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Lord Of The Flies: Jack And Roger

... example, when Ralph, Simon and Jack are in the forest and they see the pig for the first time Jack does not kill it no doubt from the taboo of killing. The second time he meets the pig he kills it with his knife and this is only the beginning of the change in his behavior. Jack's wanting of meat turns into obvious bloodlust later on in the novel, for example he kills the mother pig without even thinking if it was wrong: "Kill the pig, cut her throat, bash her head in!". Jack's decapitation of the dead mother pig proves that he is no longe ...

Number of words: 642 | Number of pages: 3

The Great Gatsby- Jay Gatsby V

... way of avoiding straight answers. But they are shadowed over by his gentle smile and his visible hunger for an ideal future. The coarse and playful Jay Gatsby who throws wild parties and spends lavishly on friends and strangers doesn’t hold as much reality as the quiet Gatsby who dreams of happiness with Daisy and the relationship they once had. He also has the power to make his dreams reality. He dreamed as a boy of a luxurious life of riches and high society, and he got it. Later he dreams of Daisy and their future together, which he has ...

Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3

Yellow Wallpaper

... from any intellectual activity and to engage in total bed rest in order to cure her depression. From the beginning of the story, the narrator doubts the proposed cure for her depression,, but she reluctantly follows the prescription for cure. As a result of her prescription, she spends most her time alone in a room with on the walls. The narrator thinks she sees an image behind the wallpaper, and becomes obsessed with determining what exactly is behind the wallpaper. Eventually she rationalizes that the image behind the wallpaper is a w ...

Number of words: 259 | Number of pages: 1

The Scarlet Letter

... Hawthorne portrays Hester as "divine maternity" and she can do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, is extremely smart, ...

Number of words: 506 | Number of pages: 2

12 Angry Men: Influence Of Surroundings

... of how the two testimonies given by the old woman and old man are lies, votes guilty. Three outraged by this exclames "A guilty man's gonna be walking the streets... he's got to die! Stay with me." (23) But Four sees the truth that Eight has brought into th light and still votes guilty. Eight tries to convince Three how the boy is not guilty beyond reasonable doubt but Three does not listen adn would rather see the boy die. "For this kid, you bet I'd pull the switch."(17) This shows how emotionally unstable Three is. He is a grown man li ...

Number of words: 334 | Number of pages: 2

Fifth Business - Internal Battles Of Dustan Ramsey

... Dunstan Ramsey for several reasons. First of all, Dunstan Ramsey was raised as a young boy to follow the beliefs and morals of a Presbyterian. His family lived in a small village with a population, which hardly exceeded eight hundred, including those farmers who lived on the outskirts. Within his village there were among five different denominations, and it was understood that each looked after it’s own, unless a situation go to big and then outside help might be called in. Although many did not exhort their religion it was known by al ...

Number of words: 825 | Number of pages: 3

A Comparison Of Racism In Of M

... for economic support and in return were expected to stay within the home and watch over the children and complete the household chores. Women were only recently able to vote and they were often were uneducated. Women still operated in whore houses as a type of service toward men. Men were dependant on these women for uncomplicated sex. Considering all of these factors women had a type of object like status during the 1930’s. Racism was also very present in the society of the 1930’s and Blacks were still seen as inferior by white p ...

Number of words: 11171 | Number of pages: 41

Jurrasic Park

... to accomplish. For he says there are flaws in the system, and according to his chaos theory these animals cannot be predicted. While they are in awe one of the computer programmers, Dennis Nedry, Is secretly planning to steal dinosaur embryos from the park and sell them to a company that is trying to stay in business with Hammond. The only way Nedry can obtain these embryos id to shut down the park power so he can sneak into the freezing chamber. He does while the other visitors are touring the park, and everything goes wrong from there. As ...

Number of words: 1167 | Number of pages: 5

Literary Paper Of The Grapes Of Wrath By Steinbeck

... right into the middle of the family. One becomes aware and wants to be a part of there unity and their long for security. Steinbeck's use of the characters dialect is astoundingly excellent and unmistakenly realistic of the Joad's culture. Without this dialogue, it would not be as intense and vivid. J. Homer Caskey, in "Letters to the Editor" says, "Steinbeck's knowledge of the forces which hold a family together and the forces which cause it to disintegrate. He understands that family councils are an important ...

Number of words: 1012 | Number of pages: 4

To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism In The Title, Names And Objects

... around in his room. His go-to-bed noises were so familiar to me that I knocked on his door: ‘why ain’t you going to bed?’ Another example would be Dill. Dill added life to everyone around him like the spice dill. For instance he talked about being a clown that would laugh at other people “‘I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,’ said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. ‘Yes sir, a clown,’ he said. ‘There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laug ...

Number of words: 762 | Number of pages: 3

Beowulf 5

... limped all of his life. He lived through his reading, Roman history became one of his favorite subjects (www.webring.org). When Byron's father died he became the sixth Lord Byron, at the young age of ten. His father's estates included land in Newstead, Nottinghamshire and Rochdale in Lancashire, with other properties in Norfolk. Newstead, the inherited home in England, was an absolute wreck. The Wicked Lord (George's grandfather) hated his sons, so he set about ruining Newstead so his sons would have no proper estate. He used to let swarm ...

Number of words: 1508 | Number of pages: 6

The Things They Carried 2

... the very least, for soldiers in the battlefields, directly involved in the hostilities, the baneful suffering is usually physical, emotional, psychological, and frequently, death. For the men that do survive death, there is always a price to pay, which is a transformation from what they were before to what they unwillingly must or will become due to the pressures of the war. Moreover, if the grounds for the war are ambiguous and hence soldiers do not comprehend it or acquire a sense of purpose or mission, as was in the Vietnam War, the toll ...

Number of words: 1041 | Number of pages: 4

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