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A Passage To India, A Novel Wr

... sexually assaults her, but later realizes that she was wrong. Because of this situation Dr. Aziz takes on three distinct attitude changes. At the beginning of the novel he resents the English, later develops an admiration for them and finally he again develops ill feelings and hatred toward the English. In the genesis of the novel Dr. Aziz truly resents the British Raja in India. He feels that they can be conniving, malicious and deceptive. Dr. Aziz, along with his friends, meticulously discusses these details over dinner at Hammidulah's ...

Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4

A Child Called It

... The few people who took notice were David’s teachers and the school nurse. Yet it took them a considerable amount of time to finally build up suspicion and finally report Dave’s problems to the proper authorities. I find the unreported instances observed by the public to be just as substantial a crime as the child abusers themselves. One of the things I enjoyed and always found myself grinning about was the spunk that Dave had. He was crafty enough to stall his mother’s efforts of physical and emotional cruelty just long e ...

Number of words: 694 | Number of pages: 3

American History X

... "Mein Kampf", when asked to discuss a book about civil rights, Danny's now being forced by a concerned, hard-love school teacher to write an account of Derek's journey from the "heights" of murderous skinhead leadership to the depths of brutal rape in a prison shower. In the film there are unnerving scenes of racial violence: of black youths kicking a helpless white student in a high school restroom; of a Korean-owned grocery store terrorized by skinhead thugs; of an African American whose skull is split open by a skinhead who orders h ...

Number of words: 2025 | Number of pages: 8

Unwritten Rules

... prejudices faced by black people and the struggle of white people to stay separated from black people. One can see in " Incident" by Countee Cullen and "Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka, similarities that demonstrate the historical and sociological impact of this era on African Americans. "Incident" and "Telephone Conversation" both reflect a historical period in America that deprived African Americans of basic freedoms. These poems show in simplistic situations that many prejudices held against African Americans during that time pe ...

Number of words: 1477 | Number of pages: 6

Birches

... himself, teaching himself some lessons about Physics and life. This idea of nature's self-destruction is one that isn't often addressed in our time, since most destruction to nature is blamed on humans and pollution. Frost, being a man of the country, realizes that nature often destroys itself, but he wants to imagine a different cause for the leaning branches. The speaker's fantasy offers him a way to make some good come out of the injury to the branches, thereby allowing himself to recollect his past as a boy swinging from branch to bra ...

Number of words: 1237 | Number of pages: 5

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

... and growing up around black people wasn’t uncommon for him. He was exposed to the way the black majority was treated and he also reflected this in his book. When Twain was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River and the towns along it were used as the setting in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In his novel, he used the familiar dialect he was exposed to. He stated at the beginning of the novel, “the Missouri Negro dialect; the extr ...

Number of words: 1281 | Number of pages: 5

Their Eyes Were Watching God -

... or her life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie's marriages to Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake seem like the most crucial elements in her development as a woman. Throughout the story Hurston uses different men to portray the continuum that men fall into in their society. Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks seems like the first stage in her development as a woman. She hopes that her forced marriage with Logan would end her loneliness and desire for love. Right from the beginning, the loneliness in the marria ...

Number of words: 911 | Number of pages: 4

What Role Will Poetry Play In

... something I read on the back of a poetry book recently; ‘poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.’ Poetry means the something different to almost everyone from the window cleaner who left school at fourteen to the highly educated head of English at Malvern College. Poetry is whatever you want to be, whatever it means to you personally and whatever it means to the poet. I have interviewed over twenty people and what I have established is that everyone has their own definition of poetry. However there is a basic difference be ...

Number of words: 1218 | Number of pages: 5

Introduction To The Crucible -

... on the bed motionless and still. At that time, wherever Samuel Paris went it seemed like he was being persecuted, despite his efforts to win these people and god to his side. Samuel wasn’t the typical person. He was not married, nor did he have children. As a matter of fact he did not like children at all. The town that Samuel Paris lived in, Salem was an ordinary town. Salem was located near the wilderness. The continent spread far west and most of it was a mystery to the people of Salem. Every now and then Indian tribes would m ...

Number of words: 380 | Number of pages: 2

Shawshank Redemption

... although similar in many aspects to the outside world, is its own society. Prison is a microcosm of outside society. There are fewer people and the roles they play are more defined. Life for the prisoners is much more controlled. In the beginning, the prisoners loathe prison life. They come to feel restricted in everything they do. Simple activities that they once took for granted, such as using the restroom, are taken from them – granted only when told to do so. As time progresses, they come to accept prison’s daily routine ...

Number of words: 980 | Number of pages: 4

Great Gatsby

... he or she is can become successful in life by his or her hard work. The dream also embodied the idea of a self-sufficient man, an entrepreneur making it successful for himself. The is about what happened to the American Dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. The pursuit of the American Dream is the sublime motivation for accomplishing one's goals and producing achievements, however when tainted with wealth the dream becomes devoid and hollow. Jay Gatsby, the central figure of ...

Number of words: 805 | Number of pages: 3

Siddhartha 4

... him more than anybody else. He loved Siddhartha’s eyes and clear voice. He loved the way he walked, his complete grace of movement; he loved everything that Siddhartha did and said, and above all he loved his intellect, his fine ardent thoughts, his strong will, his high vocation. Govinda knew that [Siddhartha] would not become an ordinary Brahmin, a lazy sacrificial official, an avaricious dealer in magic sayings, a conceited worthless orator, a wicked sly priest, or just a good stupid sheep amongst a large herd. No, and he, Govinda ...

Number of words: 721 | Number of pages: 3

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