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The Speckled Band

... would marry he would have to pay them £250 each a year so if the girls would marry he wouldn’t get all the money! But now Helen had decided to get married but then a few days later her stepfather decided to mend the wall of Helens room so that she had to move into her sisters room and now she was scared for her live. So Sherlock Holmes went to investigate. Holmes investigated the whole house and he build up a plan to catch the murderer! Holmes had found out that there was an air-vent that was inside the house between the sisters room and ...

Number of words: 317 | Number of pages: 2

Jane Eyre: The Preserverance Of The Personality

... of opposing forces and tendencies. How the personality can preserve or regain its integrity and stability in such an environment is the underlying subject of the novel, which can serve as our aim of exploration. The opening chapters of the work are as crucial as childhood can be; the books, especially Bewick's British Birds, that Jane reads at Gateshead determine her imagination: in the pictures she paints, the way she interprets her story. The shocking account of that extreme terror and brutality she suffers from John and Mrs Reed (the bo ...

Number of words: 2290 | Number of pages: 9

Catcher In The Rye: Comparison Of Holden And Me

... I are much more similar than I initially believed. Holden portrayed others to be inferior to his own kind all throughout the book. He made several references as to how people aren't as perfect as he was. "The reason he [Stradlater] fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself." (pg. 27) Holden had an inferiority complex. He was afraid of not having any special talents or abilities and used other methods to make him out to be a rough tough boy. "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or ...

Number of words: 921 | Number of pages: 4

Anne Frank Remembered: Review

... her main views toward the actions of the Nazis and their oppression of the Jewish people. Her disapproval of German Nazi actions is evident in the following quotation, when she was asked to join the Nazi Girls' Club: " 'How can I join such a club?' I icily asked. 'Look at what the Germans are doing to the Jews in Germany.' ...Let her take a good look at me and see with her own eyes that some 'Aryan' woman was not to be swept in by the Nazis." (Gies, p. 41, 1987). The main source of background to the ...

Number of words: 1116 | Number of pages: 5

A Worn Path

... of obstacles that hinder her in her devotion to help her grandson. One of the main hindrances that stand in her way is the physical aspect of her age as well as the journey. Phoenix Jackson is very weak and feeble because of her old age so that makes her long journey very strenuous. Another physical obstacle is that she has to weave and duck under a barbwire fence. Her feeble body cannot handle such tasks at her age. The third hindrance she must defeat is that she must cross over a log that lay across a creek. This requires concentra ...

Number of words: 984 | Number of pages: 4

A Perfect Day For Bananafish

... suicide has two basic components: the spiritual depravity of the world around him, and his struggle with his own spiritual shortcomings. The spiritual problem of the outside world is mostly a matter of material greed, especially in the west, and materialism. On the other hand, his own spiritual problem is more a matter of intellectual greed and true spiritualism. In addressing the suicide, the difference should be distinguished between the "See More Glass" that we see through little Sybil’s eyes, and the Seymour Glass th ...

Number of words: 712 | Number of pages: 3

A Comparison Of "Of Mice And Men" And "The Great Depression An Eyewitness History"

... but George took care of Lennie the most, because he was always getting in trouble. "You do bad things and I got to get you out." (Of Mice and Men p.11). During the Great Depression money was very scarce. You had to travel around to find a job in order to make money to survive. Lennie and George were in that type of predicament. Keeping enough money until the next job was difficult because prices were rising during the Great Depression and you had to budget your money. During this depression most people worked on farms because after t ...

Number of words: 684 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?

... manifestation that lets us know when we did something wrong but no one knows it yet. Guilt is very powerful. Some people after awhile give in to this guilt and confess what they did. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale commit a great sin. Because of this great sin, it causes them immense guilt and sadness though out the rest of the book. One of the main character's that is affected the most is Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale handles it in a different way though, to him its more of a "concealed sin." A example of this ...

Number of words: 755 | Number of pages: 3

An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale

... at the chivalric and religious influences of this medieval period, but also at how she would have been viewed in the context of this society and by Chaucer himself. During the period in which Chaucer wrote, there was a dual concept of chivalry, one facet being based in reality and the other existing mainly in the imagination only. On the one hand, there was the medieval notion we are most familiar with today in which the knight was the consummate righteous man, willing to sacrifice self for the worthy cause of the afflicted and weak; on the ...

Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4

Theme And Setting In Coming Of Age

... “We shall overcome”. After college, Anne continues her work with CORE and the other organizations. She works to get the blacks in Canton to register to vote. Many are uninterested and others are scared of losing their jobs. The whole theme of Coming of Age in Mississippi is to stand up and fight for what you believe in. Setting In Coming of Age in Mississippi, one of the most important settings in Anne’s childhood would have to be the school. She talks so much of school and her teachers throughout her childhood. She often speaks of com ...

Number of words: 319 | Number of pages: 2

Symbols In "The Glass Menagerie"

... and economic despair of the thirties in the U.S, "The Glass Menagerie" in nostalgia for a past world and its evocation of loneliness and lost love celebrates, above all, the human need to dream. Amanda Wingfield resents the poverty - stricken neighborhood in which she lives, so much so that she needs to escape mentally from it by invented romance and self-deception. Williams describes her as having "endurance and a kind of heroism, but she is also silly, snobbish, sometimes cruel and sometimes pathetic in her well-intentioned blunderi ...

Number of words: 273 | Number of pages: 1

Biological Determinism

... period of time the authors of these theories lived. The author argues for the theory that in the nineteenth century , artificial barriers in social hierarchy prevented people from achieving higher intellectual performance. In the end of XX century, in most places these barriers were removed by the democratic processes, and nothing artificial can stand between the natural sorting process and social status of the people. These changes can not be considered as historical because the age of democracy is just two hundred years , and the time w ...

Number of words: 2937 | Number of pages: 11

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