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To Kill A Mockingbird 6
Words: 599 / Pages: 3 .... Some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around our women--black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men" (Lee, 204). This shows that Atticus believes that no race is better than another. Through discussions with my mother, I know that she feels the same way. My mother, however, does not listen to both sides of the story. Atticus always listens to both children, as Scout says: "Well, in the first place you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it--you just lit right into me. Whin Jem an' I fuss Atticus doesn't ever just listen to Jem's side .....
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Othello
Words: 1055 / Pages: 4 .... take it much unkindly that thou, Iago, who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this." However throughout the play Roderigo is still convinced that his money is helping to control Iago, and by the time he finds out that he has lost control, he has already been mortally wounded by Iago. Another example of this theme occurs between the main characters of the play and Iago. Since is a seasoned warrior and leader of the Venetian army, he believes that everyone underneath him will abide by his rulings and commands. And since has had a long term relationship with Iago, he has even more trust and faith in him. But Iago se .....
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Heart Of Darkness
Words: 890 / Pages: 4 .... should interpret this work:
"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written
word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is above all, to make
you see.(Conrad 1897) Knowing that Conrad was a novelist who lived in
his work, writing about the experiences were as if he were writing
about himself. "Every novel contains an element of autobiography-and
this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only explain himself
in his creations."(Kimbrough,158) The story is written as seen through
Marlow's eyes. Marlow is a follower of the sea. His voyage up the
Congo is his first experience in freshwater naviga .....
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Lancelot And Odysseus
Words: 1516 / Pages: 6 .... in the literature of their respective time periods. This idea is
demonstrated when one examines the similarities between Lancelot and Odysseus,
their differences, and the consequences of their actions on their lives.
Although Lancelot and Odysseus lived in completely different and
somewhat opposing time periods, their heroic and "larger than life"
personalities share some quite distinguishing characteristics. I say that their
time periods were somewhat opposing because the views of the culture regarding
the afterlife and any supernatural occurrence represent the conflict present
between monotheism and polytheism. One mutual characteri .....
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Stephen King
Words: 2002 / Pages: 8 .... Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn’t see a great deal of her over the next nine ye .....
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War - How British Literature H
Words: 460 / Pages: 2 .... were the unpleasant truths and showed his lifelong hatred of totalitarianism. Orwell gave us a behind the scene look at the powers behind the war and it’s impact. This also made Orwell one of the most known authors of his time.
Another author of war was Frank O’Connor. O’Connor was not part of the war but seemed to know a lot about it. In his story “My Oedipus Complex,” he talks about a boy who’s father has been away at war and then returns home. This gave us an idea of what life would be like at home while a war occurred. O’Connor definitely gave a different look at war.
Continuing with the authors .....
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Arsenic And Old Lace
Words: 654 / Pages: 3 .... such. Dr. Einstein just seemed to be a very unique character to try and portray.
8. Mortimer: He didn't even have the sense enough to be scared - to be on guard. For instance, ther muderer invites him to sit down.
Einstein: You mean "Won't you sit down"?
Mortimer: Believe it or not, that was in there too.
Einstein: And What did he do?
Mortimer: He sat down! Mind you - this fellow is supposed to be bright. There he is - all ready to be trussed up. And what do they use to tie him with?
Einstein: What?
Mortimer: The curtain cord
(Jonathan cuts the curtain cord)
9. I think the most challenging part of producing this play would be to find act .....
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Eminem Guilty Conscience Analy
Words: 708 / Pages: 3 .... if your man enough to live with the fact that you killed her. It all revolves around the money that you need when you can get it form a better way if you had a job. So finally Eddie realizes Dre is right and doesn’t rob the liquor store which was a good idea because he would have gotten busted one way or another.
Next, the second part is about Stan who is twenty-one and takes advantage of some young fifteen-year-old. He figures if she is drunk and on the drug that makes you not remember any, then who cares what happens because she will never see you again. While them two are making out his conscience comes back into and they argue about since .....
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The Censorship Of Huck Finn
Words: 949 / Pages: 4 .... than that. This mere word prohibits us from all things
branded with its mark. In this instance of The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, it takes away an American treasure, and more importantly, defies First Ammendment rights. Those who find Huck
Finn distasteful and unappropriate are trying to brand this work, by censorship, and make it unjust to read. This is similar to a farmer trying to brand his mark upon a bull, with those against Huck
Finn as the farmers and Huckelberry Finn is the bull. As most know the bull never goes down without a fight and won’t allow thje farmer to branded, just as the supporters of Huckelberry Finn
will not just be t .....
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Oedipus: The Mysteries Of Fate
Words: 858 / Pages: 4 .... told by the god Apollo
that their son would kill his father and marry his mother (page 56). A son was
born to them, and they tried to make sure that the prophecy would not come true.
They drove a metal pin through the infants ankles and gave it to a shepherd,
with instructions to leave it to die. The shepherd pitied the little infant so
he gave the child to another shepherd. This shepherd gave the baby to a
childless king and queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope. This royal couple
named the boy Oedipus, which in its Greek form Oidipous means "swollen foot."
Oedipus was brought up believing that Polybus and Merope were his real parents,
and Lau .....
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