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Charles Dickens' Hard Times

... do something about it so he did not join the union and had a talk with Bounderby about the working conditions. Bounderby refused to even think about the notion of changing the working conditions. He also made Blackpool look like he was a traitor to the other workers. They regarded him as an outcast, even though in actuality he was trying to help them. Stephen was married to a “disabled, drunken creature, barely able to preserve her sitting posture by steadying herself with one begrimed hand on the floor”. She had left him for years and he ...

Number of words: 618 | Number of pages: 3

Comparison Between Grapes Of W

... characters that can be portrayed as being physically trapped. Mary is physically trapped by her own actions. When she meets a tramp in the gravel pit, she allows him to make love to her. This event causes her husband Amasa to resign from his job as a Baptist Minister due to shame and disgrace. After this happening Amasa keeps her tied in a harness so she cannot get out of the house. Mary’s actions affect and ruin her family life. Later in the story it is mentioned that she is in a small hospital behind bars and often under sedation due t ...

Number of words: 860 | Number of pages: 4

A Heritage Denied

... at the home and lifestyle her family provides. It is implied in “Everyday Use” that she goes to the extent of burning down her family’s home due to her spite of it. Dee’s mother observes her daughter, under a tree, watching with great fascination as their home is destroyed (Walker 73). Dee believes that her mother subjects her family to substandard living conditions, by choice. In a letter to her mother, Dee writes, no matter where she (Dee’s mother) “chooses” to live she (Dee) will manage to visit (Walker 73). Altho ...

Number of words: 891 | Number of pages: 4

The Functions Of Setting In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

... the way he intended them to be seen. Hemingway still leaves much to the readers imagination, but takes care to design the setting with enough detail that one can create a precise description of the locale on their own. Hemingway writes, "It was late and everyone had left the café except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now ...

Number of words: 846 | Number of pages: 4

Huck Finn

... than he. Pap tries to get a hold of the money for his own uses, but he fails. He proceeds to lock Huck up in his cabin on the outskirts of town. Huck then stages his kidnapping and subsequent killing, and takes a canoe across to Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River. There he comes across a runaway slave, Jim, and the two decide to leave the area. Huck leaves to avoid his father, and Jim leaves to escape a false charge of murder. The rest of the story follows all of their exciting and action packed adventures down the Mississippi River ...

Number of words: 893 | Number of pages: 4

Death Of A Salesman: Minor Characters And Their Affect On The Plot

... and help develop the main character, Willy. Ben is a figment of Willy's imagination that represents his idealistic view of prosperity. Ben is symbolic of the success of the American Dream. He expresses these feelings when he says, "When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich"(48). Ben earned his affluence without the help of an education or job. Willy is continuously misled with delusion illusions of grandeur by Ben, as in when Ben says, "What are you building? Lay your han ...

Number of words: 628 | Number of pages: 3

Candide The Satire Of An Age.

... about what should be done. At last to the happiness of readers Pangloss is killed by being hanged. But this means that Candide’s reason is also dead! No problem he just goes finds a new companion, “Lacking him [Pangloss], let’s consult the old woman” (37). He soon loses her, gains another, looses him, and then gains another. Thus we see that Candide can only think if he has a companion. Voltaire is thus saying that all the nobles are really idiots and says they are only smart because they have philosophers. This is typically Enlightenm ...

Number of words: 644 | Number of pages: 3

A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"

... and the leaders that were left decided that the problem was the individual, that all men are equal in all things and that anything that is created by one person is evil. This train of thought is carried to such and extreme that the very word "I" is removed from their vocabulary. An example of this is found when the main character, Equality-1329, re-invents the electric light. He shows his invention to the scientist and although this invention could improve the quality of life of the people it is deemed "evil" because he worked on his ...

Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3

True Sinners

... for the rest of her life in the town. Although Hawthorne does not pardon Hester's sin, he interprets it in a diminished way that is less serious than of Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. Hester's sin was a sin of desire. This sin was openly acknowledged as she wore the "A" on her chest. Although she is not justified, Hester did not commit the greatest sin of the novel. She did not deliberately commit her sin or mean to hurt others. Hester's sin is that her passions and love were of more importance to her than the Puritan moral code. This is sho ...

Number of words: 1920 | Number of pages: 7

Of Mice And Men: Lennie And George

... that feeling that someday their satisfaction will come. Unfortunately our dreams don't always coincide with reality. George and Lennie are two incongruent characters, where one is small, alert, and clever; the other huge, and powerful, however, bears the mind of a child. They compliment eachother in many ways, but deep within they have an inseparable relationship. "Sometimes you just get used to a guy." The two have grown together, and they live a part of eachother. George, being the leader of the two, has the responsibility of caring fo ...

Number of words: 672 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Hypocrisy Is A Sin

... to be adultery, in fact adultery is just one of the many bases Hawthorne could use to build the story around. The underlying sin that Hawthorne deals with in The Scarlet Letter is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess. All three main characters, Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, commit the sin of hypocrisy. Hawthorne shows that hypocrisy is indeed a sin by punishing the offenders. Hester Prynne is a strong, independent woman who deals with her sin of adul ...

Number of words: 1280 | Number of pages: 5

The Adventures Of Huckleberry

... Mark Twain, author of Finn uses satire as a literary technique to present his ideals on slavery within his period of time. Satire is a method of taking a serious issue and representing it in a humorous way. The Author uses Huck’s relationship with Jim, societies attitude towards Jim during their travel up the Mississippi River, and the use of racist terminology throughout the novel. Mark Twain’s use of satire in the novel Finn enables the reader to better understand his message of slavery. First, Huck’s relatio ...

Number of words: 898 | Number of pages: 4

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