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War - How British Literature H

... this he gained experience in direct action. But Rupert Brooke’s poem has it’s place in our history and will remain so. Next was George Orwell, the writer of “Shooting the Elephant” and “Animal Farm.” All of his works were the unpleasant truths and showed his lifelong hatred of totalitarianism. Orwell gave us a behind the scene look at the powers behind the war and it’s impact. This also made Orwell one of the most known authors of his time. Another author of war was Frank O’Connor. O’C ...

Number of words: 460 | Number of pages: 2

How To Write An Essay The Proc

... a total absence of interruptions. Spend 20 minutes trying to decide where to order pizza from. The arrangement of pepperoni might be particularly inspiring, which would help with your paper. Call up all your third and fourth year friends, trying to see if any of them had your professor. If so, ask them if he has a particular preference for being called "Mister" or "Professor". Check your e-mail again. Again. And again. Read over every e-mail you have ever gotten; maybe someone mentioned writing a paper just like yours, which would h ...

Number of words: 698 | Number of pages: 3

Quests Not Dreams - A Raisin I

... was a loud, intelligent, and fresh-mouthed woman, her dream was to be a doctor and to somehow raise her people up. When Mama set aside the money for Beneatha's education, Beneatha believed that her dream would be realized. When the money was discovered to be lost, she thought her dream blew up in smoke. This dream wasn't the quest that she was intended to do though, her quest was to find her "African side" and to connect with it. Beneatha started to fulfill this by talking to Asagai (a man from Africa). She told him, "Mr. Asagai-I want every ...

Number of words: 1087 | Number of pages: 4

Miss Brill EXPOSED

... one after another. She even believes that the players might miss her if she were to fail to show up for one of the performances. Her illusion is cruelly shattered when a young couple cruelly pokes fun at her as she eavesdrops on their conversation. One cannot help but feel saddened by the incident which forced Miss Brill to see herself in a different light mainly because Mansfield supplies no background to account as to why Miss Brill operates as she does. The way in which the narrator describes “Miss Brill” gives dainty and graceful text ...

Number of words: 1138 | Number of pages: 5

A Farewell To Arms By Ernest H

... no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army. Floating down the river with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and lets the river take him to a new life that becomes increasing difficult to understand. The escape to Switzerland seemed too perfect for a book that set a tone of ugliness in the world that was only dotted with pure love like Henry's and Cat's and I knew the story couldn't end with bliss in the slopes of Montreux. In a world where the abst ...

Number of words: 298 | Number of pages: 2

Catcher In The Rye Book Review

... little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them- all cockeyed, naturally- what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked in the school late at night to take a leak or something and then wrote it on the wall. I kept picturing myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till hew as good and goddam ...

Number of words: 1246 | Number of pages: 5

Oedipus

... riddle to all who came to obtain the rule of thebes: “What is it that walks on 4 feet and 2 feet and 3 feet and has only one voice, when it walks on most feet it is the weakest?” correctly answered “Man” and became the king of Thebes. This riddle is a metaphor for the life of . As a child man crawls on his hands and knees this is the four feet to which the Sphinx refers. Also man is at his weakest as a small child. He depends solely on others for his nourishment and well being. was the child of Jocasta and King Laius who was taken ...

Number of words: 2651 | Number of pages: 10

Huck Finn

... responsibilities. Even though Huck did enjoy fishing and relaxing in the sun during his stay with Pap, it wasn’t the responsibility that he was escaping, but the rules that society had imposed on him. Huck didn’t mind learning new things and being knowledgeable, but he did not like to get dressed up, to have to go to school, to be well behaved and polite, and to learn good manners. “I was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing…and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ...

Number of words: 936 | Number of pages: 4

Heart Of Darkness 2

... the colonization of Africa, forced ideals of a race that thought of themselves as more superior than those who occupied that land before them existed. This is demonstrated as Conrad writes about how the Whites completely dominate the Blacks in Africa. A significant passage from the novel illustrating this point is when Marlow describes, " Black shapes crouched, lay…The work was going on…this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die…they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and ...

Number of words: 1485 | Number of pages: 6

Symbols In The Rime Of The Anc

... because Coleridge could have made the story telling take place at any setting, but he chose a wedding. Why? A wedding is a very religious, very happy occasion. Weddings in and of themselves symbolize new beginnings and happiness. The reason that Coleridge decided to have this horrid tale told at a wedding could be for any number of reasons. I feel that the setting was chosen because of the new beginnings implied. As the Mariner tells his tale, the guest is held captive and when the story is done, the guest becomes essentially a new man a ...

Number of words: 1461 | Number of pages: 6

Explication Of Lord Byron S Sh

... that Lord Byron went as far as courting his sister over a period of several years because she seemed to truly understand him, but the affair ended as those rumors continued to spread. In his poem “She Walks In Beauty”, Lord Byron describes what he thinks to be the perfect woman. The rhyming, meter, and sound devices give the poem a melodious and gentle tone. This tone suggests the tender nature of this enchanting woman and gives the reader a sense of consistency that allows them to focus more on the woman than the wording of the ...

Number of words: 924 | Number of pages: 4

Medea

... of the legend the play emphasizes or if any alterations were made. In , the nurse is the first character who enters the play and reminds the audience of the legend of the Golden Fleece, and the love between Jason and , from beginning to the end. She also brings them to the present state is in, which is of complete despair and depression after Jason remarried. “And she hates her children now, and feels no joy at seeing them.” (Oates, 292). In Antigone, one of the purposes of the chorus is to provide history to the audience. Althou ...

Number of words: 805 | Number of pages: 3

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