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Ordinary People - Avoiding Problems Is Not A Way Of Handling Them

... hospital and still has problems down the line. Calvin, throughout the book is very loving to Conrad, but is too cautious and worried about him. He is an Attorney as profession and tries to keep his family together on the side. Calvin wants more than anything to please and help Conrad, and that sometimes becomes irritating to Conrad as well as Beth. Beth is almost completely the opposite. Beth is a housewife that lunches with the other women of town and she is very cautious about her appearance to the community. Beth cares more about hers ...

Number of words: 740 | Number of pages: 3

With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"

... of my own and Injustices of my school's administration, also was limited, as Alexei was as to what people thought of me and how they treated me. Alexei was torn between his love of gambling and his love of a woman who did not return his love. He felt passionately about things that he did, even if he got into trouble over them. He knew that what he thought was right was often in stark contrast to what his society deemed proper. He disagreed with the social hierarchy of Russia and paid the penalty. He may have paid a penalty for standing ...

Number of words: 858 | Number of pages: 4

Short Stories - "Spelling" And "Differently": Female Relationships

... that face children as their parents age. After visiting the county home in an attempt to find a place for Flo to live, "Rose spoke of the view and the pleasant rooms. Flo looked angry; her face darkened and she stuck out her lip. Rose handed her a mobile she had bought for 50 cents in the County Home crafts centre.... Stick it up your arse, said Flo" (Oates 151). The reader sees no affection between the two. In fact, the tone of the story illustrates a lack of acceptance and even disappointment by Flo and shows that there has always be ...

Number of words: 1453 | Number of pages: 6

Vonnegut's Portrayal Of Society In Breakfast Of Champions

... on the fruits of their wealth." This quote is a very adequate discription of the literary journey through the current scene of America. At one point or another, Vonnegut discusses nearly every social, political, or cultural problem afflicting America. Racism, violence, greed, and commercialism are a few among the many problems prevalent in this country ("Briefly" 146). Vonnegut's novel is an exhibit of the flaws of a robotic, self-destructive society (Allen 107). In Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prefabricated, unf ...

Number of words: 2162 | Number of pages: 8

Of Mice And Men: Stereotypes And Discrimination

... whether Crooks is his name, or his nickname, but we know he got kicked in the back by a horse and had a crooked back ever since. Nevertheless he gets yelled at by the boss every time something’s wrong. " ‘The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that,’ " says Candy, p.32. Crooks also isn’t allowed in the bunk houses because people say he stinks. Crooks talks with Lennie in the book, "Crooks laughed again. ‘A guy can talk to you an’ be sure you won’t go blabbin’." p.78. Th ...

Number of words: 597 | Number of pages: 3

Candide - All Is Not For The B

... that all is not well (as he has previously been taught by his tutor, Dr. Pangloss), and that he must work in order to find even a small amount of pleasure in life. Candide grows up in the Castle of Westphalia and is taught by the learned philosopher, Dr. Pangloss. Candide is abruptly exiled from the castle when found kissing the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. Devastated by the separation from Cunegonde, his true love, Candide sets out to different places in the hope of finding her and achieving total happiness. On his journey, he faces a n ...

Number of words: 1118 | Number of pages: 5

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves

... end of the noval Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie is confused when she was a young woman. The noval explains her life as a young girl. Her mother left her when she was really young. Janie never met her. Her grandmother explains that her master raped her, "Den, one night ah heard de big funs boomin' lak thunder. It kept up all night. And de next morin' Ah could see uh big ship at a distance and a great stirrin' round. So Ah wrapped mah way on down to de landin'. The men was all in blue, and Ah heard people say Sherman was comin' ...

Number of words: 2768 | Number of pages: 11

SOLO Report

... one break in the chain was his Grandfather and him, John, who is a concert pianist. John is clever but physcotic, because his hobby, as gruesome as it may seem, is killing. It began one day when his nanny was killed. It seemed she was killed by a hit and run driver. John, who loved his nanny so much, decided to get revenge, and revenge he did. He killed the man who had been driving the car. The book starts out, as said, with a killing and then by revealing the killer. Then the book goes into a story of the life of the man ...

Number of words: 886 | Number of pages: 4

Lord Of The Flies: Imagery And Symbolism Of The Conch Shell And Ralph

... if you blow the end of the conch then it would make a loud horn-like noise. Ralph was pretty sure that others were also suck on the island so he blew the pink lips of the shell to get them to come to were he was. As the story went on the colors of the conch began to change. It changed, as the boys grew farther apart. When Jack’s troops split off from the rest of the boys it had become more of a white color a little more brittle than it had been when they first found it. It still had the power over the boys though they still listened to ...

Number of words: 499 | Number of pages: 2

The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall

... until her death. When Granny loses her innocence through being jilted, she uses her negative experience to strengthen her character instead of giving up. The jilting of Granny is a terrible and unforgettable experience for her. Despite the negative experience, she manages to raise a loving family. Granny is pessimistic toward life but manages to go on, “I want him [George] to know I had my husband just the same and my children and my house like any other woman. A good house too and a good husband that I loved and fine children out of ...

Number of words: 744 | Number of pages: 3

The Necklace: A Closer Look At Character

... has to learn one of life's little lessons the hard way. She and her husband are forced to live a life of hard work and struggle because of her own selfish desires. Mathilde changes from a woman who spends her time dreaming of all the riches and glory she doesn't have, to realizing that she over looked all the riches she did have. The story opens with the description of how miserable Mathilde is. Maupassant describes her as “suffering constantly, feeling herself destined for all delicacies and luxeries.” (Pg 4) She sits dreaming of sil ...

Number of words: 1178 | Number of pages: 5

The False Monk

... being out in the sun too much (203). Priests and other clergy from this time did not ordinarily get many minutes outside, definitely not enough to tan from. If he was outside, he was disobeying monastic rules. Secondly, Chaucer tells the reader the Monk has many dainty horses in his stable (166). The Monk not only has one, but many horses. They are all well kept with beautiful color (205), and the tack they wear is also expensive and extravagant (177-179). Possessions like this were forbidden for the clergy, especially flashy things. ...

Number of words: 549 | Number of pages: 2

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