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Lord Of The Flies 4

... to a light, and cheery one. The way in which the story is written the mood can change literally from chapter to chapter. In the beginning it starts out light and happy and as the novel progresses and the boys start to battle, it starts to become dark and savage. Characters Jack is red-headed and thin he is also introduced as the leader of the boys' choir. To his dismay he loses the election for leader and he becomes the head hunter and is also in charge of maintaining the signal fire. As the story progresses he and his hunters begin to "slack- ...

Number of words: 1580 | Number of pages: 6

Windflower

... her friends, and discussing sex. Her whole life changes in one night though, when Elsa is raped by a GI soldier, and as a result, gets pregnant. Elsa experiences a very dramatic change in herself, both physically and emotionally, and seems to lose all interest in the things that she used to enjoy. When her baby, Jimmy, is born however, she appears to be herself again. She snaps out of her depression as she observes the little boy she has given birth to. The unique little boy with blond hair and blue eyes takes her breath away. It see ...

Number of words: 538 | Number of pages: 2

Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World

... which Mildred Montag puts in her ear each night, is also a thing Bradbury writes about. The electronic bee,”seashell ear-thinbles”, blocks out thoughts and supplant them with mindless entertainment. For example, when Mildred over dosed on tranquilzers and sleeping pills, Montag had doctors take the poisen out with a machine, as she slept with the bee in her ear. When she woke up in the morning Montag said, “I wanted to talk to you…she said”(Bradbury 19). The toaster in the Montag;s house, it did all the work. “Toast popped o ...

Number of words: 469 | Number of pages: 2

Lord Of The Flies: The Vision Of God

... his idea of god changed to become people, as is showed in the Greek and Roman myths. These gods, however, lived on earth and were accustomed to the same pleasures and desires and led the same lifestyle as the Greeks and Romans. First proposed by the Hebrew prophet Isaiah, god became a higher being, as mankind had mastered something within themselves to have a need for a higher god. This first god was still immoral and like the humans, except that he could live forever and did not dwell on the same surface as the humans, but god sti ...

Number of words: 948 | Number of pages: 4

All Quiet On The Western Front

... leader of this group of men. He is the oldest at the age of forty, and also the wisest. His opinion was always taken and his orders were followed. Paul also believe Kat to have a sixth sense. He was able to find anything that was needed in places where no one else could. Once he went out to "explore," then came back over an hour later with bread and meat for dinner. Albert Kropp Albert was one of the students that enlisted at the same time as Paul. He was also a close friend of Paul's. So close that after both had been wounded and were on ...

Number of words: 1059 | Number of pages: 4

Brave New World

... book , we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his individual thought, and he realizes that independent thought is rewarding, and that he must strive to become a real individual. Although this is true to a certain extent, Bernard does not realize that he would much rather attain social recognition. At least, not until the opportunity presents itself. Thus, through a series of events, Bernard uses th ...

Number of words: 992 | Number of pages: 4

Billy Budd 3

... and follow the law set by people who have more power than he does. In the book, Vere has all of those qualities previously stated but what the movie does not mention is what his life was like and what the other officers thought of him. The novella states that Captain Vere loves books. He especially loves those that have stories and details about the treatment of man. His own officers say that he acts "like the King's yarn in a coil of Navy rope." I believe that quote says that he is a puppet of the King. All of these aspects of Captain Vere ...

Number of words: 1022 | Number of pages: 4

Black Boy By Richard Wright

... Maggie and her husband b/c granny's religious rules tie them down. Maggie and Richard's mother are sisters. Maggie's husband, a successful saloon owner, is killed. In fear for their lives they go back to granny's house. They then move back to Memphis. Aunt Maggie left with a man who killed a white woman. Richard's mother had a stroke. Her left side was paralyzed. They went to live with Granny. Afterwards Richard's brother goes to live with Aunt Maggie in the north. Richard goes to live with Uncle Clark. After finding that a boy died in his ...

Number of words: 1523 | Number of pages: 6

Lord Of The Flies: Golding Reduces The Power Of His Message

... the book, the feeling becomes mutual. Without Jack and Ralph's problems, life would have been easy, and the `darkness of man's heart' would not have been conveyed to the reader. Jack shows `the darkness' and if he and Ralph had just been friends, there would never have been an opportunity for Jack to show this darkness which lurked beneath the surface. Golding also uses the dead pilot conveniently against the boys - the way in which he is caught in the trees just in the right position to be caught by the wind and look like the beast and the ...

Number of words: 401 | Number of pages: 2

Othello - The Ambivalence Of H

... as the exact opposites in the play, but they are exactly the same in that they both possess this ambivalence of good and evil. There is no character in all of Shakespeare's plays so full of serpentine power and poison as Iago. He is envious of Michael Cassio and suspects that Othello has wronged his honor; but his malignancy is all out of proportion to even his alleged motives through which he shows his ambivalence of nature. His goodness of nature is not pure but simply good in appearence to the other characters. The reader sees the tru ...

Number of words: 1112 | Number of pages: 5

Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)

... at that time was no small problem. Instead of worrying what to wear the next day, she would have to worry about whether or not her family would be safe or taken to a concentration camp. Inge not only had to face the problem of keeping her family together, she had to find a way to maintain a friendship with her best friend Lieselotte. Lieselotte’s father was a Nazi and forbade her to keep any contact with Inge, but the two girls would always find a way to see or write to each other even when things were rough. Inges father also began to di ...

Number of words: 2306 | Number of pages: 9

A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Conflicting Desires Within A Doctrine

... sits at the "adults" dinner table for the first time, his father, Mr. Casey and Dante are fighting about religion and politics in Ireland. As they are arguing, Stephen's train of thought leads him to think about Eileen. Eileen Vance was the little girl that Stephen wanted to marry when he was younger. She is described to have ivory hands and golden hair, which confuses Stephen with the phrases, "Tower of Ivory" and "House of Gold" which is part of the Roman Catholic Litany of Our Lady. Later when Stephen is at school, he again thinks ab ...

Number of words: 865 | Number of pages: 4

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