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Love And Lovability (wuthering

... Heights. In Hindley’s eyes, Heathcliff took his place in the family. He saw Heathcliff as “a usurper of his father’s affections and his privileges.”(42) The young vagabond was quieter and gentler so he became a favourite of Mr. Earnshaw. Hindley’s luck took a turn for the worst when his wife, Frances, died. When she passed away, a part of himself died too. His common sense and rationality slowly disintegrated into ashes. “The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long.”( ...

Number of words: 274 | Number of pages: 1

Ordinary People

... and of a child's great need for affection. My personal favorite aspects of this book are the characters, the theme, and Guest's style of writing. I enjoyed the complexity and intensity of each character, and each character's need for affection. I also enjoyed reading how each character would react differently with other characters. Another thing I liked was the story's theme. I think the theme of would be not to try to repress one's feelings, even when it may be difficult to face them. Feeling occasional depression or anger may be what we m ...

Number of words: 1876 | Number of pages: 7

Revenge In The Crucible

... rules and regulations of the town many people took it upon themselves to govern. With all the chaos and disorder of the trials many people could express hatred and violence toward anyone and anything under a sheet of "righteousness". People could accuse anyone or anything of being sinful and "against gods will" just by stating that they had truth to the matter. This led to complete chaos and miscommunication among families and townsmen. Now that society was down everyone could break the rules and get feelings out that had originally been kept ...

Number of words: 698 | Number of pages: 3

Young Goodman Brown's Apocalypse

... Brown causes the main character's revelations about the sin within his community, his family and himself. Young Goodman Brown's journey into the forest is best defined as a kind of "general, indeterminate allegory, representing man's irrational drive to leave faith, home, and security temporarily behind, for whatever reason, and take a chance with one(more) errand onto the wilder shores of experience" (Martin). Brown has a curiosity that "kills" his naive outlook on life and changes him until his death. He has a mission to go into the for ...

Number of words: 1024 | Number of pages: 4

The Great Gatsby: Characters Show The Deterioration Of The American Dream

... from his wife Mytrle either because " He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in..." (39). Therefore showing that the American dream is a failure. Myrtle Wilson, his wife, has nothing in her life. She does not work hard and therefor has no success, respect, power, or wealth. Even though she is Tom's mistress she does not gain anything because she is only being used by him. She uses her body to gain what she wants. Myrtle lacks culture and is very concerned about her appearance making her out to be a superficial character. J ...

Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3

Night Flight

... has to remain tough and devoted to his duty despite the loss, he must continue to send other pilots into the night to keep the mail moving. Riviere is also the one who must tell Fabien's wife that her husband is lost. At a different level, the book is an attempt to analyze and explain duty and responsibility one can feel towards his work and his friends and the reasons why people like Riviere and Fabien would persist and continue in their work, despite the very real dangers. When it was first publish the book was very well received and this ...

Number of words: 573 | Number of pages: 3

Rip Van Winkle As A Folktale

... in the course of retelling. Nevertheless, an essential trait of folktales is their diffusion, and their passage from one generation to another, by word of mouth. Rip Van Winkle is described as a good-natured, lazy man. Years passed and his wife, Dame Van Winkle always got angry and frustrated because Rip never took care of their farm. She became bad-tempered and quarrelsome toward him at times. Poor Rip was at last reduced to despair, and his only alternative was to escape from the labor of the farm and his wife. This was the start ...

Number of words: 1060 | Number of pages: 4

Catcher In The Rye - The Conte

... is one apparent aspect in this book and it is also apparent in Salinger’s life. Does Salinger exhibit Buddhism on different levels in Catcher in the Rye? The main character in the book is Holden Caulfield. He attends a rich prep school called Prency prep. It is a school that typifies the idealistic American school, where the dirt and grind does not have a space, at least not on the surface. Holden is then expelled from the school, and starts to venture out the world on his own. He goes back down to New York, the dirt and grind capital of ...

Number of words: 498 | Number of pages: 2

Agenda Setting

... and even monthly basis. This process is known as . Television, radio, and print medias all use , but what about a new media, such as the Internet? Let’s begin by understanding and its place in mass media theory. The early ideas of have been around for decades. Lippmann made reference to the first ideas of in his book Public Opinion. He spoke about how the information of the world is much too vast to comprehend without simplifying it (Baran 299). This can be interpreted as receivers of information need to have a structured, well-defined sc ...

Number of words: 1693 | Number of pages: 7

All Quiet On The Western Front: An Analysis

... one actually feel the fun and then the tragedy of warfare. At the beginning of the novel Remarque gives you nationalist feelings through pride of Paul and the rest of the boys. However at the end of the war Remarque shows how pointless war really is. This is felt when everyone starts to die as the war progresses. Remarque accurately portrays all aspects of the war. However Remarque is best able to portray the effects the war has on the soldiers and the rest of the people and the scene of the battlefield compared to home. The war scarre ...

Number of words: 1020 | Number of pages: 4

Modern Relevancy Of A Christmas Carol

... different, although in our times gift giving is more emphasized than the true meaning of Christmas, which is the birth of Christ. Ebenezer Scrooge was a lonely old man that had a heart of stone. His idea of Christmas was a time for his business. Almost nothing could break through his cold heart. Scrooge would say, "Bah Humbug!" at every person he spotted celebrating the Christmas holiday. He would even put down his nephew because of his Christmas Spirit. The Cratchit's, however, spent their Christmas enjoying the company and war ...

Number of words: 576 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Platform Of Sin

... are, and where they stand in relation to each other in the story. This scene is where Hester Prynne's sin first appears in the novel. The “Goodwives” of the congregation discuss Hester's crime of adultery: “This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die” (Hawthorne 59). The scaffold allows Hester Prynne's sin to be publicized and marveled at by the New Englanders. It is here that the reader becomes aware of Hester being shunned as an outsider, when she is placed on the scaffold: “Knowing well her part, she as ...

Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4

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