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Broken Wigwag

... and culture that “the land of the free” throws at her feet instantly. I think that she realizes that even though there are no limits to what you can do in America, sometimes that fact in itself can make you feel empty and foreign at the same time. While the book is supposed to show a change in Satomi’s thoughts and mannerisms, I feel it did just the opposite, closing her off from the new ideas that were being thrown at her. The more she is bombarded with new situations and people, the more closed off and confused she becomes. For e ...

Number of words: 605 | Number of pages: 3

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict Between Society And The Individual

... to society; "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me... I got into my old rags and my sugar hogshead again, and was free and satisfied." When Pap returns for Huck, and the matter of custody is brought before the court, the reader is forced to see the corruption of society. The judge rules that Huck belongs to Pap, and forces him to obey an obviously evil and unfit man. One who drinks profusely and beats his son. Later, when Huck makes it look as though he has been killed, we see how civilization is ...

Number of words: 549 | Number of pages: 2

Walking Across Egypt: Mattie Rigsbee

... Her cooking is the best around, and somebody is at her house eating at any of the three meals per day she cooks. While caring for everybody, she still likes to gossip with her friends. Like when she fell through the chair, she just had to tell all her friends about her experience. Even though Mattie is seventy-eight, and running down, she sets a standard of responsibility for people of any age. Her love for her children is shown throughout the novel. When she cooks for her children or pesters them about getting married so she can have ...

Number of words: 335 | Number of pages: 2

Shoot The Teacher

... Adam's only friend Naomi, who was the stepdaughter of the first victim. Adam is in the beginning of the book a rebellious young man. The typical teenager in revolt. He's growing his hair long, refusing to go to school and talking back to his mother. He seemes to calm down quite a bit though in just a few days. As a matter of fact, as soon they arrive at the new school, Adam seemes to be more mature and calm. Maybe that's because he doesn't have any friends in the new school, maybe because he feels inferior being the new kid and outsider tha ...

Number of words: 431 | Number of pages: 2

The Dubliners: Summary

... that the priest has passed away he shows no kind of mournful emotions, instead he shows a feeling of freedom. " I wished to go in and look at him but I had not the courage to knock... I found it strange that neither I nor the day seemed in a mourning mood and I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death." ( Joyce, Dubliners 5-6) What he had felt freed from was always being under the constant supervision of the priest to do what he felt was righteous. It is ...

Number of words: 1031 | Number of pages: 4

Frankenstein: Rights And Responsibilities

... For every achievement there must be a failure and no one wants that on their plate. Just as in the case of Frankenstein and the monster, a mistake was made and the inventor had to acknowledge that, and correct what he had done. The only problem was that he didn't. Victor Frankenstein used science to help him build a "monster", but when his experiment failed, he wouldn't take responsibility for his creation. Science is about understanding nature. It incorporates all things around us and attempts to look at every hair, muscle and movement of a ...

Number of words: 3066 | Number of pages: 12

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Power

... to each other and when one said something that they shouldn't have they write it down so it can be brought up for "therapeutic reasons", but when McMurphy came all that changed. That made the nurse furious, that was her way of keeping perfect control and power over the patients. McMurphy had complete power over the patients from when he first came in. Nobody like him had ever been in the ward before. He came in singing and laughing, something that no one had heard in a long time. He walked around the room shaking hands, introducing himsel ...

Number of words: 886 | Number of pages: 4

A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"

... and the leaders that were left decided that the problem was the individual, that all men are equal in all things and that anything that is created by one person is evil. This train of thought is carried to such and extreme that the very word "I" is removed from their vocabulary. An example of this is found when the main character, Equality-1329, re-invents the electric light. He shows his invention to the scientist and although this invention could improve the quality of life of the people it is deemed "evil" because he worked on hi ...

Number of words: 783 | Number of pages: 3

Beloved: American Experience With Slavery

... the survivor's tale is one way that contemporary authors can depict and discuss this formative American experience. ‘Beloved’ is the tale of Sethe, a survivor of slavery, and her family. Sethe is an escaped slave who made the split second decision to kill her daughter, rather than have her return to a life of enslavement. The entire novel revolves around this horrific act; the entire story is slowly unraveled through the remembrances of Sethe and others. These memories and "re-memories" do not follow chronological order. However, when th ...

Number of words: 766 | Number of pages: 3

Winter In The Blood An Analysi

... alcoholism, the narrator overcomes these down falls through re-identifying with himself and his culture– specifically through the help of his grandfather, Yellow Calf. In the opening line of the novel, the narrator provides a vivid description of the his decaying surroundings: “In the tall weeds of the borrow pit, I took a leak and watched the sorrel mare, her colt beside her, walk through burnt grass to the shady side of the long-and-mud cabin . . . . The roof had fallen in and the mud between the logs had fallen out in chunks, ...

Number of words: 1500 | Number of pages: 6

The Pearl: A Review

... Indian of about 25-30 years. He lives in a fairly primitive village among a similar group of Mexican Indians. They are a fishing village and also dive for pearls. The second character is a woman named Juana. She is his commonlaw wife, mother of his son, and better half. She supports everything Kino does, and offers advice to him whenever he needs it. They have a son named Coyotito who plays a minor role in the book but a very major part in their lives. The book starts with Coyotito getting bit my a scorpion. The families needs to see a ...

Number of words: 1242 | Number of pages: 5

1984

... is going to die. The Mafia is so widespread that it has operatives all over keeping an eye out for cops or law enforcement, this is the Mafia's "telescreens" (Orwell 6). Another startling similarity between the mob and "Big Brother" is the Mafia's strange way of making someone disappear or "vaporize" (Orwell ). Almost unknowingly a person's identity can be changed, altered, or deleted. Authorities use security and surveillance cameras to observe criminal activities or possibly every day activities. Too much surveillance liberties are ...

Number of words: 493 | Number of pages: 2

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