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An Analysis Of Buried Child

... Things took a turn for the worse when Halie became pregnant with someone else. It is suggested that Tilden is the father. The evidence to support this includes the fact that the baby was small, and that Tilden would sing to it and take it for long walks all day, just talking to it and treating it as his own. “Tilden was the one who knew. Better than any of us. He’d walk for miles with that kid in his arms. Halie let him take it. All night sometimes.” (p. 124) Dodge would not allow this abomination to grow up and live in his ...

Number of words: 1163 | Number of pages: 5

Harrison Bergeron

... In an attempt to make people equal, handicaps are distributed among people. These handicaps range from little mental handicap radios in more intellectual people's heads to metal or other heavy foreign objects to slow the stronger people. With these handicaps the people are unable to do things that might be simple without the handicaps. This attempt at equality that comes about, makes America a dictatorship rather than a democracy. It also lowers the quality of living in America along with the competition level that America has w ...

Number of words: 1508 | Number of pages: 6

The Choice

... quarters profit be and to satisfy the shareholders. With this type of mentality it is no surprise that many companies support quotas and tariffs, it is in their best interest and only theirs. Free trade will benefit the whole country in the long run at the expense of inefficient companies. This is the other problem, how many individuals would be willing to close their inefficient plants so the country as a whole could become more efficient, not many that I know. Totally free trade sounds good in theory but in my mind will never happen because ...

Number of words: 1476 | Number of pages: 6

Disjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carver's Short Stories

... draws a much more elaborate, and meaningful detail in his short stories. I propose that Carver's characters either connect or fail to connect on an intimate, spiritual level. It is this difference in his short stories which either draw the reader into or away from the meaning. These relations make certain writings in Carver's stories more interesting. More directly, it is the communion in his later writings, and the disjunction in his earlier writings, that distinguish the two types of styles. Communion within the characters of Carv ...

Number of words: 3837 | Number of pages: 14

Lysistrata

... Adam and Eve. When God asked Adam not to eat from the apple tree, it was Eve, with her feminine lure, who was able to convince Adam to disobey Gods rules and eat the apple. Yet when God came to punish Adam for disobeying the rules, Adam pointed to Eve and blamed her for luring him into the sin of eating the apple. Yet in reality it was the serpent, which was the devil, that lured them into eating the apple. But of course Adam, being male had to blame Eve, the female. Which is typical male behavior to blame the woman, my sister says. In g ...

Number of words: 2012 | Number of pages: 8

Self-Expression

... express themselves. Do you move your hands when you talk? Do you like to use your hands when you talk in front of an audience? The answer for most people would be yes. When people express an idea or a thought to someone else, they move their hands. The “Webster's Dictionary” defines gestures as “a motion of the body made to express thoughts or to emphasize speech.” Some gestures might suggest an emotion or expression a person feels. For example, if a person clenches his or her hands, it might mean that the person is mad or an ...

Number of words: 667 | Number of pages: 3

Poetry

... changes; housework, feed and dress the kids, shop, cook, and work the fields. The only solace, the only redemption, is when she will become one with nature. She has no material goods to show for her hard work, but she has peace in the fact that the world around her is all that is hers. She says, “Shine on me, sunshine, rain on me, rain, fall softly, dewdrops, and cool my brow again.” The rain and the dewdrops symbolize tears falling on her in her final resting-place. She then says, “Storm, blow me from here with your fiercest wind. ...

Number of words: 877 | Number of pages: 4

Lord Of The Flies 2 --

... are the conflicts between the conch group and the savages, between the boys and the terrifying «beast», and the conflict between Jack’s band on the one hand and Ralph and Simon on the other. This theme is mostly revealed through symbolism. Ralph is the symbol of good, while Jack is the symbol of evil. This can be seen, for example, by the fact that Ralph is the one providing law and order, and he is constantly involved in several projects for welfare and safety, which he tries to carry through the best he can. Ralph and Simon, who are ...

Number of words: 270 | Number of pages: 1

A Separate Peace And A Real War

... Forrester is established as the force of reality which is the war. This idea is established clearly in a lengthy speech Gene gives as the narrator of the story in Chapter Three: Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unle ...

Number of words: 3388 | Number of pages: 13

Ressurection A Tale Of Two Cit

... characters are examples to these three different parts of resurrection. Charles Dickens uses resurrection in his novel, A Tale of Two Cities, to give the reader enlightenment and break, due to the horrible time period and bloody nature, during the revolutionary time period, the novel takes place in. Many individuals will say that resurrection is another word for being "Recalled to Life," as in the title of book one. Being "Recalled to Life," can be shown on a mental, physical, and spiritual level, just the same as resurrection. Dickens ...

Number of words: 1687 | Number of pages: 7

Oedipus The King 3

... far less concerned about his own survival in the community than he is about being right, seeing things through to the very end. What Sophoclean tragedy insists upon, however, is that this attitude, this ultimate expression of my own freedom to express myself, to demand from the world that it answer to my conceptions of myself, leads by a step-by-step inevitability to self-destruction. For the cosmos is a fatally mysterious place, not particularly compatible with such heroic self-assertion. And the human being who sets himself or herself up t ...

Number of words: 514 | Number of pages: 2

To Kill A Mocking Bird Film An

... Maudie, and Dill, but the film characters were believable. The actors look like what we would expect them to look like. Onto the negative points. Many very important scenes are omitted, this can make the film hard to follow at times. Particularly of the scene in the courthouse, because Jem and Scout still take seats with Reverend Sykes, the black man. In the novel we meet Sykes in the scene where Calpurnia takes the children to her church, and the children befriend him. But in the movie, that scene was not present, therefore there is no reas ...

Number of words: 689 | Number of pages: 3

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