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Paulsen's "Canyons": A Summary

... and wise professor of his and together, they try to figure out what happened to the person that the skull belonged to. Through days and weeks of research, they go through several files and stacks of newspapers. Brannon stayed up several nights reading articles about the timeperiod given to them by the pathologist who examined the skull earlier. Eventually, Brannon finds the exact article written about the young Apache warrior. The skull continues to talk to Brannon, about wanting it's soul to be where it can rest. Brannon runs away with th ...

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Lord Of The Flies: Our Society Suppresses The Evil That Is Presented In All Of Us

... symbol of order and it is opposite to the pigs head (the lord of the flies) which attributes to the killing and sheer brutality of the hunters. Jack is the perfect example of a boy whose dark side took over when he was no longer bound down to a civil environment. After being unable to bear killing a pig due to the horrific blood, he became eager to gain respect, almost redeem himself, by becoming a hunter. He was remarkably enthusiastic about hunting. He painted his face and got spears. He eventually cared no more for being rescued, becau ...

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Franny And Zooey: Childhood

... fille with trust. The events of our childhood determines who we are, what we will be, what our future hold. For example, I have recently learned that, in many cases, an abused child will result in a loathsome and abusive adult. The process continues geeneration after generation. This is devestating because his or her child has absolutely no power in controlling the early events of their childhood. An abused child is not at fault of the results of their childhood. A child is easily susceptible to having the rest of his or her life ruined, suc ...

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The House Of Seven Gables: Hepzibah Pyncheon

... of his death Maule put a bad spell on the Pyncheons that would last until the day of Hepzibah. Hepzibah is a dynamic character in The House of Seven Gables. As the story begins, Hepzibah is having to open a cent shop to help pay her bills. She is a tall, gaunt woman who always seems to be in a fowl mood. She finds having to open the shop extremely demeaning considering her patrician background. She lives almost completely in the past and never leaves the house to interact with the rest of the world. When she opens the cent shop she finall ...

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A Meeting In The Dark: A Loss Of Priorities

... stopped his mother from telling him stories when he became a man of God… So he feared his father." (97). He can not even have a conversation with his father without getting nervous. He is fearful his father knows about his unborn baby: "anxious voice within him asking: Does he know?" (97). The relationship between his parents is strained due to Susana, his mother, defending the boy. She asked Stanley "Why do you persecute the boy so much?"(98). Stanley and Susana wed because they "sinned" (98) and John was "the result of that sin" (98). Th ...

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Essay On By The Pricking Of My

... main characters who are old detectives named Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their Aunt passes away at a ladies home recently. The Aunt owns a picture of a house that is near a canal that comes very important later in the book. Tommy goes off to a secret convention for old detectives and Tuppence takes off to find the house that is painted in the book. Tuppence comes to a town that is called Sutton Chancellor where she finds the house and a numerous amount of interesting characters. She meets two gossipy old ladies, a child’s missi ...

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Eagle Eyes

... With the help of Dr. Lawson and his family, Ben realizes the things he needs to think about and the things he needs to pay attention to with his . I think the book handles the issue of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) very well. When you start the book, it seems just like any other children’s book. A story about a boy who can do no right and who is always in trouble. Then when Ben foes to the doctor he finds out, he has ADD. The book goes on to tell that he needs medication like many the children who have ADD. Ben and his father work on ways ...

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Frankenstein

... This concept is beautifully brought out in . Having this concept in the novel makes the narrative more powerful, this is because the impact of the narrative is heightened when the environment of what is going on corresponds with the emotions of characters in it. It also makes it more powerful by making the reader feel more emotions over the reading. The following are a few examples of the ways Shelley expresses this concept in the novel. One way Shelley shows nature as an inspiration is through the geography of the settings. In the ...

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Familiar Mysteries

... that came into existence from itself , rather than something that we , people created ourselves in order to satisfy our own needs and fill in that empty portion of our understanding of the world that has never been able to be explained or comprehended.Also , according to her , myths , as a whole , occupy a very significant place in our being.They serve as personal guidance in peoples' lives , support or challenge the social order , create a sense of physical order of the surrounding , and help people accept life's mysteries.The book is an ...

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The Flies: Ideal Of Authority

... has an excessive amount of power over the people of Argos and even controls their thoughts and actions. Sartre, being an existentialist, condemns this idea, and ultimately reaches a point in his play in which it is realized that each person has control over his actions, and no authority figure can govern a person’s free will. In the beginning of the play, Electra, daughter of Clytemnestra and the late Agamemnon, is introduced. At this point, Electra is leading a life of servitude, brought about by the death of her father, and the acquire ...

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Frankenstein

... rich... in spirit. They are good people. They do not complain with the status quo but enjoy what they have, which is an admirable trait for people in any standing. The old blind man sings songs to the others, plays a musical instrument, and adds a sense of experience and content to the family. The children do their daily work without griping as well. Just because they are looked down upon by society that still does not stop them from enjoying what has been provided for them. Society itself which is supposed to be good is actually ...

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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James Joyce?

... personality.” Although the critics notice that Joyce makes Stephen a stereotyped artist, they fail to realize that he therefore cannot be a true artist. In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is written in the indirect first person, in which everything is “seen through the eyes of Stephen.” Joyce's method of writing for this novel and apparently for his other novels is stream-of-consciousness. Nowhere in the novel does Joyce include his own thoughts. The character of Stephen Dedalus is revealed through only his observations an ...

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