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Bone

... Ona commit suicide, and this made me want to continue reading the book to know the outcome. The happenings in the story do portray reality of the lives of Chinese immigrants in America, their hardship and difficulty in adapting American lifestyle and culture. For the younger generations, adapting the American culture and lifestyle is much easier than for the older generations. This is shown in the book and it also happens in reality, which is another reason why I like this book. This is a fiction novel, but the story told is like a non-ficti ...

Number of words: 562 | Number of pages: 3

Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets - Innocence Vs. Experience

... is allowed no such Heaven. Her traumatic experience ends in her death without redemption. Crane allows for the dual existence of innocence and experience but without the catharsis enjoyed by Mamie. Innocence surrounded by experience, but unable to survive there, is the dominant theme of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. After her little brother's death near the beginning of the story, Maggie exists as the sole example of innocence in the Bowery. Her parents drunken rages and constant fighting are tragic representations of the horr ...

Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2

1984: Summary

... thought. They will try accomplish this through the elimination of speech to a form where humans can no longer think for themselves. These future citizens would not be able to commit any crimes against the Party. There is no possible way these humans would even think "criminal" thoughts to begin with since they had no knowledge of any crime from personal experience or history. The main character of this book is Winston Smith. Even though he is portrayed as a criminal, I believe that he is a victim of a system that is criminal. All through t ...

Number of words: 1282 | Number of pages: 5

Analysis Of "A Raisin In The Sun"

... Youngers from moving into the white “clean” neighborhood. The committee also uses there money to keep the Youngers out of there neighborhood. Mrs. Johnson also talks about the fire bombings of Black Americans that moved into “white neighborhoods”. The Prejudice white people were the modern Gestapo of America. The Black American blue collar workers also believe that they are being held down by the white collar workers who are the white business men. The Youngers, specifically Walter believe “no matter how hard black folk ...

Number of words: 365 | Number of pages: 2

Huckleberry Finn 2

... to his heart. Although he believes that he is doing wrong and that people and god will look down upon him, he is actually doing what is morally correct. At the beginning of the story Huck runs away from his friends and family to Jacksons Island. On Jacksons Island he is confronted by Jim who is a runaway slave. Jim being an African American is looked down on by society. When Huck is faced with the decision of choosing to rat on Jim or keep his secret Huck has a hard time. He knows subconsciously that Jim has done something wrong. Yet he follow ...

Number of words: 544 | Number of pages: 2

Huck's Struggle Between Morals

... really important in life. In the story, Huck makes the decision to escape from his “family.” This is a decision that goes against the morals of Huck's society, church and state. Children aren't supposed to run away from their parents. Also, his decision to help Jim escape goes against the same morals. In his “adventurous” escape down the Mississippi, he begins to feel truly free. This is a feeling that is contrasted acutely of society's “oppression” of freedom, basically when he is on land. In Jim's and Huck's escap ...

Number of words: 2219 | Number of pages: 9

Lord Of The Flies: Man Giving Into Savagery

... had crashed on the isolated island, all of these boys had come from a strict and austere society, raised in England and attending a private school. They learned uniformity and severe discipline, under a authoritarian. Their harsh disciplinary background mirrors and foreshadows how some of they will react when law and order is omitted. Jack had been brought up this way, and he seems it fit that he should take that place of dictator and rule with radical tyranny. In the story Piggy often shows his intelligence his sense of reason by sugg ...

Number of words: 396 | Number of pages: 2

Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" And Desai's "Clear Light Of Day": Tension And Conflict Between Traditional And Modern Views

... in the characters portrayed within. Achebe makes his stand in eastern Nigeria while Desai illustrates her point in Old Delhi. In the first part of "Things Fall Apart", Achebe, portrays a traditional African culture, but one on the verge of change. Early in the novel you can see change is already taking place. "…in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground throughout the village until he died. But after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve." But trad ...

Number of words: 945 | Number of pages: 4

1984: Socialism, Fascism, Or Communism

... a normal life are controlled. Some of these can be compared to a life dominated by Socialism, Fascism, or Communism. Socialism demands state ownership and control of the basic means of production and distribution of wealth. Both of these are going on in the book. The Inner Party controls business, and I don’t think that anyone can have private profits. They all have apartments, no houses or privately owned residents, and all eat and work in similar environments. All of these are signs of Socialism. There are classes of people, though, (th ...

Number of words: 298 | Number of pages: 2

Symbolism In The Scarlet Letter

... put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s forehead.’ ”(pg. 59)this how some people felt about her punishment. The Puritan treatment continued, because as Hester would walk through the streets, she would be looked down upon as if she were some sort of demon from Hell that committed a terrible crime. This would give her much mental anguish and grief. On the other hand, God’s treatment of Hester for her sin was quite different than just a physical token: he gave Hester the punishment of a very unique child which she named Pearl. ...

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High Fidelity

... to a song pertaining to that feeling. Many of the songs he mentions as his favorites or with significant meaning, relate to Rob’s life in that they have a lot to do with loneliness. One song in particular that Rob wants to serve as his eulogy, “Many Rivers to Cross,” by Jimmy Cliff touches upon aspects of his life, such as loneliness, abandonment and anger. The title, which is repeated throughout the song, relates strongly to Rob due to the fact that it contains the word “cross” in it. Having just broken up with his girlfrie ...

Number of words: 961 | Number of pages: 4

Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And Pessimism

... correspondent, and the captain are totally pre-determined by nature and that they were not their own moral agents. “The little boat, lifted by each towering sea and splashed viciously by the crests, made progress that in the absence of seaweed was not apparent to those in her.” The characters had no control over their boat, rather nature was totally in control. “She seemed just a wee thing wallowing, miraculously top up, at the mercy of the five oceans. Occasionally a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into her.” (pg.145 ...

Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3

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