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Sophistication

... the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crossed the line into manhood." I think this one sentence is the essence of what Anderson is trying to communicate throughout the story. As George Willard looks at his meaningless life and his bleak surroundings, fresh ideas, new ambitions, oppressing sorrows, and lonely thoughts play with his mind, trying desperately to overcome him. He likens the transition into to a deep mood that takes over. It sweeps over his whole being and completely encompasses al ...

Number of words: 789 | Number of pages: 3

Oedipus Rex

... also believes that life is filled with paradox and irony. Given these difficulties, Sophocles regards the life of man with utmost respect and admiration. In , it is Oedipus who represents Sophocles’ ideal human hero. He displays the defining qualities of a morally correct human. Oedipus, unlike Odysseus in the Odyssey, another Greek work, had no divine influence, yet he still is able to continue for the truth after much hardship. Given all the circumstances, Oedipus still manages to live through to the end without losing composure ...

Number of words: 946 | Number of pages: 4

The Outsiders

... English classes. There were plays made about the book too. is about a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two- Bit, that were also gang members and Ponyboy's friends. This story deals with two forms of social classes: the socs, the rich kids, and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go around looking for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers are blamed for it, because they are poor a ...

Number of words: 2364 | Number of pages: 9

Evil Dead Vs. Evil Dead 2

... quiet guy, but when evil things start happening, he swings quickly into action. From slicing up his girlfriends possessed head to chopping off his own possessed hand, he never seems timid around danger. To accurately compare these two films, it needs to be known that “Evil Dead” and “Evil Dead2” are the same movie. “Evil Dead2” is not a sequel to “Evil Dead” but rather a remake of the original. The original let the impression of Ash being killed at the very end of the film. The remake, “Evi ...

Number of words: 620 | Number of pages: 3

Review Of Amistad

... skills, the Africans had to rely on the remaining two Spaniards to get them to the coast of Africa. They ordered the crew to sail to Africa, but they were tricked. After two months on a sketchy course up the Eastern Seaboard, La Amistad is captured off the coast of Long Island (in the film, the Africans are captured off the coast of Connecticut, but in actuality, they were imprisoned in New Haven and and Hartford, Connecticut). The Africans are charged for murder and piracy. In the beginning, they are embraced by abolitionists Theodo ...

Number of words: 471 | Number of pages: 2

The Mayor Of Casterbridge And

... the novel, Hardy deals with intervals of time in very interesting ways. At one point, he uses nine chapters to detail the events of only of a few days. This is in chapters three through eleven, a time that begins as Susan Henchard sets out to find Michael Henchard and ends as she meets him in the amphitheater. During this small period, Hardy gives much detail as to how Susan and Elizabeth-Jane travel to Casterbridge, where they find the mayor and observe him. He also tells of Henchard's wooing of Farfrae and of his meeting first with Eliza ...

Number of words: 1204 | Number of pages: 5

How Shakespeare And Ibsen Trea

... portrayed women as objects or shrews that needed to be tamed. Kate was the daughter of a wealthy man named Baptista Minolta from Padua. She was the oldest sister and, under tradition of the time, had to be married first. Bianca, on the other hand, was the younger daughter and was courted by many. Due to Kate’s wild behavior, the suitors were afraid of her. Along came a man named Petruccio, who was determined to marry her and get the money that would be given to the man who marries her. Through Petruccio, Shakespeare exploited wome ...

Number of words: 768 | Number of pages: 3

A Farewell To Arms 2

... by the death of Catherine and the baby and Henry's sudden solitude. "What happens now?" I felt, as I so often do when I finish a book that I want to go on forever. This is infinitely more difficult with a book that has no conclusion, and FTA leaves a reader not only emotionally exhausted but also just as alone as Henry and with nowhere to go. The entire work was aware of where it was going and what was going to happen next, and then to stop the way it did was unfair. Now, I've read enough essays while deciding which would be the topic f ...

Number of words: 748 | Number of pages: 3

The Stranger - A Communication

... particular group. In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus , the main character Meursault will eventually have his life sentenced to death based on the way people perceived him towards his Maman instead of being charged with murder. The title of the book confused me at first after I had finished reading the book. I couldn't see why it was called The Stranger. After discussions in our class and pondering this question ,I came up with my answer. The reason the book is titled the way it is, is the way that everyone in the society and those who i ...

Number of words: 912 | Number of pages: 4

Feral Children

... India. Most of the evidence for these cases, however, has been second-hand and lacking in essential detail, and no one case has afforded conclusive proof. Because feral children are often severely retarded when restored to human society, it is speculated that they are victims of autism who have been abandoned by their parents. The best documented account of feral children is that of the wolf children of Midnapore, India, who were dug out of a wolf den by an Anglican missionary, the Reverend J.A.L. Singh, in 1920. Singh clai ...

Number of words: 327 | Number of pages: 2

The Crying Of Lot 49

... found out that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, they arranged for the child's death. However, he was rescued and grew to adulthood in another kingdom. As an adult, Oedipus meets a strange man on the road and kills him, never knowing that he is actually his father. When he reaches the next kingdom, he learns that the king has mysteriously died, and Oedipus himself becomes king, marrying the former king's wife, who of course is his mother. When Oedipus finds out what he has done, he blinds himself and becomes a ...

Number of words: 384 | Number of pages: 2

Romeo And Juliet 2 +

... her parents are relative to Romeo's, "I will not marry yet and when I do I swear it shall be Romeo...rather than Paris." -Juliet "Here comes your father, tell him so yourself." -Lady Capulet The marriage is much harder on Juliet because she has to comfront and then disobey her parents. All Romeo has to do is to show up at the altar. Romeo's parents don't seem to particularly care whom he marries. Later, Benvolio gives Romeo some advice, "Romeo run away, be gone! The citizens are up .. stand not amazed." Romeo shows how he has the gut ...

Number of words: 858 | Number of pages: 4

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