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Summary Of The Call Of The Wild

... with utmost pride and had everything he could want. Little did he know, he would soon have it all taken away from him. He was taken away from his home and then sold. This was the beginning of a new, cruel life for Buck. On his journey, Buck's pride was severely damaged by men who used tools to restrain him. No matter how many times Buck tried to lunge, he would just be choked into submission. When Buck arrived at his destination, there was snow everywhere and masses of Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was thrown into a pen with a man who had a ...

Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3

Beowulf - Hero

... battles and returned victorious from all but his last. Beowulf is also strong enough to kill the monster Grendel, who has been terrorizing the Danes for twelve years, with his bare hands by ripping off his arm. When Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother, who is seeking revenge on her son's death, he is able to slay her by slashing the monster's neck with a Giant's sword that canonly be lifted by a person as strong as Beowulf. When he chops off her head, he carries it from the ocean with ease, but it takes four men to lift and carry it back t ...

Number of words: 564 | Number of pages: 3

Flowers For Algernon 2

... he is the same optimistic and happy guy. In the middle, though, he almost turns into a new character, except for the frequent reminders of how he used to be, in the form of flashbacks to his childhood and other emotionally blocked parts of his mind. He gets a new awareness of himself and others. He also makes the realization that some people he had put on a pedestal are not as good as they seem. He also starts to think about romance. Miss Kinnian, or Alice as he later in the book calls her, is Charlie’s night sc ...

Number of words: 866 | Number of pages: 4

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest And The Scarlet Letter: To Live With Fear

... orders and controlling them. Soon enough to "save" the Chief, McMurphy arrived. He was lively, and not scared; the complete opposite of the Chief. This courage eventually passed on to the Chief. At a meeting, when McMurphy was holding a vote to prove that the patients wanted to see the World Series, the Chief voted for it. At first he said that McMurphy controlled his hand. Later on he admitted that it was he who raised it. He even talked to McMurphy one night, and began laughing at the situation at hand. One day when McMurphy an ...

Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Sin-Stained Conscience

... who chronicles one man’s battle against himself in The Scarlet Letter. In this novel, an anguished Arthur Dimmesdale struggles to pacify his conscience and withhold the secret of his sin from being known. As his conscience continues to consume all that is his very essence, Arthur Dimmesdale illustrates Hawthorne’s theme of a sin-stained conscience and redemption only through truth. The novel begins to delve into the heart and conscience of Arthur Dimmesdale when Roger Chillingworth questions him about his thoughts on sinners and thei ...

Number of words: 923 | Number of pages: 4

Symbolism- The Chrysanthemums

... Steinbeck also uses symbolism in his description of the time of year and surrounding area. He first describes the farm as having a lack of sunshine and the season being December, all attributes to the overall feeling of death. At the begging of the story Steinbeck set the tone of the story. "The high gray-flannel fog of winter…made the valley like a closed pot." Here the tone is very plainly presented, it’s cold and foggy, a sense of dark, even perhaps death can be seen. It is intrusting to note the parallel and symbolism between ...

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Getting Rid Of George: A Gothic Story

... Again adding to the gloom and terror of the story is the physical exploitation of cruelty shown by Laura when she repeatedly beats George with a statuette until he lay dead on the floor. Mental exploitation of cruelty is also evident when George returns from the dead and blackmails and once again tries to ruin Laura new found life. We found clear examples of an atmosphere of gloom and terror throughout this story proving that Getting Rid of George is a well written gothic story. Along with a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere, Arthur ...

Number of words: 834 | Number of pages: 4

Their Eyes Were Watching God

... in the fact that Janie was an African American women during these oppressed times. Throughout this book, it looks as though Janie makes many mistakes in trying to find who she really is, and achieving the respect that she deserves. Living with her Grandmother and theWashburns’, Janie was surrounded and raised with white children. She always believed that she was white herself, and that she was no different than anybody else. As she was growing up, she was told what to do and how to live by her grandmother. Janie’s grandmother planned h ...

Number of words: 1398 | Number of pages: 6

Comparing 'Casablanca' To '1984'

... spy, and even the spies were spied on. Both wish for hope and courage in their mutually exclusive worlds, yet only Rick finds hope in his. Winston dies with utter hopelessness, where no one will ever know of his life or deeds, yet he dies a hero. Rick is a cynic, tossed into a chaotic yet romantic world, and comes forth victorious. In Casablanca, we emerge with a feeling of hope, and joy, that the forces of good can win, and that eventually we will triumph over our enemies, wherever or whatever they may be. While slochky and romant ...

Number of words: 914 | Number of pages: 4

How Women Are Portrayed In Hom

... Odysseus and could not see herself with another man when he could still be alive. She was smart, and cunning. She shows us this in Book II when we learn she has avoided having to choose a husband by telling the suitors she would choose one of them once she finished the garment she was weaving. She would work all day, and remove the stitches by candlelight while the suitors slept. Odysseus was "blessed in the possession of a wife endowed with such rare excellence of understanding, and so faithful to her wedded lord" (p.256). Penelope was th ...

Number of words: 664 | Number of pages: 3

The Catcher In The Rye: A Bridge From Innocence To Adulthood

... are too young to do something, like go out late or go on dates. These contradictions can lead an adolescent to complete uncertainty of their actions. J.B. Salingers book, The Catcher in the Rye, aptly describes the immense confusion of the in between stages of being a boy and a man. Throughout the whole story, the narrator, Holden tries to act both the boy and thw man but cannot. He tries in vain to get a grip on the adult world, but never is quite successful. Holden's first attempt at adulthood is exemplified when he leaves his school wi ...

Number of words: 2225 | Number of pages: 9

Piercy’s “Simple Song” And Donne’s “A Lecture Upon The Shadow”: Human Desire For Love

... of a relationship, “when we are going toward someone we say you are just like me your thoughts are my brothers word matches word how easy to be together.” At the start of a relationship everything seems so easy because there is so much expectation and hope. People get so excited at the possibility of love that they tend to be wearing rose colored spectacles if not blinders. They are exhilarated at the realization that, “hey, we both like apples dipped in peanut butter.” The little things are far more important than the bigger ones. ...

Number of words: 789 | Number of pages: 3

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