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Accounts Settled: A Review
Words: 420 / Pages: 2 .... luck to ill a porcupine. Gordon then goes to bed, hungry and it
took him awhile to fall asleep. He later wakes up to find a cougar ready to
pounce on him. The cougar dose not strike yet because it is waiting for Gordon
to move. Gordon knows better and stayed in the same position for what seemed
like hours. Suddenly, the porcupine returns to look for more food and this
disrupts the cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and
shoots the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance, "his
eyes he .....
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Hysteria In The Crucible
Words: 532 / Pages: 2 .... by the increased popularity of the socialist system of government. Because this system challenged the basic civil rights of Americans, this event involved the entire nation.
In order for hysteria to occur a significant number of people must learn of the event. This happens by the promotion and spread of fear throughout a community. Promotion is important because without public knowledge of the fear social unrest will not take place. As seen in the Crucible, promotion is shown when Reverend Parris holds a meeting of the largest town gossips to tell them of Betty and Ruth's ailment, and that witchcraft may be involved. This knowledge starts a ch .....
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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, H .....
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Emily Bronte's Life And Wuthering Heights
Words: 1268 / Pages: 5 .... distinct families create a picture of passionate love, hate and revenge. It is centered on three dominant characters: Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, and Heathcliff. Catherine is in love with both men, but for different reasons. Heathcliff is a vengeance ridden, cold, wild tempered, working class man who destroys the lives of everyone around him in seeking restitution for the injustices against him as a young boy. Edgar Linton is well-mannered, considerate, financially secure gentleman who sought only the love of Catherine. Many of those who read this novel would support the blatant obvious; Edgar Linton as the unsung hero of the story. Th .....
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Crime And Punishment - Russian
Words: 1627 / Pages: 6 .... policies, he has been called the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years. Autocracy meant the affirmation and maintenance of the absolute power of the sovereign, which was considered the indispensable foundation of the Russian state. His impulse was always to strike and keep striking until the object of his wrath was destroyed. Aggressiveness, however, was not the Emperor's only method of coping with the problems of life. He also used regimentation, orderliness, neatness, and precision, an enormous effort to have everything at all times in its proper place. His regime became preeminently one of militarism and bureaucracy Corruption and confusion, how .....
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Comparison: Mary Reilly And The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Words: 2813 / Pages: 11 .... alternations of personality, but he discovers that he is losing control over his transformations, that he slips with increasing frequency into the world of evil. Finally, unable to procure one of the ingredients for the mixture of redemption, and on the verge of being discovered, he commits suicide.
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin, is a powerful and moving novel. It takes the story Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and gives a fresh take on the distinguished Dr. Henry Jekyll and the nefarious Mr. Edward Hyde. It is told through the psyche of a Victorian servant named Mary Reilly. The book's structure purports to be Mary Reilly's diary. The entries articulate Mar .....
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Beloved By Toni Morrison
Words: 542 / Pages: 2 .... the only good and pure part of who
she is and must be protected from the cruelty and the "dirtiness" of
slavery~(Morrison 251In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. The
selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her refusal to accept personal responsibility for
her baby's death. Sethe's motivation is dichotomous in that she displays her love
by mercifully sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet Sethe refuses to
acknowledge that her show of mercy is also murder.
Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the duplistic nature
of her actions. Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her
reaction to Sc .....
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The Fountainhead
Words: 932 / Pages: 4 .... of little independent thought, a follower. Howard Roark, on the other
hand, is a man aspiring to achieve a level of complete and utter
independence from traditional principles. One telling passage occurs in a
scene where Keating and Roark are discussing architecture.
Keating: "How do you always manage to decide?"
Roark: "How can you let others decide for you?"
As two men on the extreme sides of conformity and independence, it is hard
for Keating to understand how someone could be so sure of himself, whereas
it is incomprehensible for Roark to believe that Keating could have so
little self-assurance and such a lack of resolve reg .....
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A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
Words: 808 / Pages: 3 .... late 1800's. Being a sharecropper, Ab and his
family had to share half or two-thirds of the harvest with the landowner
and out of their share pay for the necessities of life. As a result of
this status, Ab and his family know from the start what the future will
hold -- hard work for their landlord and mere survival for them.
No hope for advancement prevails throughout the story. Sarty, his
brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must
spend their time working in the fields or at home performing familial
duties. Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room
where they would presently eat the cold food re .....
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Kafka's The Trial: The Reality Of Guilt
Words: 2762 / Pages: 11 .... of original sin. Is Joseph
guilty for merely existing? Is his incessant denial of committing a
criminal offense a crime in its self? In 'The Trial," Joseph may not be
guilty in the sense of committing a sin, but could be guilt itself.
An important note to keep in mind while reading "The Trial" is Kafka's
structural organization of paragraphs. Most of the paragraphs are
confusing and lengthy; some even more than one or two pages long. In
chapter two when Joseph is speaking at the Court of Inquiry, he is abruptly
interrupted by the shrieks of a woman. Kafka explains the scene in almost
two pages, paying extreme attention to detail. Most of h .....
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