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As The Old Saying Goes, “an Ou

... some rather unfortunate events. She tells us about her first love and her first kiss. “Two months, and a few amatory stages later, he dropped” her for a girl who was performing opposite him in a school play. Watching him with the other girl was more than she could bear and the night she went to see the play was “the beginning of months of real, if more or less self-inflicted, misery” for her. While baby-sitting one night, she made the fatal mistake of getting drunk. She then calls her best friend, who shows up with another girl a ...

Number of words: 562 | Number of pages: 3

Cry Wolf

... good and evil, wolves were poisoned, drawn and quartered, doused with gasoline and set on fire, and, in some cases, left with their mouths wired shut to starve (Begley 53). Convinced that they were a problem to be solved, U.S. citizens gradually eradicated gray wolves from the lower 48 states over a period of 25 years. Today many people are convinced that the elimination of the gray wolf was not only an error, but also a detriment to the quality of life in this country. There has been a public outcry to rectify the situation created by the ...

Number of words: 2854 | Number of pages: 11

Stephen King

... published are his short stories such as "The Body" and "Quitters Inc". King’s works are so powerful because he uses his experience and observations from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, ...

Number of words: 2048 | Number of pages: 8

Of Mice And Men - Loneliness

... a never-ending search to fulfill a friendship. "A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t matter no difference who the guy is, longs he with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick" (Steinbeck, 13) Crooks is a black man that experiences isolation because the society in which he resides is racist. As a result, the previous quote was his means of finding a personal connection to Lennie. Like Lennie, Crooks has a ‘relationship’ with loneliness. He knows that when people get lonely, they tend to get sick. Studies show t ...

Number of words: 1842 | Number of pages: 7

The Crown Of Diamond: Overview

... After the gentleman left Mr. Holder decided to keep the crown all the time near by him, so he took the crown to his home in Streatham. There he lived with his only son Arthur and his niece Mary who was an orphan. He told them about his story with the crown of diamonds. When the father was going to sleep, Arthur asked for two hundred pounds. He refused to give him thinking his son was spoiled by his rich friends who had nothing to do except watch horses. Before going to sleep, he went to check that all windows and doors were locked. He saw ...

Number of words: 652 | Number of pages: 3

Moby Dick

... assembly of the characters for the crew of the "Pequod" was done with a specific purpose in mind. Through the wide range of characters, Melville was able to represent the American society, possibly even the world, and furnish it with contrasting figures that would set the scene for all the episodes that Melville will create in "" to set forth his ideas. Basically, the "Pequod" is a miniature of all sections of society and civilization. It is actually broken down based on social stature, race, ethnicity, as well as on personal values. It is ...

Number of words: 1521 | Number of pages: 6

Of Mice And Men

... I was greatly troubled by its ending. I can see why it is an excellent novel, but at the same time it left me with a kind of unpleasant feeling in the back of my mind. I can’t see how an author could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says " Now what in the hell is eating them?" thus the book ends on a harsh, cruel note, topped off by the lack of understanding and compassion of an extraordinarily immoral and cruel ...

Number of words: 1598 | Number of pages: 6

Faulkners Image Of Women

... of the kidnapping in Sanctuary; her inability to combat her fate reaffirms a woman's position in Yoknapatawpha. The pages of The Sound and The Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Sanctuary tell the tales of sorrow, struggle, and ultimately defeat for the three women. Caddy's role is the veritable centerpiece of The Sound and the Fury, her destruction is symbolizes the destruction of the Compson Family. Despair marked her life. In an early age she assumed the responsibility of being a mother to Benjy. "She put the bottle down and came and put her a ...

Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4

Ordinary Men, Review

... trained officers. The reserve lieutenants, all seven of them, were drafted into the Order Police because they were ordinary. They were middle class, educated, and successful in their civilian lives. Five of them were members of the Nazi party, but none were in the SS. Of thirty-two remaining officers twenty-two were Party members, but none were members of the SS. Sixty-three percent of the rest of the battalion were blue-collar workers. About thirty-five percent were lower-class workers. The remaining two percent were middle-class but not gre ...

Number of words: 1576 | Number of pages: 6

I Am A Man (The Elephant Man)

... freaks, John's fear of what is unknown to him and the Victorian era's perception of disabled people which lead John into believing that his dreams can never be satisfied. In the generation of John Merrick, the English society dominates itself with powerful people who obsess over others' ill fortunes and appearance malformations. The disabled people are merely objects for their "owners" (16) revenue, which is why John is afraid to go back to Bytes. While in the hospital, John has wealthy, prominent, fame-crazed people come to see him ev ...

Number of words: 1902 | Number of pages: 7

Piano Lesson

... toward the past and black heritage compared to plans for the future. In addition, "The " is both unique to the dilemma of African-Americans during the time and universal in its depiction of the human condition, which I will further explain later in this paper. The two main characters in this play were Berniece and Boy Willie with the rest of the family as supporting characters. Berniece was very withdrawn and held a lot of pain inside after the death of both her mother and husband. "She is still in mourning for her husband." (1335) B ...

Number of words: 1401 | Number of pages: 6

Frankenstein 2

... his guilt and resigned heaven without revenge. The monster had many differences and things in common with Adam, as well as Victor with God. In the story of Adam and Eve, God was, and still is know a perfect and wise creator. He decided to develop human life and did so "with his own hands". Adam was a man who was put by God in the land of paradise without wisdom or contact with any other being. He was told by God to choose between right and wrong during his lifetime. God also gave Adam advice and hints, like, to not eat the apples from a c ...

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