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Rosemary Well's When No One Was Looking: Ambition

... off. Kathy's will, spirit, and love from her friends takes her to the New England championships. Kathy loves tennis. She finally finds something that she is good at, and practically makes her into a celebrity. Kathy is told by many people, including Marty her tennis instructor, that she has got what it takes to make it to the top. When Kathy plays against Ruth, she becomes annoyed because it should have been a simple match. When she finds out ruth is dead, people accuse Kathy of it, and kathy even blames herself. Kathy proves she was at t ...

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Huckleberry Finn Learns He Must Grow Up Fast If He Wants To Survive Life

... of society. The greatest one in fact is, the fact that he is a slave. Jim is a very modest person, he will sacrifice anything to help his fellow man. Huck sees this and begins to think of Jim as a human being also, and will “go to hell ” for Jim. Although Jim is a slave, he does not think of people based on their skin color, but in fact believes that everyone is equal regardless of skin, and even age. One may ever say that Jim is Huck's true father. Both Jim and Huck have experienced life at a tedious level. They have their highs an ...

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Farewell To Manzanar

... athletic ability, and seemingly endless energy. Girls' characteristics, however, change between different cultures. Jeanne was at odds with both of these facets, because she did not look like the other white, kids, and her idea of gender roles before school were based on how her parents acted, who were first generation Japanese immigrants. Accordingly, Jeanne had to work extra hard to compensate for her differences so she could fit in with the mainstream of white people. Because of the want to fit in, Jeanne accepted white culture's beliefs ...

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Comparison Between The Red Roo

... yet experienced and mature woman who does not panic because she understands and feels sympathy for the ‘crying’ ghost. In ‘The Red Room’ the young man is on a mission to explore and expose the tale of the ‘The Red Room’ that is supposedly haunted, because he says, ‘It’s my own choosing’ He is in that house to go into ‘The Red Room’ to prove that the ‘Spiritual terrors’ of the house are nothing that cannot be proven by science. He is obviously very brave and determined but inexperienced as pointed out by the old ...

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John Steinbeck

... into representatives of the species by their primitivism. The result is that the reader does not get a clear picture of one of them, except for Lennie. But still Lennie's mind is as a closed book to us, and only in the final chapter Steinbeck attempts to describe Lennie and his hallucinations, but the result is very poor. Theme: Without a doubt it is companionship. The friendship between George and Lennie is so close that George takes it up for his feeble-minded friend and protects him above all, even his own interests. It is like a sacred bon ...

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Essay On Pride And Prejudice: Theme

... first ball with the Bennet's that they were all turned off by him. His eventual love, Elizabeth, was disgusted at his behavior and formed a prejudice against him. Even after he fell in love with her and proposed to Elizabeth, he completely debased her family. Darcy realized eventually that he was going to have to change. He tried to look at his behavior and analyze why he acted as he did. In the end, he fought his intense pride so that he and Elizabeth could be happy together. Prejudice was also an issue for Darcy in that he disliked Elizab ...

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Call Of The Wild

... act. In order to cover his Chinese lottery gambling debts, he stole Buck from his sound sleep and brought him to a flag station called College Park. There, the exchanging of money took place. Buck was loaded onto an express car to Seattle. On his way to Seattle, he found that a man in a red sweater repeatedly beat him. From then on, I knew that Buck would never forget that experience. In that part of the book, I found out that Buck was now an enraged animal and could only be tamed by repeatedly being hit with a club or a whip. At this poin ...

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Native Son: Character Actions Defines Their Individual Personalities And Belief Systems

... actions. Many of his action suggest an overriding response to fear, which stems from his exposure to a harsh social climate in which a clear line between acceptable behavior for white's and black's exists. His swift anger and his destructive impulses stem from that fear and becomes apparent in the opening scene when he fiercely attacks a huge rat. The same murderous impulse appears when his secret dread of the delicatessen robbery impels him to commit a vicious assault on his friend Gus. Bigger commits both of the brutal murders not in rage ...

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The Storm By Kate Chopin

... written in 1898, very shortly after Chopin had completed "The Awakening", "the boldest treatment so far in American literature of the sensuous, independant woman" (Seyersted 1969, p164). "The Storm" was not published, however, until well after Chopin's death, doubtless because of the as-yet unparalleled sensuousness of the story and its characters. In his critical biography Kate Chopin, Per Seyersted argues that "The Storm" is objective in its portrayal of human sexuality and that Chopin is "not consciously speaking as a woman, but as an indi ...

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Analysis Of "The Tell-Tale Heart": First Person Point Of View

... I did not hear him lie down" (63). In this example his words are described in such vivid detail that you picture this scene perfectly. Another example includes when Poe uses such phrases as, "It was open-wide, wide open-and I grew furious as I gazed upon it" (63). The use of repetition in first person point of view helps to stir some emotions of the unknown. It creates the suspense of not knowing what will happen next. By using first person point of view, Poe was able to show how the narrator feels. An example of this is when the ...

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Comparison Of Macbeth And Jack (of Lord Of The Flies)

... too, he won the battle in the beginning of the story. Thirdly, they were both ambitious. Jack was the leader of the hunting party in the beginning of the story, but he wanted to become the leader of the entire group on the island. Macbeth wanted to become the king of Scotland after having the conversation with the three witches. Fourthly, they both became more cruel as they gained more power. After Jack formed his own group and set up a camp on Castle Rock, he became more cruel than before. For Macbeth, he hesitated six times before killin ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire - Sym

... in the first scene, one can understand what prompted Blanche to move. Her appearance in the first scene "suggests a moth" (Williams 96). In literature a moth represents the soul. So it is possible to see her entire voyage as the journey of her soul (Quirino 63). Later in the same scene she describes her voyage: "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields" (Quirino 63). Taken literally this does not seam to add much to the story. However, if on ...

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