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Philosophies In Voltaires Cand

... Eldorado is portrayed as the utopian society. Eldorado is Voltaire's ideal world, one that he knew could never exist, but could provide him with an agent to point out sad failings of the real world. In Eldorado, every person is on an equal, class levels don't exist, and crime is nonexistent. In the novel, when Candide sees all of the riches that the Eldoradans inhabit, he is so taken aback by their lack of real interest in it all, he can't understand why they live the way they do. He also uses his philosophy of the utopian society to show how ...

Number of words: 1121 | Number of pages: 5

Summary Of Tracy's "Home Brewed, The Unauthorized Biography Of Drew Carey"

... and Beulah Carey. In describing his childhood he was quoted saying, "Weirdo. Weirdo...Underachiever." He spent much of his youth being miserable. According to Drew the death of his father when he was eight years old was, "… the single most devastating thing that ever happened to me." As an adult, he drifted from his home and ended up as a waiter. He was close to suicide during several times of his life. The turning point of his life was when he first wrote a comedic piece for a friend for a local radio station. One thing led ...

Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2

Jack Londons Apparent Conflict

... of London’s intertwining of struggles can be seen in such stories as White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and “To Build a Fire”. Jack London, whose life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. (Walcutt 8) At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a se ...

Number of words: 1482 | Number of pages: 6

The Scarlet Letter: Roger's Character Stereotyped As An Abusive Person

... Prynne is a second example. The third example of abuse is the way he physically and mentally abused Arthur Dimmsdale. He abused Hester emotionally. As soon as he returned to the city and found that his wife had an affair, he told her not to tell anyone he was her husband. He then lived his life to find out who made his wife pregnant, and therefore put Hester in constant fear for her true love. He went about his life, indifferent to what he was putting her through. She was affected greatly by his schemes, and thus Chillingworth emotionally ...

Number of words: 420 | Number of pages: 2

To Kill A Mockingbird: Analysis Of The Title

... They tried to get a peep at him, just to see what Boo looked like. Scout connects Boo with the Mockingbird. Mrs. Maudie defines a mockingbird as one who "don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (94). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem's pant that tore on Dill's last night ...

Number of words: 1072 | Number of pages: 4

Willy Loman And Troy Maxson: Tragic Heroes

... Loman, the sixty-year-old protagonist, has spent his life in search of happiness and the American dream. He is a husband, a father, a salesman, and a man desperate to find meaning in his life and pride in himself before it’s too late. He has worked for the same company for his entire career, dreaming of being "well-liked" and being ‘someone." For Willy, being well-liked equates with success. "Be popular and you will not want" is his interpretation of the American dream. The hero in "Fences," a "flawed giant" is a garbageman of fifty-s ...

Number of words: 488 | Number of pages: 2

Of Mice And Men: Loneliness

... lonely, but they're friends when we meet them. As you can see, loneliness is one of the key factors to this story. Everyone in this story was or is lonely. Loneliness affects a lot of the characters in this story. One of the lonely characters is Crooks. Crooks is lonely because he's black and no one wants to be near him. This was when blacks were segregated from whites. No one ever went to visit him. Also, because he's black, he has his room out in the stable with the horses. The other (white) guys have their bunks in a one room house ty ...

Number of words: 724 | Number of pages: 3

Tale Of Two Cities

... school for two years. He later learned shorthand and became a freelance court reporter. He started out as a journalist at the age of twenty and later wrote his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He went on to write many other novels, including Tale of Two Cities in 1859. Tale of Two Cities takes place in France and England during the troubled times of the French Revolution. There are travels by the characters between the countries, but most of the action takes place in Paris, France. The wineshop in Paris is the hot spot for the ...

Number of words: 1345 | Number of pages: 5

Say A Prayer For The Youth Of America

... the world and people around her, such as “He was a big wind up doll of a man.” This metaphor depicts her father, a lazy drunk who dies early in the book, probably from alcohol poisoning. Her life with him is one of constant fear and hatred. She blames him for the death of her mother, who overdoses on heart medicine to escape from her life. His drinking habits take over his life, and Ellen is left at home alone, sometimes for days at a time, to fend for herself. This is only one of the many hardships she must face. After her father’s d ...

Number of words: 807 | Number of pages: 3

Describing Biblical Parallels In Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"

... and mysterious. Both gardens are home to a type of “forbidden” plant, but the garden of Eden was created by a super-natural being, and Dr. Rappaccini's garden by Rappaccini himself. The forbidden plant in Genesis is a gorgeous, extremely tempting fruit plant. The fruit on this plant are described as extremely tempting. However, these fruits have been deemed prohibited by God. The plant in Rappaccini's garden is a large flowering bush. The flowers on this bush are unlike any others and extremely exquisite. The two plants share the tr ...

Number of words: 412 | Number of pages: 2

Scarlet Letter

... the Puritans. Hawthorne makes distinctions in order for the reader to deal with realistic interpretations of human experiences and truths, which most can readily relate. Nathaniel Hawthorne often discusses themes of sin, alienation, and love throughout his novel The . The reveals the theme of sin. An extreme sinner through the eyes of the Puritans, Hester Prynne goes against the Puritan ways and commits the sinful act of adultery. The townspeople often talk about Hester amongst themselves in the marketplace, “This woman has brough ...

Number of words: 1006 | Number of pages: 4

The Island By Gary Paulsen

... in Wil's life. By comparison and observation, he learns that all things are connected. An interesting minor character is Emil Aucht. On the morning of his first day in Pinewood Wil wakes up to find Emil staring at him through the window. Emil is an old man with one tooth, no hair and ears that stick out. He chews tobacco and spits brown gunk all over the place. He first appears in the story to request that Wil help him get his car out of the mud. Then Emil reappears to fix the plumbing,wrecking Wil's parents' nerves in the process. ...

Number of words: 408 | Number of pages: 2

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