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Romeo And Juliet - Minor Characters Influences On Major Char

... Romeo would never had been banished. In Act 3, Scene 1, Tybalt kills Mercutio when Romeo attempts to come between the combatants and averts the fight. Out of blind rage, Romeo kills Tybalt. "And in my tmeper soften'd valours see!" Had Romeo not decided to exact revenge on Tybalt, perhaps the Capulets might have accepted him as a son. This would mean that Romeo and Juliet would not have had to hide their love for each other. Tybalt, indeed, had a large effect on the lives of Romeo and Juliet, by killing Mercutio. Another minor character th ...

Number of words: 496 | Number of pages: 2

Catcher In The Rye

... Phoebe and he can’t name anything he likes. Holden reacts to this question by saying, "Boy, she was depressing me"(Salinger 169). The only three things he can name that he liked were Allie, James Castle, and sitting there chewing the fat with Phoebe. The reason this is a time when Holden falls is because he gets really depressed when he can barely think of anything he liked. The reason I think Holden gets so depressed is because two of the people he names are dead. That’s why he is so lonely all the time. Holden finds thi ...

Number of words: 960 | Number of pages: 4

Life

... so we can't remember it as well, but it is all writtten down. Every hope, every dream, every fear is recorded in time forever. Some books have flashy, tacky covers, but tell the most troublesome stories on the inside. Some have dull, nondescript covers, but tell the warmest, most adventurous stories that causes one to recall some earlier chapter in ones own life. Every experience is a chapter. Some chapters speak of friends and family, some speak of the most horrible fears and the most dreamed about hopes, and some tell of Love and Lo ...

Number of words: 639 | Number of pages: 3

War Of The Worlds

... behavior of mankind in the shadow of impending extinction or enslavement are as historically founded as they are prophetic. We are introduced to this idea of the belief of supremacy in the opening of the novel. The fact that "no one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligence greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own" enforces this indestructibility of European culture. The beginning of Mars' assault on Earth is watched with little wonder other than ...

Number of words: 1079 | Number of pages: 4

Cyrano De Bergerac

... of his surroundings.If there ever was a figure in this book who would be the ideal “chevalier servant”, it isCyrano. When lovers admit, “I’d die for you”, it is usually taken as a figure of speech. Cyranoactually crossed over enemy lines every day simply to mail love letters. He also confessed toRoxane, “My mother made it clear that she didn’t find me pleasant to look at. I had no sisters.Later, I dreaded the thought of seeing mockery in the eyes of a mistress. Thanks to you, I’ve atleast had ...

Number of words: 573 | Number of pages: 3

In The Skin Of A Lion

... in the late 1980s and is classified as a post-modern work. Essentially, "" has many traits of a post-modern novel, it deals with chaos and order, has multi-layered interpretations, provokes an ambiguous and mixed reaction from the reader, and has varied approaches to the conventional storyline; beginning, exposition, and closure. There are liberties taken with the time structure of the narrative. The story itself is like a "mural, [the] falling together of accomplices." Ondaatje tells of ordinary people who’s stori ...

Number of words: 1268 | Number of pages: 5

The Crucible Summary

... is a girl who is forced with this inner turmoil throughout this play. At the outset of the play she is perceived to be a very shy girl who will never speak her mind as shown when Proctor sends her home and she responds with " I'm just going home" (21). As the play continues and as she is influenced by Abigail, Mary begins to break this self induced mold and does what she wants. Mary Warren, along with many other girls gets caught up in the hype of getting all the attention and exercising power via initiating and adamantly continu ...

Number of words: 1142 | Number of pages: 5

A HANGING AUDIENCE

... events that took place that morning in Burma. Throughout his essay the author shows, that the prisoners are treated like animals. We see this when the author is describing the cells, he states, “We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages.” We also see this evident when he is describing the way it took six guards to escort a “puny wisp of a man.” He says, “It was like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water.” The author’s purpose ...

Number of words: 683 | Number of pages: 3

Kindred

... behaviour on the slaves and on his son. Finally, I will explain in more details how Dana’s feelings for Rufus are in the following paragraphs. As a child Rufus started depending on Dana. In another words, Rufus’s survival was left in the hands of Dana. Just as when Dana went back to the past the first time to save Rufus from drowning in the river. "I reacted to the child in trouble" (Pg. 13). Also, Rufus depended on her to be his companion. Even more, when Alice killed herself and Dana came back to the past the last time and saw wha ...

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Langston Hughes

... of the first black men to express the spirit of blues and jazz into words. An African American Hughes became a well known poet, novelist, journalist, and playwright. Because his father emigrated to Mexico and his mother was often away, Hughes was brought up in Lawrence, Kansas, by his grandmother Mary Langston. Her second husband (Hughes's grandfather) was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to see the cause of social justice. As a lonely child Hughes turned to reading and writing, publishing his first poems while in high school ...

Number of words: 1450 | Number of pages: 6

Pride And Prejudice - Marriages And The Age Of Reason

... to be confined to all the expectations of the age. Elizabeth is the only character who demands to marry not only a suitable man, but one she also loves. As far as her younger sisters quests, Lydia and Catherine are immature and simply obsessed with flirting with officers. Once Mrs. Bennet begins to accomplish her goal of marrying her daughters, the reader is able to evaluate some basic values of Austen’s portrayal of the Age of Reason. There are four main marriages in the novel: Charlotte’s to Mr.Collins, Lydia’s to Wickham, Jan ...

Number of words: 2142 | Number of pages: 8

Animal Farm Analysis

... profit, reaped all the rewards but didn’t do any of the work. So they formed a government called Animalism. In Animalism, there are no owners, no rich, but no poor, workers got a better life, and all animals are equal. They had even established laws called the Seven Commandments, which were intended to give basic rights to animals and protect them from oppression. The goals of the government were also established. The goals said that everyone was equal, there would be more food and sleep for all, there was to be respect for all animals, and ...

Number of words: 652 | Number of pages: 3

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