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The Lord Of The Flies 2

... killing for food. In the story there are four main characters that are in a sense the leaders of the crew. There’s Piggy and a quiet Simon who do not possess the scrappiness that Ralph and Jack do. These strengths are what help Ralph and Jack survive. Piggy is always talking about how his Auntie would not let him do this or that and Simon was just a quiet, reserved kid who is regarded as weird just due to the fact that he is calm. The first two kids are considered leaders but only to the littluns who really do not matter in the big p ...

Number of words: 904 | Number of pages: 4

The Cultural Gap In Joy Luck Club

... are so strict," said Brian Wong, a 21 year old senior at San Jose State University. "This affects me a lot. I'm conditioned to the point where I feel guilty for going out because I know they don't like it. It sucks because all my other friends don't have to go through the same thing. Their parents let them go where ever they want at any time." Wong was born in San Jose. Still living with his parents, he has experienced situations where he felt torn between two cultures. Wong's parents came to America in 1974. For the first cou ...

Number of words: 1085 | Number of pages: 4

The Women Of The Grapes Of Wra

... foundation upon which the rest of the family stands. Just as when a single driblet of dye is dropped into a glass of water and disperses throughout, her strength permeates to the rest of the family, infusing them with her mightiness. Also, when the Wilsons' car breaks down and Pa proposes splitting up just for a short time until the car is repaired she threatens him with a jack handle. She knows that all they have in the world is each other and without that themselves to hold on to the have nothing. There is a saying "one finds comfor ...

Number of words: 595 | Number of pages: 3

Metamorphosis2000

... dehumanized. No longer can he stand the taste of what used to be his favorite dish. He is reduced to a vermin who feeds on rotted, decaying food and who finds the presence of fresh food repulsing. The very means by which he sustained himself is not fit for a human, but rather for a dependent beast. Gregor's eyesight begins to fail him. As his former self, he would spend hours looking out the window, studying, and reading; however, he now finds nothing more than a skewed perception of reality when doing these things. The whole worlds now l ...

Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2

Helpless Before The Iron In Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing"

... of Emily's birth. The mother has not enough time to grow up for herself and thus does not understand the needs of a newborn child. Although the narrator does her best in bringing up Emily, she lacks good technique in the early part of her parenthood when parent child interaction mean the most. When Olsen writes "Though her cries battered me to trembling and my breasts ached with swolleness, I waited to the clock decreed," she shows the lack of knowledge the mother had in caring for a newborn because she ignores her maternal instincts and ...

Number of words: 655 | Number of pages: 3

Of Mice And Men

... and always stood by him. The friendship they shared went beyond what was transparent they each shared a dream and both knew they meant the world to each other. I felt that if these total;y different people could get along and look out for each other, why can't we get along with people who are differnt than us. They made me realize that I could learn something from how to treat people who are different than me. What I also liked about it was the way they never stopped trying to reach their dream. This made me think that if they could work hard ...

Number of words: 415 | Number of pages: 2

The X-Files, X Marks The Spot: Book Report

... lot of suspense. There was suspense as soon as I got into the second chapter. I didn't want to put the book down. I sometimes have trouble trying to find a book that's actually interesting, but I didn't have any trouble with this book. I got through the whole book fast, I was always reading it in study hall, and trying to get as far as I could in readers workshop. It was easy to understand. I've read a lot of science fiction books that are very complicated. Some books have too many characters to remember, or they have something that is rea ...

Number of words: 265 | Number of pages: 1

Things Fall Apart: The Loss Of A Tribe's Livelihood

... initial infiltration of an alien religion, and the final dissolution of a once prosperous culture. It is also critical to consider if this downfall could have been prevented or channeled to produce a positive outcome. History tends to repeat itself within specific cultures, and this is possibly the most valuable tool we can harness to provide us a means of escaping the destruction of the mistakes we have made in the past. In Things Fall Apart the Igbo village Umuofia fell apart in two distinct fashions. The first aspect of Igbo culture to b ...

Number of words: 1550 | Number of pages: 6

Freedom In The Story Of An Hou

... her by her husband. After this revelation on her behalf, the outcome of the story is both ironic and tragic. Upon hearing the news of Brently’s death Mrs. Mallard, who is afflicted with a heart condition, reacts with sadness at first, grieving with “wild abandonment” but shortly afterward seeks solitude to assess what has happened. The location where she seeks isolation is important. She retreats to her bedroom in a comfortable armchair, indicating that this is a place where she feels safe. It is here that Mrs. Mallard ...

Number of words: 1000 | Number of pages: 4

Pride In The Crucible

... respect. Hale is the chemical that cause the conflict to come into full swing between Elizabeth and John Proctor. Elizabeth Proctor is first founds singing to her children in her kitchen in the opening of act two. This is in contrasts with frenzy at the end of act one. Elizabeth is trying to make her husband turn in Abigail as a witch. She seems sly about it and this exposes her pride. She has pride that she is able to punish Abigail for hurting her. Not this is an unjustifiable pride, but Elizabeth picks on john to do her dirty work to ...

Number of words: 672 | Number of pages: 3

Themes Of Oliver Twist

... concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country (Dickens 19). Dickens believes that this boy is unimportant, and his life meaningless, but as he writes he brings a glow to the child's spirit, and wonderful adventures to go along with it. The plot of this story is, a boy on his way to becoming a nothing fights through his troubles, and ends up living happily ever after. The theme of this story is, if you work hard, stand by your beliefs, and do what is right than everything will work out. ...

Number of words: 1645 | Number of pages: 6

The Ss

... University. He, like Col. John R. Elting, wrote and translated many books on Hitler. He published numerous articles on modern European history, and served with the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1957. Also with a team of over twenty editors and another twenty correspondents around the world this book incorporates a comprehensive layout of the Schuzstaffel. In summarizing the book the most effective method of doing so is to analyze the data by the organizational methods within . The political fury of the misunderstood SS, followed diffe ...

Number of words: 3724 | Number of pages: 14

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