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Black And White

... their literature. Twain also displays some unfavorable preconceptions of blacks. This can be attributed to his own upbringing in the slave holding south. The main character of the Chesnutt stories is an old Negro man, previously a slave, who engages his new white employers in many tales about life on the plantation. Uncle Julius relays these stories with much detail. Though, at the conclusion of each, the reader is left wondering whether the tale was true or if Uncle Julius had conceived of it merely to satisfy his own desires. Chesnut ...

Number of words: 1682 | Number of pages: 7

The Cather In The Rye

... vloer vliering. Langzaam kroop hij op zijn knieën naar een doos. Hij klikte het slotje open en pakte er een pistool eruit. Het had het al diverse malen gebruikt om zijn zogenaamde klusjes te klaren. Hij vergrendelde het pistool met de veiligheidspal en stopte het in z’n jaszak. Hij deed de doos weer op slot en liep zachtjes het lokaal uit. Bertus liep op zijn tenen om de congiere maar niet te wekken uit zijn verdoving, als die wakker werd waren de poppen aan het dansen. Hij trok de rits van zijn leren zwarte jas helemaal dicht en sloop de ...

Number of words: 1318 | Number of pages: 5

Huckleberry Finn's Struggles With Conscience

... when he wanted to smoke, “She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must not try to do it any more” (4). Huck's immaturity shows in his reaction to her rule. He felt that she was “finding a power of fault in me for doing a thing that had some good in it” (4). Huck is struggling with his conscience early in the novel. He knows that the widow is right, but his reaction is still childish. Another character who tries to help Huck is the widow's sister, Miss Watson, who lives with them and was trying to teach Huck s ...

Number of words: 823 | Number of pages: 3

Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield

... Caufield has many bad qualities including one of his favorite pastimes getting rip-roaring drunk. A good example of this is one of the many bar scenes when he gets quite drunk and asks the waiter to complement the singer. This is a show of his drunkenness because the singer is awful or at least the thought so before he started drinking. This is one among a plethora of bad habits like smoking, cursing, and being extremely cynical (everyone is a phony). Holden is by far not all bad, inside he is moral and generous. There are very clear ex ...

Number of words: 506 | Number of pages: 2

Raptor Red

... period setting and all the vegitation ,lust forests, muddy salt flats, sandy beaches, and dry temperate valleys. These settings are all very vital to the book because it creates the prehistoric atmosphere and brutal planet these giants once inhabited. One of the key elements to the book to make it more realistic is how the author describes in detail all the other animals that Raptor Red hunts and runs into in the book. The author puts great detail in how Raptor Red stalks her prey and kills her victims. Once you start ...

Number of words: 993 | Number of pages: 4

A Sword In The Stone

... of view on what a real education should be, but in an a way very different. I believe an education should be like Arthur's in the way that he learns by getting different experiences from Merlyn, his tutor, that include exactly what he needs to learn. An example of the kind of experiences given to Arthur is when Merlyn turns him into a fish in order to let him explore. From this experience with the fish, Arthur learns that size and physical strength didn't really matter and instead, it was more important to have intelligence and to know ...

Number of words: 868 | Number of pages: 4

1984- A Valid Prediction

... part of his [Orwell's] writing" (Williams 8). Orwell used his novel to speak out against socialism and classism. In a society ruled by a character named Big Brother, the citizens are not only told how to act, but how to think and feel. The governing force of the society uses fear and brutality to control its citizens. Many of Orwell's predictions came true, and the majority of those that did not come true, are not very extreme. "Many believed these predictions to be those of a raving lunatic, I think not" (Leif 92). Although many of his pred ...

Number of words: 1048 | Number of pages: 4

Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" And His Life

... Star was the first to introduce to him the news writing format which demands brief, to the point sentences and the smooth flowing of ideas. It seems that Hemingway adapted this style to his fiction writng. Hemingway demonstrates this talent in a short story called "A Clean Well-Lighted Place". When he was 19 Hemingway enlisted in the army. He was rejected due to a defective left eye. He then turned to the Red Cross in which he became a second lieutenant. The Red Cross brought him to the front lines of the war in Italy. It was here ...

Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4

The Pit And The Pendulum

... him to solve after he finishes the previous one.It is hard to imagine the prisoner could ever survive his immense torture but he did. In the end the prisoner was rescued by General Lasalle after Lasalle invaded Toledo. The ending was proper for the plot, because he deserved to be rewarded after his immense torture. It is a major coincidence that they invaded Toledo to save the falling prisoner from his death. The plot is suspenseful. It kept you on you're toes at every moment because of the ever danger of death in each paragraph. In the c ...

Number of words: 647 | Number of pages: 3

The Role Of Women In A Doll's House

... gone straight from her fathers control to her husbands' house. Therefore, Nora is still a child in various aspects. Both had treated her as a doll, she has always been treated like one. Our first impression is that Torvald is a good husband but we rapidly realize that she is his helpless thing. The author lays the emphasis upon the fact that she never had the possibility to develop a since of self, never went her own way and always accepted her fathers and husband opinions as her own. The play aims at showing the contrast between the male cha ...

Number of words: 886 | Number of pages: 4

Neuromancer By William Gibson

... (Interestingly, Gibson himself has said he had finished much of what was to be his body of early cyberpunk fiction before ever seeing Blade Runner.) Eventually it was seized on by hip "postmodern" academics looking to ride the wave of the latest trend. Dubbed "cyberpunk," the stuff was being talked about everywhere in SF. Of course by the time symposia were being held on the subject, writers declared cyberpunk dead, yet the stuff kept being published and it continues to be published today by writers like K. W. Jeter and Rudy Rucker. Perhaps t ...

Number of words: 808 | Number of pages: 3

Siddhartha's Journey

... (enlightenment). The first part, understanding, involved him living with his father who was a brahmin. Siddhartha realized that he made everybody else happy but that he himself wasn't. He also got the feeling that he had already learned the best of what his teachers had to teach but it still wasn't enough. He still wasn't satisfied. One day he and his friend, Govinda, meditated by a banyan tree. Siddhartha recited the verse: "Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul, Brahman is the arrow's goal A ...

Number of words: 887 | Number of pages: 4

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