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Juanita Platero's "Chee's Daughter": Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal About Personality

... the personalities of the protagonist,Chee , and the antagonist Old Man Fat. Chee's setting reflects his caring nature. He shows this by caring for the land he lives on like a father would do for his son. He shows that he cares for the land by thinking that "if he sang the proper songs, if he cared for the land faithfully, it would not forsake him now..."(82) Chee is trying to grow food and he thinks that if he cares for the land and respects it that the earth would in turn make the food grow well. Another way to show this is how Chee thought ...

Number of words: 511 | Number of pages: 2

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Superstitutions

... the ritual he did was for losing a found horseshoe and did not know if it would work. These superstitions and remedies seem pretty far fetched and it is hard to say where they originated, but I would have to say they originated down South. I think it originated down south because I am from up North and I have never heard any one speak of those superstitions. Huck believes in these probably because he grew up with them and they were always taught to him and he is so ignorant he does not know better. One morning Huck turned over the salt-cel ...

Number of words: 913 | Number of pages: 4

The Catcher In The Rye: Holden Was A Twisted Individual

... like the normal young adult. Holden is twisted an example of this is when Holden keep on asking about the duck and where they go during the winter. Why would a normal individual even care about where these ducks would go in the winter? Another example of how Holden is twisted is how he constantly runs from reality and goes into flash about a person he hates and why he hates them. Holden is in constant depression and the reason for his depression is that he feels he can’t help in change things. Holden is set on a straight path. Holden ...

Number of words: 370 | Number of pages: 2

The Great Gatsby

... called East Egg. The affluent couple quickly exposes Nick to the corrupting effect of wealth and materialism. He often serves as a sophisticated observer at several fashionable parties, yet he remains uninvolved in the hedonistic lifestyle. Jay Gatsby, the man who gives his name to the book, lives in an extraordinary estate adjacent to Nick, where he incessantly welcomes guests to sumptuous parties. Nick develops a fixation and a selfless devotion to Gatsby. Gatsby is a dreamer, absorbed by the past, and Nick reluctantly aids him in attempts ...

Number of words: 1532 | Number of pages: 6

The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

... Mrs. Hutchinson. After Jackson describes the summer morning, she alludes to the children gathering in the Village Square, but they are acting quite strange. The boys stuff their pockets with stones and make a pile of stones at one corner of the square. The first question we must ask is why are the boys piling stones up in the village square? At the very least, we can see that the stones will reappear at the end of the story. Another major aspect of the story is how Jackson used people's names to make a point. First of all, Mr. Summers is t ...

Number of words: 573 | Number of pages: 3

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Ana

... the grandmother and her family. The grandmother is representative of devoutness and Christianity which O'Connor apparently believed to be more prevalent in the "glamorous" Old South. Attention to prim detail separated the grandmother from the rest of her family who seemed to be living in a different world than she. As she organized herself in preparation for the trip, her family was described as rather common people living in a frusturated middle class world. O’Connor described the old woman as she settled herself comfortably, remov ...

Number of words: 631 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockinbird: Scout

... Soon after, he was shot and killed because he, supposedly, attempted to escape. Scout discovered it was immoral to wrong one who doesn't wrong others in that Tom Robinson, and good man, was killed as a result of something he never did. Scout also learned that the only way you can truly understand someone is by walking around in their shoes. Many of the kids in Maycomb had the impression that Arthur "Boo" Radley was an evil person because his nature was mysterious. She never really understood him until the end of the novel. After walking ...

Number of words: 348 | Number of pages: 2

Evolution Of Heathcliff In Wut

... interesting and timeless. It also hooks the reader because he or she identifies with the main character and recognizes elements of his or her own personal growth and development. Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights as a dirty, ragged, gypsy boy, by Mr. Earnshaw, the master of Wuthering Heights. The orphan child is baptized with the name Heathcliff, the name of an Earnshaw baby that died at birth. As Heathcliff grows up, he is compared to a “cuckoo” by Mrs. Dean. A cuckoo is a bird who comes into a nest and takes the pl ...

Number of words: 1148 | Number of pages: 5

The Sound Of A Voice

... the home with flowers that never seem to die. Although mystified and attracted to her he still can’t seem to bring him self to stay. Knowing she will always be alone, the women hangs herself off the porch. This story helps us better understand the importance of sound, silence and intimacy First, the story conveys how life without another human being can be lonely. The first example is conveyed through the title itself. “ The Sound of A Voice” gives you the sense that life without the sound of another human being can be desolat ...

Number of words: 1124 | Number of pages: 5

Tom Sawyer

... he managed by sharp trading to buy up a lot of the tickets given to the best pupils, and when a distinguished visitor came the children were requested to step forward with their tickets so that the one who had the most should receive the prize. To the astonishment of all Tom Sawyer was the hero, and, after a great time had been made over him, the visitor thought Tom should have a chance to show his learning, so he asked him who were the first two of the twelve Apostles to follow Jesus, it being presumed that the prize boy knew such thing ...

Number of words: 556 | Number of pages: 3

Goethe In Faust And Shelley In Frankenstein: Still The Wretched Fools They Were Before

... too mighty for mortal souls, a lesson that Frankenstein and Faust learn by the end of their tales. While voluntarily excommunicating themselves from society, both characters accomplish a portion of their goal and yet they remain unhappy because they never control the "perfect" life they have built for themselves. In Faust, the intelligent gentleman Faust, seeks spiritual wholeness in knowledge. Through years of hard study, Faust becomes knowledgeable in math, sciences and religion and yet he becomes inept and incapable of having any roma ...

Number of words: 783 | Number of pages: 3

A Raisin In The Sun: Achieving Impossible Dreams

... south side Chicago, in a place of poverty and poor communities. Their scarcity of money and short income places them into an affordable apartment with two rooms, shared among five members, and one bathroom for all the occupants of the building. Lena Younger, more widely known as mama, achieves her dream of buying a house and immediately puts thirty-five thousand dollars down on a new house and sixty-five thousand into Walter’s care. All hope is lost when Walter loses the money and the family ends up back to where they started, with nothing. ...

Number of words: 626 | Number of pages: 3

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