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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Evil

... man with a very high status. He knew the very influential and rich people in his town as well. His beauty charmed the world. Basil was inspired to draw his portrait in order to preserve his beauty and youth. Dorian recognised that as long as he remained young he would be handsome. He dreaded the day that he would age slightly and start to form wrinkles and such ugly (in Dorian's opinion) ugly things. He believed that that day would deprive him of triumphs that would result in him being miserable. The degree of evil within Doria ...

Number of words: 905 | Number of pages: 4

A Rose For Emily By William Fa

... people think she was crazy. He develops this through many things but the main thing was by her actions to different situations and the way she lived her life This essay is going to talk about the things she said, did and about what other people said about her. Emily Grierson’s is an old lady who is very stubborn. Faulkner manages to show this through different events that happen in the story and how she reacts towards them. One of the events that happened was when Emily received a tax notice in the mail telling her that she has to pay h ...

Number of words: 854 | Number of pages: 4

As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings

... into that character's underlying meanings. Darl, for example, uses his linguistic skills to gain power as narrator. He possesses the ability to pick up on things unsaid and to read other people's actions. Dewey Dell describes his intuitiveness when she says that “ he said he knew without the words, and I knew he knew because if he had said he knew with words I would not have believed…and that's why I can talk to him with knowing with hating with because he knows” (27). He uses his gift of realizing things without them having to ...

Number of words: 1183 | Number of pages: 5

Book Report For The Odyssey

... that interest women are left out completely or are dealt with briefly. In the Greek society, women were valued but participated in worldly affairs only with open approval from the men who directed their lives. Penelope, Odysseus' wife, waited 20 years for his return. Her patience and respect for her husband shows marriage fidelity. She is depicted as the perfect wife and mother. The best aspects of The Odyssey are the exciting adventures Odysseus goes through and the explanations and descriptions of the conditions and scenery. Home ...

Number of words: 1288 | Number of pages: 5

Alienation In "The Minister’s Black Veil"

... from his congregation. The minister did not even move his veil to perform marriages, which the town believed "could portend nothing but evil to the wedding" (Hawthorne 256). This odd piece of clothing caused rumors about the holy man which caused his congregation to doubt his message. The veil "and the mystery behind it, supplied a topic for discussion between acquaintances meeting in the street, and good women gossiping at their open windows" (Hawthorne 256). The minister might have committed a secret sin, or he could have used the veil ...

Number of words: 642 | Number of pages: 3

The Surprising Aspect Of Sex In Heller's Catch-22

... of soldiers in the eyes of Joseph Heller which brings this book to a different level than what is expected. One example of heavy sexual content in Catch-22, is when Heller describes General Dreedle's nurse in great detail. Descriptions like "nubile breasts", "ripened" and "He drank her in insatiably from head to pointed toenail" (230), Or "He licked his parched, thirsting lips with a sticky tongue and moaned in misery again…" (230), make this Catch-22 dirty. It brought this book to whole other level which when I first opened it was n ...

Number of words: 878 | Number of pages: 4

Brian's Search For The Meaning Of Life In W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen The Wind

... of death, at an early age, when his dog, and subsequently his father dies. Lastly Brian's realization that it's all just sensations, and feelings complete his search for the meaning of life. Early in his life, Brian has many experiences with birth. The first of these comes to him at an early age when he sees newborn pigeons. When his father explains how these pigeons were made, Brian understands that birth is the beginning of life. Four years later, a similar conversation comes up when Brian asks his father how rabbits are born. With ...

Number of words: 832 | Number of pages: 4

Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney

... is aware of his monotonous routines and is frustrated, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons":. He contemplates the aimless pattern of his divided and solitary self. He is a lover, yet he is unable to declare his love. Should a middle-aged man even think of making a proposal of love? "Do I dare/Disturb the universe?" he asks. Prufrock knows the women in the saloons "known them all" and he presumes how they classify him and he feels he deserves the classification, because he has put on a face other than his own. "T ...

Number of words: 1130 | Number of pages: 5

Critique Of Snow Falling On Cedars

... shipped off to an internment camp, however Carl Heine Sr. tells Zenhichi Miyomoto that the land will be waiting for him when he gets back. When the Miyomotos return, Mr. Heine has died and his widow has sold all the land for a hefty profit. She gives the Miyomotos their money back and buys an apartment in town where she spends the last of her lonely days. Kabuo and Carl both come back from the war to find the land sold. Their once close-knit friendship is shattered by their families' disagreement. They both become fishermen. Along with ...

Number of words: 660 | Number of pages: 3

Courage In Individuals In "On Being Seventeen", "The Most Dangerous Game" And "Giving Blood"

... Silmen. David Raymond, from the book On Being Seventeen, is courageous in a psychological way. He is a high school student who was born with dyslexia. He writes about his life and how difficult school and learning to read was for him. All he wants is for people to accept him the way he is. ÔÓ ...anyway life was awful. More then anything I wanted some friends.Ó By the end of high school he was more excepted in places where he once was ostracized. He even tries to help people with the same problem he has. Ò Maybe he was scared like ...

Number of words: 589 | Number of pages: 3

Murray Davis' Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology

... doesn't go on to explain how hard-core pornography can be less explicit than soft-core. However he does explain that hard-core pornography is more abstract in that, it depicts the sex act only and not the emotional or personal characteristics of the people involved in the act. (Davis, p. xx) He believes soft-core pornography is describing "a sexual experience", which conveys characteristics of the participants that are not described by hard-core pornography. Hard-core pornography describes "sexual behaviour" which involves more of the a ...

Number of words: 1712 | Number of pages: 7

Catch-22

... situation when two people speak without making any sense is when Clevinger is being questioned. “I didn’t say you couldn’t punish me,” said Clevinger. “When?” asked the colonel. “When what, sir?” “Now you’re asking me questions again.” “I am sorry, sir. I’m afraid I don’t understand your question.” Later in the interrogation, the colonel is so twisted in his conversation that he no longer wants to know when Clevinger said that he could not be punished. He now wants to know when Clevinger did not say that he c ...

Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4

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