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Catcher In The Rye

... about in my second theme. The first example that stands out in my mind is the scene with Stradlater in the "can." If you remember Stradlater was getting ready for his other date while Holden watched him. "Stradlater was a secret slob" in public he always looked good and got all the girls but in fact he was a slob. His razor that made him look so good was "rusty as hell and full on lather and hair and crap." This proves that he is a slob to "never clean it or anything." If you think about it that's even worst than Old Ackley. At least Ackley ...

Number of words: 2504 | Number of pages: 10

Love And Acceptance

... done before, "hugged Maggie to me," then took the quilts from Dee and gave them to Maggie. In I Stand Here Ironing the mother tells us she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is, for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The mother's neighbor even tells her she should "smile at Emily more when you look at her." Again towards the end of the story Emily's mother admits "my wisdom came too late." The mothers unknowingly gave Emily and Maggie second best. Both mothers compare their two daughters to each other. In Everyday Us ...

Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3

Analyzing Shakespears Sonnet 5

... However, it also says that true love lasts beyond the superficial “rose and silver lilies;” as they die, love remains. Even as the rivers dry and the earth decays, love prevails. The last two lines of each sonnet emphasize the subject; as time passes, everything fades except love. The attitudes of Shakespear and Fletcher are also similar. Both are in awe of the power and perseverance of love. They mention things that they think of as extremely powerful and say that love will outlast them; unlike them, love will not even fade. ...

Number of words: 346 | Number of pages: 2

Pride And Prejudice

... with their current status, it is imperative that they only marry someone of at least equivalent rank. This idea possesses every character in the story and seems to motivate every action that is taken. The superficiality of this idea goes so far as to break the bonds of love. Darcy is willing to insult a girl as he is proposing to her, just to inform her of the what he has to go through in order to stoop to someone of her level. Regardless of what Darcy thought his chances were at acceptance, he was still addressi ...

Number of words: 462 | Number of pages: 2

So This Was Adolescence, By Annie Dillard: Author Writing Style

... two major traditional writing styles exhibited. The first style Illustrated in So This Was Adolescence is comparison/contrast. In this style, the author compares or contrast the character with specific mannerisms of others. The next style is imagery. Imagery helps the reader to visualize what is happening to the character. Annie Dillard uses both of these styles to tell her story. The first style is comparison/contrast. Dillard utilizes comparison/contrast to compare herself to characters in books. She longs to become a woman such as ...

Number of words: 290 | Number of pages: 2

A Christmas Memory Vs. The Gra

... twenty years ago.” Several elements of the story are parallel: the settings, the nature of the friendships, the rejection by peers, and the characters’ love of nature. The relationships between Colin and Dolly in The Grass Harp, and Buddy and Cousin in “A Christmas Memory” are close regardless of the differences in age. In “A Christmas Memory,” Buddy and Cousin have a large age split: Buddy is seven and Cousin is in her sixties. In The Grass Harp, Colin and Dolly have a similar age difference. But they are close friends, because ...

Number of words: 679 | Number of pages: 3

Analysis Of Voice In Joyce Car

... herself and chooses to wash her hair instead of going to church. When she hears a car driving up to her house, her heart starts pounding, she pulls at her hair and says, “Christ. Christ.,” not in reference to the Lord or religion in general but because she is worried about how bad she looks. This gives and indication of how the author interprets religion in the story, not important and not serious. As the story progresses, Connie’s language takes an obvious turn. When Arnold Friend, someone she has seen but never talked to, s ...

Number of words: 586 | Number of pages: 3

As I Lay Dying

... into a baby factory in order to have children to do all the work. Addie is inbittered by this, and is never the same. Anse is begrudging of everything. Even the cost of a doctor for his dying wife seems money better spent on false teeth to him. "I never sent for you" Anse says "I take you to witness I never sent for you" (37) he repeats trying to avoid a doctor's fee. Before she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson. When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her there. Even after Addie had been dead over a ...

Number of words: 660 | Number of pages: 3

The Rainmaker

... insurance company with millions of dollars has apparently swindled them. They have caused the suffering and inevitable death of a young man, Dot and Buddy’s son. The coverage that was obliged was not issued, and Donny Ray, stricken by Leukemia, therefore lost his chance to live. This case plays out for a matter of months, while the broke Rudy Baylor rents a room from one of his clients, a Mrs. Birdy Birdsong. He is also forced to work for a felonious lawyer when the firm he was going to be initiated into merges with a larger one. Ev ...

Number of words: 488 | Number of pages: 2

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... and even royal blood flowing through his veins, Doyle was better able to write about the noble Baskerville family. Doyle knew about nobility and he was able to pass this personal quality onto one of his characters. The Baskerville family was a very respected one especially after Sir Charles took control over Baskerville Hall. "Though Sir Charles resided at Baskerville Hall for a camparatively short period his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him. ...

Number of words: 1112 | Number of pages: 5

Hamlet 19

... are directly related with the internal dilemmas that he faces. He struggles with the issue of revenging his father’s death, vowing to kill Claudius and then backing out several times. His actions throughout the play support this duplicitous nature. His dual persona is the foundation of Hamlet’s madness, and ultimately the play itself. There are many examples that illustrate how Hamlet’s fraudulent nature results in a tragedy because of his inability and reluctance to choose which role to play. One such example occurs ...

Number of words: 2305 | Number of pages: 9

Tintern Abbey

... of knowledge and insight.” Wordsworth accomplishes to prove that although time was lost along with his innocence, he in turn was able to gain an appreciation for the aesthetics that consoled him by incorporating all together, the wonders of nature, his past experiences, and his present mature perception of life. Wordsworth begins his poem by describing the landscape of the abbey as unchanged during the past five years. He emphasizes the lapse of time by stating, “ again I hear”, “again do I behold”, and ...

Number of words: 997 | Number of pages: 4

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