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My Antonia

... of life. Like replanting a flower's roots, completely moving a person so attached to their homeland and customs, can prove to be fatal. In the book, "My Ántonia," the Shimerdas seemed to be very religious. For example, on Christmas evening, "When the candle ends sent up their conical yellow flames, all the colored figures from Austria stood out clear and full of meaning against the green boughs. Mr. Shimerda rose, crossed himself, and quietly knelt down before the tree……" History shows that the Bohemian people were constantly revolting ...

Number of words: 1037 | Number of pages: 4

Is Racism Still A Problem In The 21st Century?

... were the same. The first black people to be brought to Britain were slaves. The so-called 'slave race' were taken from their home countries to Britain and America. Although slave trading was mostly common in America, It was the British that first started the slave trade. The slaves were promised the chance of a new life and promised that they would become 'good people' and Christians. They were often falsely promised education and freedom if they would leave their homelands. However, the promises where rarely delivered. People in Britain o ...

Number of words: 1565 | Number of pages: 6

Great Gatsby

... moment, as they look at each other both thinking something. Then Gatsby tips over Nick’s clock, symbolizing that he is running out of time to try to capture what he and Daisy once lost. Through the lonely and careless characters of: Jordan Baker Jay Gatsby, Myrtle, and G. Wilson, Fitzgerald is able to illustrate the lack of spirituality in this novel. The main place in The that shows the lack of spirituality is the Valley of Ashes, where Myrtle and her husband, George Wilson live. It is a bleak, desolate valley including only one buildi ...

Number of words: 1017 | Number of pages: 4

Simile Of The Cave

... chamber with their eyes permanently turned to a screen before them, upon which pass the shadows of men living and working in the world of light. Since the prisoners in the underground cave have never known reality other than those shadows, they take them for all that actually is "the whole truth", and if voices from the world above do reach them, they believe it is the shadows speaking. In comparison of this to our government today, many similarities can be seen. Citizens of our nation today are often "blinded" ...

Number of words: 637 | Number of pages: 3

Paganism, Say Hello To Christi

... or Christianity. This "Christian" symbol is an important one in the epic of Beowulf. Not only does the fact of Grendel having the mark of Cain symbolize that he is inherently evil because of his family line, but it also shows Beowulf's devotion to the Christian God. Beowulf knows that he cannot kill Grendel*, because the Christian God said that if anyone kills a man with this mark "he shall be avenged sevenfold." In the epic of Beowulf, Beowulf makes many references to his fate. Fate, by definition, is a pagan ...

Number of words: 535 | Number of pages: 2

For Whom The Bell Tolls

... this main theme. Hemingway emphasized the fallacy of war by discussing how there are no real winners in war, that war is equal. What goes around comes around. That whereas one man may kill another, another man will come to kill the first man and so on, in a never-ending cycle of stupidity and futility. The setting of this book can be analyzed here; the Spanish Civil War in the 1920-30 time period is the setting for the book, on the battlefields in the Spanish countryside. The whole fascist/communist aspect is brought up since both sides are ...

Number of words: 830 | Number of pages: 4

Paper On Irony

... me how I was old enough to make my own decisions and that her new boyfriend needed her more. Besides, how many times had I said I couldn=t wait to be on my own. She told me she=d keep all the bills up and give me weekly grocery money. Even though the conversation lasted over an hour that=s all that I can remember except for her words as she walked out the door, AOh yeah, there=s a gun under the bed and it=s loaded. I=ll call you in a couple of days.@ The initial thoughts were that of a typical adolensce ; party, party, party, but ...

Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3

Notre Dame

... Although Claude Frollo is a priest he is a trifling man whose sexual desire turns him into an evil, scheming, obsessed man,ruining his life. Claude Frollo was evil because of the things he did to Esmeralda and Quasimodo, the foster son he adopted when he was only sixteen. When Claude Frollo first saw Esmeralda dancing in the streets with her goat Dijali he yells obscene comments to her, because he is trying to hide the fact that he really wants her. He also used Quasimodo to try and kidnap her, knowing that Quasimodo would do anything rig ...

Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3

The Crucible

... one in which is not explainable. In this story, Abigail Williams is the niece of a man named Reverend Parris who is Salem’s minister. Abigail has already committed adultery with a man named John Proctor. At the beginning of the story Abigail drinks chicken blood to create a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth. This shows how cruel mankind is to it’s on species over worthless matters. Killing another human being over love is meaningless, and this is just one of the very many examples that take place in this story repre ...

Number of words: 539 | Number of pages: 2

The Sun Also Rises 4

... of his life trying to repress his pain and fill the void he feels inside; he does this in many different ways. The first way Jake tries to fill the void inside of him is through a large consumption of alcohol. He uses alcohol in order to repress the emotional distress he feels. Jake receives an injury in World War I that leaves him impotent, which is the main reason he has this overwhelming void in his soul. His masculinity is taken, and now he believes he is less of a person because of it. This void is described by critic Mark Spilka when ...

Number of words: 1614 | Number of pages: 6

Symbolism

... areas: objects that have symbolic value as references to ideas, characters that symbolize important religious and historical people, and the setting which frames conflict on the island in comparison to the whole world. (Bernard Oldsley, pg. 215) Many objects in the Lord of the Flies have symbolic value. The conch shell represents power and authority, Ralph uses the shell to call for the boys to come to the meetings, whoever has the shell has the power to talk. “The conch shows how people use objects to give power in the world, like ...

Number of words: 1455 | Number of pages: 6

The Souls Of Black Folk

... the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face" (5). Along with Booker T. Washington, W.E.B Du Bois was one of the main figures of African American thought and an advocate against racial injustice. He devoted his life to the 'freeing' of black people in America in both the political as well as social sphere. In his collection of essays, the Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois speaks from both personal and objective accounts of the position of the black man in American society. As the excerpt of the introduction notes, the book is b ...

Number of words: 2105 | Number of pages: 8

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