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To Kill A MockingTo Kill A Moc
Words: 757 / Pages: 3 .... as Aunt Alexandra, if not better. Aunt Alexandra is a bigot and doesn't see the character of Calpurnia, just the color of her skin. Another person who is treated like an inferior is Scout by her teacher, because she knew how to read. "She discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. (p.17)." Scout is treated like it is her fault that she knows more than the average child did. She learned earlier than others so she gets punished unjustly. Tom Robinson is also one who is discriminated by a biased community. Tom is found guilty by the jury in his case against the Ewells (p.211). The guilty verdict is a direct result of a .....
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Joy Luck Club
Words: 1006 / Pages: 4 .... that the key to understanding who her mother was and who she is lies in understanding her mother's life. Jing Mei spends her American life trying to pull away from her Chinese heritage, and therefore also ends up pulling away from her mother. Jing Mei does not understand the culture and does not feel it is necessary to her life. When she grows up it is not "fashionable" to be called by your Chinese name (26). She doesn’t use, understand, or remember the Chinese expressions her mother did, claiming she "can never remember things [she] didn’t understand in the first place" (6). Jing Mei "begs" her mother "to buy [her] a transistor radio", but .....
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Huckleberry Finn 8
Words: 326 / Pages: 2 .... and authors of 1982 to 1996.
Twain's novels continue to be challenged and banned, but new reasons for opposing them have emerged through the years. Looking back over the debates about Twain's books during the past 112 years provides an interesting perspective on how American culture has changed, how Twain helped to change it, and why his books continue to raise difficult questions today. When Huckleberry Finn was banned in 1885, officials at the Concord Public Library thought it
was "rough, coarse and inelegant,... the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Written in the voice of its young narrator -- .....
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Romance In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Words: 1101 / Pages: 5 .... familiar to the listener. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is also a story about a hero's adventure. Sir Gawain is the chivalrous hero of the story who goes through a journey to uphold a promise he made a year ago. His journey begins after he accepts a challenge during his New Year's celebration, which is a blow for a blow by the strange Green Knight. He strikes the head off the Green Knight, and therefore it is the Green Knight's turn to strike Sir Gawain's head off. This is when the magical or supernatural part of the story comes. After Sir Gawain cuts off the Green Knight's head, the Green Knight picks up his head and puts it back on, .....
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Far From The Madding Crowd
Words: 2891 / Pages: 11 .... I will look at is Sergeant Francis Troy who came upon Bathsheba one night as she walked along the fir plantation, checking that all was well in the fields and paddocks, although Gabriel Oak had check before her. When Troy had become entangled with her, one of his first questions was ‘Are you a woman?’, to which Bathsheba replied, ‘Yes.’ His immediate reaction was to compliment her by calling her a lady, illustrating his natural tendency to see most young ladies he comes across as merely objects for personal conquest. Flattery is of course his chief weapon in charming and conquering the female heart. One of the main reasons that Bathsheba fel .....
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Immortal Beloved
Words: 785 / Pages: 3 .... composition years to 1795, 1801, 1807, 1812, and 1818. He also referred to the letter's destination as "K," which narrows down towns that it could have been sent to. Based upon these clues, scholars have proposed several women from Beethoven's circle of acquaintances as "" candidates. Was she Beethoven's piano student, the Countess Giulietta Guicciardi? Or her cousin, the widowed Countess Joshphine Deym? Or could she have been Antonie Brentano, the wife of one of Beethoven's friends, as Maynard Solomon suggested.
Even once candidates are proposed, the question remains: why was this letter in Beethoven's possession? Did he never send it, or was it .....
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Brave New World
Words: 995 / Pages: 4 .... and he realizes that
independent thought is rewarding, and that he must strive to become a
real individual. Although this is true to a certain extent, Bernard
does not realize that he would much rather attain social recognition.
At least, not until the opportunity presents itself. Thus, through a
series of events, Bernard uses the curiosity of the society to his
advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish of becoming someone
important; a recognized name in the jumble of society. This ends when
the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his arrogant
behaviour, he is exiled. The instigator of this curios .....
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Green Grass Running Water
Words: 1536 / Pages: 6 .... American woman teaching native studies to a small group of "white" students at the University of Calgary. This Native American woman is lecturing on the "destruction aimed at . . . reservations," a topic integral to her life, and one from which a great deal of passion should be generated. However, her uninspiring and spiritless lesson causes "certain individuals" to "fall asleep," sit "virtually in each other's laps," and enter into a private "conversation." Indirectly her lecture touches upon an important religious celebration of the Native American culture, the Sun Dance. She depicts the Sun Dance, which celebrates the creation of earth and al .....
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Odyssey 2
Words: 1787 / Pages: 7 .... They had taken over City of Troy and that was something that when people tried doing, but they would never return. He did this and then when he was about to leave he was told by the Water that he would not ever return home because of such a thing he did. He would be sailed out into the sea but never return home again. Odysseus was astonished by this and was angered. He screamed out for the Water and started getting more and more mad. He told his men they had to start leaving anyhow. They were sailing for five years when they came on to an island that they thought they might be able to find food there. They found this humongous cave with this h .....
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Editha
Words: 1289 / Pages: 5 .... the Civil war and his mother did not want him to suffer the same thing. His father and mother together decided to discourage George from going to any war.
George and Editha got in a heated argument about the war and their different opinions and he left to go out. George told her he would come back for dinner. At this point Editha considered their relationship over. She did not see how she could continue to love a man who did not love his country as much as she did. When George left, that was it for Editha. She decided that if he could not believe the way she did then he did not deserve her. She sat down and wrote him a letter and gathered .....
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