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The Catcher In The Rye: Themes And Symbols

... 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: 2108 | Number of pages: 8

Summary Of 1984

... word anyone said was heard by the inner Party, also, every motion anyone made could be seen by the telescreens that were like two-way TVs. Anyone who showed any discontent or disapproval towards the Party was seen or heard, and taken to Ministry of Love, which concerned itself with law and order. No one knew what happened in the Ministry of Love, but people who were taken there most often disappeared. Their very existence falsified by the Ministry of Truth. Winston hid his hate of the Party very well from the telescreens. He hate ...

Number of words: 838 | Number of pages: 4

Tess Of The D'Urbervilles

... for whatever reason, to be on the receiving end of continuous hardships. From the very beginning of the novel, Tess receives "the short end of the stick" in almost every scene. She is one of the girls who doesn't get to dance with the strange young man before he returns to his brothers. Although they exchange looks at each other, he runs off into the night without a word spoken between them. This is our first glimpse of Tess, and even before we learn more about her, we know that her family is not well off and that her father s ...

Number of words: 923 | Number of pages: 4

Native Sun: Themes Of Racism, Violence, And Social Injustice

... like most blacks at that time , did not exceed the eighth grade. Without the help of the Relief Agency, Bigger and his family may not have been able to keep up much longer financially. Bigger had no money, except for the spare change his mother gives him, so he would usually just hang out at the pool hall, which was in the black district, or southside. Bigger used to pull little jobs with his friends, but all of them including Bigger wanted to pull off a big job, by robbing Blum's store. They were afraid though, of getting caught for ...

Number of words: 777 | Number of pages: 3

EpsteinтАЩs Welfare In America

... In this sense, the scholarship of social welfare in spite of its impressive demography may remain trapped in ideology.тАЭ (Epstein, 5) The problem lies with the U.S. government and itsтАЩ views of family structure. Society abhors welfareтАФhides from itтАФand hopes it will solve itself. Epstein quotes Bane and Ellwood (1994) in the book Welfare, Family Structure and Intergenerational Dependency, that shows the family breakdown and how it can dispel the governmentsтАЩ ideas of reducing welfare to those in the greatest need. He quotes, тА ...

Number of words: 1776 | Number of pages: 7

The Great Gatsby 4

... Gatsby and what transpires during the lunch when Gatsby challenged Daisy’s feelings for Tom and the portion of the book after Gatsby’s death. It becomes clear which events are responsible for the unfortunate changes in character we see in Gatsby and Nick. The first event is when Nick leaves the mid-west after he returns from the war, understandably restless and at odds with the traditional, conservative values that, from his account, have not changed in spite of the tumult of the war. It is this insularity from a changed world ...

Number of words: 1253 | Number of pages: 5

Huckleberry Finn: Prejudice And Intolerance

... the passing of Haley's comet. Clemens often used prejudice as a building block for the plots of his stories. Clemens even said," The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." There are many other instances in which Clemens uses prejudice as a foundation for the entertainment of his writings such as this quote he said about foreigners in The Innocents Abroad: "They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce." Even in the opening paragraph of The Adventures of Huckleberry ...

Number of words: 1163 | Number of pages: 5

Crime And Punishment: Is There Or Is There Not Such A Thing As Crime?

... These laws are decided and administered usually by elected officials who act as leaders in the society. From the input of the citizens, they make laws to run the society by. And when a person breaks the law, that is defined as a тАШcrime'. For example, purposeful and alleged manslaughter is a crime, because it is a law to not kill others; people are not allowed to go cavorting around killing whomever they please, if they did, civilization would fall. Laws and rules hold us to civilization. Another way to define crime is through eth ...

Number of words: 1017 | Number of pages: 4

All Quiet On The Western Front

... foundation of his pre-enlistment days. This rejection comes about as a result of Baumer's realization that the pre-enlistment society simply does not understand the reality of the Great War. His new society, then, becomes the Company, his fellow trench soldiers, because that is a group which does understand the truth as Baumer has experienced it. Remarque demonstrates Baumer's disaffiliation from the traditional by emphasizing the language of Baumer's pre- and post-enlistment societies. Baumer either can not, or chooses not to, communicate ...

Number of words: 3318 | Number of pages: 13

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict With Social Authority

... from somebody he didn't even know) is the exact same thing slave owners did when they brought slaves from Africa. Huck has this "passing on of what he denies" attitude many times in the book. For example, Huck rejected the Bible but tried to teach Jim about it. Huck, later on, he has an internal conflict about the question of turning his "friend", Jim, in. Huck also has various discrepancies with authority, which includes Miss Watson, Pap, and social values of the 1800's in general. Through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the ch ...

Number of words: 1178 | Number of pages: 5

Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, Or Individuals

... wanted her to wear the "A" for adultry. Hester brought up her child forcing the the thought of the heavenily father. Hester's whole lifestyle was altered. She obeyed everyone and for seven years was cursed by standing on the scaffold. The people's beliefs strongly enforced the idea that Hester would wear the Scarlet Letter, so she did. It constantly forced the tought of the sin she had commited and would haunt her for good. "I have thought have death," said she, - "have wished for it, - would even have prayed for it, were it fit that su ...

Number of words: 579 | Number of pages: 3

The Island Of Dr. Moreau

... that just like his society others will want to quench their appetite for this tasty treat called vivisection or cloning. He knew that eventually the progress of society would lead to the all or nothing control of the evolutionary processes. This brings me to one of Wells’ most important ideas that he wanted to tell his readers. That was the idea of vivisection or cloning of humans and animals. In todays world we are trying to control evolution by furthering our studies into cloning. He was right about his expectations of future so ...

Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3

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