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David Copperfield

... his father and goes off to live with his aunt. A while later, David goes back home but quickly gets into trouble and is sent off to school. Dickens uses excellent description in his telling of this story and the reader can easily relate to the characters. The setting of a small town in England is standard in all of his novels, including Great Expectations. The reason for this Dickens' setting is because he was born in the town of Portsmouth, England in 1812. Although as a young child he moved to Chatham where he experienced a plea ...

Number of words: 1007 | Number of pages: 4

The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz: Duddy

... and to succeed in the goals that he sets for himself. By being an apprentice to life, Duddy is learning about how to be different types of people by imitating their personalities. When he comes out of apprenticeship and becomes a man, Duddy has to decide on one type of person to be for the rest of his life. Duddy's Uncle Benjy tried to explain this and make it clear to Duddy in his letter by saying, "A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others." (p.279) I think that this was the best advi ...

Number of words: 1183 | Number of pages: 5

The Martian Chronicles

... those rare books showing mankind as alien invaders on another planet. Mars is perhaps the most common source, in early SF literature, for invasions into Earth - the most famous example being H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. In Bradbury's novel, we see how it can happen the other way around. As in Wells' work, here, too, the Martians are killed by Earth's bacteria -- but rather than a case of victory in a war, this is a sad disaster. The desease wiped out a beautiful, wise, and ancient civilization. The book depicts humankind as mostly violent ...

Number of words: 251 | Number of pages: 1

The Great Gatsby Is A Tragic H

... of his idealism. Gatsby is a romantic dreamer who wishes to fulfill his ideal by gaining wealth in hopes of impressing and eventually winning the heart of the materialistic, superficial Daisy. She is, however, completely undeserving of his worship. "Then it had been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor" (p.79). Nick realizes Gatsby's estate, parties, shirts and other seemingly "purposeless" possessions are not purposeless. Everyt ...

Number of words: 909 | Number of pages: 4

The Scarlet Letter: How Are Life's Lessons Learned?

... punishment was to stand on the wooden platform, in the town square, for three hours. She could not speak to any to the numerous eyes that stared at, through her until dark. Hester also had to wear an embroidered A of scarlet cloth upon her chest. The A symbolized that she was an adulteress, and should not be associated with. Hester had also been banished from town, and branded an outcast. Even though she did not name her lover, so that he could be punished, he did not go unpunished. Reverend Dimmesdale had taken it upon him to stand on ...

Number of words: 615 | Number of pages: 3

The Time Machine

... the movie and a little bit more aggressive. And Weena seemed to be a lot quieter in the book then in the movie and you could understand her more in the movie then in the book. The Time Machine starts out with the time traveler trying to explain the time machine and how it works to four other science guys. He goes on about four dimensions and how nobody thinks that there is a fourth dimension and how there is only three. He goes on describing the fourth dimension to them and then he demonstrates how the time machine works. The whole time h ...

Number of words: 794 | Number of pages: 3

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

... and it is usually better to concentrate on what Bradbury himself wrote rather than archetypally analyze the book to truly enjoy and understand his fantasy. (Bradford 69) In Dandelion Wine, Bradbury's deeper themes mainly have to do with the world of inner feelings of fantasy and the soul. Three sets of opposite characteristics that have a strong influence over feelings and the soul contribute to the depth and character of Dandelion Wine: life and death, heaven and hell, and the past and the future. The themes of life and death become ent ...

Number of words: 1770 | Number of pages: 7

The Crucible: Summary

... Titubia give her a charm to kill Goody Proctor so that John may fall in love with Abby. When Abigal learns that this method does not work, she starts telling people that Elizabeth is a which just so she can get John Proctor. An example "Abigal's Jealouey is euident to belive she leeds her uncles for I would not be her slave. Next Rev. Paris, the minister of Salem is a weathly man. He isalso paranoid because he belives that his ministry is in jeopardy and he is mostly concered about his status. Paris is obviosly a hypocrite. He is supposed to ...

Number of words: 391 | Number of pages: 2

To Kill A Mockingbird

... a mental growing up. She changed a lot toward prejudice of Maycomb County after an unfair trial. Scout was the teller of the whole book. She was a young daughter of a lawyer, Atticus. They lived in Maycomb County with Scout's brother and Aunt in the 1930's. At the beginning of the book, she didn't know much about the prejudice of Southern America. She basically knew nothing about prejudice. She thought every person was the same as her. But she found that out at last. She also finally found out that most people were nice. She just had to put ...

Number of words: 499 | Number of pages: 2

The Adventures And Maturing Of Huckleberry Finn

... a young boy as he travels down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with Huck introducing himself. He lives with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. They are kind old ladies who are trying to "civilize" him by sending him to school and teaching him manners, even though Huck didn't want to be "civilized." Huck's best friend is Tom Sawyer. The two found twelve-thousand dollars earlier and split the profits. The boys kept the money with Judge Thatcher for safe keeping while they continued their no ...

Number of words: 3407 | Number of pages: 13

Pycho By Alfred Hitcock

... first impressions of evil in this movie is the character Tom Cassidy. His character is an affluent middle aged gentleman. He portrays society’s perception of America’s upper class, snobbishly rich. Cassidy flaunts his money in Marion’s face. He talks of his eighteen-year-old daughter who is getting married the next day. As her wedding gift he is buying her a house with forty thousand dollars cash. He claims that she has never had an unhappy day in her life. Though this is unrealistic, he proudly boasts about how his ...

Number of words: 1978 | Number of pages: 8

Natural Reflection

... a subtle, but humorous reflection on the temperament of the Miss Dashwoods. Upon Edward Ferrars’ arrival at Barton, he joins Marianne and Elinor on their walk back to the cottage. During this walk, a discourse on the surroundings begins after Elinor comments that Norland “probably looks much as it always does at this time of year” (p. 77). Elinor’s comment comes as a somewhat perturbed response to Marianne’s overzealous inquiries concerning the appearance of Norland. Elinor also mentions that it is probably rather gloomy and untid ...

Number of words: 448 | Number of pages: 2

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