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Jem's Journal: Chapter Summary

... tree on the way home from school. I really didn't care about where she got it from I just wanted that disgusting piece of trash out of her mouth immediately before she caught some germs. I told Scout to spit it out immediately. She was actually pretty obedient and spit the gum out. She told me that she had been chewing it all afternoon and that if she wasn't dead and didn't feel sick. She was obviously mad at me for ruining her chewing enjoyment but I didn't want her getting sick because knowing Atticus, I'd be the one who would have to t ...

Number of words: 1820 | Number of pages: 7

Jane Eyre

... that since his father died everything in the house belonged to him. John threw the book at her causing her to fall back striking her head. When Jane tried to defend herself, John was hurt and called for his mother and the servants. Jane was locked in the room in which her Uncle died, for the whole night, as punishment for misbehavior. D. Jane is a girl who is used to unjust treatment. Most of her life she had to live in a house with no one who cared for her and no one she cared about. When she leaves Lowood ( the school she attended as a ...

Number of words: 724 | Number of pages: 3

Scarlet Letter Proof Of Atroph

... well supported, it does not hold up under intense examination. There is much support in The Scarlet Letter to prove that Dimmesdale did not die from atropine. The main point of Dr. Kahn’s article is to prove that Chillingwrorth wanted to kill Dimmesdale through the use of atropine poisoning, but there are many parts in the novel that suggest Chillingworth wanted to keep Dimmesdale alive to suffer through his own guilt. Evidence exists very early in the novel that deems Dr. Kahn’s theory untrue. During Chillingworth and Heste ...

Number of words: 692 | Number of pages: 3

Comparison Of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein To Movies And TV Show's Frankenstein

... was portrayed as being very stupid. He was unable to talk or read. The monster would just rome the world looking for people to torment. But, in the movie "Frankenstein, with Boris Karloff, the monster befriended a blind man. I think he had this friend because the man could not see the face of the monster. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was very different from the movies and T.V. shows. For one thing the monster was not even called Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein was the name of the doctor who created the monstrosity. Before the d ...

Number of words: 418 | Number of pages: 2

Mavis Gallant's Bernadette

... the members of the household in a fear associated manner. The relationship between the Knights and Bernadette is the base of the story. These three people relate to each other in an intimidating fashion and this is what makes Bernadette's predicament so difficult to overcome. As well, the family ties between Nora and Robbie are explored. Their family relationship is one based on dependence, and without this one factor the connection between the two results in fearfulness of being alone. Fear has a way of attacking our judgment and this i ...

Number of words: 1010 | Number of pages: 4

The Catcher In The Rye- A Stud

... of a young man's understanding of the world he lives in, and the things he encounters (Lomazoff 3). This work is similar to other famous and influential works of the same nature. For example, Maxwell Geismar sums up the novel as “…an eminently readable and quotable [novel] in its tragicomic narrative of preadolescent revolt. Compact, taut, and colorful, the first half presents in brief compass all then petty horrors, the banalities, the final mediocrity of the American prep school” (Geismar 195). Holden can not understand th ...

Number of words: 2315 | Number of pages: 9

Macbeth 3

... and willpower to commit it. However, after she hears that Macbeth is returning home, she calls upon evil spirits and other demonic entities to give her some aid. She does this because she realizes that she doesn’t have the strength of will to persuade Macbeth into murdering Duncan after all. Then, when Macbeth arrived, just after she finished praying for help, she acts as if she has a heart of stone and that Macbeth is not a man if he is afraid of killing Duncan. This is a prime example of her deception towards him, and how ...

Number of words: 566 | Number of pages: 3

Kate Chopin's Controversial Views

... of French writers. When she was only five Chopin's father, Thomas O'Flaherty died leaving her without a father figure. Eliza O'Flaherty, Chopin's mother, was from there on the head of the household. Chopin grew up knowing that women could be strong and intelligent and that they did not have to be submissive creatures (Skaggs 2). She loved her mother and considered her "A woman of great beauty, intelligence, and personal magnetism" (Seyersted 14). Growing up around independent women, however, did not dissuade her from marriage. Her marri ...

Number of words: 1806 | Number of pages: 7

Things Fall Apart A Tragedy

... Flaw - inadaptability 2. By uncontrollable events 3. Wisdom gained - realized he must adapt, but cannot--so he hangs himself III. The pity aroused by Achebe A. The people do not like Okonkwo for his treatment of less successful men (26). B. Death of Ikemefuna (87) C. Okonkwo beats Nwoye, due to his attraction to the Christian faith.(148-153) IV. The fear aroused by Achebe A. When Okonkwo learns that Ikemefuna must die, the reader fears that he will die, and how he will end up dying. (87) B. When the priestess says that Agbala wish ...

Number of words: 1112 | Number of pages: 5

All My Sons: Miller's Chief Criticism Of American Society

... crash an airplane if used, to prevent his business from going bankrupt, claiming that he did it for his family. The second example is that Sue would rather Jim make allot of money, and not do medical research- which is what he really wanted to do. The third example is Jim's abdication of his pursuit of medical research do to the lack of profit involved. In his play "All My Sons," Miller makes it apparent that society in general values money and profit more than human life. He shows this by his portrayal of Keller. Keller ships out ...

Number of words: 634 | Number of pages: 3

Appearances Are Deceptive In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

... toward others, prays, and goes to church but she also owns slaves. The widow Douglas as a Christian woman should not own slaves, even though society views nothing wrong with it. No where does it say in the bible that it is right for one man to own another. So, to the reader, the widow Douglas in some ways comes off as a hypocrite. In how she tells Huck to live a good life so he can get to heaven, by doing good for others, but at the same time she own slaves. The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons are examples of aristocrats that are not ...

Number of words: 457 | Number of pages: 2

Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets

... for individuals to change their morality, social class and the physical violence of their environment to make life ideal; these conventions of naturalism are used by Steven Crane to depict characters’ problems and outcomes. Steven Crane’s naturalistic conventions are best seen through the hardships Maggie endures throughout the novel. Maggie in the beginning of the novel is determined not to do two definite things: “be like her mother or be a prostitute” (10). Maggie succeeds at first, but Maggie’s environment takes control, for ...

Number of words: 955 | Number of pages: 4

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