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Babyface: The Life Of Toni Chessmore

... learn to cope with the fact that her best friend and neighbor, Julie, is moving. Julie's parents are splitting up and she and her sister are caught in the middle of it. The two girls and their mother must go to California to stay with their aunt in order to give their father some time alone. This arrangement was only supposed to go through the summer but ended up going longer. Toni and Julie have grown up together and have never been separated. It is very hard and frustrating for them only to be able to communicate through letters. A ...

Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2

Evelina: Madame Duval

... of her relationship to Evelina. Fanny Burney knows we desire Madame Duval to be punished, but by doing so with violence, she asks us to question our own expectations of women in "the novel". Burney almost immediately introduces us to our hero Lord Orville, by doing this so early in the novel we as readers are compelled to dislike anyone else who courts our heroine. We know from experience, that any man (besides our hero) who attempts to solicit our heroine is most likely an enemy. Therefore when we meet Sir Clement Willoughby, we instantly dis ...

Number of words: 2136 | Number of pages: 8

The Catbird Seat: Mr. Martin

... other aspects that one can assume, like he may be a solid man instead of puny, since he drank milk everyday, but that is more of a personal attribute. In addition to Mr. Martin’s personal attributes, he was described as a 35 year old man who never drank or smoked. The author of the story, James Thurber, wrote, “The head of the filing department, neat, quiet, attentive…” Because of Mr. Martin’s quit and attentive attitude, one may find it difficult to suspect him of doing any type of wrong doing. All of his coworkers looked upon ...

Number of words: 580 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird

... story in the book with the children they pass by the house of a mysterious man named boo radly they torment this man only because they know so little about him and think he is a hermit. But little did they know that he really is not. and that in the end of the book it turns out that the mysterious boo radly will save their lives. Back to the trial, everyone in the town thinks that atticus is a "Niger-lover" but its not that way at all he is just a man apart from prejudice he feels that everyone should have their rite to be justifi ...

Number of words: 475 | Number of pages: 2

What Makes Up A Work Of Literature

... Letter, a reader is presented with the feelings of Chillingworth, Hester's (the main character) husband, and Dimmesdale (Hester's partner in adultry), as they are destroyed mentally as well as physically. Chillingworth is afraid of being dishonored by being known as the husband of a whore. He also wants revenge on Dimmesdale for corrupting Hester. His thoughts are read by the reader, and his actions represent the fiendish ways that have overcome him. The way he torment s Dimmesdale is seen when he acts as his physician. Chillingworth kno ...

Number of words: 765 | Number of pages: 3

Midaq Alley

... Thus, inhancing the feeling of eternity within which the circle of life is forever revolving. persents a diversity of chracters that creates the atmosphere that it is a whole life and a complete portray of a functioning Egyptian socity of the forties. Mahfouz successfully relates the events in with the outside world by refering to politics. This is illustrated when he states that -at this period of the Egyptian history, working girls were usually jewish-they were the starting flare that began modernization. The materialistic insenti ...

Number of words: 527 | Number of pages: 2

Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

... died and she was sent to her master's sister's daughter, the conditions were different. Linda's master taught her how to read and spell, which was a privilege, because most slaves were not taught how to do this. “While I was with her, she taught me to read and spell; and for this privilege, which so rarely falls to the lot of a slave, I bless her memory.” Chapter II The author's purpose for including this chapter is to show just how unfairly, and cruelly slaves (she) were treated. People saw the slaves as scapegoats and were blame ...

Number of words: 850 | Number of pages: 4

The Mending Wall

... make good neighbors. The contradiction is reasonable, for two different types of people utter the conflicting remarks and both are right. Man cannot live without walls, boundaries, limits and especially self-limitations; yet he resents all fetters and is happy at the destruction of any barrier. In "Mending Wall" the boundary line is useless: There where it is we do not need the wall. And, to stress the point, the speaker facetiously adds: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cone ...

Number of words: 758 | Number of pages: 3

A Farewell To Arms

... of Catherine and the baby and Henry's sudden solitude. "What happens now?" I felt, as I so often do when I finish a book that I want to go on forever. This is infinitely more difficult with a book that has no conclusion, and FTA leaves a reader not only emotionally exhausted but also just as alone as Henry and with nowhere to go. The entire work was aware of where it was going and what was going to happen next, and then to stop the way it did was unfair. Now, I've read enough essays while deciding which would be the topic for my class presen ...

Number of words: 744 | Number of pages: 3

The Awakening: Edna's

... musician who devoted her life to music, rather than a man. Edna oscillates between the two identities until she awakens to the fact that she needs to be an individual, but encounters the resistance of society's standards to her desire. Kate Chopin carefully, though subtly, establishes that Edna does not neglect her children, but only her mother-woman image. Chopin portrays this idea by telling the reader "…Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman. The mother-woman seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle". Edna tries on one occasio ...

Number of words: 804 | Number of pages: 3

Macbeth And Fear

... due to fear, not only of being caught but of the witches' prophecies, he was scared of them coming true and tried to stop them from happening. This whole play was inspired by fear and what it and do to a person. To begin, we'll address Macbeth's subsequent murders, following Duncan's. For Macbeth, he's just killed the King of Scotland and blamed it on his son. It worked and he became King, however he remembered the witches' prophecies. They claimed that Macbeth would be King, but it would be Banquo's children that would follow after him. Th ...

Number of words: 685 | Number of pages: 3

Classic Tales Of Tom Sawyer

... the books. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain successfully brings the story alive and makes it a pleasure to read. This book has gained the respect of people all over the world and earned itself this special distinction, because it contains the necessary substance. These integral ingredients of a classic are the vivid descriptions of the physical aspects of the story – the characters and setting, an entertaining and eventful plot, and the lasting truths the story's themes express. The most vivid memories of this story come from the ...

Number of words: 596 | Number of pages: 3

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