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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism Of The Forest In Puritan Society

... their personal anguishes and desires. In this novel, Hawthorne provides a sanctuary in the form of the mysterious forest, for the four main characters. Hawthorne uses the forest to provide a "shelter" for the members of society in need of a refuge from daily Puritan life. In the deep, dark crevices of the forest, many of the central characters bring forth hidden thoughts and emotions. The forest track leads away from the settlement out into the wilderness where all signs of civilization vanish. This is precisely the escape route from the st ...

Number of words: 1001 | Number of pages: 4

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

... rather as an equal. Age is not a factor in their relationship. Manolin does not even act as a young boy; he is mature and sensitive to Santiago's feelings. He even offers to go against his parent's wishes and accompany Santiago on his fishing trips. Santiago is viewed as an outcast in his village because he has not caught any fish for more than eighty-four days and is therefore "unlucky". Nonetheless Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him he wants to help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of ...

Number of words: 944 | Number of pages: 4

The Power And The Glory: The Whiskey Priest A Saint?

... and forget very easily. The author Graham Greene shows throughout the novel this was an accurate and also inaccurate self- assessment of the whiskey priest. Graham Greene demonstrates how brave and courageous the whiskey priest is when he is willing to forgive people that turn on him. The best example of this is when the Mestizo tells the whiskey priest that a fellow fugitive is in trouble and needs his blessing. This is a trap that later costs the whiskey priest his life, but he is willing to overlook this. This is best shown when he ...

Number of words: 700 | Number of pages: 3

Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War And Life

... such as sarcasm, exaggeration, and irony to get across one main point: war is senseless. In every section of the novel that is about World War II, there is satire there to set the mood. One example of satirizing events experienced in WWII was after Billy was captured by the Germans. He was thrown on a boxcar of a train and all the Americans captured were given a coat to wear. Everyone else’s coat was from a dead soldier with brass buttons, numbers and stars. Billy’s was the only one from a civilian, not only a civilian but a woman. ...

Number of words: 899 | Number of pages: 4

The Great Gatsby: American Dream

... he devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Jay had a love affair with the affluent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his par ...

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George Dawes Green's The Juror: Annie

... not jury duty. What I am about to air is what happened in our little run with the mob. Truly that has a bit of foul humor because I can't run. If you keep on reading you will understand the risks of serving for jury duty ¨Who will protect you?¨2 Before I met her, Annie was an unadorned artiste who had just transferred out of Manhattan and into the country. To a small cottage by a lake. Her child, Oliver, who loved to ride his bike, moved in as well. I have to say that when I met Annie for the first time it was as Juror N° 224. She w ...

Number of words: 893 | Number of pages: 4

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

... part of development. In the novel , Mark Twain throws the curious yet innocent mind of Huck Finn out into a very hypocritical, judgmental, and hostile world, yet Huck has one escape--the Mississippi River constantly flowing nearby. Here nature is presented as a thought provoking environment when experienced alone. The river is quiet and peaceful place where Huck can revert to examine any predicament he might find himself in: "They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low…Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold ...

Number of words: 993 | Number of pages: 4

Walden

... heroes and than mentions the fierceness of the ants. One can conclude that Thoreau does not think too highly of humans on a whole. The first allusions of human battles and people is to the Trojan War. Thoreau makes many references to this great struggle which has popped up many a philosophical debates. “The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black.” This is the first reference to the Trojans and their war. The Myrmid ...

Number of words: 853 | Number of pages: 4

The Adventures Of Huckleberry

... and he admires Mary Jane. Throughout Huck's journey there is one person that is always present in his life, Jim. When Huck is going down the river Jim is always with him and Jim stands by him life a "friend". At the end of the novel, when Huck goes looking for Jim, who was captured, he has to go to the Phelps's farm. There Huck is mistaken for Tom Sawyer and stays with Aunt Sally, and Uncle Silas. When staying there he tries to come up with a plan to rescue Jim so he can be a free slave. Later, Huck meets up with Tom Sayer who was comi ...

Number of words: 1214 | Number of pages: 5

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Contradiction

... fake his death and escape from his cabin: "I out with my saw and went to work on that log again. I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in. I had wore the ground a good deal, crawling out of the hole and dragging out so many things. So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside. Then I fixed the piece of log back into its place. I took the ax and smashed in the door-I beat it and hacked it considerable, a-doing it. I fetched the pig.and laid him down on ...

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Go Ask Alice

... Dodgson's meetings with these girls were the basis for this famous story. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865. The elements that make Alice such an enduring and fascinating story are the setting, characters and theme. The narrative of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is told within the framework of a dream. However, that does not become clear until the end of the story. Springtime, the setting for Alice's dream, is the traditional time in English literature for frivolity and strange stories. The setting for Chau ...

Number of words: 990 | Number of pages: 4

Materialism And Happiness In America: The Gatsby Era And Today

... have become equated in the predominant ideology of liberal society, even though the great spiritual teachers of humanity have all taught otherwise." (17) What happened to Gatsby's generation? The 20's was an age of a consumption ethic that was needed to provide markets for the new commodities that streamed from the production lines (Cowley, 53). The same problem exists today ... our materialistic attitudes are a result of the freemarket economy in this country. Consumers are taught that they need to have all these things that the bus ...

Number of words: 1061 | Number of pages: 4

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