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Huck Finn Notes

... trying to make him do things her way. Unlike the Widow Douglas, who is kind and patient with Huck, Miss Watson is sharp and nagging. Her insistent interference makes Huck resent home life and its restraints. They won't even let him smoke. Huck is so disgusted with home life that he accidentally kills a spider, and he knows that this act is bound to bring bad luck to him. However, as he sits and smokes, he hears Tom Sawyer's secret call. Huck puts out the light, slides to the ground, and finds Tom waiting for him among the trees.CHAPTE ...

Number of words: 4331 | Number of pages: 16

The Yellow Wallpaper

... an older brother who is also a physician and concurs with her husbands' theory, thus leaving her no choice but to subject herself to this torment of being totally alone in this room with . She stares at this wallpaper for hours on end and thinks she sees a woman behind the paper. "I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman." She becomes obsessed with discovering what is behind that pattern and what it is doing. "I don't want to leave now until I have foun ...

Number of words: 885 | Number of pages: 4

The Test Of Salem

... of irony in the story is when Elizabeth Proctor lies to the court to save her husband but instead gets him in more trouble and helps Abigail. Proctor tells the court that his wife has never lid before but when thy call for her she says something with the intention of helping him but ironically she make his situation worse. “In her life, sir, she have never lied. There re them cannot sing, and them that cannot weep – my wife cannot lie. I have paid much to learn it, sir”(Miller 111) In the quote Proctor is telling the cour ...

Number of words: 737 | Number of pages: 3

Piercy’s Use Of Implied And Ex

... a strong manifestation of the idea of the speaker as an actual personification of a material object. She does not say “My hips are like a desk”, she says “My hips are a desk” (line 1). Throughout the rest of the poem, personification of the woman as nothing more than a piece of office equipment is expressed with striking realism. In the first six lines of the poem the speaker describes herself in salient detail. Each of her body parts are placed with an obvious piece of office equipment. This allows the reader to form a solid ...

Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3

My Lai Massacre

... back to where it all started. The setting changes and we start out when Calley first walks into the recruiter’s office for the army. Calley is drafted into the army. He is low on cash and is looking for a way to get himself to Miami to the draft board. Calley did basic training at Ft Bliss, Texas and later to officer training at Ft. Benning, GA. He was shipped off to Vietnam in 1967. Calley tries to follow the rules at first, meaning not showing compassion for the civilians as he was taught. It was hard for the GI’s to tel ...

Number of words: 844 | Number of pages: 4

Beloved 2

... out of true love or selfish pride? The fact that Sethe's act is irrational can easily be decided upon. Does Sethe kill her baby girl because she wants to save the baby from slavery or does Sethe end her daughter's life because of a selfish refusal to reenter a life of slavery? By examining the complexities of Sethe's character it can be said that she is a woman who chooses to love her children but not herself. Sethe kills her baby because, in Sethe's mind, her children are the only good and pure part of who she is and must be protected from ...

Number of words: 1664 | Number of pages: 7

Character Sketch Of Nora

... how he is supposed to protect her from the hawks”. She appears to be a typical housewife, running the home while he works. When Torvald was in desperate need of some help, the only person who could come through for her was Nora. The Doctors were not able to help him, and the only thing Nora was able to do was to take out a huge loan and she has been paying it off every single chance she had. When Torvald found out, instead of being grateful, he is outraged. She knew the seriousness of the offense that she is committed, but it hardly me ...

Number of words: 342 | Number of pages: 2

Fahrenheit51

... the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read at home, meets a friend to help him in his brave stand against society but gets discovered, then barely escapes his punishment to join a group of people who attempt to preserve knowledge through memorization. At the beginning of the novel Guy Montag is described as a "minstrel man" (4). He is a fireman who "never questioned the pleasure of watching pages consumed by flames." (Back cover). He is a brave individual who decides to rebel ag ...

Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4

Allegory

... cannot. He finally gives up, saying that the grapes are probably sour anyway. The allegorical meaning of this story is that people may pretend the things they cannot have are not worth having. Allegories had their greatest popularity during medieval and Renaissance times in Europe. The Divine Comedy, written by the Italian author Dante Alighieri in the early 1300's, literally tells of a man's journey to heaven through hell and purgatory. Allegorically, the poem describes a Christian soul rising from a state of sin to a state of blessedn ...

Number of words: 314 | Number of pages: 2

Lysistrata

... character takes the sexual meaning. During the oath, the flash of wine symbolizes the male sex organ, and the black bowl the female genitalia. Dionysus, as god of both fertility and wine, functions here in both aspects. The action of pouring wine into the bowl signifies the ejaculation of sperm into the womb and contrasts with the sterility of the oath. Their oath promises them to not enjoy intercourse. The burning torches brought by the men’s chorus are an ironic symbol of the passions raging in men's loins. Their attempt to batter thro ...

Number of words: 960 | Number of pages: 4

Comparison And Contrast Of Two Sermons, "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" And "A Message From Hell"

... ideas; however, inconsistencies and diversities exist in the syntactical style and the strength of tone. Both "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and "A Message from Hell" display congruities in theme, expressing the importance of salvation and the terror of hell. Jonathan Edwards delivers his sermon to awaken the audience and to increase the awareness of hell and how to avoid damnation. Also in "A Message from Hell," Ed Andrews' message warns the audience of the horror of hell and persuades them to acquire salvation. Bot ...

Number of words: 1296 | Number of pages: 5

Natura Humana Futura

... travel into time ahead of us and witness sights unimaginably different from today’s hours. Many states sit divided in what humans then call the 20th century. Famine and war plague the earth, technology has become the ultimate power of the people, materialistic possessions carry the people, and the citizens of this new world have lost all heart. I am hesitant to describe the technological advances that take place in the future. The changes would shock you and cause you to disbelieve my experiences, so I choose to keep that to myself unti ...

Number of words: 956 | Number of pages: 4

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