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Catcher In The Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism

... in which one must choose his own way without the aid of universal, objective standards. His views also coincide with those of many famous people who have shared the same ideas, including Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. The Catcher in the Rye demonstrates existentialism by having the main character, Holden Caulfield, isolate himself from a world full of "phonies," and maintaining individuality. With such views in mind, Holden begins alone in the story, and he stays as such throughout the entire story. He establishes concrete individua ...

Number of words: 604 | Number of pages: 3

Man's Journey Into Self In The Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now

... death, and cultural contamination. During Marlow's mission to find Kurtz, he is also trying to find himself. He, like Kurtz had good intentions upon entering the Congo. Conrad tries to show us that Marlow is what Kurtz had been, and Kurtz is what Marlow could become. Every human has a little of Marlow and Kurtz in them. Marlow says about himself, "I was getting savage," meaning that he was becoming more like Kurtz. Along the trip into the wilderness, they discover their true selves through contact with savage natives. As Marlow ven ...

Number of words: 1033 | Number of pages: 4

To Kill A Mockingbird

... to get a peep at him, just to see what Boo looked like. Scout connects Boo with the Mockingbird. Mrs. Maudie defines a mockingbird as one who "…don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (94). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem’s pants that tore on Dill’s la ...

Number of words: 1058 | Number of pages: 4

The Lord Of The Flies: Themes

... novel is called Lord of the Flies, and is of extreme importance to help reconstruct the current wave of revolutionary ideas that swept the twentieth-century generation. Lord of the Flies portrays the belief of the age that man is in a constant struggle between darkness and light, the defects of human nature, and a philosophical pessimism that seals the fate of man. Golding's work are, due to their rigid structure and style, are interpreted in many different ways. Its unique style is different from the contemporary thought and therefor open ...

Number of words: 1287 | Number of pages: 5

Cats Cradle

... the atomic bomb was dropped. He talks with Newt, son of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, the creator of the atomic bomb. He then goes to Illium, the town where the Hoenikkers grew up, and there he learns of ice-nine, one splinter of which could freeze all the oceans of the world. John soon discovers that Frank, the other son of Felix, is on a small island called San Lorenzo. He goes there to research more for his book. On the plane he meets Newt in person, who turns out to be a midget, and the Crosbys, a married couple. John reads a book the Crosbys giv ...

Number of words: 946 | Number of pages: 4

Lord Of The Flies: Primal Fear

... the community. Fear in a society hinders its progress and construction in the long run. Jack's fear of a loss of power incomparably impedes progress on the island. Stating, "‘I ought to be chief, because I am chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.'" (Golding 22), Jack simply tries to find any kind of reason why power should be taken out of the deserving hands of Ralph and given to his own. Jack demonstrates his dread towards losing control and power. Ralph handles the situation very efficiently and in a well-organized manner ...

Number of words: 651 | Number of pages: 3

Surfacing: A Summary

... [she] never saw, bombs and concentration camps, the leaders roaring at the crowds” (14), the narrator invokes the powerful images of war but refers to her own life as feeling “like peace” (14). Having led such a sheltered life she was unprepared for life outside the bush. Mocked and ridiculed at schools for always being different and new also had poignant effects on the narrator. She never felt as though she belonged. She describes the feeling like “being socially retarded” and states that it is comparable to “being me ...

Number of words: 625 | Number of pages: 3

Good And Evil In The Crucible

... to the tragedy in Salem. The isolation of the Puritan society created a rigid social system that did not allow for any variation in lifestyle. The strict society that was employed at this time had a detrimental effect on the Proctor family. John Proctor, a hard working farmer who had a bad season the year before and struggling this year was occasionally absent at Sunday service. This was due to the fact he needed to tend to his crops. Also, Proctor did not agree with the appointment of Mr. Parris as the newest minister, and therefore did not ...

Number of words: 829 | Number of pages: 4

Jumanji

... and ran inside. Where he meets his friend, Carl Bentley, a twenty-year old man with dark skin. He shows Alan his latest creation, it was some kind of sneaker, made of canvas and white leather above a rubber sole. Alan put the shoe down on an idle conveyor belt. As Alan walked downstairs he saw men scurrying around the sole stamping machine, his father pulled out a shredded shoe, it was Carl's new creation. “Who did this?” asked Alan's father, Carl put up his hand, and took the blame. Alan picked up his bike and rode home, but just as ...

Number of words: 875 | Number of pages: 4

Joy Luck Club - Literary Analy

... where the everyone has gotten together to have a party because June is going to China to meet her two long lost sisters. June’s mother passed away and now June has to join the Joy Luck Club. As the story goes on the members tell stories of their lives. The tell of the hardships of their lifes, all of them about mother-daughter relationships and how the mothers compared them and expected to much of them. When mothers compare and expect to much from their children disastrous consequences occur. Jing-Mei, the piano player in The Joy Luck C ...

Number of words: 1031 | Number of pages: 4

Elie Wiesel

... of Signet”(Wiesel 3). He was Elie's teacher until he was forced to leave Signet by the Hungarians because he was a foreign Jew. After several months Elie saw Moshe the Beadle once again. Moshe the Beadle told his story about his journey that the Jews were forced to get out and dig grave which would become final resting places for prisoners who were killed. Luckily, Moshe the Beadle was able to escape. He pretended that he was dead in order to escape being killed. Not only did Moshe tell his story to Elie, he wanted to warn the Jews of ...

Number of words: 2393 | Number of pages: 9

A Clockwork Orange: Violence And Corruption

... almost to the point of death as they do with Alex both at the beginning, “...they all had a turn, bouncing me from one to the other like some very weak bloody ball...and fisting me in the yarbles and the [mouth] and the belly and dealing out kicks...I [was] sick...on the floor...” (70) and at the end of the book for no other reason than they feel like it. “...It was all panting and thudding against this like background of whirring farm engines...” (150) There seems to be no difference between the people being beaten by streets pu ...

Number of words: 956 | Number of pages: 4

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