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Conflicts

... lay on the ground surrounded by plants and white, green, and pink powders lay on his chest. The man was very old and rich so he could was able to see the great medicine man Magwa. As the old man slept and Magwa Chanting rhymes and riddles. A young boy and girl approached the hut. Magwa had foreseen the two children many moons ago in his hut. The children had been on a long journey to his hut in the middle of the Black Forest.. The children had been through thorns rivers and other tribes hunters to get here. The children asked the rocks and ...

Number of words: 953 | Number of pages: 4

Lord Of The Flies Book Analysi

... believe that this book, despite its strong message, was weak and uninteresting. What was so great about hunting? This obsession with hunting was what baffled me the most throughout this book. I honestly don't see what was so great about it, and why they let it interrupt their responsibilities. If they had not been distracted with hunting and just tended to the fire like they were supposed to, it's possible that could have been rescued earlier on in the book. "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!" (Chap. 7, pg. 114) Th ...

Number of words: 1805 | Number of pages: 7

Great Expectations Portrays In

... Expectations. Dickens paints a biting portrait of the English class system where the undeserving upper class is omnipotent, the middle class consists of those envious of the upper class, and the hard workers of the lower class who are unable to succeed due to their birth status. These injustices are personified through the outlandish characters of Miss Havisham, Mrs. Pocket and Magwitch, who satirize the upper, middle and lower classes. These characters embody many of the traits, which Dickens found to be indicative of the various classes ...

Number of words: 1356 | Number of pages: 5

Pigeon Feather

... he finds just the right words to give a fresh shine to a familiar situation. He speaks, for example, of an encounter with a very junior doctor, "not much older than myself but venerable with competence and witnessed pain." He skips the bits about the smell of hay and harnesses to tell us, with Thoreauvian precision, that: "A barn, in day, is a small night." In his own words about words he reminds us of the "curious and potent, inexplicable and irrefutable magical life language leads within itself" -- not entirely unaided, of course, by w ...

Number of words: 2290 | Number of pages: 9

A Clockwork Orange

... of Alex and his Droogs, and details their adventures that occupy their time throughout the night. At fifteen years old, Alex is set up by his Droogs—Pete, Dim, and Georgie—and is convicted of murder and sent to jail. At the Staja or state penitentiary, Alex becomes inmate number 6655321 and spends two years of a sentence of fourteen years there. Alex is then chosen by the government to undergo an experimental new "Ludovico’s Technique." In exchange for his freedom, Alex would partake in this experiment that was to cure him ...

Number of words: 2187 | Number of pages: 8

Jane Eyre Role Of Male Dominan

... at all, and women were not allowed prominent positions. Male dominance proves to be the biggest obstruction at each stop of Jane's journey through Gateshead Hall, Lowood Institution, Thornfield Manor, Moor House, and Ferndean Manor. As she grows, however, as she is her own shoulder to lean on in her times of need, Jane slowly learns how to understand and control repression. Jane's journey begins at Gateshead Hall. Mrs. Reed, Jane's aunt and guardian, serves as the biased arbitrator of the rivalries that constantly occur between Jane and ...

Number of words: 1361 | Number of pages: 5

A Separate Peace 2

... better hurry or we’ll be late for dinner,’ I said, breaking into what Finny called my ‘West Point stride’.” Which signifies the insecurity phase of Gene’s life. He was a stickler to the rules, didn’t want to be late. He was always concerned with what was right, and proper. But Phineas changes all that in him, and rather quickly too. When Finny decides to skip dinner and wrestle instead, Gene becomes confused, but goes along with his every word, and action. Later on in the book, af ...

Number of words: 440 | Number of pages: 2

Hamlet Claudius

... traits of Claudius by far outweigh the good things he does. He is very ambitious, perhaps too ambitious. Claudius wanted to be king so badly, that he murdered his own brother to achieve his goal. This is how the revenge theme is weaved into the play. Hamlet, the dead king’s son learns of the act from a ghost, "A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused; but now that noble youth The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now ...

Number of words: 1253 | Number of pages: 5

Jonathan Edward's "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God"

... of New England society enables him to reinforce a persuasive dissertation with biblical quotes and passages; however, not all the quotes sited by Edwards support his interpretations exclusively. Often Edwards uses parts or sections of biblical verse rather than complete text because too much information might diminish the importance of his primary intent. These instances of manipulation occur in the doctrinal section where Edwards attempts to prove the basis of his application. "Cut it down, why cumbereth it in the ground?", Luke 13 ...

Number of words: 955 | Number of pages: 4

Dubliners

... game and took everyone's money. Because of actions like this they are very carefree about how they go about with life. The only thing that they want to do is be happy. They were very free, moving about doing whatever they wanted, but a cloud was settling over them. This cloud was entrapment. Most of the story is about how the characters struggled to keep their freedoms over the entrapments. It also touches upon other characters from other stories by paralleling Jimmy to Eveline. "After the Race" is a story in which the ideas of freedom and en ...

Number of words: 2947 | Number of pages: 11

Lies And Deceit

... that he was a schoolmaster there to teach Bianca. Tom lied about going to Princeton with Dickey Greenleaf, liking jazz, liking sailing and art. Tom’s lie wasn’t as bad as lucentio’s but he still wasn’t being honest about who he rally was. Lucentio’s more serious and harder to get out of. “Luc/Cam. I read that I profess, the art of love.”(IV, ii, 11). Both of the characters took false identities to get the girl that they liked. Lucentio said he was a schoolmaster named Cambio to be able to get close and get to know Bianca ...

Number of words: 480 | Number of pages: 2

Chrysalids

... in a community that scarfs out against all types of deviation abnormalities. The reader notices Joseph Strorm (David's father) uses his occupation as an advantage to destroy and abominate all type of human alteration. For instance, Joseph used his substantially moral mind to deny the request of David's aunty Harriet to trade babies to get the needed certificate, "She's a lovely baby-except for that. She is, isn't she?" (pg. 70) As a result Harriet and the baby had committed self annihilation. Not only were deviati ...

Number of words: 260 | Number of pages: 1

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