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To Kill A Mockingbird-book Rep

... fact that the prejudiced Maycomb society refuses to acknowledge. Three examples of black characters who do not fit his “stereotype” are Reverend Sykes, Calpurnia and Tom Robinson. My first example is Reverend Sykes. He is a respected, generous man who runs a clean church and accepts worshipers both white and black. When Calpurnia brings Scout and Jem to the black church, he and the congregation welcome them. This shows that in the eyes of the Reverend, as in the eyes of God their is no prejudice. At the trial, Reverend Syke ...

Number of words: 729 | Number of pages: 3

Robinson Crusoe

... He spent a lot of time building his home when he could have done something more important. He also took a risk and helped out a person that he did not know. These were some of many choices that made throughout his many years on the island. While on a trip off the coast of England, rough winds threw and his crew of sixteen members off course. Right after one of the crew yelled out “land ahoy” the ship hit a rock and went down. Everybody drowned except , who washed up on a nearby island; he was the only survivor. The next morni ...

Number of words: 1002 | Number of pages: 4

Middlemarchvpride And Prejudic

... Lydgate sought in his wife "that distinctive womanhood which must be classed with flowers and music". Sir James insisted that his wife become a perfect horsewoman, not for the skill or pleasure that it might give her but so "that she may accompany her husband". Should the husband fall ill, it was her duty to nurse him. As Mr Trumbull remarks, "a man whose life is of any value should think of his wife as a nurse". Mr Causabon married so as to secure "the solace of female tendance for his declining years". As with his work, causabon is disillus ...

Number of words: 1998 | Number of pages: 8

Literature - A Mirror Of Socie

... no freedom to express their feelings. Government had imposed strong, unfair laws on the common people (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia "French Revolution"). They wanted a voice in a stable government with a strong economy (Johnson 105) and a strong sense of individuality and independence within the people. (Moss and Wilson 180) Eighteenth- century literature was much like the society in which it was produced, restrained. Society was divided into privileged and unprivileged classes, (Leinward 452) with ...

Number of words: 1216 | Number of pages: 5

The Great Gatsby 2

... in the novel live by. While Nick tries to claw himself to the American dream the others have already given up hope in pursuit of wealth and other materialistic intentions. Nick is to represent the norm, while the other characters such as Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby each represent another type of desire. This can be noticed throughout the whole novel. Daisy, who wants a man with money, charm, wit, good looks, Tom who wants cars money women, horses, boats, and Gatsby who wants Daisy, but who is willing to sacrifice anything for her. Furthermore, ...

Number of words: 806 | Number of pages: 3

Character Analysis For The Portable Phonograph

... of the old man in this story and state conclusions that can be drawn from them. The men in this story are obviously amused by the slightest little things. They occupy themselves through book readings from a collection that one man has. Each of the men has their contribution to the group and together they endure a time of devastation by entertaining each other. The older man has a record player that he brings out once a week for the listening pleasure of the group. He is very proud of this treasure. It has sustained through these hard times ...

Number of words: 603 | Number of pages: 3

Night Essay- The Dehumanizatio

... being introduced and the Jews are to be placed in concentration camps. The Jews are forced to abandon their homes, all their earthly possessions, and eventually their humanity. In the face of savage abuse and insolent treatment, the Jews stand tall and hold on to everything they can for as long as possible, but it is just not plausible for them to survive under such horrid conditions. However, these mutations of character and morality cannot be accredited to weakness of the Jews' spirit, but they can be attributed to the animal-like treatme ...

Number of words: 1788 | Number of pages: 7

A Doll House 2

... common denominator in many of Ibsen’s dramas is his interest in individuals struggling for and authentic identity in the face of tyrannical social conventions. This conflict often results in his characters’ being divided between a sense of duty to themselves and their responsibility to others.”(1563) All of the aspects of this quote can be applied to the play A Doll House, in Nora Helmer’s character, who throughout much of the play is oppressed, presents an inauthentic identity to the audience and throughout the play ...

Number of words: 1490 | Number of pages: 6

Lord Of The Flies Themes

... Some of the themes in the story were a result of there nature as children, such as the way they instantly made fun of Piggy's name on p. 29 and how the younger children spent most of their days playing on the beach. But this is because they were only children and therefore acted like children. Another theme was the struggle for control of the island but this would happen with any group of people (ie: one person wants to be in control and do anything to get it). At the start Jack was embarrased when he was not made chief, and probably rese ...

Number of words: 1872 | Number of pages: 7

Voltaire's Candide: Satirical Literature

... and she got it from "a learned Franciscan Friar who had derived it from the point of origin...". Voltaire's whole point is that friars are not supposed to be having sex, yet this friar does and manages to get a disease and also pass it on to someone else. The next attack on the church came when the old women "strongly suspected a Reverend Franciscan..." for stealing Lady Cunegonde's money and diamonds. Although he was a reverend that didn't make a bit of difference to the old women when she assumed he was the thief. She said that because t ...

Number of words: 730 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird

... Ultimately she represents the innocence within society. In , Scout Finch, a little girl growing up in a small Southern town, tells the story of her childhood, when she witnessed the trial of a Negro falsely accused of raping a white woman. The Negro's lawyer is Scout's father, Atticus Finch. He defends the Negro vigorously, though he expects to lose the case. As well as being the story of childhood, it is also the story of the struggle for equality of the American Negro. can be read as the story of a child's growth and maturation. Almost e ...

Number of words: 610 | Number of pages: 3

Psycho

... they share differences, and simultaneously, likenesses. And in this comparison they point to morality: how, in shades, the apparently affable can in nature be depraved, and vice versa. may be a film about manifested human frailties, opened by inner and outer conflicts. What cannot be repeated too often is the importance of stressing this by the use of black and white film. Its quality is stark, holding differences in sharp contrast; always giving life or a story about some element in life a grainy, harsh truth in a more open analysis, which ...

Number of words: 792 | Number of pages: 3

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