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Rhetorical Analysis Of The Sha

... his shirt always buttoned and his hair always combed. This self-respect was in great contrast to the other prisoners who were portrayed as dirty, stereotypical prisoners. The common prisoners also had vocabularies and grammar that were far inferior to Andy’s. The distinctions between Andy and the common prisoners showed that Andy was different, those differences were that he had hope. Many scenes involved ironic contrasts between the tone and the surroundings. On several occasions the background music was cheerful and upbeat while ...

Number of words: 802 | Number of pages: 3

The Sun Also Rises : Moral And Social Values

... that various men in her life seem to smother her with. Brett is not happy with her life or her surroundings and seeks escape and refuge in the arms of these men. But her actions seem always to end up hurting her, and she runs back to Jake. Jake knows that he will never be able to have her for his own, and he accepts this as fact. This is clear when the Count asks them ³why don¹t you get married, you two? (68)² To this question, they give a lame half hearted awnser which implies that it will never happen. He is tolerant of her behavio ...

Number of words: 522 | Number of pages: 2

An Interpretation Of Franz Kafka’s Parable “The Trees.”

... who reads this parable will interpret it in such a way that it will only relate to that person. The “tree,” as it is, while aesthetically the same, is individually different. Therefore one must come to his own conclusions about the representation of the tree. The parable also gives off a sense of an opinionated unity. While the narrator unifies his readers through the use of the pronoun “we” in the first sentence, the entire parable feels as though it is the opinion of the narrator. This fact poses a discrediting, of sort, to the v ...

Number of words: 479 | Number of pages: 2

Animal Farm: Political Satire

... corrupt and power-hungry as their predecessors, the humans. The theme in Animal Farm maintains that in every society there are leaders who, if given the opportunity, will likely abuse their power. The book begins in the barnyard of Mr. Jones' "Manor Farm". The animals congregate at a meeting led by the prize white boar, Major. Major points out to the assembled animals that no animal in England is free. He further explains that the products of their labor is stolen by man, who alone benefits. Man, in turn, gives back to the animal ...

Number of words: 738 | Number of pages: 3

Abbey, And His Fear Of Progress

... improve on mother nature? Progress actually detracts from the parks natural beauty. Cars, litter, and vandalism can all be attributed to "progress." In this frame of thinking "progress" kind of contradicts it's self. The most detrimental aspect of progress is the automobile. "'Parks are for people' is the public-relations slogan, which decoded means that the parks are for people-in -automobiles." People come streaming in, driving their cars. They are in a hurry because they are trying to see as many parks as possible in their short va ...

Number of words: 1417 | Number of pages: 6

Brighten Beach Memoirs: Neil Simon's Background Influence

... Stanley his brother lost 17 dollars in a poker game, Eugene didn’t tell anyone but he did ask for a favor. Although Eugene did not tell anyone about their secrets it was because he didn’t want his brother to be in trouble (Simon p 78). To help out his family he runs many errands “Go to Hansons. Get a half-pint of butter pecan. And…”(p. 93 Simon) was what Eugene often heard. Knowing his family counted on him, Eugene did the right thing and did not say no. Lastly, everyone in his family was exepting to pitch in and help. Simon is ...

Number of words: 556 | Number of pages: 3

A Thousand Acres: An Analysis

... not too good memories come out of the fight. The girlsremember the fact that their father molested Ginny and Rose. Rose and Ginny get sued for the farm by their father and Caroline, in the end Ginny and Rose win the battle. After the whole court affair was over Ginny moved away to try to forget about it all, then Rose’s breast cancer comes back and she moves back to help Rose and her daughters. Then when they thought that all tragedy was over, their father died of a heart attack. Rose fought her cancer for a while, but in the end she ...

Number of words: 478 | Number of pages: 2

Jane Austen: Background Of Her Novels

... of letters. Jane Austen's own tongue-in-cheek opinion of her work, in a letter to her sister Cassandra immediately after its publication, was: "Upon the whole... I am well satisfied enough. The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants [i.e. needs] shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story: an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonapart‚, or anything ...

Number of words: 2491 | Number of pages: 10

Remember Me: Review

... books and when the reader sees her again in book 3, she is a famous writer who seems to have lost sight of what she learned in the afterlife. Although she is still helping people with her writing, she has become very materialistic and selfish about her success. Pike does a skillful job of contrasting and developing her character in each of the novels. The reader can easily observe Shari as her character changes and matures after her death and afterlife experience. In book 1, Remember Me, Shari Cooper is an 18-year-old teenager on the verge ...

Number of words: 1013 | Number of pages: 4

The Cherry Orchard

... the characters and contribute often to the comic side of things. Sometimes, however, the passivity erupts the tragic flaws of the characters as they fail to save the estate. Another theme of is the thin line between reality and outer appearance between which the characters cannot distinguish. Although indirect, this confusion provides the play yet again with comedy. On the contrary, the confusion is also seen as another tragic flaw of the characters contributing to the downfall of the estate and its orchard. Another theme Chekhov po ...

Number of words: 2011 | Number of pages: 8

Art As An Insight Into Jane Eyre's Life

... than Jane's own artistic abilities as they progress through life. To best examine and explore the progress of Jane's emotional and temperamental development, it is important to construct a frame of reference, to have a base from which to work towards her final character. Her childhood home, Gateshead provides the groundwork of her emotional/character being, which at the beginning of the story is an isolated creature, devoid of loving and nurturing contact and shunned by humanity. Two excerpts from her stay at Gateshead illustrate this fact ...

Number of words: 1259 | Number of pages: 5

Wuthering Heights-storm And Ca

... points out, the contrast between the two “resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country, for a beautiful fertile valley.” (Bronte 72) The Lintons, and the social and material advantages they stand for become Heathcliff’s rivals for Catherine’s love, which leads directly to the central conflict of the novel. Heathcliff despises them at first sight for their weakness, but Catherine, being an extremely proud girl, is tempted. A lovers’ triangle begins to take definite shape when the aris ...

Number of words: 759 | Number of pages: 3

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