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Great Expectations: Self Conflict

... him thinking about what he truly wants for himself. His desire to win Estella shifts his direction down a path toward propriety and business, a road to London. Her rejection of him damages his pride and esteem so much as to make him want to change his entire life and character to meet her approval. At this point, he rejects the love that those like Joe and Biddy offer, and feels he will not see himself as worthy, unless he meets the approval of the cold and haughty miss Estella. This powers him to accept an offer to become a gentleman, and ...

Number of words: 532 | Number of pages: 2

The Apprentiship Of Duddy Krav

... of his film company, it could be seen that he was willing to do anything to get money, even if he had to lie. For example, the film Duddy made for the bar mitzvah was of extremely poor quality, and as a result, the product was an obvious failure. Duddy himself knew that well: “Duddy didn’t say a word all though the screening but afterwards he was sick to his stomach.” (Page 148). Later, Duddy said to Mr. Friar: “I could sell Mr. Cohn a dead horse easier then this pile of _” (page 148). After this part ...

Number of words: 651 | Number of pages: 3

Justifying The Ways Of God To Man: Paradise Lost, Book III

... 26), which ultimately he proves he does not need to do. In Book III, we are taken up to Heaven by Milton, who opens the book by mourning his loss of sight. It is through this loss of physical vision, however, that Milton is able to more clearly portray Heaven: So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Hughes, 51-55). Milton's lack of sight is an asset here ...

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An Analysis Of The Wretched Of The Earth

... colonial education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the third world. Fanon at first was a assimilationist thinking colonists and colonized should try to build a future together. But quickly Fanon's assimilationist illusions were destroyed by the gaze of metropolitan racism both in France and in the colonized world. He responded to the shattering of his neo- colonial identity, his white mask, with his first book, Black Skin, White Mask, written in 1952 at the age of twenty-seven and originally titled "An Essay f ...

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Billy Bud: Contrast Between Good And Evil

... His white garb, and natural glowing of light makes his death seem symbolic for good. Claggort "who's brow was of the sort phrenologically associated with more than average intellect" symbolically manipulated Billy Budd as did the "wisdom of the serpent" manipulate Adam. Evil always tries to antagonize what is good. Therefore, Claggort was Billy's antagonist throughout Billy Budd. Also symbolic to the novel is the actual demise of both Claggort and Billy Budd. Claggort's death is very short and appropriate "to his navel grade." In cont ...

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In The Mind Of The Pardoner

... the biblical idea that “the love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10). Ironically, however, the Pardoner condemns the very same vice that he lives by, as he proclaims “avarice is the theme that I employ in all my sermons, to make the people free in giving pennies—especially to me”. Thus, covetousness is both the substance of his sermons as well as the mechanism upon which he thrives. He clearly states that repentance is not the central aim of his preaching, by mentioning “my mind is fixed o ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What A Change!

... it was most likely the way the Puritan lived. And they probably obeyed it out of fear for their life. For sinners are in the hands of a angry God. Many years later Nathaniel Hawthorn was greatly interested by the Puritans. This 19th-century American novelist, was born on July 4, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died May 11, 1864. He was the first American writer to apply artistic judgment to Puritan society. He was intrigued by the psychological insight into the complexities of human motivations and actions. In The Scarlet Letter, he expr ...

Number of words: 915 | Number of pages: 4

Red Badge Of Courage

... solider goes out and lives through the tough endurance's of war but he finds something inside of him to live through it. The perfect solider is what Jim Conklin brings to the book. Jim never complains about war and fights as good as the next man. Many of the people look up to Jim because he is so strong willed. The regiments almost look up to Jim in a spiritual way finding peace inside of them when they think of him. It is a tragedy when Jim dies because of all of the moral inspiration he gave the regiment. True to his character Jim ...

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Hiroshima: Book Report

... had been killed, 13,983 were missing, and 37,425 had been injured. Even before the bomb, the citizens of Hiroshima were waken almost every night because of false warnings of intruder planes coming in the area. It talked about how a lot of people had to go on living with only one leg or one arm. To me, it brought up a good point, that all those innocent people had do die for nothing. CHAPTER SUMMARY Briefly summarize each of the chapters: main ideas, narrative features. The first chapter is called "A Noiseless Flash." The ti ...

Number of words: 845 | Number of pages: 4

Willa Cather's "O Pioneers"

... man's progress. In the short tale, O Pioneers, written by Willa Cather in 1913, tells a tale of the oncoming future of the Great Plains. Although this tale tells about the great fortune of the plains, it forgets to mention the heartaches of the Native Americans. Willa Cather was born December 7 , 1873 in a town west of Winchester, Virginia.2 In 1884, the Cather's moved their four children to a town called Red Cloud in Nebraska where they arrived to a place uninhabited, but with much fortune and hard work ahead of them. 3 In 1890, Will ...

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Emily Bronte's Life And Wuthering Heights

... her father Patrick Bronte. The family grew in the bleak, desolate, barren moors of York, which are vast rough grassland areas covered with small shrubbery. This atmosphere reflects the setting she chose for Wuthering Heights. In this novel two very distinct families create a picture of passionate love, hate and revenge. It is centered on three dominant characters: Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, and Heathcliff. Catherine is in love with both men, but for different reasons. Heathcliff is a vengeance ridden, cold, wild tempered, workin ...

Number of words: 1268 | Number of pages: 5

Catcher In The Ryes Holden Cau

... mind, and what exactly is Salinger trying to get across to us, as the reader?" Holden's representation of the complex teenage mind allows an insight of how an average 15-17 year old thinks. Holden is troubled by the perplexed ways society is working around him. Take for example, his obsession with the ducks in the pond, and his constant worry for them, and constant want to protect them. What is this telling us? Holden doesn't like the way society works, and wants to be the "catcher in the rye," protecting society's children from it's evilnes ...

Number of words: 445 | Number of pages: 2

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