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The Sweet Thereafter Summary

... The picture shows how the story affects Mitchell’s life. After reading the book, watching the movie, and listening in class I realized how they reflect each other. The family on the front of the book is Stevens family. This picture was when Zoe, his daughter, was young. The mother and daughter appear to be very close. The reality within the picture is that Mitchell is not quit as close as they appear. Mitchell did not want to be that close to his family simply because he feared being to close and then losing them. The picture r ...

Number of words: 759 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter 2

... uses symbolism through the letter "A." According to one expert, the main character in The Scarlet Letter is the letter itself (Baym 86). It has many repetitions and double menaings within itself (Byam 89). This scarlet "A" is inscribe in one form or another on Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl (Baym 84). However, the only true letter is the letter that hester wears on her breast (Baym 86). The "A" is Hester's armor of pride, but is also her emblem of suffering (Martin 114). Baym also states that knowing what the letter means is what the nove ...

Number of words: 1080 | Number of pages: 4

A Haunted House: Treasures Of Life

... by seeing what they thoughts and associated with there pasts. For example when they were discussing death she put " "Here we slept," she said. And he adds, "Kisses without number." "Waking in the morning_" "Silver between the trees." "Upstairs-" "In the garden-" "When summer came-" "In the winter snowtime-" "( A Haunted House Pg. 321). This quote shows us what places and actions the ghosts associate with there joy and love. Using stream of consciousness gives us a better feeling of what the characters are going through, which in turn ...

Number of words: 405 | Number of pages: 2

Beowulf 15

... of his missions and challenges. One of his great missions was his victory over Grendel. Grendel is a monster in human-like shape descending from Cain. He lives under an inherited curse and is denied God's presence. He is also known as the "guardian of sins." Grendel is also a heathen, the physical image of a man estranged by God. His enormous size and strength make him resemble early thoughts and descriptions of Satan. Beowulf and his men slept in the mead hall one night and everybody lay awake for they feared when Grendel may come. Whe ...

Number of words: 604 | Number of pages: 3

An Attempt At A Rhetorical Ana

... audience, or at least who he thinks they are. He tries to dissuade the notion of speaking to his audience as the literary elite. He says he is speaking to the audience as “consumers” (134). He tries to overcome the notion that the studying of literature is not a necessary part of the process of learning to read and write. He stresses the importance of the imagination and it’s appearance in our reality. He states: The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then, is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a visio ...

Number of words: 1068 | Number of pages: 4

Othello 2

... to sway Desdemona. Iago tells Roderigo to, “ But, sir, be you ruled by me: I have brought you up from Venice. Watch you tonight; for the command, I’ll lay’t upon you. Cassio knows you not. I’ll not be far from you: do you find some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking to loud, or tainting his discipline; or from what other course you please, which the time shall more favorably minister. “ (Pg. 673) Roderigo does this for Iago promises it will make him look good in front of Desdemona. Iago nee ...

Number of words: 802 | Number of pages: 3

The Crucible, John Proctor Vs.

... his wifeand it was making her more minipulative because she knew he would not leave his wife without somekind of “Brain Washing”. And that is how I think John Proctor is a very good, and honest man because he saw his mistake although it was to late he did’nt run from the problem or give into temptation he faced it like a strong man and starred it down in the face and dealt with the problem from it’s source. But on the other hand the worst case scenario is that he was a grown man who should know right from wrong ...

Number of words: 602 | Number of pages: 3

Sweetness And Power

... really is. This fact alone could be enough to convince someone to create a book solely about sugar. One passage that Mintz quotes on page 15 that really seems to capture our (Westerners) infatuation with sugar, and a strong reason the book at hand is as follows: Western peoples consume enormous per capita quantities of refined sugar because, to most people, very sweet foods taste very good. The existence of the human sweet tooth can be explained, ultimately, as an adaptation of ancestral populations to favor the ripest-and hence the sweete ...

Number of words: 3868 | Number of pages: 15

Master And Slave In The Tempes

... Caliban, and Prospero’s right to use or abuse his power. One of the reasons for Caliban’s defiance towards Prospero is the fact that he believes the island that they are on to be his, but to have been stolen by Prospero. “This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, / Which thou tak’st from me” (1.2.331). Caliban feels as though he has been taken advantage of. When Prospero first comes to the island, he is kind to Caliban, and in return, Caliban shows him the secrets of the island. “When thou ...

Number of words: 1088 | Number of pages: 4

Native Son By Richard Wright

... Many of his actions suggest an overriding response to fear, which stems from his exposure to a harsh social climate in which a clear line between acceptable behavior for white's and black's exists. His swift anger and his destructive impulses stem from that fear and become apparent in the opening scene when he fiercely attacks a huge rat. The same murderous impulse appears when his secret dread of the delicatessen robbery impels him to commit a vicious assault on his friend Gus. Bigger commits both of the brutal murders not in rage or a ...

Number of words: 1473 | Number of pages: 6

The Crucible

... can be regarded as a tragic hero. A tragic hero is an individual, usually the protagonist, who the audience recognizes as a "good guy," but who possesses a "character flaw" leading to his or her downfall. In the case of , John Proctor fits this model of a tragic hero. He is the protagonist of the novel, and is seen as a good all-around person. But his character flaw, his passiveness, led to his downfall, which is his hanging. Proctor’s passiveness, or unwillingness to involve himself, is evident in many aspec ...

Number of words: 981 | Number of pages: 4

Edgar Allen Poe

... detective story, "The Murders in Rue Morgue"; "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" are the best among his horror stories; and The Raven one of his best poems which among all these, made him very famous in 1845. "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Masque of the Red Death", made him a forerunner of symbolism, and impressionism. Poe antagonized many people with a scathing campaign against an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for supposed plagiarism. Later that year P ...

Number of words: 1106 | Number of pages: 5

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