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A Rose For Emily Characterizat

... lives for many years as a recluse, someone who has withdrawn from a community to live in seclusion. "No visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier" (394). Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily's attempt to remove herself from society through her actions. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all" (395). The death of her father and the shattered relationship with her sweetheart contributed to her seclusion. Though her father ...

Number of words: 428 | Number of pages: 2

Comparing The First 2 Chapters

... in "The Sisters" and "An Encounter." In "The Sisters", we receive the hint about the age of the narrator when old Cotter talks about how he would not want his child to have to have too much to say to the priest. He said his idea is to "let a 'young lad' run about and play with young lads… (P.2)" The word 'young lad' here refers to the narrator. From this we know that the narrator must me a young boy, but still we don't know a specific age. In "An Encounter", we found that the narrator is attending a school. When the teacher was yel ...

Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4

The Great Gatsby

... the sublime motivation for accomplishing one’s goals and producing achievements, however when tainted with wealth the dream becomes devoid and hollow. When the American dream was pure, motivation and ambition were the driving forces. "He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way...and distinguished nothing except a single green light" (Fitzgerald, 26). This shows how Gatsby was striving for his goal, trying to accomplish it but not finding it to be within realistic reach. This quote relates to Gatsby's daily agenda ...

Number of words: 2341 | Number of pages: 9

Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates

... choose to ignore. Both arguments seem to work well to counter the other and show the flaws in the other explanation's theory. According to the World Book Encyclopedia, life is "a state, existence, or principle of existence conceived as belonging to the soul." Most people, when questioned about life would not have a very clear or concise answer because life is not something that is wholly tangible. In general life is considered to be everything that happens to a person from the moment they are born to the moment they die. All of the ...

Number of words: 945 | Number of pages: 4

Where Are You Going, Where Hav

... (Short Stories For Students 258) e You Been? is based on a killer in the southwest names Charles “Smitty” Schmid was charged of rape and murder of three young girls in the fall of 1965 in Tucson, Arizona. “Oates wrote the story after hearing Dylan’s song “Its All Over Now, Baby Blue” Oates also has dedicated the story to Dylan which has brought about a fair amount of mystery and speculation. (Joyce Carol Oates, Raines) Connie, a fifteen year old girl who likes to go off and have fun with her friends, me ...

Number of words: 1496 | Number of pages: 6

Lewis Carroll In Wonderland

... a child he was very academic and had many interest which he pursued after becoming a deacon in the Church of England. His many accomplishments include Mathematician, English logician, photographer, and novelist ("Carroll, Lewis"). From the imagination of Lewis Carroll came Alice in Wonderland and many books like it created for children. These books have been compared and interpreted by adults around the world to get a better understanding of who Carroll was as a person. For ages children have enjoyed reading about Alice and her adventure b ...

Number of words: 1421 | Number of pages: 6

The Crucible

... field, Joan Allen (Elizabeth) lying pregnant in the frigid jail, Winona Ryder (Abigail) stealing her minister-uncle's money majestic Paul Scofield (Judge Danforth) and his righteous empathy with the Devil-possessed children, and all of them looking as inevitable as rain. I remember those years-- they formed "" 's skeleton--but I have lost the dead weight of the fear I had then. Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled ...

Number of words: 2435 | Number of pages: 9

The Growth Of A “Scholarship Boy”

... the book The Uses of Literacy, by Richard Hoggart. After reading this he realized that the “scholarship boy” is just about an exact description of his own life and his schooling. After seeing this he decided to use it as an integral part in his essay. The description that Rodriguez thought really hit home was that the “scholarship boy” had to move between two extremely different environments, his home and the classroom. Also that the scholarship boy can be looked at as a bad student also. It is not until a “scholarship boy” c ...

Number of words: 1337 | Number of pages: 5

Oedipus Rex - Compared To Hamlet

... show everyone the truth. Hamlet knows his anger toward his Uncle may cause confusion in his judgement of the truth so he is hesitant to kill him right away. Hamlet second-guesses himself throughout the play only to end up dying, but not before he kills Claudius. In Oedipus the king, a child is born to a royal couple, this king and queen want to know how their child will be in the future. So they ask an oracle to tell them the future and it tells them he will kill his father and marry his mother. They have the child taken away to be killed, ...

Number of words: 615 | Number of pages: 3

Humanity And Politics In Gullivers Travels

... other hand the unexpected arrival of Gulliver into Lilliputians developed society made an unexpected effect on them. they don\'t see themselves in the way that gulliver sees, they think themselves as normal and gulliver as an ugly giant. moreover the Lilliputians choose their goverment officials among rope dancers which is extremely ridicilous and resembles to the British goverment system. like this one, Lilliputians, in order to give Gulliver his freedom, prepared a contract. with this contract they thought that they got the control of ...

Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3

The Downfall Of Macbeth In Mac

... are equally accountable, since the witches reveal their predictions to Macbeth, giving him a glimpse into his future. This glimpse represents the beginning of the end of his life. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, as well as the witches and their prophecies are all responsible for Macbeth’s downfall. The witches are responsible for the downfall of Macbeth because they are the ones which reveal the prophecies to Macbeth. 1. Witch. All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of 2. Witch. All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! 3. Witch. Al ...

Number of words: 1568 | Number of pages: 6

Strong Shadows

... in an average person’s life. All of them were uneducated and careless leading us to believe that Dr. Zuger was trying to show that education and responsibility are the best ways to prevent one’s contraction of this disease. Some of them got HIV from reckless lifestyles such as drug use involving needle sharing to prostitution while others got it merely by having sex with casual partners. The decision to pick this array of patients again strengthens the fact that Dr. Zuger is trying to tell us that it is possible to get AIDS i ...

Number of words: 1248 | Number of pages: 5

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