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Artificial Restraints In Lord

... constraint that Golding puts on the boys is the personality clash between Jack and Ralph. From the beginning, when Ralph is elected leader, Jack hates Ralph, and towards the end of the book, the feeling becomes mutual. Without Jack and Ralph's problems, life would have been easy, and the 'darkness of man's heart' would not have been conveyed to the reader. Jack shows 'the darkness' and if he and Ralph had just been friends, there would never have been an opportunity for Jack to show this darkness which lurked beneath the surface. Golding als ...

Number of words: 433 | Number of pages: 2

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Great Identity Search

... Nanny. Nanny and Janie were pretty well off and had the privilege to live in the yard of white folks. While Janie was growing up she played with the white children. While she was in this stage, she was faced with much criticism and was called many names, so many that everyone started calling her alphabet, "'cause so many people had done named me different names." Soon she started piecing together what she knew of her odd identity. Then one day she saw herself in a photograph and noticed that she looked different, that she had ...

Number of words: 985 | Number of pages: 4

Hills Like White Elephants

... This point of view is where the author assumes complete knowledge of the characters' actions and thoughts. With this point of view the author can move at will from one place to another and from one character to another and can even speak their views directly to the reader as the story goes along. With this point of view the story would have been easier to follow and the reader would have been better about to understand the character and their feelings. Form the Limited omniscient point of view. The author still narrates the story but ...

Number of words: 944 | Number of pages: 4

My Brother Jack

... David often writes about Jack and recapitulates the episodes of his life with Jack. This is evident in a statement David made about his brother as he was travelling on a train. ‘I saw him suddenly as a find of sunburnt Icarus, a freeman, buoyant and soaring in his own air, in the clear and boundless space of an element families yet new’ (pg 294). It is evident through examples, why the novel was called ‘’. The title may suggest an account of Jack’s life through the eyes of David. The perception you get is tha ...

Number of words: 1030 | Number of pages: 4

Compare And Contrast Daisy To Myrtle

... These two women were Tom’s toys in a sense. Despite the differences that existed between Daisy (Buchanan’s wife) and Myrtle (Buchanan’s mistress), they shared many similarities. For example, both women liked the finer things in life. That is, they were happy as long as they possessed rich material possessions. Another similarity between them is that they both cheated on their husbands with men richer than their own husbands. Gatsby was richer than Tom and Tom was richer than George. With all these things in mind, we must also keep ...

Number of words: 447 | Number of pages: 2

The Sixth Extinction

... the worlds species in a geological instant. '', written by Richard Leakey, ultimately highlights humanity's mishandling of the natural world. Leakey's aim for his book is simply to make people aware of the real situation this planet and its ecosystems are facing, as a direct result of man. The statistics that have been compiled for '' are alarming. This is evident considering: fifty percent of the Earth's species will have vanished inside the next 100 years; mankind is using almost half of the energy available to sustain life on the plan ...

Number of words: 1156 | Number of pages: 5

Cold Blood: Myrt

... And now look it’s all caught up with him. Well he won’t be rushing anymore” This statement said by Myrt makes it seem she is jealous and sorry for Mr. Clutter. Mr. Clutter was a well known man. He had a lot going for him, he made decisions and had power. Mr. Clutter was active in the community and a family man. When Myrt described her neighbors as “rattlesnakes and varmints looking for a chance to slam the door in your face.” That statement can be taken two different ways: (1). how the town treated her when she gave them the ...

Number of words: 882 | Number of pages: 4

Bram Stokers Dracula

... count is no normal human, but an evil, blood-sucking vampire, who can command animals and elements with the wave of his hand. Harker escapes but the Count has devised an intricate plan to move to London and exercise his evil forces on innocent people there. However, a group of friends, including an open-minded but ingenious professor, a psychologist, an American, a rich man, as well as Jon an Harker and his wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him before he can create an army of un-dead vampires. They ...

Number of words: 747 | Number of pages: 3

Hemingways Hills Like White El

... that the operation they were talking about was in fact an abortion. Although Hemingway provides very little information about the character’s situation or their pasts, the use of symbolism in the character’s dialogue throughout the story makes it a whole lot easier to understand. The only thing I really noticed the first time I read the story was the tension between the two main characters throughout the story. In the first dialogue, there seems to be some tension between Jig and the American man. They speak to each other i ...

Number of words: 922 | Number of pages: 4

Their Eyes Were Watching God 2

... Janie starts to attend school she is treated differently. Her classmates do not give Janie a chance to be friendly instead they decide Janie considers herself better than they are. This attitude causes Janie to make no friends at school. When Janie is sixteen years old her grandmother marries her off to a potato farmer named Logan Killicks. Janie’s grandmother feels that Janie needs to be married to a man that can take care of her so that she isn’t wasted on someone who can not support her. The marriage to Logan does not ...

Number of words: 435 | Number of pages: 2

Analysis Of Animal Farm

... underfed them. The second antagonist of this story was Snowball the pig. Snowball and Napoleon had opposite ideas on everything. Snowball acted like he was the good guy (or pig in this case) until the time that the animals supposedly found secret documents that said that Snowball was incohutes with Jones. Snowball also spread a lot of lies around about Napoleon. Events in Summary: What happened first: The first thing that happened in my book Animal Farm was that the animals over took the Manor Farm. The "revolution," as they ca ...

Number of words: 631 | Number of pages: 3

Madame Bovary: Destiny

... such decisions making events as her marriage, her daughter's birth, her adulterous relationship with Leon and her taking the poison, as times when, if she had made a different decision, her life would not have ended as tragically. When we first meet Emma, the future Madame Bovary, we perceive her as being a woman who is refined perhaps a bit more than the average peasant girl living on a farm. We conclude this because she attended a boarding school where she was taught “dancing, geography, needlework and piano.” (p.15) Charles, on the ...

Number of words: 1048 | Number of pages: 4

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