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Irony In The Rocking Horse

... Instead of stopping, the whispering increases after Paul's mother benefits from his winnings. In the beginning, Paul's mother, in effect, challenges him to prove that he is lucky. Paul's search for luck is conducted behind the reins of a rocking-horse, "charging madly into space." In his travels, Paul hears odd names which he shares with the gardener, Bassett. Bassett recognizes the names as winners in horse races, and begins to win bets based on Paul's insight. Paul arranges for some of his winnings to be given to his mother, under the ...

Number of words: 351 | Number of pages: 2

To Kill A Mockingbird: Character Analysis Of Jem

... is uninterested in the games they used to play. This is, in my opinion, because he is going through puberty and his attitude towards Scout and himself changes. He begins to think of Scout as a little kid and he feels he should be doing older, more mature things. Jem's beliefs change profoundly too. He used to believe in the court system, something he had read about and was taught about by his father, Atticus. But after the court convicts Tom Robinson of rape when Atticus had clearly proven that Tom could not have done it Jem sees his first ...

Number of words: 445 | Number of pages: 2

Tom Jones

... the people of his time. He wanted them to go for their dreams and never to give up hope. But most of all this was for entertainment. Humans like to see lives that are in more turmoil than their own. This is why we have soap operas on television today. He achieves this by using characters that seem to be imaginable. He puts these characters in amazing situations. When the reader believes that they have something pinned he puts in another twist that sends your senses spiraling. A specific instance in the novel is when the reader finds out that ...

Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4

Inman

... cleaned his clothes and himself. He slept naked to let his clothes dry. Inman came across the house of the Georgia boy. The boy let him stay. The boy told Imnam the story of Stobrod and Pangle being captured and killed. Ada and Ruby slept until Stobrod began coughing Stobrod had blood all over himself, from his neck to his collar. Ada and Ruby took care of him. Inman was afraid to fall apart at a bad time. Then he realized there is never a good time to fall apart. He thought of Ada. He thought that maybe she could save him from his ...

Number of words: 596 | Number of pages: 3

Comparison Of Margaret Mead's "Coming In Age" To Russian Youth

... need for individual expression. Expectations of the children change as they get older. They know what is expected of them and want to follow the rules. In contrast, the youth in the Soviet Union, live in a culture of confusion. They feel constricted by the laws of the society, see families collapsing around them, and believe things should change. They want to be individuals and they want to live by their own values and ideas. Many come from broken homes and poor communities with little respect for authority. They rebel again ...

Number of words: 2592 | Number of pages: 10

Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation

... skin, dark black hair, eyes sunk into their sockets, and black lips (Shelly 56). Frankenstein, having chosen the parts for his creature, is the only one possible to blame for its appearance. Martin Tropp states that the monster is "designed to be beautiful and loving, it is loathsome and unloved" (64). Clearly it is Frankenstein's lack of foresight in the creation process to allow for a creature that Frankenstein "had selected his features as beautiful," (56) to become something which the very sight of causes its creator to say "brea ...

Number of words: 1322 | Number of pages: 5

Dune

... Atreides. Paul is medium height with short, black hair. His mother Jessica is a Bene Gesserit that means she knows the “weirding way.” This means Jessica is trained to kill and is also trained as a mind reader. She is very tall and beautiful and is always concerned with the actions of Paul, the future ruler of the galaxy. Jessica's teacher, the Reverend Mother heard of Paul and thought that he might be the great leader that the prophets told of. The Reverend Mother came to Dune and tested Paul to see if this was so. Paul underwent ...

Number of words: 1862 | Number of pages: 7

Jane Eyre: The Maturing Of Jane

... as part of the family. Her development of determination and self-reliance become more superior each day she spent at Gateshead. Jane states: "…I hate to live here." This quote proves that Jane hated Gateshead and she was determined to find a better place. The place Jane found was the Lowood Institution for orphans. It was not a better place but it helped Jane stand on her own feet. Through the help of Helen Burns, Jane has learned to love, forget hatred and live her life in happiness. Helen states: "Life appears too short to be sp ...

Number of words: 570 | Number of pages: 3

A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Irony, Characters, And Foreshadowing

... symbolism. There are several ironies dispersed in O’Conners short story. At the beginning, the grandmother is opposed to go to Florida on vacation, but when the time arrived to depart, she is the first passenger seated in the car. Another example is the entire time she is trying to change her son Bailey’s mind, she used a prison escape as the primary reason not to proceed to Florida, and ironically, they confront the fugitive in a strange twist of fate. In another instance, the grandmother insists on taking her cat on vacation with her ...

Number of words: 1441 | Number of pages: 6

Canterbury Tales: Power Corrupts

... courses to qualify him for the B.A. Despite that, he did not have a secular job or a church position because all he wanted to do was read and educate himself. He preferred to have: Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie. (Prologue, Lines 294-296) The Clerk preferred to have twenty books at the head of his bed rather than own expensive clothing, a fiddle, or a beautiful sounding harp. Having no job left the Clerk broke; his only source of income was his friends l ...

Number of words: 1173 | Number of pages: 5

The Heart Of Darkness: The Horror!

... set upon the Congo by Europeans. The destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans led to the cry of Kurtz's last words, "The horror! The horror!" The horror in Heart of Darkness has been critiqued to represent different aspects of situations in the book. However, Kurtz's last words "The horror! The horror!" refer, to me, to magnify only three major aspects. The horror magnifies Kurtz not being able to restrain himself, the colonizers' greed, and Europe's darkness. Kurtz comes to the Congo with noble intentions. He thought that each i ...

Number of words: 1453 | Number of pages: 6

Character Study Of Blance Dubo

... analyzing the symbolism in the first scene, one can understand what prompted Blanche to move. Her appearance in the first scene "suggests a moth" (Williams 96). In literature a moth represents the soul. So it is possible to see her entire voyage as the journey of her soul (Quirino 63). Later in the same scene she describes her voyage: "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields" (Quirino 63). Taken literally this does not seem to add much to the ...

Number of words: 1061 | Number of pages: 4

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