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Color Purple

... also learn that Celie’s mother is ill and is unable to take care of the family. Celie is forced to cook and clean for her family. Celie conceived two children because of her father’s continuous raping. She never sees her children and believes that her father killed them. A man from town wanted to take Celie’s sister Nettie as a wife, but her father convinces the man to take Celie instead. Celie is now forced to marry an older man who already has children. Celie’s husband constantly beats and rapes her without any remorse. He e ...

Number of words: 610 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird: Cruelty Against Blacks, Lawyers And The Poor

... enter the courtroom until all of the whites had entered (Lee 166). Racial discrimination still goes on today. “Because of racism in the criminal justice system, blacks are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and given stiffer sentences” (Horne 135). When slavery had ended, “the so-called freedom lands held nothing but disappointment for most black people” (McCague 119). To Kill A Mockingbird tells of a black man being accused of raping a white woman and “in the courtroom, the white man’s word is taken over the black ma ...

Number of words: 601 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird

... the Church’s way of singing hymns (“lining”), and they don’t understand “nigger talk.” Even Lula, one of the black church members, says, “they got their church, we got our’n.” Poverty is another injustice suffered by the blacks. Their First Purchase Church is very old and worn out. The paint is cracked and peeling, it has no ceiling, there’s a rough oak pulpit, and cheap cardboard fans must be used to keep the congregation cool. There is no piano, organ or church program in sight, and the whole church has to share one ...

Number of words: 631 | Number of pages: 3

Thomas More’s Utopia

... of Utopia A. Book 1 B. Book 2 Thomas More’s Utopia Sir Thomas More, one of the most respected figures in English History, was a well-known writer and a statesman. He would be known or being the author of the book Utopia and his religious stance against Kng Henry VIII that would later cost him his life. Thomas More was born in London in 1478, during the last years of the reign of King Edward IV. When Thomas was five years old,Edward IV died and left throne to Edward V. He then died shortly after and Richard III ...

Number of words: 2081 | Number of pages: 8

Adam Bede

... despite a somewhat limited presence. Lisbeth Bede, mother of Adam and Seth and wife of Thias, has a seemingly one-dimensional role. However, in examination, this typical portrayal of the nagging and needy mother may speak for more than what she seems. Eliot, through various strategies of character development and placement, has cast Lisbeth more so as a symbol than an actual person, and therefore her influence on the novel becomes like a shadow, only noticeable at the end as a foresign of the events to come. In the next pages we ...

Number of words: 1710 | Number of pages: 7

The Sign Of The Moonbow

... ravenous beast, Thulsa Doom who had killed and hated more fiercely than Cormac did. Cormac was a pirate, Thulsa was evil. Cormac hated Thulsa more than he hated the everyone in the world combined, for Thulsa had plagued his family for centuries. Cormac's only goal in life was to bring an end to this evil, but he could not kill it himself because, "...he could not be slain, for he was not truly alive (6)." Thulsa could only be brought to an end by a crowned woman, a queen of her land. There was believed to be no such person, but Cormac's q ...

Number of words: 625 | Number of pages: 3

Albert Camus' The Stranger: Meursault Is Aloof, Detached, And Unemotional

... him from his emotions, positive or negative, and from intimate relationships with others, thus he is called by the book's title, "the stranger". While this behavior can be seen as a negative trait, there is a young woman who seems to want to have a relationship with Meursault and a neighbor who wants friendship. He seems content to be indifferent, possibly protected from pain by his indifference. Meursault rarely shows any feeling when in situations which would, for most people, elicit strong emotions. Throughout the vigil, ...

Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use: Family Characters

... present day time. Mama is a big woman who takes care of the home and land, " I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands" (72), and Maggie is the daughter who helps Mama in the yard and around the house. Neither Mama nor Maggie are educated," I never had an education myself. After the second grade the school was closed. Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly " (73). However by helping her mother she uses the hand made items in her life, experiences the life of her ancestors, and learns the history of both. Con ...

Number of words: 564 | Number of pages: 3

Things Fall Apart 4

... did not inherit any land or yams to start building up a farm. Okonkwo needs so bad yams to sow and start building his own farm that he humbles himself and asks for help to a wealthy man in the village. Okonkwo’s reputation in Umofia is very good, the villagers think of him as a self-made man, hard working and fiery warrior; for him is not difficult to borrow yams to plant, his fellow villagers trust him. He plants the yams and works his land relentlessly. Although he encounters hurdles like bad weather, he became a very successful a ...

Number of words: 1005 | Number of pages: 4

Rollin Down The River: The Uniting Of Theme And Plot In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

... they run from civilization and are on the river, they ponder the social injustices forced upon them when they are on land. These social injustices are even more evident when Huck and Jim have to make landfall, and this provides Twain with the chance to satirize the socially correct injustices that Huck and Jim encounter on land. The satire that Twain uses to expose the hypocrisy, racism, greed and injustice of society develops along with the adventures that Huck and Jim have. The ugly reflection of society we see should make us question t ...

Number of words: 1387 | Number of pages: 6

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown": A True Romance VS. Young Goodman Brown

... Ruth because this marriage is in trouble. After Faith asks Goodman not to depart that night, pleading, "pray tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year", he answers her saying , "my journey must be done." He then questions the sincerity of her "peculiar" plea asking whether she doubts him. Since when is it such a farfetched request for a wife to ask her husband for company on a given night? Does this request signify a lack of trust in her husband? If anything, it illustrates a lack of self confidence in himself as ...

Number of words: 567 | Number of pages: 3

The Adventures Of Huckleberry

... and criticizes the failure to live up to them by portraying them through the antagonists. Prejudice can be observed throughout the novel by the way the other characters treat Huck. Twain portrays Huck as a average boy of his time, being mischievous, adventurous and funny. The society Huck lives in labels him "uncivilized" because he has an abusive, drunk father. "... by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand it. I was all over with welts." Here the reader can observe the ultimate failure of an ...

Number of words: 739 | Number of pages: 3

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