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Crucible 3

... effect on many people’s lives. Someone can accuse another of a crime, and in almost no time at all, there will be a trial in the town court. Not only those who are personally affiliated with the crime are affected, everyone in the town is touched also. When Putnam states, “ She cannot bear to hear the Lord’s name… that’s a sure sign of witchcraft,” he jumps to conclusions about the girls being witches. Simply because he made this accusation, talk was stirred up in town. The townsfolk become highly a ...

Number of words: 639 | Number of pages: 3

Oedipus The King

... following riddle to all who came to obtain the rule of thebes: "What is it that walks on 4 feet and 2 feet and 3 feet and has only one voice, when it walks on most feet it is the weakest?" Oedipus correctly answered "Man" and became the king of Thebes. This riddle is a metaphor for the life of Oedipus. As a child man crawls on his hands and knees this is the four feet to which the Sphinx refers. Also man is at his weakest as a small child. He depends solely on others for his nourishment and well being. Oedipus was the child of Jocasta and Kin ...

Number of words: 3320 | Number of pages: 13

Cyril Falls, "The Great War"

... from Austria-Hungary threw a bomb at the car of the Archduke, but the pair had a little bit luck which lasted not long. While the pair continued the parade another assassin shot the pair with a handgun and this time the pair had no luck. They both died at the place where they got shot at 12.30 P.M. June 28 1914. This event went to the second most terrible war in history World War I, which started at the first day of August 1914 with the declaration of war from Germany to Russia. Chapter II, Plans-Armies-Leaders: Shortly after the de ...

Number of words: 3106 | Number of pages: 12

The Sun Also Rises: A Hero

... and not by confronting them through every day life. In the story The Sun Also Rises, Robert tells Jake Barnes, his friend, that he doesn't enjoy watching bullfighting and he thinks it is abnormal. This is a good example of why Cohn is not a Hemingway Hero, because only a real man would like to watch a bullfight. Jake Barnes doesn't consider Cohn his best friend and can be found crasking jokes at Robert Cohn. Cohn is the kind of person that intrudes on people. He doesn't see thar he is sometimes unwanted at times. Antoher reason that Robe ...

Number of words: 545 | Number of pages: 2

An Analysis Of Catch 22 By Joseph Heller

... have done. From the very beginning, Heller shows some of the most popular ideas and values of the day in a negative, questioning light. In particular, he shows the negative consequences of conformity and highlights individuality as a way to survive. He wants us to recognize how one is controlled and stifled by society. The leading character in this novel, addressing what has gone wrong with society, is Yossarian. He is the only one who recognizes the full craziness of what everyone is living for: wealth, false happiness, society's approv ...

Number of words: 1283 | Number of pages: 5

The Lost World: Summary

... island, undiscovered, that has extinct animals on it, particularly dinosaurs. Malcolm dismisses this idea saying that is the dumbest thing he ever heard. After the lecture, Levine talks to Malcolm to help him in finding this "Lost World." Malcolm again dismisses him. After a couple weeks of Levine nagging him, he sort of gets more into the idea, and starts to believe it. Levine Narrows it down to one island, Isla Sorna, and just leaves without telling anyone. Two of Levine's students, Kelly and Arby, get worried when he wasn't there to ...

Number of words: 1694 | Number of pages: 7

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Speaks Her Ideas

... When Janie found a way to speak her ideas, they would have an impact on everyone. Though, Janie did not always speak her ideas. She would often do something that made an impression on someone. The first real action Janie took was to leave her husband, Logan Killicks. By doing this, she has shown the community that a person can not always be happy with material things when she or he is not in love. Janie says, "Ah want things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think." She shows her grandma that she is ...

Number of words: 705 | Number of pages: 3

The Hobbit: A Review

... the story easier to understand, for the plot and its development. The plot development in the middle is not complicated and easy to follow. It can even be summarized in a few sentences. The ending is expected since the author gives hints about it. As in the introduction when he says that the hobbit would gain something, this means that he will not die. Then, the reader is not kept in suspense and does not expect to see what happens at the end. The last climax (or what is supposed to be the climax) takes a long time to occur (the last fig ...

Number of words: 1122 | Number of pages: 5

Dantes Inferno 2

... must be adequately proportioned with suffering. The true nature of the soul is conveyed through anguish. The struggle of spirit that Dante undergoes when entering Hell mirrors the trials that humanity faces. The author conveys that in order to persevere through hardship, the nature of evil must be learned and refused. By using Virgil as a representation of reason, Alighieri shows that in order to face evil, morality and intellect are required. As Virgil leads Dante into Hell, he says, "Here you must put by all division of spirit and gather you ...

Number of words: 662 | Number of pages: 3

A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Foreshadowing Of Death And Symbolism Of Heaven

... believe that Bailey, her son, and her granson John Wesley are the men that the grandmother is referring to in the title of the story, but as the story unfolds, and the family continues on their journey, every man ion the story displays a considerable fault but the ultimate sin is committed by a man nicknamed the "misfit" in the end. This paper explains the character of the grandmother, and irony, symbolism and foreshadowing displayed by the author, Flannery O'Connor. There are several sitruational ironies dispersed in the story. At the begi ...

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"Down And Out Paris And London"

... are that way not because they want to be, but because of their circumstances. In this essay we will explore the characteristics and personality of a person who lives below the poverty line. Through the author we get a very keen insight into this area of human experience. Orwell feels that beggars and tramps have unfair labels and stereotypes attached to them. For example, most people think of tramps as being dangerous. About that Orwell says: "Quite apart from experience, one can say a priori that very few tramps are dangerous, ...

Number of words: 905 | Number of pages: 4

Fahrenheit 451: The Strength Of Beatty

... in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach mean's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute." (Pg. 62) These short phrases are bewildering, because they have a very unclear meaning. He also said, "And you shrieked, 'Knowledge is power!' and 'A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the farthest of the two!' and I summed my side up with rare serenity in, 'The folly of a mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, ...

Number of words: 422 | Number of pages: 2

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