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The Dubliners: Summary
Words: 1031 / Pages: 4 .... mood and I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a
sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death." (
Joyce, Dubliners 5-6)
What he had felt freed from was always being under the constant
supervision of the priest to do what he felt was righteous.
It is not until the end of the story that the boy realizes from
one of the Sisters, Eliza, about the priest madness as well as his
physical and spiritual paralysis. He understands that the priest had been
a living his life in a way he felt would be satisfying to the church which
eventually led to his death. When The boy is finally able to see the priest
he ha .....
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Jane Eyre - Miss Temple's Influence On Jane
Words: 926 / Pages: 4 .... she knows far more than they do”. This description is more significant because it has been said by Helen, and she herself is extremely mature.
One of Miss Temple’s most outstanding qualities is her ability to command (perhaps unconsciously) respect from everyone around her, “considerable organ of veneration, for I yet retain the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps”. Even during their first encounter Jane is “impressed”… “by her voice, look and air”.
Throughout Jane’s stay at Lowood, Miss Temple frequently demonstrates her human kindness and compassion for people. An Example of this is when after not .....
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Anne Frank Remembered: Review
Words: 1116 / Pages: 5 .... club?' I icily asked. 'Look at what the
Germans are doing to the Jews in Germany.' ...Let her take a good
look at me and see with her own eyes that some 'Aryan' woman was
not to be swept in by the Nazis." (Gies, p. 41, 1987).
The main source of background to the author's viewpoint is her own
story. In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of
her story must be given.
The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies.
She was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents
until the age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in
the aid of u .....
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Night
Words: 657 / Pages: 3 .... leaving the Rabbi for dead. The father and son are running together when the father begins to grow tired. As the Rabbi falls farther and farther behind his son, his son runs on, pretending not to see what is happening to his father. This spectacle causes Elie to think of what he would do if his father ever became as weak as the Rabbi. He decides that he would never leave his father, even if staying with him would be the cause of his death. The German forces are so adept at breaking the spirits of the Jews that we can see the effects throughout Elie's novel. Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at the onset of the novel, but grows .....
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Animal Farm: Utopia
Words: 1091 / Pages: 4 .... riled up and sends the toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major
then teaches them the song the Beasts of England which teaches them the
"great" life without man and with no more bad leaders:
Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings,
Of the golden future time.
Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England,
Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel .....
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Summary Of Walden Pond
Words: 745 / Pages: 3 .... the fine things in life and easier work instead of nature's gifts and hard work. Thoreau draws a parallel between others preoccupation with money and his own enjoyment of non-monetary wealth. Thoreau's statement " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone" means that rich refers to having the opportunity for spiritual and intellectual gains and afford refers to the self-actualization rather than to cash in the bank. Those are just some of the materialistic terms that Thoreau uses to refer to non-materialist values, making fun of the capitalist in the process.
Thoreau uses the opportunity of the first chapter .....
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The Natural: Fate
Words: 512 / Pages: 2 .... though that
he learned his lesson about messing around with people he just met after
she shot him. Well, that's all right, its only fifteen years off his
career and the end of his pitching. Strike one!
I guess that he didn't learn his lesson because one night while
Roy's new so-called friend Bump leads him to a hotel room knowing that his
girlfriend Memo is lying buck-naked on the bed. When Roy notices her there
he doesn't stop and think,”Hold on a second their is a naked woman in my
bed mabey I should turn on the light and ask her what she's doing here” No,
he just jumps into bed and runs the bases. So one day Bump dies and Roy
thinks t .....
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Pride And Prejudice
Words: 701 / Pages: 3 .... the second on the Bennet sisters and despises Darcy at first,
but later falls for him.
Elizabeth doesn’t like Darcy because she hears bad thing about him
and how he is rude to everyone. George Wickham told her Darcy cheated
him out of his inheritance. She believes him because she holds so much hate
for Darcy. Later she learns that George lied to her. But before she found out,
they almost fall in love.
Mr. Bennet has no son, so his estate will be given to his closest male
relative. The closest relative is his cousin, Mr. Collins. He is an arrogant
clergyman. He asks Elizabeth to marry him but she refuses. He ends up
marrying Elizab .....
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The Use And Nonuse Of The Theory Of Repressive Hypothesis In Indian Camp
Words: 1748 / Pages: 7 .... of sexual aridity. This new class has been outlawed by our society even though many people mingle with them transgressing the laws of the civilization (142). We even pay people to examine the private life of other people and dig up dirt about their sexual life. Revelation of sex related secrets about other people promote extraordinary interests among masses and are handled with extreme pleasure (143). This obsession with sexuality is a definite violation of the limits of the society. " It stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it (repression) except at a considerable cost: nothing less that a transgression of laws, a lif .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 2
Words: 3687 / Pages: 14 .... story, beginning with a brief family history. Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary journeyed from England to Alabama, establishing the family which made its living from cotton on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing. The Civil War left the family only its land, which was the source of family incomes until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch (Scout's father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in law and medicine. Atticus settled in Maycomb, the county seat of Maycomb County, with a reasonably successful law practice about twenty miles from Finch's Landing, where his sister Alexandra still lived.
Scout describes Maycomb as a lethargic .....
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