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Briar Rose

... bears striking resemblance's to Gemma's fairy tale. Becca then sets off on a journey to Europe to discover her grandmother's true identity. I felt this book was more for adults than for young adults. It was complicated and probably difficult for a young teen to follow. It had language that may not suitable for a young adult. Such as a line like, "Stan expertly braked and simultaneously turned the wheel slightly to the right. "Asshole!" he muttered." (Jane Yolen, 67). It was a remarkable book. I usually don't enjoy reading what I "have" to, ...

Number of words: 505 | Number of pages: 2

Hamlet And J Alfred Prufrock

... act 1, scene 5. In that scene Hamlet questions the commands of the ghost of Hamlet Sr. " Murder… My uncle?" 1 He then rationalizes, " Yea, from the table of my memory, ill wipe away all trivial fond records/And thy commandment all alone shall live alone" 2 One would think that in his rage Hamlet would now act upon the commandment, but he does not. " Time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right"3 Hamlet decides to procrastinate his action of killing Claudius. Another example of his questioning, rationaliz ...

Number of words: 1277 | Number of pages: 5

The Allegory Of The Cave

... it would look to those still in a lower realm. Plato is saying that humans are all prisoners and that the tangible world is our cave. The things which we perceive as real are actually just shadows on a wall. Just as the escaped prisoner ascends into the light of the sun, we amass knowledge and ascend into the light of true reality: ideas in the mind. Yet, if someone goes into the light of the sun and beholds true reality and then proceeds to tell the other captives of the truth, they laugh at and ridicule the enlightened one, for the only real ...

Number of words: 428 | Number of pages: 2

Beowulf - Hero

... person with all the extraordinary traits required of a hero. These traits have changed and evolved into what are now the beliefs of heroism today. These beliefs are different in many ways but have a common aim: to strength, the ability to put others before yourself, and everlasting glory. Beowulf fought in numerous battles and returned victorious from all but his last. In his argument with Unferth, Beowulf explains the reason he "lost" a simple swimming match with his youthful opponent Brecca, was because he had not only been sw ...

Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4

Mother 2

... had hoped for. Instead, the family moved in 1877 into the home in which Eleanor was to serve as hired housekeeper. Freeman's mother was thus deprived of the very things which made a woman proud, her own kitchen, furniture, family china; and she had lost the one place in which it was acceptable for her to be powerful: her home” (Biography to Remember). As a result, Freeman grew up without accepting the critical condition of her own mother. This is one of the reasons that in "The revolt of Mother" she puts mother in quotes to tell u ...

Number of words: 892 | Number of pages: 4

Flowers For Algernon 2

... become the more problems you will obtain. As a result your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth. This theory is shown in the novel with Charlie having two growths, intellectual and emotional. These two growths interact by reason of once there is a high intellectual growth that is rapidly out growing, the emotional growth will stay the same or increase at a much lower speed. The definition of intelligence that is explained in the book is having certain attributes that help you become a stronger individual. The quali ...

Number of words: 372 | Number of pages: 2

A Rose For Emily 7

... and love are synonymous. The first part of Emily's life is spent with her father, Mr. Grierson. Two cousins visit her a while after her father’s death, but otherwise no other family members are mentioned. Emily's father has great control over her actions. He has power to keep her from finding a life outside of his: "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away." Emily learns through her relationship with her father that the only way to love is through power. He dies when Emily is about 30 years old, and, while it give ...

Number of words: 632 | Number of pages: 3

Power, Authority And Corruptio

... is king, he does not use his authority judiciously. Macbeth's eventual demise is by virtue of his obsession for power and retaining his power. Before he desired the power of being king, Macbeth was a respected noble called a "valiant cousin!" and a "worthy gentleman" [Macbeth, I, ii, l: 25, p.13]. He was labeled, "brave Macbeth" [Macbeth, I, ii, l: 18, p.13] for his actions in battle. During a conversation between Duncan and a soldier, the soldier describes how Macbeth brutally slew the rebel Macdonwald: "Disdaining fortune, with his br ...

Number of words: 1347 | Number of pages: 5

Round Characters In Romeo And

... tries to talk to him. When Bevolio and Lord Montague learn of this, they try and figure out why Romeo is in the state that he is. Lord Montague says, “...And private in his chamber pens himself,/ Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,/ And makes himself an artificial night” (Act One, scene two, lines 137 to 139). Romeo gets over Rosaline when he sees Juliet at the ball at Lord Capulet’s house. Obviously, Romeo’s inability to find true love forces him to become lovesick. Another personality trait that Romeo ...

Number of words: 487 | Number of pages: 2

Jane Eyre - Love

... she will probably live her life in loneliness. From the onset of the novel we view the world through the eyes of Jane, a young, penniless, orphan. At the beginning of the story she is under the care of her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed. At the Reed household, Jane is neglected and mistreated with favoritism being given only to the three obnoxious Reed children. Jane begins her struggle for love here at Gateshead. Her temper and self-will become apparent there. She stands up for herself not only to her cousins, but to Mrs. Reed as well. "You think ...

Number of words: 1723 | Number of pages: 7

Who Faced Greater Challenges,

... See" Helen tells us how she became frustrated by the people that visited her. She tells about them coming in and saying how they "saw nothing in particular," after being in the woods for hours. She was very distraught by the fact that someone could see things of beauty, and not benefit from the experience. She began to think what she would do if she were given the gift of sight for just three short days. With this thought she came up with this agenda: On the first day she would pursue life’s simple pleasure's, like looking into the ...

Number of words: 1256 | Number of pages: 5

Literary Interpratation Of The

... story. At first, the narrator of the story is very caring and loves animals; being with animals is “one of [his] principal sources of pleasure” (346). The narrator’s favorite pet is his large entirely black cat named Pluto. The narrator’s wife “made frequent allusion[s] to the ancient popular notion” that black cats were associated with bad luck, evil, witches, and the devil. Poe’s protagonist does not accept this superstition. People still associate black cats with bad luck, evil, witches, and the devil, so this foreshadows ...

Number of words: 1727 | Number of pages: 7

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