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... thought crimes. In his diary, it is pointed out of his sexual frustrations, along with the displeasure of society as a whole. In his diary, he expresses that he longs for the pleasures of the past that were once allowed but no longer due to the power of the Party. However his frustration leads to other things that were also deemed illegal and would eventually lead to his final downfall. Winston later goes on and meets a woman named Julia. He knows what he is doing is definitely wrong and is a crime but his dissatisfaction with life an ...

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Of Mice And Men: Four Major Themes

... George going. When George starts talking bout it Lennie gets all excited and happy and so does George. Another example of the power of dreams is when Candy over hears George and Lennie's "dream farm" and becomes a part of the dream. Candy goes from a depressed sad additude to a cheerful excited one. He now has hope of doing something and it came from the "dream farm". A final example of the value of dreams and goals is when Crooks hears of the farm. Crooks is a lonely black man who has no future, but when he starts to think of how he c ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird: Life Lessons Of Jem And Scout

... that the two children learns was that all people are not treated fairly. they learned this in the trial of Tom Robinson, they saw that black people were not treated fairly at all no matter how good there case was, the trial showed the children how prejudice the world they were living in was. The third and final thing that they were taught would have to be that you have to do what you think is rite no matter what other people think or say to you, they learned this lesson from there father Atticus he defended Tom Robinson even though every sai ...

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Compare And Contrast - Sir Per

... by outwitting Chauvelin at the Chat Gris. When Percy offered Chauvelin the snuff, but it really was pepper, that was definite creativity. Chauvelin shows his smarts when he holds Armand hostage and blackmails Margueritte. Really, how else can you think of that would make Margueritte do anything for Chauvelin? Another way that the two are alike is that they both are fighting for what they believe in. Percy is trying to free the aristocrats, while Chauvelin is attempting to prevent the aristocrats from leaving. Both are totally devoted ...

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Perfectly Insane - Gulliver's Travels

... negative and cynical attitude towards the manner in which his fellow Englishman behaved, subtly represented in his encounters with other nations that unflatteringly reflect his generation’s lifestyles. (Unknown(ii) 2) Therefore, Swift’s “perfect” human being must be a combination of good traits, and ignorance of the bad ones, from each of the nations Gulliver encountered. In Gulliver's first voyage to Lilliput, the Lilliputians impress Gulliver with their intelligence and organizational abilities, as well as the fact that they a ...

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Woman On The Edge Of Time: Mother To The Tribe

... success many present social beliefs must be annihilated. Mothering plays a major theme in Piercy's novel Woman on the Edge of Time. She not only uses a mother as the main character, but creates a whole utopian society based on the mother. Piercy contributes this novel as a political statement to address the hardships and social injustices of the powerless. Woman on the Edge of Time is a story of a middle aged Chicano woman who has been denied the right to live with the socially prudent. According to Kevstin Shands, Piercy says: "It is p ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird: A Hero Among Them

... a community role model to a champion of civil rights, Atticus establishes himself as a hero many times over. Atticus’ character reaches through to the reader powerfully and touches the emotions of one and all. Atticus Finch is an unquestionable community role model. He is well respected by all. The townspeople of Maycomb, Alabama hold Atticus Finch in high regards because he is always the same. For example, Miss Maudie tells Scout that he is the same in his house as he is on the street. He treats all people with respect and decency. D ...

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The Joy Luck Club: Journey To Adulthood

... Jong. When she was but two years old, the village matchmaker came to her home and Lindo was pledged to marry a boy who was only a year old. She was twelve years old when the Fen River flooded and destroyed her village and her home. This natural disaster forced her family to move to a nearby village, but Lindo stayed behind. She was to move in with her future in-laws, the Huangs. When she arrived at her new home, the place where she would start her new future, she could see by the outside of the house that the Huangs were much higher in soc ...

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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From The Common Man

... of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.” (5) It models an extravagant castle with a European style. Indoors it has “Marie Antoinette music-rooms and restoration salons.” (92) There is even a “Merton College Library, paneled with imported carved English oak and thousands of volumes of books.” (45) There is even a private beach on his property. He also has his own personal hydroplane. Ga ...

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The Stone Angel - Character An

... willed woman. Such qualities give us a portrait of a remarkable character. Hagar’s most noticeable characteristic was her lack of feeling and emotion. Indeed there where many situations where she could not physically express what she felt in her heart. She did not cry at the death of her son John. That night she was “transformed to stone and never wept at all (Laurence 243)”. During Marvin’s childhood, she would impatiently dismiss him due to his slowness of speech. Once when an ecstatic Marvin told Hagar that ...

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Summary Of All Quite On The Western Front!

... and his companions go to the front. He says, "To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool." The definition of a whirlpool is a "whirling eddy or current, as in a river or sea, causfed by irregularity in the channel or stream banks, by the meeting of two opposing currents." Paul uses this as a metaphor to describe the front because he feels trapped in the front by the two opposing currents of war that will slowly bring him to its center. The conditions at the front are terrifying. As the narrator puts it, "It is unendurable. It is the moaning of ...

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Pudd'nhead Wilson: Slavery

... He racks up large gambling debts, and in an effort to pay them off sells his own mother back into slavery. His mother escapes, though, and demands to have her freedom bought back or else she would tell Tom's uncle the truth about him being black. Tom was faced with a decision of asking his uncle for money; he decides it would be a better idea, though, to rob his uncle to buy his mother's freedom and pay off his gambling debts. In the process, though, he ends up murdering his uncle and is eventually caught. The truth about him is let ...

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