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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Themes Related To Society Today
Words: 622 / Pages: 3 .... town to get information and encounters a farmer's wife. He is
dressed in an old dress and is pretending to be a young girl searching for
her relatives. The woman suspects his sex and tries various devices to
ascertain if her suspicions are true. Among these is threading a needle
and throwing a bar of lead at the rats which swarm around the house.
Finally she makes Huck own up that he is a boy. In any case, this is a
great example of a young boy lying until his nose is a foot long. Lying is
prevalent among today's children as well.
Racism has an obvious connection to today's society. In the novel
Huck says many "racist" comments. .....
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The Pearl: Summary
Words: 792 / Pages: 3 .... refuses to treat Coyotito because Kino is too poor.
Later that day, while Kino and Juana are fishing in the Gulf, Kino finds
an enormous pearl and cries out in joy. He believes the pearl will make him rich
and enable him to provide security for his family. But Kino discovers otherwise.
The pearl stirs envy in the villagers, and that night Kino is attacked in his
hut by a thief. The following day, he tries to sell the pearl to buyers in town,
but he is offered only a small amount of money for it. The buyers all work for
the same man. They know the pearl is worth a fortune but hope to buy it cheaply
by pretending that it is worth little.
Kino says .....
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A Thousand Acres: An Analysis
Words: 478 / Pages: 2 .... affair was over Ginny moved away to try to forget about it all, then Rose’s breast cancer comes back and she moves back to help Rose and her daughters. Then when they thought that all tragedy was over, their father died of a heart attack. Rose fought her cancer for a while, but in the end she lost her battle.
The major conflict in this book was when Rose and Ginny remember about their father molesting them. Their father thought that he took the secret that he molested them to the grave, but he didn’t. It took a while for Ginny to remember that she was molested. After Rose kept on telling her that they were molested Ginny had some flashbacks a .....
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The Great Gatsby Is A Tragic H
Words: 909 / Pages: 4 .... worship.
"Then it had been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor" (p.79). Nick realizes Gatsby's estate, parties, shirts and other seemingly "purposeless" possessions are not purposeless. Everything Gatsby does, every move he makes and every decision he conceives is for a reason. He wants to achieve his ideal, Daisy. Gatsby's "purposeless splendor" is all for the woman he loves and wishes to represent his ideal. Furthermore, Gatsby believes he can win his woman with riches, and that his woman can achieve the ideal she stands for through material in .....
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Hypocrites In Huckleberry Finn
Words: 915 / Pages: 4 .... that had so much style."(97) The Grangerfords house, is seen as a grand house to those inside. This fancy house makes a visitor think of the sophisticated homes in town, however they are still back country people who only view their home as having style for the things inside. In the parlor of this house "there [are] beautiful curtains on the windows, white with pictures painted of castles."(101) The curtains painted with castles give the family a false feeling of being elite. When you think of castles you think of queens and kings and aristocracy. Ironically they think of others who lack the few finer things like curtains with castles on them to b .....
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Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lost Generation
Words: 1402 / Pages: 6 .... uses intense short stories to leave a feeling of awe
and wonder in the reader of In Our Time. One begins to become emotionally
involved and attached to Hemingway's many stories, just as he himself appears to
hold some personal attachment and emotion to each story. One could even
speculate that In Our Time's main character Nick, is in fact, Hemingway himself.
It seems as though no matter what age this novel is read at, it could be
discussed as a representation of the "lost generation." What is meant by the
phrase "lost generation?" Possibly it means the loss of a kindlier, friendlier,
period of time. Maybe it means a loss of familiarity, closeness .....
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The Cather In The Rye
Words: 1318 / Pages: 5 .... en stopte het in z’n jaszak. Hij deed de doos weer op slot en liep zachtjes het lokaal uit. Bertus liep op zijn tenen om de congiere maar niet te wekken uit zijn verdoving, als die wakker werd waren de poppen aan het dansen. Hij trok de rits van zijn leren zwarte jas helemaal dicht en sloop de nooduitgang uit. De lamp buiten sprong aan. Zonder naar te denken zette Bertus het op een lopen en verdween in de donkere nacht. Toen hij thuis kwam sloop hij zachtjes naar de schuur. Tegen de wand stond een breekijzer, hij wikkelde deze in kranten en hield het ijzer onder zijn jas. In zijn hoofd ging hij alle mogelijkheden na. Had hij alles? Kon iemand hem .....
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Silas Marner: Eliot's Manipulation
Words: 834 / Pages: 4 .... Silas wants to stay away from social human life and keep to himself. He takes the job of a weaver so that he can be alone at his work. We learn from his flashback of 15 years earlier that he comes to the village of Raveloe because he has been falsely accused of stealing by the members of his religious sect in Lantern Yard, his hometown. Having lost faith in both God and man, he seeks a new life in Raveloe with new inhabitants, and falls into a routine of work and loneliness. We learn that his greatest joy is in amassing money. He likes how they shine and feel. Silas' few attempts at being neighborly are received with suspicion and he is thought .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus Is Kind, Smart, And Wise
Words: 349 / Pages: 2 .... Taylor knew that Tom was innocent, which is why he got
Atticus to defend him. Still Atticus sought the truth in the case, even
though it was the 1930's and a black man's word was not as good as a white
person's word. Atticus believed in Tom. He makes a good lawyer because of
this trait of seeking the truth.
Atticus would be kind to everyone. He gives Mayella the title
Miss..., and treats her nicer than people usually would. She wasn't
comfortable with it, but that is the way he is. Atticus is trying to teach
his children to be courteous to everyone, too. Atticus always thinks of
others, too. He was kind to Mrs. Dubose, because she was on morphine .....
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Animal Farm
Words: 598 / Pages: 3 .... drink alcohol, 6- No animal shall kill any other animal and 7- All animals are equal.All the animals were found of them and followed them. They even had thier own song Beasts of England.
Snowball had a great idea to build a windmill but Napoleon got jealous and wanted the idea all to himslef. So he ran Snowball of the farm with his vicious dogs claiming he was a traitor. Napoleon then won the role of thier leader. What he said goes. So the animals worked hard day and night to build the windmill.
In the mean time Napoleon was beginning to change the rules around more and more. The pigs seemed to be more equal then the rest of the animals. While the po .....
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