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Eliezer Wiesel's Night

... Moshe was also a foreign Jew, which meant he had to be deported. Eliezer did not see his friend Moshe for months. When he finally saw him, Moshe was weeping. Eliezer asked him what was wrong. Moshe told him he was in a concentration camp. He said they threw him in a pit and shot his leg, but he managed to escape to worn him to flee for his life. Eliezer didn't listen to him anyway. About three days later, German troops entered Sighet. They order the people of Sighet to surrender to them or die. The people surrendered and had ...

Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2

Great Gatsby Color Symbolism

... green is the most prominently used color in the novel. The reason for this may be that green is the color used to describe the main character of the novel, Jay Gatsby. One of the possible meanings of green in this story is envy. Gatsby can be seen as an envious man for a few reasons. For one, he is extremely envious of Tom Buchanan because of the fact that he has the one thing he can’t buy, Daisy. Also, Gatsby is extremely envious of the people that he invites to his house. He knows that he is not old money like the people he invi ...

Number of words: 677 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Attitudes

... for committing adultery when she says, "I have greatly wronged thee" (79). In chapter six Hawthorne writes that Hester knows "her deed had been evil" (92). This evil deed, in Hester's eyes, causes Pearl to act sinful, so Hester feels overwhelming guilt. At this point Hester feels that her actions were evil and were her fault, therefore she is sorry for committing adultery. In chapter five Hester's attitudes are the same but Hawthorne shows that these attitudes are not stable and are susceptible to change. Hester moves to a cottage on ...

Number of words: 908 | Number of pages: 4

Gatsby’s Dream

... if it includes recreating the past. Gatsby can be seen as a romantic idealist several times throughout the novel. It can be seen first when he was a soldier and plans a future with Daisy even though she belongs to an entirely different world. In Daisy’s world, the so-called “rich girls” such as herself, would not even consider marrying a “poor guy” who later in the novel was once seen as this. A second example that would show Gatsby as a romantic idealist is his sense of hope. He hoped for a life with Daisy and ...

Number of words: 909 | Number of pages: 4

12 Angry Men Contrast Paper

... they got the one man who thought all along that the had done it. In the 1997 version, there were not only white men but black men too. The boy convicted of killing his father was Hispanic. That really changed the way I looked at the whole point of the movie. The black had believed that they were just wasting time in the conference room and the white men wanted to talk it over. There was also and argument between an old white man and a black man. The black man wouldn’t let the white man talk so they almost got into a fight. Another ex ...

Number of words: 587 | Number of pages: 3

Hobbit Essay

... example of this in The Hobbit is the presence of magic. Gandalf, the wizard, is able to help the adventurers out of a number of dangerous situations by using his magical powers to harm their enemies. He set Wargs afire while he was trapped in a tree and created a bolt of lightening to kill many of the Goblins who had surrounded the group in a cave. The magical ring, which was a key to helping the group succeed in the book, allowed he who was wearing it to become invisible to others. Also, there was a black stream in Mirkwood that mad ...

Number of words: 808 | Number of pages: 3

All Quiet On The Western Front

... does not understand the reality of the Great War. His new society, then, becomes the Company, his fellow trench soldiers, because that is a group which does understand the truth as Baumer has experienced it. Remarque demonstrates Baumer’s disaffiliation from the traditional by emphasizing the language of Baumer’s pre- and post-enlistment societies. Baumer either can not, or chooses not to, communicate truthfully with those representatives of his pre-enlistment and innocent days. Further, he is repulsed by the banal and meaningles ...

Number of words: 3288 | Number of pages: 12

Willy Lowman’s Drug For Sanity

... as the play goes on, this drug becomes dangerous, leading him to his death. The first time Willy is seen dazing off into the past is when he discovers Biff arriving home. The conversation between Willy and Linda reflects Willy’s disappointment in Biff and what Willy thinks he has become basically a bum. After failing to deal with his feelings, he escapes to a time when things were better for his family. It is not uncommon for one to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer them up so that they are able to deal wi ...

Number of words: 825 | Number of pages: 3

Rand's "Anthem"

... and during the time the two find the house in which they will live in for the remainder of their lives. One day while Equality was tending to his job as street sweeper, he came across a beautiful young woman taking care of the fields. Even though it is forbidden, he decides to go over and talk to her. While they were talking, we see the first sign of emotions when "Their face did not move and they did not avert their eyes. Only their eyes grew wider, and there was triumph in their eyes, and it was not triumph over us, but over things w ...

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Norris' "McTeague": Themes

... where he can get some more gold from. When he hear Maria telling her story of the gold bowls and dinner service he is immediately interested. On page 38 it reads "It was impossible to look at Zerkow and not know instantly that greed-inordinate, insatiable greed -was the dominate passion of the man." This shows us that greed is what turns this guys wheels He ends up marrying her only with the hope that she might be able to locate these missing riches. When she is unable to find the gold he becomes mad at her and slits her throat before killin ...

Number of words: 1097 | Number of pages: 4

Childhood’s Own World In The God Of Small Things

... because their soul is not attach to their mind; love is not attach to reasoning; feelings are not attach to responsibilities. That’s why child hood and adulthood are too far apart, but why adults can contaminate their world so easily? Rahael and Estha don’t know it and don’t care about it, they only want to continue as free and lovely as they can and help others to do so, but how painful it is for them. When their parents get apart, Ammu, their mother, became their father and their mother; “their Ammu and their Baba..” They l ...

Number of words: 730 | Number of pages: 3

Societies Clenching Paws

... Ellen Olenska and Daisy Miller struggle to gain the acceptance of the wealth in their respective societies. Their search for the wealth of friends during the works both leads them to discontents and even death. But, the two characters differ in their wants. One of the strange connections between the two works is the location and the mentality that is brought with it. In The Age of Innocence the setting is New York. The characters in the story feel very much at home, but are not in a sense. Except for the fish out of water, Ellen Olenska ...

Number of words: 656 | Number of pages: 3

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