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In Cold Blood
Words: 1663 / Pages: 7 .... Capote has said that part of his reasoning for choosing to write about the Clutter murders was the remoteness of the setting. He wanted to broaden his writing subjects beyond the too-narrow personal world with which most writers concern themselves. The setting of “” matters very much to the symbolism of the plot.
The novel begins on the day that the murders take place. The Clutter family is going about their daily chores. Nancy, the town sweetheart, is contemplating about how she is to get all of her chores finished. Her father, brother, and mother are carrying on as they usually would on a Saturday morning. They are an extremely happy fa .....
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Duddy Kravitz
Words: 1231 / Pages: 5 .... a letter from him only yesterday aft. As soon as I'm finished up at Flectcher's Field he wants me to cume down to Arizona to help out on the ranch like."(Pg.14) Duddy was also a teen who was hard to handle in life. As Duddy got older he began to know more about what to do in his life. He decided to get his owl land. This decision came from the fact that his grandfather, Simcha, had given him advice about man. He told him "A man without land is nobody"(Pg.48) So with this advice Duddy set his sights on getting himself his own piece of land.Duddy seemed like a changed man but he wasn't. One day Duddy met a girl named Yvette. He liked her and so he .....
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Othello
Words: 1627 / Pages: 6 .... is represented by the character Iago. Iago is cunning, untrustworthy,
selfish, and plotting. He uses these traits to his advantage by slowly planning his own
triumph while watching the demise of others. It is this that is Iago's motivation. The
ultimate defeat of good by the wrath of evil. Not only is it in his own nature of evil
that he suceeds but also in the weaknesses of the other characters. Iago uses the
weaknesses of Othello, specifically jealousy and his devotion to things as they seem,
to conquer his opposite in Desd .....
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Metamorphosis A Movie
Words: 813 / Pages: 3 .... he always looking out for his family, and always helping them out. One example of a sacrifice that he makes is when Gregor works in a company where his parents have a very high debt, and Gregor works there in order to pay the debt. In his mind he admits, “If I didn’t hold back for my parents sake, I would have quit long ago” (4). From this quote it is obvious that while trying to make his parents happy, Gregor has to live a sad live were he is not happy with what he is and what he does for a living. Even in the company he has been able to move up the position ladder at a fast rate, he is not happy. What Gregor looks forward .....
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Antigone
Words: 1499 / Pages: 6 .... opening scenes of the play to show the way the play will be laid out.
During the whole play of "" the key theme is individual conscience versus the state whereas in "Oedipus Rex" it is the undying search for truth and discovery of self. "" Sophocles depicts a political, conscience led woman who is in an unending struggle over right and wrong with her uncle, Creon, the King. All throughout "Oedipus Rex" Sophocles shows a powerful and righteous King who is on a determined search to find the truth and himself. The difference in key themes during these plays are significant. Sophocles took two different approaches towards these two plays. The struct .....
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Cujo The Dog
Words: 630 / Pages: 3 .... style. Kemp informs Vic of the affair. Ouch. Donna's life is quite obviously ruined. Brett and Charity discover the "decent people" aren't quite as decent as they thought, and then there's Cujo - who contracts rabies. Cujo does a lot of slaughtering while Brett and Charity are away visiting the "decent people". These slaughterings definitely pose to be of King's best, most-intense and goriest scenes ever. Cujo is (was) a good dog 'til he contracted rabies. The story really reaches the heights when Donna and Tad are stuck in their car, trying to keep safe from the dog. The final part of the book focuses on Donna's struggle to keep herself and Tad alive .....
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A Jury Of Her Peers
Words: 681 / Pages: 3 .... loyalty to women follows her throughout the story and shows her ability to look past a situation and tell what is really happening in the lives of others. The men in this story obviously think the women inferior and that allows Mrs. Hale to show not contempt for men, but rather their naiveté toward the true nature and feelings of women. She does this to protect them from things that really do not want to find out about because if they did they would be forced into things that are really not wanted by any, sending a woman whose husband she killed in self defense to her death. This dynamic character goes from an uncomfortable situation in whi .....
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Why Do People Fight Wars
Words: 399 / Pages: 2 .... in the process of planting more and more evil everyday that it's become impossible to control it's devilish crops. That each new day we're causing millions and millions of people to suffer and even die just because we can't "discuss matters" anymore.
Sometimes i wonder is this "do or die " method going to be our only way of communication. Will we ever get to know the meaning of the word peace again or is humanity cursed to suffer forever.
All these thoughts and questions were generated by just a simple question by a little innocent soul.A soul which will have to grow up in a war field and be either an enforcer to it or a victim of it .A hard choice of .....
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Death Of A Salesman
Words: 724 / Pages: 3 .... don’t seem to worry him as much. He just accepts things the way the are and does not seem to know why Biff can not do the same.
The scene in which Happy and Biff tell their father Biff is to meet with Mr. Oliver and about the Florida Plan.
From Willy’s perspective, I see him looking upon his too sons with the thought that his elder son might make something of himself yet. You can see throughout the play, that one of Willy’s dreams is for Biff to succeed. Although their constant bickering, you can almost see the look on his face when he is told the news. Willy might be slipping in his old age, but he delighted with their .....
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Huckleberry Finn
Words: 739 / Pages: 3 .... you've lost a horseshoe that
you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't
ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd
killed a spider."(Twain 5).
In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So
Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball
that is the size of a fist that he took from an ox's stomach. Jim
asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here? But the hair-ball won't answer.
Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a counterfeit quarter.
Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball talks to Jim
and Jim tells Huck that .....
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