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Crane's "The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky": The Marriage Of The End

... to a town that may or may not accept what he has done. The sheriff is coming home on a train, not horses but a train with a wife he did not ask the town permission for. The entire train ride home consists of him telling his new wife everything about everything on the train which shows his anxiety in going home to his town. Every thing on the train symbolizes how the east is coming to the west and how the west is slowly fading out. Everyone on the train keeps referring to time as if time were running out for everybody. The other main c ...

Number of words: 259 | Number of pages: 1

A Clockwork Orange

... upon reforming a criminal with only good morals and conditioning an automated response to "evil." Burgess enforces the idea of the medical model of corrections, in terms of rehabilitating an offender, which is up to the individual. That one should determine the cause and then find an exclusive treatment to resolve that individual's case, then apply it. This is the case with the character Alex, a juvenile delinquent introduced into prisonization then conditioned by governmental moral standards. This lack of personal moral choice impos ...

Number of words: 1720 | Number of pages: 7

Chrysalids

... to prove that it does not have to accept anything abnormal. The whole idea of human deviations, mutants and blasphemies is all created by the majority of "norms" at the end of their tribulation. However, not all the characters in Waknuk believe that deviations should be killed or isolated. These characters are very distinct and all have a significant importance. There are a variety of opinions produced by John Wyndham's characters who cause many conflicts. The main character, David has the strongest beliefs and these beliefs become even s ...

Number of words: 813 | Number of pages: 3

Living, Loving, And Learning: Buscaglia Reflection

... have." I went to Juab High School in the small town of Nephi, Utah. Like many other small town high schools, football coaches and P.E. teachers doubled as Algebra teachers and Science teachers. This allowed our school to make full use of the limited teachers and resources that it had. There was a lot of talented people that taught at Juab and some of them made great teachers and coaches, but some of them didn't. Sometimes it ended up that the football coach/algebra teacher cared a little more about tomorrow's football game tha ...

Number of words: 2483 | Number of pages: 10

Night Elie Wiesel

... but most ignored the warnings. The numerous chances the people of Sighet had to leave was significant that if they would have just left, none of this would have happened to them. One of the first warnings they had was when Moshe the Beadle came back from escaping the train. He was telling his story to everyone that would listen. The story was about how they made "the Jews get of the train and climb into lorries." (page 4) He also talked about how they murdered people for no reason at all. But most of the people in Sighet just ignored M ...

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The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities Of Life

... heavenly Father. But before the public, he was only camouflaging his dark, hidden secret, which was the sole cause of his sufferings. Hawthorne successfully portrayed the personal agonies one would suffer by cowardly holding secrets within oneself. In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne set out to show the consequences of leading a double life. Arthur Dimmesdale, to the people of Boston, was a holy icon. According to the public, "never had a man spoken in so wise, so high, and so holy a spirit, as he… nor had inspiration ever breath ...

Number of words: 1375 | Number of pages: 5

A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries

... accepts the explanation because, he, and everyone else, feel sorry for the boys that will soon have to go to war. Chapter 3: The boys join The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. The club meets every night. Phineas and Gene open each night by jumping out of the tree. They make a new kind of war game called blitzball, in which everyone is everyone elses enemy. Phineas breaks the schools swimming record, but tells Gene not to tell anyone, he just wanted to do it for himself. Gene and Phineas of campus to the ocean to swim. Th ...

Number of words: 1546 | Number of pages: 6

The Giver: A Critique

... out what his assignment is, and what it entails doing are rises in action. The climax is when the plan to escape the society is being conceived and the actual escape itself. The falling action is when he is escaping from the search planes and trying to keep himself and Gabriel alive. The ending is when he feels triumph at the top of the hill and then sleds down it to his new family, his first memory that belongs to him. There were many characters in this book the main one being Jonas. Jonas is a child in this supposed "Utopia" who en ...

Number of words: 667 | Number of pages: 3

The Not So Great Gatsby

... to be somebody of real importance but by looking closely we can gather an abundance of evidence to the contrary. We see that he is just a man looking for the lost love of his life, Daisy. He is a man looking for the American dream and when he does not find it, we see at last that he is just like the rest of us. The word great is somewhat vague in meaning. Whether someone is great or not often times depends on the person judging them. My personal beliefs as far as greatness are concerned are not very complicated. When I think of someone who i ...

Number of words: 1426 | Number of pages: 6

The Scarlet Letter - Puritan Society

... Hawthorne uses the forest to provide a kind of "shelter" for members of society in need of a refuge from daily Puritan life. In the deep, dark portions of the forest, many of the pivotal characters bring forth hidden thoughts and emotions. The forest track leads away from the settlement out into the wilderness where all signs of civilization vanish. This is precisely the escape route from strict mandates of law and religion, to a refuge where men, as well as women, can open up and be themselves. It is here that Dimmesdale openly acknow ...

Number of words: 1107 | Number of pages: 5

The Scarlet Letter: Admitted, Hidden & No Guilt

... confession. Hester suffers a physical alienation. She moves to the edge of the town and has to raise Pearl alone, which is how she chooses to do so. She helps the poor people even though she is treated as an outcast. She suffers less and less as time goes on. In the beginning she has no friends, but then the townspeople forget her past difficulties and start to appreciate her help. From the beginning she kept her head held high. “She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy.” The letter “A” comes to stand as meaning able, instead ...

Number of words: 462 | Number of pages: 2

As I Lie Dying

... catches a very big fish (later, Vardaman begins to confuse the fish with his dead mother, resulting in Faulkner's shortest, and one of his most famous — or infamous — chapters: "My mother is a fish."). Dr. Peabody arrives at the Bundrens' house just in time to watch Addie die. Just after Addie's death a violent storm breaks, and Darl's and Jewel's lumber-laden wagon loses a wheel in a ditch. Meanwhile, young Vardaman drills holes into the coffin lid (so his mother can breathe), and inadvertently drills into her face. By the time the co ...

Number of words: 1154 | Number of pages: 5

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