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The Bluest Eye - A Reality Of

... yells at her to get out of her house, Pecola’s eyes were fixed on the “pretty” lady and her “pretty” house. Pecola does not stand up to Maureen Peal when she made fun of her for seeing her dad naked but instead lets Freida and Claudia fight for her. Instead of getting mad at Mr. Yacobowski for looking down on her, she directed her anger toward the dandelions she once thought were beautiful. However, “the anger will not hold”(50), and the feelings soon gave way to shame. Pecola was the sad product of having others’ anger ...

Number of words: 1153 | Number of pages: 5

Animal Farm

... only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. (p.19) This speech gets all the animals riled up and sends the toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major then teaches them the song the Beasts of England which teaches them the "great" life without man and with no more bad leaders: Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tid ...

Number of words: 1088 | Number of pages: 4

The Scarlet Letter And The Cru

... society, the eyes of the officials were those of God. In The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne's punishment was assigned to her by a highly prestigious panel of men from the Churches and Courts of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. All of the townspeople came to see Hester Prynne's punishment because of their loyalty to the court. They had to see what was going on with the court, because that is what they held in highest regard. "Now, good Sir, our Massachusetts magistracy, bethinking themselves that this woman is youthful and fair, and doubtl ...

Number of words: 629 | Number of pages: 3

Human Comedy Pain

... causes pain to be distributed to others because that person with the pain cannot deal with it. “The poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes,” (p.131) is how Mrs. Macauley describes the person who tries to contain pain. When Mr. Spangler, the telegraph office owner, was alone, John Strickman tried to rob the telegraph office because he was down on his luck and there was a war going on so he thought it didn’t matter if he or Mr. Spangler died in the holdup. H ...

Number of words: 565 | Number of pages: 3

The Awakening

... to send for a doctor. It is here that Edna Pontellier says words that define , "I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others - but no matter..." As the book begins, Edna is a married woman who seems vaguely satisfied with her life. However, she cannot find true happiness. Her "awakening" begins when a persistent young man named Robert begins courting her. Edna begins to respond to him with a passion she hasn't felt before. She begins ...

Number of words: 747 | Number of pages: 3

What Is A Hero?

... done an abundance of charity work, have spent their lives helping people. Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and Mohammad Ali had one or two moments in sports where they did something really significant in the course of time, but their whole lives were not dedicated to that cause. On the other hand, the children of the baby boomers select a different group of heroes. Almost all of this generation's heroes are from the second definition of hero, a person that rises above his/her limitations to do something significa ...

Number of words: 352 | Number of pages: 2

A Separate Peace 4

... leads to a tragic catastrophe. Gene and Finny initiate their summer of 1942 with the false perception that their friendship is flawless. At the beginning of the story, Gene seems to accept Finny’s superior athletic ability, but he resents what he feels was Finny flaunting his abilities. Finny demonstrates his superior agility to Gene when he grabs Gene’s hand, lending him support when he loses his balance during one of their routine jumps from a towering tree. Gene feels that he should not feel any “rush of gratitude toward ...

Number of words: 738 | Number of pages: 3

Emily Dickinson

... are more likely to create psychological landscapes, generalized scenes, or allegorical scenes.” She uses real places and actions to convey a certain idea or emotion in her poem. She blends allegory and symbolism, which is the reason for the complication in her poems because allegory and symbolism contradict each other (Diehl 18, 19). Dickinson did not name most of her poems. She named twenty-four of her poems, of which twenty-one of the poems were sent to friends. She set off other people’s poetry titles with quotation mark ...

Number of words: 649 | Number of pages: 3

Life On The Color Line

... during this move to Muncie, the boys learned from their father that he was a black man and that in Muncie, they, too, would be black. Although the boys looked white, and their father who passed for Italian had married a white woman from Muncie, their grandmother was a black woman from Kentucky now settled in Muncie with only the barest means of subsistence. The boys first stayed with relatives who could not afford to keep them and eventually were raised by a black woman, Miss Dora, who had no kinship relation with them, but believed they ...

Number of words: 389 | Number of pages: 2

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment: Reality Or Illusion

... points that Hawthorne made led me to believe that the story was indeed a true testament of the powers of the magical water. The first is rather evident and straight forward because it happens before a single person even raises glass close to their lips. I am of course referring to the fifty- five year old rose that was given to Dr. Heidegger on the eve of his wedding by his bride to be. Heidegger places the rose in the water so there could be proof of the mysterious water's power, but in the same act of proving its power to his guests Haw ...

Number of words: 801 | Number of pages: 3

The Odyssey And The Pearl: Loyalty

... for her hand, she made them a promise that as soon as she finished weaving a gift for her father, she would take one of their hands in marriage. Nightly, unbeknownst to the suitors, she would unravel her work, so that she could remain faithful to Odysseus. Also, Penelope promised her hand to the suitor who could meet a test. Penelope's test was to string Odysseus' bow and then shoot an arrow through the eye of twelve ax handles. Penelope knew that only Odysseus could accomplish this task. By doing this, she avoided having to marry ...

Number of words: 442 | Number of pages: 2

"How Mosquitoes Came To Be": The Giant Lives On

... legend came to be and particularly, who wrote it? The first question I thought of was, is he the only giant on the planet? This was answered for me with the introduction of the giant's son. As I read on, something seemed puzzling to me, the fact that why humans are so selfish to think they are better than giants, let alone anything else. For instance, why is it okay for humans to kill a chicken, roast it and eat it, and a giant is bad to "kill humans, eat their flesh, and drink their blood"(11)? Later in the story we learn that the gian ...

Number of words: 1274 | Number of pages: 5

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