happy and going on as if it is every other day.
The situation where Mrs. Hutchinson is jokingly saying to Mrs. Delacroix
"Clean forgot what day it was"(311) is ironic because something that is so
awful cannot truly be forgotten. At the end of the story when Mrs.
Hutchinson is chosen for the lottery, it is ironic that it does not upset
her that she was chosen. She is upset because of the way she is chosen.
She shows this by saying "It isn't fair, it isn't right" (316). The
situation is extrem .....
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Summary Of The Call Of The Wild
Words: 643 / Pages: 3 .... was
severely damaged by men who used tools to restrain him. No matter how many
times Buck tried to lunge, he would just be choked into submission. When
Buck arrived at his destination, there was snow everywhere and masses of
Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was thrown into a pen with a man who had a club
and learned one of the two most important laws that a dog could know in the
Klondike. The law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a
dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck learned this law
after he was beaten half to death by the man who had the club. No matter
what he tried, he just couldn't win.
Buck was .....
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The Devil's Shadow
Words: 786 / Pages: 3 .... happened in their daily lives. Many
things that went wrong in their daily lives would be blamed on witchcraft or
sorcery. Such common things as burnt bread or broken plates would be blamed on
the supernatural. Many people, especially the uneducated, firmly believed in
the existence of witches and warlocks. They believed that such individuals had
the power to perform "black magic" that caused some kind of trouble. Every time
something bad happened they would blame it on witches and witchcraft.
Main Characters: One of the main characters in this story was Tituba, an
African slave woman from Barbados. She was purchased in Barbados by a merchan .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Words: 739 / Pages: 3 .... being mischievous, adventurous and funny. The society Huck lives
in labels him "uncivilized" because he has an abusive, drunk father.
"... by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand
it. I was all over with welts." Here the reader can observe the
ultimate failure of an uncivilized person. Pap is an alcoholic, a dead
beat and a racist. Nevertheless, society also considered Huck
"uncivilized" because he did not wear shoes, did not always attend school
and he smoked. Society criticized Huck as uncivilized due to physical
appearance when really Huck turned out to be more civilized than any
other character in the novel .....
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Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led To Murder: Summary
Words: 2377 / Pages: 9 .... born in
Calder, Saskatchewan in 1920. Doris grew up in poverty, the oldest of seven
children in the farming family. Doris was a good student when she went to school,
but quit at fifteen and worked at school. She married George Artemenko, a
shipyard worker, and became pregnant soon after. She gave birth to Sharon Doreen
in March of 1943. This daughter never knew her father; George died in a fall at
work three months after the birth of his child. This left Doris alone and
knowing that she needed to do something to support her child. After the war, she
landed a job with the newly formed Unemployment Services in the Vancouver area,
where she raised enough .....
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Black And White
Words: 1682 / Pages: 7 .... his new white employers in many tales about life
on the plantation. Uncle Julius relays these stories with much detail. Though,
at the conclusion of each, the reader is left wondering whether the tale was
true or if Uncle Julius had conceived of it merely to satisfy his own desires.
Chesnutt has added to the end of each story an ulterior motive of Uncle Julius
that seems to be met by the telling of his tales. By doing this, Chesnutt
discretely satirizes whites in general.
In the first story, The Goophered Grapevine, Uncle Julius tells of a
conjure woman putting a “goopher” on the grapevines, causing all blacks that eat
the grapes to die .....
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Barrio Boy And The House On Mango Street: A Character's Goals
Words: 382 / Pages: 2 .... of place, or without a sense of belonging. These great point of views continued to stay with him for the rest of his life. It impacted him time and time again. He was extremely confident in himself. This allowed him to run for president of his class in school. Ernesto's attempts to succeed with his goals in his Barrio make it evident that the quote is correct.
Esperanza's life on Mango Street sustains the message captured by the critical lens. Esperenza and many other characters in this short novel are determined to escape Mango Street. They all have the same goal for different reasons. Esperenza longed to leave because she was ashamed of where she .....
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Letter
Words: 662 / Pages: 3 .... some sort of demon from Hell that committed a terrible crime. This would give her much mental anguish and grief. On the other hand, God’s treatment of Hester for her sin was quite different than just a physical token: he gave Hester the punishment of a very unique child which she named Pearl. This punishment handed down from God was a constant mental and physical reminder to Hester of what she had done wrong, and she could not escape it “ ‘Thou art not my child! Thou art no Pearl on mine!’ ” (pg.99) at times Hester would get frustrated. In this aspect, Pearl symbolized God’s way of punishing Hester for adultery.
The way Hester’s li .....
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Psychoanalyzing Hamlet: Freud
Words: 2577 / Pages: 10 .... King Claudius is driven by his fathers’ demand for revenge. If this were true, Hamlet would kill Claudius the moment he has the chance, if not the moment he knows for sure that Claudius is guilty of murdering his father. Why does Hamlet hesitate? One must call into question what Hamlet holds to be true. If Hamlet’s given motivation for killing the king is legitimate, then Claudius should die at about Act 3. Because Hamlet’s actions do not correspond with his given reasoning, one is forced to look for an alternate explanation for Hamlet’s behavior. In doing so, one will come to the conclusion that Hamlet is driven by forces o .....
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The Characters In Chaucer's "The Clerks Tale" And "The Wife Of Bath Tale"
Words: 1776 / Pages: 7 .... everything
that the husband says. Such is the case with Walter and Griselda. Walter
is demanding and controlling over Griselda. She does whatever he says and
she lacks her own opinion. One difference between these tales however is
that "The Clerks Tale" is a very unrealistic story, whereas "The Wife of
Baths Tale" is a more practical story and would have the possibility of
taking place.
Between the two stories, the Wife of Bath and Walter are both
characters who are the most demanding in order to gain obedience. Both
characters demand love, a sign of obedience to them. Walter tells Griselda
that the only way they will marry is if she promi .....
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