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Oedipus The King

... try to make the best out of it. Oedipus had a lot of strange happenings in his life such as being abandoned by his mother to die, being adopted by a different family and some other things that will be explained in detail. In this paper, I will address some of the events that involved Oedipus’s life, how those events affected his life, and finally how he adapted to his fate. Oedipus was born to the royal family of Thebes as the King’s son. The God had told Oedipus’s mother that she had to get rid of him because he would kill his f ...

Number of words: 878 | Number of pages: 4

A Good Man Is Hard To Find

... were during the period: "Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!" she said and pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. "Wouldn’t that make a picture, now?" she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. He waved. "He didn’t have any britches on," June Star said. "He probably didn’t have any," the grandmother explained. "Little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do." The language that is shown in this secti ...

Number of words: 844 | Number of pages: 4

Jurassic Park 3

... He is a Mathematition who specializes in Chaos Theory. He searches for the elleged "Site B" of Jurassic Park. He is probably the most important of the main characters. Richard Levine plays a important role in this novel. In the begining of the novel he is at Malcom's lecture. Your first impression of Levine is that he is rude and intrusive. He inturrupted Malcom in the middle of his lecture. Later in the story he helps out Malcom in his search for "Site B." Levine's character provides some very interesting views on the mission to "Site B." Sar ...

Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3

A Rose For Emily Characterization

... lives for many years as a recluse, someone who has withdrawn from a community to live in seclusion. "No visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier" (394). Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily's attempt to remove herself from society through her actions. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all" (395). The death of her father and the shattered relationship with her sweetheart contributed to her seclusion. Though her ...

Number of words: 428 | Number of pages: 2

Death Of A Salesman 10

... his math exam. He even taught Biff to steal, without even realizing it. “Willy:...[Biff] Go right over to where they’re building the apartment house and get some sand...Charley: Listen, if they steal any more from that building the watchman’ll put the cops on them!...Willy: You shoulda seen the lumber they brought home last week...”(50). As one can see, Willy is almost encouraging Biff to steal in order to make a new stoop. However, when Willy finds out Biff has been stealing other things, like the school’s ...

Number of words: 793 | Number of pages: 3

The Outsiders 4

... mild-mannered gang members, society war, and living with violence. Once I began to read this book, it became difficult to put it down. The Outsiders, basically, is about the tough, hard life of Pony Curtis, who lives only with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry. Their parents were killed in an auto wreck that left Pony in trust of his brothers and fellow gang members. When his best pal, Johnny, kills a member of the Socs, they must take refuge inside an abandoned church in another town to escape the police. After that, a long chain of ...

Number of words: 710 | Number of pages: 3

Hard Times

... Mr. Gradgrind set up a school where just like with members of his own family, the principles of his "hard and fast system" were rigidly instilled in the minds of his students. Such pupils of the Gradgrind school were continually crammed with facts from day to day until they 'spilled over 'with them. Such facts were to remain in the mind, pressed down in all forms of memory until all finer sensibilities were deadened. As dramatic and unhearted as it may sound, that is precisely what Mr. Gradgrind wished to accomplish. In my opinion, h ...

Number of words: 747 | Number of pages: 3

A Dolls House - Norma As A Dol

... her submissiveness to Torvald. After he teaches her the dance, he proclaims "When I saw you dance the tarantella, like a huntress, a temptress, my blood grew hot, I couldn't stand it any longer"(1530), showing how he is more interested in Nora physically than emotionally. When Nora responds by saying "Leave me, Torvald! Get away form me! I don't want all this"(1530), Torvald asks "Aren't I your husband?"(1530). By saying this, he is implying that one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his command. Torvald also does ...

Number of words: 512 | Number of pages: 2

Eaters Of The Dead By Michael

... used by Crichton to illustrate this moral. The juxtaposition of characters emphasizes the cleverness of the Volga Northmen compared to the Venden Northmen. The theme of the story is that applying intelligence and knowledge is essential in order to keep one’s culture alive. A good proof of this is the lack of knowledge of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the narrator of the story. He is an Arab who “knows nothing of the ways of the world” (p. 77) because he has never truly experienced the world before that day, since he does not care for ...

Number of words: 1780 | Number of pages: 7

Stereotyping In Mona And The P

... ways. Mona chooses to deal with her stereotypes by trying to change them, while Barbara deals with them by changing herself. One of the first stereotypes that Mona is witness to in her life is when she misbehaves. Whenever Mona does not mind her manners her mother will snap at her, "You be a good Chinese girl." Mona recognizes this as a stereotype whenever her mother says it. She finally tells her mother, "I am not Chinese, I am American." By telling her mother that she is an "American" girl, which implies to her mother that she is free ...

Number of words: 677 | Number of pages: 3

Beowulf

... by singing. This social gathering has started bothering Grendel because he can hear all the noise and happiness coming from the mead hall. This is making Grendel jealous because he is a descendant from Cain, and knows he will never feel happy (106). Grendel goes into the mead hall at night, and he begins killing everyone in there. News of how Grendel is murdering the Danes starts to spread all over. When hears about Grendel, he feels that it is his obligation to stop Grendel from killing anymore. leaves to go to Herot to kill Grendel. ...

Number of words: 796 | Number of pages: 3

Symbolism Use In: "Young Goodman Brown" And "The Lottery"

... as a whole. There exists symbolic acts in each story. The short stories both share the use of symbols, but the symbols are used to express different thoughts in ones mind while reading them. The stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Lottery" both use names as symbols. Hawthorne uses the names Young Goodman Brown and Faith to portray nice, descent people. The name Faith alone implies a faithful and Christian individual as stated "And Faith, as the wife was aptly named," (211). Jackson uses the name Mr. Graves throughout her st ...

Number of words: 674 | Number of pages: 3

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