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The Cask Of Amontillado: Lyman

... The brothers Lyman and Henry get a ride to Winnipeg and are walking down the street, sightseeing when they see the red Oldsmobile convertible. Lyman (the story is told from his point of view) almost makes the car a living thing when he says, “There it was, parked, large as life. Really as if it were alive.” They used all of the money they had, less the gas to get home, to buy the car. The car’s main significance in the story is the bond that it creates between the brothers. When reading the story, one is led to believe that these tw ...

Number of words: 693 | Number of pages: 3

The Caine Mutiny: Willie Keith - A Life Changed

... have gotten a pretty good job or gone on to earn his master's degree. Instead, he elected to become a piano player in a cocktail lounge. "He was not paid much. The fee was, in fact, the smallest permitted by the musicians union for a piano player. Willie didn't really care, so long as fifty-dollar bills flowed from his mother." That was his life before the navy. In the navy, all of that changed. Once in the navy he learned that he couldn't really rely on his mother for everything. He was still careless and naïve about some things but ...

Number of words: 759 | Number of pages: 3

Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" In Fitzgerald's This Side Of Paradise

... Amory Blaine truly is. Amory appears to be a rather vacuous choice for a protagonist. He relies mainly on his breathtaking handsomeness and wealth in order to get by in life. He has been endowed with brains, but it takes him years to learn how and when to use them. Amory spends his late high school and college years frolicking with his peers and debutantes. By constantly associating with others Amory creates an image of himself that he maintains until he becomes bored or finds a new personality to imitate. Amory does not know who he rea ...

Number of words: 1475 | Number of pages: 6

Mansfield Park

... visit the Mansfield neighbourhood, the moral sense of each marriageable member of the Mansfield family is tested in various ways, but Fanny emerges more or less unscathed. The well-ordered (if somewhat vacuous) house at Mansfield Park, and its country setting, play an important role in the novel, and are contrasted with the squalour of Fanny's own birth family's home at Portsmouth, and with the decadence of London. Readers have a wide variety of reactions to Mansfield Park-most of which already appear in the Opinions of Mansf ...

Number of words: 358 | Number of pages: 2

Catcher In The Rye: Theme Of The World Having An Outward Appearance

... about in my second theme. The first example that stands out in my mind is the scene with Stradlater in the "can." If you remember Stradlater was getting ready for his other date while Holden watched him. "Stradlater was a secret slob" in public he always looked good and got all the girls but in fact he was a slob. His razor that made him look so good was "rusty as hell and full on lather and hair and crap." This proves that he is a slob to "never clean it or anything." If you think about it that's even worst than Old Ackley. At least Ackl ...

Number of words: 2265 | Number of pages: 9

Jack London's White Fang: Summary

... rescue party came and saved the man and the 2 dogs from being eaten. After departing the pack came upon a 800 lb. bull moose. From there the pack split up to mate 3 wolves followed the half wolf half dog or the she-wolf. The 3 wolves fought and One- eye, a old fighting wolf, won and won the rights to the she-wolf. The she-wolf gave birth to 5 wolf pups. The only one to survive was a spunky cub named White Fang. White Fang became a pet of the Indians. He moved with the Indians everywhere they traveled, yet he still heard the call of the ...

Number of words: 439 | Number of pages: 2

Great Expectations Why Does Pi

... that Pip was not comfortable doing this deed for “his” convict as he thought for a while before taking the pork pie, which was so appreciated by Magwitch. At Satis House it is almost straight away made clear to him from Estella’s language, both body and spoken, that she considers him to be inferior. It is here that, he is for the first time introduced to a girl whom he is later to fall madly in love with. It is here that he is referred to only as boy. It is here that he forms his “Great Expectations”. ...

Number of words: 676 | Number of pages: 3

Bartleby, The Failure

... in Melville's time, he immediately wrote Pierre, which was a deeply personal novel. This self pity could have been continued in "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In addition, Bartleby seemed to feel that continuing copying was worthless, possibly from spending many years in a dead letter office. Melville probably felt this way, but needed to continue writing to support his family. When Bartleby is in prison, he wastes away without abruptly dying, a degeneration until the point no one notices his absence. Melville had reached the prime of his p ...

Number of words: 460 | Number of pages: 2

The Red Tent (all You Need To

... The truth about Shalem’s murder is revealed to Re-mose, who in turn vows to avenge his father’s death on Joseph’s head. He is thwarted by Dinah, who convinces him to remove to the north. Joseph and Dinah attend the death of Jacob in the falling action, both forgiving the wrongs committed against them in their father’s name. The story concludes with Dinah’s death. Point of View Diamant has Dinah effectively tell her story from three different narrative perspectives. The bulk of the novel is related by Dinah in ...

Number of words: 4792 | Number of pages: 18

The Invisible Man: Man's Tendency To Become Moral Or Immoral

... his invisibility, such as making sound and being easily imprisoned once caught, vulnerable qualities which eventually lead to his downfall. The Invisible Man breaks into many people's homes, stealing money, and leading eventually to physical abuse and killing. When faced with power, such as invisibility, man becomes immoral and is willing to do anything for personal gain and enjoyment. The Invisible Man's nemesis, Kemp, brings up the immorality by saying, "But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity." The Invisible Man just reinforces his ...

Number of words: 539 | Number of pages: 2

Jim's Role In Huckleberry Finn

... ever really experience either person's situations, except through this book and other's like it. However, just because we can't physically be there doesn't mean we can't experience it. Adler says, "We learn from experience—the experience that we have in the course of our daily lives. So too, we can learn from the vicarious, or artistically created, experiences that fiction produces in our imaginations." Jim reveals several things about himself through his actions and by what others say about his actions. I would like to examine a coup ...

Number of words: 2359 | Number of pages: 9

A Review Of The Scarlet Letter

... with the letter “A” embroidered in gold thread and a manuscript by Jonathan Pue (the man who once held Hawthorne’s job). Finding the story extremely interesting, the author thus retells the story of Hester Prynne from Massachusetts’s Puritan history. The first chapter begins with Hester being led to the scaffold where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. Hester is forced to wear the letter “A” on her gown at all times as punishment for her crime. She has stitched a large scarle ...

Number of words: 1213 | Number of pages: 5

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