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Catch-22 2

... and Oxford--and a former teacher at Pennsylvania State College. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a combat bombardier in the Twelfth Air Force and was stationed on the island of Corsica where he flew over 60 combat missions. That experience provided the groundwork for this novel. (Way, 120) (Usborne) The protagonist and hero of the novel is John Yossarian, a captain in the Air Force and a lead bombardier in his squadron, but he hates the war. During the latter half of World War II, Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the ...

Number of words: 1250 | Number of pages: 5

A Farewell To Arms: Summary

... many other places and war fronts. What is the major conflict? The story is something like an Ernest Hemmingway's “Romeo and Juliet”. It is a story about love and war. In the beginning of the story, Tenente and Catherine Barkley fall in love. The conflict is that while Tenente is in war and Catherine is with her group of nurses, they are separated for some lengths of time. Tenente is always trying to get to her during the war. Main Events: The story starts with Tenente being attached to an Italian ambulance unit on the Italian ...

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Lord Of The Flies Theme Analys

... they will revert back to the savage roots of their ancestors. This is seen in the novel near the end, when the tribe is hunting Ralph. Matters had become quite out of hand by this time. Even the naval officer who saves the boys knows their society has become savage. Yet Golding’s last comment in his press release criticizes not only the boys on the island but also the society of adults in which the officer lives. Golding asks— while the ship saves the boys from killing each other, who will save the ship from killing other ships o ...

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Zeinert's The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Summary

... either. In The Salem Witchcraft Trials there was no main character, anyone and everyone was in on the trials. Many people testified against the accused witches, not many defended them. Perhaps this was because they might be accused of wizardry of being a witch themselves if they did so. I can say that there were important families such as the Carrier, Jacobs, Proctor, Good, Hobbs, Nurse, and the Cory's. Also many children were supposedly being hurt by witches and they banded together against the accused. The predicament in thi ...

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Walking Across Egypt

... her doorstep. "Besides, I'm slowing down," she says to her son during lunch. The stereotypes of the elderly are influencing Mattie's life. She is telling herself not to do things because of her age whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age with inability and dependence upon others. Her family and friends are expecting and encouraging this dependence.Elaine and Robert, Mattie's two unmarried children, along with other family and friends, are encouraging her to be what they expect a seventy-eight yea ...

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1984

... The story begins in London on April 4, after an atomic world war divides the world into three states. London is the capital of Oceania which is run by INGSOC(English Socialism). The controllers are called "The Party." The Party is divided into two sections, The Inner Party, and The Outer Party which are the "Rich" and the "middle-class." There is a third group of people called "The Proles," or "The Proletariat" which are the poor, and considered to be animals by the party. The main leader of this government is Big Brother. The novel is to ...

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Macbeth Theme-one Thing Leads

... another." In Macbeth, a certain situation occurred that puts into motion a set of chained events. This situation is when Macbeth first met the three weird sisters in the beginning part of the play. The three weird sisters introduced two prophecies to Macbeth. The first prophecy is "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor. (Act 1, Scene 3)." The second prophecy is "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter! (Act 1, Scene 3)" The prophecies of the three witches spark up a flare in Macbeth's mind. After the first of the two ...

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Fate In Macbeth

... Homer shows the reader an ancient Greek society where women are given specific roles and are often underestimated simply because of gender. Characters, such as Penelope, who keeps quiet at the epic’s beginning about her wishes for the suitors to leave, and Odysseus’ nurse, who obediently washes his feet, are examples of the chauvinist mind set. Despite the unfairness of the period in which the story takes place, certain women try in their own way to rise above the binds of tradition and show feminine power. In The Odyssey, throu ...

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Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui

... Rex takes place during the course of a day and uses flashback to fill in the details of the story. It tells of the cursed man Oedipus, who was born to Laius and Iocaste, the King and Queen of Thebes. It was prophesied by an Oracle that when Oedipus grew up he would kill his father, marry his mother, and father her children. Fearing this, Iocaste and Laius pierce the child's ankles and leave him on a hillside to die. Unknown to them, a messenger finds Oedipus and nurses him back to health. Eventually, Oedipus is adopted by the King and ...

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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of Social Structure

... he runs over a child. All he does is toss a few gold coins out to the father and drives away. This is showing that all the aristocracy cares about is money. Another place in the novel where Dickens shows the difference between the classes is when the Monseigneur is having his chocolate while everyone is waiting to speak with him. When he is done with his chocolate all he does is walk out and brushes past everyone else as if they are not there. This shows that all the higher aristocracy cares about is themselves. Another fault the Dickens po ...

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The Lord Of The Flies

... on an island probably somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. This can be inferred because of the fact that the boys are British and that they arrived on the island by way of a plane cradsh. The story also occurred during wartime. The story begins when a group of British boys crash on an uninhabited island. In the beginning they area all unruly and unmorginized. Finally, a boy by the nakme of Ralph decides to take charge and call a meeting. The boys declare him “chief” and then begin to follow his lead. Ralph is also assisted by ...

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Macbeth From Hero To Murdereth

... Throughout the two books, there are several recurring themes that stand out the most: The role of women in the society, the emergence of feminism, the importance of education, and the dominant influence of mysticism and superstition on people at the time. In this paper, I would first like to portray the influence of mysticism in the two novels, as well as to demonstrate how the everyday use of mysticism in their society is reflected in the writings of the Bronte sisters. In the novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, mysticism is one of ...

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