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Romeo And Juliet 2

... the potion to Juliet, Romeo would probably not have killed himself. As a result of Romeo killing himself, Juliet then wakes up and finds Romeo dead. This then causes Juliet to kill herself. This is all a chain of events suffered by youth that were caused by adults’. Another victim of the Capulet and Montegue conflict was Mercutio. When Tybalt and Mercutio were fighting, Mercutio was badly wounded by a sword. He then cries, “A plague a both your houses,” blaming his death on the house of the Montegue and the Capulets. T ...

Number of words: 393 | Number of pages: 2

Toni Morrison's Beloved: Sethe, A Brave Mother In Love, Or Is She Selfish In Her Weakness?

... we can start to conceive her motivations for killing her third nameless child. Did Beloved’s death come out of love or selfish pride? In preventing her child from going into slavery, Sethe, too, protected herself, she prevented herself from re-entering captivity. In examining Sethe’s character we can see that her motivations derive from her deep love towards her children, and from the lack of love for herself. Sethe’s children are her only good quality. Her children are a part of her and in killing one she kills a part of herself. ...

Number of words: 1508 | Number of pages: 6

Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary

... he is not in control of the targets, the Pentagon and Air Force is. Jake gathers information from maps and a friend in the navigation department to learn about a target he wants to go after: The Vietnam Communist Party Headquarters. The three figure that if they succeed, they'll have a good chance of hitting the leader of the party. Grafton and his bombardier, Virgil Cole miss the building completely and just hit a few bystanders and blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be court- martialed, President Nixon gives the ord ...

Number of words: 592 | Number of pages: 3

Silas Marner: Eliot's Manipulation

... effectiveness of the work as a whole. Eliot opens the novel with the first time span taking place in Silas' desolate cramped cottage in Raveloe. This is an important time span because what is learned here about Silas contributes to the whole novel. Silas wants to stay away from social human life and keep to himself. He takes the job of a weaver so that he can be alone at his work. We learn from his flashback of 15 years earlier that he comes to the village of Raveloe because he has been falsely accused of stealing by the members of his r ...

Number of words: 834 | Number of pages: 4

The Real Thing

... and gained more personal satisfaction. In " ", it is portrayed that the Monarchs have a lot of positive pride, this is exhibited so clearly by the way they are described. The narrator mentions how professional they look, by their dress, and by the way they act when he first meets them. "The gentleman, a man of fifty, very high and very straight, with a mustache slightly grizzled and a dark gray walking-coat admirably fitted, both of which I noted professionally - I don’t mean as a barber or yet as a tailor" . In this story, t ...

Number of words: 753 | Number of pages: 3

The Good Earth: Summary

... With an understanding of the farming lifestyle, Buck was able to recreate a fictional experience of a 40 year span of Wang Lung’s life as he gains sudden wealth and changes his lifestyle. Wang Lung’s story unfolds after his marriage to O-lan as they raise their family on the land. The earth pulled Wang Lung through many hardships such as famine, floods, drought, and robbers. In the beginning, Wang Lung was successful in gaining just enough surplus to become a stable farmer. During this first year, they had a son and a “handful ...

Number of words: 1143 | Number of pages: 5

The Themes In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

... and Atticus Finch, Lee went on to study law. She left school in 1950 so that she could go to New York and become a writer. "Her law studies proved to be 'good training for a writer' because they promote logical thinking and because law cases are an excellent source for story ideas" (Matuz 239). When her father became ill, she was forced to split her time between New York and Monroeville, Alabama. "In her native town she was surrounded by the setting of her novel; an old house where a mysterious recluse might live, the courtroom, and t ...

Number of words: 1161 | Number of pages: 5

The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol Of The Scarlet Letter

... the other Puritans. The scarlet letter is indeed a blessing to Hester Prynne, more than the curse she believes it to be. The scarlet symbol of ignominy may have defiled Hester's public image, yet it has been a benefit rather than a bane to her soul, for by admitting her crime to the crowd, her soul is freed from two hells: first, the fiery pit where she would otherwise go after death, and second, the own personal hell Hester will create for herself if she had chosen to hide her sin in her heart. Though it was ordered for Hester to wear th ...

Number of words: 1371 | Number of pages: 5

Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part Of Our Past

... Sure there would have been word of mouth, but things would have gotten so turned around that it would not have been our past anymore, it would have been a made up one. In the time of Shakespeare there were no televisions, not even close to that technology yet. Who would we study and learn about, if no one had written things. Man kind would be studying the man who had invented the television because he would have been able to record himself, and then everything after that, which is only about fifty years. But without the recordings of Ein ...

Number of words: 854 | Number of pages: 4

Cahill's How The Irish Saved Civilization

... p.3) The theme of this book is that the scribes did something unique, they saved civilization, not the masses of people, but literature, the content of “classical civilization.” (Cahill, p. 58) One reads of the time from Rome's fall to medieval times learning through the stories of the characters, most notable Augustine and Patrick. Augustine, his faith based on Roman Chrisitanity, “looked into his own heart and found the anguish of each individual.” (Cahill, p. 115) Patrick, the slave turned Christian, escapes only to retur ...

Number of words: 741 | Number of pages: 3

The Awakening Vs. A Doll's House

... are both quite good. Both novels are very well written. Chopin and Ibsen developed their characters well, used excellent imagery, and told interesting stories. Both shared their strong convictions even though they knew their ideas weren't popular. The strong beliefs that are shared in these stories are part of what makes them classics. However, some of the ideas that are portrayed in these works aren't ideas readers should assume to be true or good. The first of these is the theory that husbands will most likely treat their wives ...

Number of words: 711 | Number of pages: 3

Huck Finn Essay

... that lie between these two elements. The first glimpse that we get of the civilized world in Huck’s time comes to us as early as the first chapter. Huck describes to the reader how he is getting along in civilization. He tells us things about society that he doesn’t yet understand, like how the Widow forbids him to smoke yet she uses tobacco herself. Twain establishes the hypocrisy of civilization early on in the novel to give the reader insight on the differences between the “proper” ways of nineteenth century society and the � ...

Number of words: 806 | Number of pages: 3

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