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The Scarlet Letter: Chapter By Chapter Review And Analysis

... convinced me that even though having students read a book over a very short summer vacation is a bad, misguided idea, the book you're making us read isn't as bad. CHAPTER 2- The Market Place- This chapter tells of Hester Prynne being led through the city and in to the market place with the finely stitched Scarlet Letter. She walks protecting her young child against her bosom as she is scorned by the crowd. Her punishment is quote “as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terroris ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism

... sinned, but is forgiven. Hawthorne portrays Hester as "divine maternity" and she can do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, i ...

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Ray Bradburys Outlook Of The F

... down using a mechanical dog, and how people love to watch the chase on their “off the wall” television sets. Could this be how Bradbury thinks our society is going to turn into? Maybe not as drastic, but maybe the censorship could happen, couldn’t it? Ray Bradbury is compared to Arthur C. Clarke as a “poetic science fiction writer” (Watt). This is so, because Bradbury takes a more elegant path to laying out his dystopia. People in his story are so into the now, and pleasure for the moment, that they forget th ...

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The Island Of Dr. Moreau

... However, at one point in the novel, a conflict arise from the creatures and chaos begins. When the conflict finally comes to a halt, there is only one true human standing. The plot, main character, theme, style, and setting are key elements found in this novel. The basic conflict of this novel was that the creatures of the island went against the creators, or the scientists. When the Beast Men were first created, they were not to intelligent. Due to this, the creators manipulated their minds with lies. The creatures, even though they out ...

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Jack London’s Apparent Conflic

... London’s intertwining of struggles can be seen in such stories as White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and “To Build a Fire”. Jack London, whose life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. (Walcutt 8) At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The ...

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Animal Farm: Allegory Of Stalinism

... animals together to talk about their disastrous situation. Old major declares: ”Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious and short”. He declares in Marxist terms that Man is the problem: ”Only get rid of the Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could be rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades. Rebellion!” The simple, but emotional appeal, gets trough to the uneducated and plain ...

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Huckleberry Finn

... Huck feels he shouldn't be helping Jim to freedom and almost turns him in to slave catchers Twain 87 "I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this (that Huck is his one and only friend) it seemed to take the tuck all out of me.". Huck begins to enjoy having Jim's company, and when Jim is sold by the Duke and the King, Huck breaks down and cries while asking the Duke where Jim is Twain 208 "'sold him' I says, and begun to cry; 'why he was my nigger, and that was my money. Where is he?-- I wa ...

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Lord Of The Flies - Good And Evil: Fight To The Finish

... be a leader himself. Ralph wants to be the leader so that he could make some kind of plan to get off the island, but Jack wants to be a leader so he can be the ruler and hunt, so that he has meat for himself. (9, 137) The protagonist wants victory over the antagonist and the antagonist wants to de-feat the protagonist. Where as the e antagonist has an evil purpose and the protagonist had a good purpose. A similar concept between the protagonist and the antagonist is that both of them are brave enough to dare to go against each other. They ...

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All Quiet On The Western Front

... yet the harassment only brought them closer together and developed a strong spirit amongst them. Katczinsky, or Kat, was soon shown to be a master scavenger, being able to provide the group with food or virtually anything else; on this basis Paul and him grew quite close. Paul's unit was assigned to lay barbed wire on the front line, and a sudden shelling resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lin ...

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No Longer An Indian

... point of view, since Native people in Canada are on a special welfare system. Therefore, an Indian person marring a non-Native, perceived as non-Indian also from that point on. Hence, that person may not receive monetory benefits any farther. “It has everything to do with history--the signing of treaties, the refusal of government to acknowledge and correct the illegal expropriation of prime lands in North America” (69). By Canadian law McDonald could no longer live or be among her own people. She was devasted, spiritually wound ...

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Never Ending Story

... to save the life of the Child-like Empress, ruler and leader of Fantastica. Bastians’ peaceful character and Atreyu’s determination sets The Neverending Story apart from the classic scene of one character playing the role of a hero without distributing the accomplishments between the other characters. This book represents a celebration of unity in which it is proven by Atreyu and Bastian who set the stage and begins what has to be begun. Bastian plays the role of a heroic human being in a human world reading nothing but a book called Th ...

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Heroic Elements In Beowulf

... fearless behavior. These tales were maintained by oral tradition and later became written epic poems such as Beowulf, composed by an unknown poet , which is a classic example of a heroic epic. Also these tales talked about heroes and the most admired characteristics of these men, such as bravery and intelligence as well as other not so common ones, like loyalty, generosity, kindness, and strength. Beowulf is a Geat from a region that is today southern Sweden, who sets sail from his homeland to try to liberate Herot, Hrothgar's hall, of a monst ...

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