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A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2

... she wants. By manipulating her grandchildren, she gets her son to go back to the house with the "secret panel", causing them to meet The Misfit, and ultimately sealing the entire family's death. O'Connor makes the trite seem sweet, the humdrum seem tragic, and the ridiculous seem righteous. The reader can no longer use their textbook ways of interpreting fiction and human behavior because O'Connor is constantly throwing our assumptions back at us. Through out "A good man is hard to find" O'Connor reinforces the horror of self-love throug ...

Number of words: 2686 | Number of pages: 10

Amazing Grace

... richest congressional district in the nation (being E 59th Street in New York City) to the poorest in the nation. A mere eighteen-minute ride by subway to the South Bronx, to a little place called Mott Haven; where the median family income for the 48000 residents is only $7,600. An area known for crack-cocaine and heroin; prostitution; poor hospital care, where one-quarter of new mothers tested in obstetric wards are HIV positive; and the police say is the deadliest precinct in the city. Kozol writes about the trials and tribulations of eve ...

Number of words: 1935 | Number of pages: 8

Patriarchy In Fargo And Raise

... plays the only woman in the movie who has intelligence: Officer Margie Gundersson. Yimou's film showcases a different kind of intelligence: a shrewd, cunning intelligence that is utilized in order to retain power over the master. Raise the Red Lantern gives western society a everyday look at the fourth wife of a rich landowner, Songlian (Gong Li). Forced to marry against her will by her sickly mother, Songlian initially despises her new surroundings: a small, enclosed manor filled with traditional rules and ritual with which she is unf ...

Number of words: 1337 | Number of pages: 5

Charachter Analysis Banquo

... his prediction in half-jest and cautions Macbeth from placing too much faith in the witches. By the end of the play, Macbeth is convinced by the three weird witches and by his wife to fulfill the prophecies (that he will be thane of Glamis and king). Banquo and Macbeth react differently, Macbeth considers killing the king, and does, while Banquo calmly ignores such urges. Act I, scene two, sets the reckless and fast-paced mood for the rest of the play. a wounded captain tells King Duncan how Macbeth honorably killed Macdonwald and how he ...

Number of words: 1128 | Number of pages: 5

Julius Caesar

... tries to justify the death of Caesar but he can not get the thought of cold-blooded murder out of his mind. One of the reasons Brutus would conspire against Caesar is that he loved the Roman people more than Caesar. Brutus was the head of the conspiracy because the Romans respected his judgement and loyalty to the Roman Empire. If he would have loved Caesar more than Rome's people he never would have killed Caesar for the Roman people. Cassius is the most significant character for his ability to perceive the true motives of the characters. Ca ...

Number of words: 423 | Number of pages: 2

Oedipus Rex

... or exile anyone who withholds information. Teiresias tested Oedipus' patience in the beginning of the story with the information he was holding; "You'd try a stone's patience! Out with it.". This impatient accusing of Teiresias proved to be bad, especially since Teiresias foretold the ending of the story. If Oedipus had been more patient and waited, he might have not been quite so upset about the future, nor shaken up about what was to happen. However, that one trait did not alone take away his position of high authority. Oedipus disp ...

Number of words: 553 | Number of pages: 3

Faith Vs. Temptation

... begins to question his own faith as the devil himself sheds new light on Brown’s strong beliefs. “With heaven above, and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the Devil!”… Or will he? Young Goodman Brown prepares to leave on his lonely, life-changing journey, by first saying good bye to his wife of three months. Faith as his wife is called, for symbolic reasons I’m sure, fears for her husband and wishes him to stay. This good bye is Brown’s chance to choose faith over temptation. “Poor little ...

Number of words: 815 | Number of pages: 3

Incorporation Of The American

... failed by the characters in the story line. Daisy and Tom are two characters whose dreams portray to be wealthy and to be in control of things. Tom throughout the story acts brutal and tries to control everything. For example, Nick describes him as: “It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body. His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed”(11). Nick’s description of Tom shows his stature of a bully and that how he maybe able to get things done. Then later in the story ...

Number of words: 1014 | Number of pages: 4

Harrison Bergeron 2

... are all uniform. This then leads to their loss of individuality, and therefore to the absolute deformity of humanness. Both the movie and the short story share these themes; they also have a multitude of other similarities, but also have just as many differences. These differences, irony and the symbolism between the two, are what I will be attempting to explore. The first apparent difference between the movie and the short story is that the short story takes place in 2081. In the story the government regulates everything, not just inte ...

Number of words: 1208 | Number of pages: 5

The Meaning Of Life To Different People

... people who are here with us. " We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other." 1 Yevgeni Velikou, a Physicist, thinks that the meaning of life and the values of life, is more important to living life itself. "Life’s meaning and life’s values are more precious than life itself." 2 Wilma Mankiller, chief of Cherokee Nation, thinks that the meaning of life is to live in ...

Number of words: 1948 | Number of pages: 8

Jim As Hucks True Father

... of Huck and Pap, there is no love. Pap is a user. He sees Huck as his possession and believes that he can do anything he wants with him. At one point Pap says, "Looky here- mind how you talk to me; I'm a-standing about all I can stand . . . I've been in town nearly two days, and I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich . . . That's why I come. You git me that money tomorrow- I want it." Pap's only desire is to get his hands on Huck's money. There is never any compassion heard in Pap's voice, only anger. This anger is a result of ...

Number of words: 734 | Number of pages: 3

The Muses Of Greek Mythology

... in Boeotia: Melete ("meditation"), Mneme ("memory"), and Aoede ("song"). Another three were worshipped at Delphi and their names represented the names of the strings of a lyre: Nete, Mese, and Hypate. The Greeks believed there were nine muses, each providing over some form of literature, art, or science. There was Calliope, as well as Clio the muses of history, Euterpe of lyric poetry, Melpomene of tragedy, Terpsichore of choral dance and song, Erato of love poetry, Polyhymnia of sacred poetry, Urania of astronomy, and Thalia of comedy (Ency ...

Number of words: 719 | Number of pages: 3

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