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Catcher In The Rye: Letter To The Editor - An Unfair Trial

... of the residents of Maycomb, one man seemed to be different than most of the other people. It was Atticus Finch that stood out, and he was also the lawyer defending Tom Robinson. Atticus seemed to have more respect for the black community in his town, which most people lacked. He was probably the only person that would actually take defending a black man seriously in Maycomb, which shows the lack of morale in the town. After looking at the judge and the jury, I realized that Tom never had a chance in the first place. The odds were still ...

Number of words: 390 | Number of pages: 2

In Cold Blood

... by a prosperous rancher. When he’s paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith to join him going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all - the rancher, his wife, and their teenage son and daughter. The bodies are found by two family friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors were routinely left unlocked. The killers then tr ...

Number of words: 1157 | Number of pages: 5

Medea Vs. Hedda Gabbler

... subsequent death of her children, is spawned by her unfair treatment and spurning by Jason, where as Hedda has very different reasons. Hedda has not been scorned by any one person really, but she is stuck in a man’s world, as a woman, where she has absolutely no control, marking her desire to control the destiny of Eilert Lovborg. Medea is pushed by the force of fate, as if she has no control over her actions. She is a strong willed woman, doing what she must, coming out as the victor in the end. Hedda, however, comes out quite differen ...

Number of words: 1051 | Number of pages: 4

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Summary

... or stop what they are doing all together and chase it around following each of their sporadic movements as the hot sun illuminates and watches from above. Identity has changed. What once was a little ugly caterpillar that kids would go around squishing and people would flick from trees when given the chance, went on to be an ignored sack secured to branch. Nobody pays attention to the fact that beautiful butterflies are the results of these common eyesores. As the caterpillar grew older it matured and changed, from being stuck on land ...

Number of words: 983 | Number of pages: 4

Loves Music, Loves To Dance: Summary

... one of her own shoes and an unmatched ballroom dancing shoe. The FBI figures out that there is a serial killer and they urge everyone not to answer the personal ads. Despite what everyone says, Darcy keeps answering, these ads in hope that she will find Erin's killer. Darcy goes on many dates and the one person she would never suspect. While at his home, she finds Erin's ring. The key scene in this novel is when Darcy is on a date with Michael Nash, otherwise known as Charles North. She starts to get very nervous because he is acting ext ...

Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2

Themes Of Struggle, Social Oppression And Money In The Pearl

... them from the weather. Kino struggled with both things because his canoe was destroyed and his hut was burned. Scorpion attacks are also a factor in Mexico. Kino’s child, Coyotito, was stung and poisoned by one. Kino also has to worry about the Spanish people who are desperately attacking and trying to steal the pearl from him. These were the kind of things that made life hard for the Indians. Kino, Juana and the rest of the natives are all under the oppression of the Spanish people who took over their land. These Spanish people have no co ...

Number of words: 1184 | Number of pages: 5

Critical Analysis Of The Jungl

... in 1906, by Sinclair himself with considerable financial aid from Jack London. There is no table of contents as it is written in the form of a novel. Likewise, there are very few footnotes and the footnotes it does have are on how to pronounce things. There is a bibliography in the back which lists all of his sources for information on meatpacking and his other documentation. For the most part it is historically accurate, as it tells the life of a man who works in a realistic meat packing setting. Because it is fictional, though, ...

Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4

The Feminine Mystique

... down to the color of a woman's hair. Many women wished that they could be blonde because that was the ideal hair color. In The Feminine Mystique, Friedan writes that "across America, three out of every ten women dyed their hair blonde " (Kerber/DeHart 514). This serves as an example of how there was such a push for women to fit a certain mold which was portrayed as the role of women. Blacks were naturally excluded from the notion of ideal women and they suffered additional discrimination which was even greater than that which the white ...

Number of words: 1276 | Number of pages: 5

Miltons Paradise Lost

... in a quiet neighborhood, a fancy car, and a great spouse. American Beauty's Lester Burnham, on the surface, seems to have it all. In reality he is rapidly beginning to realize that his lifestyle has left him without a soul. Burnham is an advertising writer who finds his job unbearable, his wife frigid, his teenage daughter a stranger, his life in general intolerable. While masturbating in the shower one morning, Lester declares this event to be as good as it gets all day. So he takes a fall. Lester Burnham complicates his life further ...

Number of words: 853 | Number of pages: 4

Like Water For Chocolate

... day, Tita fell in love with a young man named Pedro. Pedro and his father came to the ranch to ask Mama Elena if Pedro could ask for Tita's hand, but the rules in their family were that the youngest daughter could never get married. According to tradition, Tita would have to stay at home and take care of her mother until the day her mother died. This broke Tita and Pedro's hearts. Mama Elena told Pedro he could marry Tita's sister, Rosaura though, and he did just so he could be closer to Tita. He never felt any love for Rosaura. Meanwhile, ...

Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3

Mice Of Men

... Lennie loves to feel and pet animals, but he does not know his own strength. He kills them without really noticing what he has done, until George tells him that he did something wrong. After being scolded, Lennie is very remorseful about what he did. Once, after being yelled at Lennie says, “I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead- because they were so little (13).” Lennie’s remorse is probably more for upsetting George than it is for actually killing the animal. Another way that death and loss is evidence ...

Number of words: 492 | Number of pages: 2

Naturalism In To Build A Fire

... naturalism to show how in life, humans can depend on nothing but themselves to survive. "To Build a Fire" is a short story that embodies the idea of naturalism and how, if one is not careful, nature will gain the upper hand and they will perish. When the narrator introduced the main character of the story, the man, he made it clear that the man was in a perilous situation involving the elements. The man was faced with weather that was 75 degrees below zero and he was not physically or mentally prepared for survival. London wrote that the cold ...

Number of words: 1239 | Number of pages: 5

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