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Pocahontas

... to them if outsiders learned of their tribal name. Therefore, she went by , a nickname given to her meaning “little wanton” for she was a playful, frolicsome little girl. The settlers believed it to mean “bright stream between two hills.” The Powhatans, were not savages as John Smith would later claim in his General Historie of Virginia...&c. Instead, they were a ceremonious people who greeted important visitors in a formal manner with a large feast and festive dancing. Although they did occasionally put prisoners to death in a ...

Number of words: 1521 | Number of pages: 6

Catcher In The Rye - Holden

... little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them- all cockeyed, naturally- what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked in the school late at night to take a leak or something and then wrote it on the wall. I kept picturing myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till hew as good and goddam ...

Number of words: 1250 | Number of pages: 5

Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

... a friend to read this book because the book is so strong in the areas of theme, and character development. First of all, a reason I think a friend would be pleased with this book is the theme. To me it seems as if it is rare to find a book that would admit many disturbing facts about how whites treated blacks around 1933. Most people would try to hide or want to deny such harmful things that actually took place. On the other hand, throughout this book the author presents truthful facts and I believe this would cause the readers to appre ...

Number of words: 593 | Number of pages: 3

Diamonds Are My Best Friend

... important to me, as not only have I learned an enormous amount from it, I have experienced a whole spectrum of emotions during my love affair with the game. I have been a baseball fan all my life. I remember watching my beloved St. Louis Cardinals play in their robin’s egg blue uniforms in the early 1980’s. We had a birdfeeder in our backyard, and every morning, the same cardinal would stop for his breakfast. I named him Tommy Herr, after the Cardinals second baseman at the time. Tommy has long since retired, but I will ...

Number of words: 1532 | Number of pages: 6

Independence And Failure In Ma

... If the limb slides completely out, the rest of the limbs may follow because the bundle is loose. Marriage is like a triangle. Each spouse makes up one of the leaning sides, and marriage the lower side. The three together are very strong, but to stand they all must be united. The longer a marriage is held the longer the bottom stretches, and the more dependent each person becomes on the other. If one side tries to stand on its own then the second will fall on the first as it tries to stand. This metaphor also excellently exemplifies the ca ...

Number of words: 1932 | Number of pages: 8

Six Characters In Search Of An Author

... a medieval audience, they become part of the action, and indeed, a character in its own right. The use of lines provided in the playbill was the first of its kind; never before had an author dared to ask the members of the audience to perform, even though unpaid, and indeed, paying for the experience themselves. But without those lines, how much less impressive would that moment be when the Director, understandably at the end of his rope with the greedy characters (who have been from the start trying to coerce him into writing a script f ...

Number of words: 572 | Number of pages: 3

Night Shift

... into mind, “don’t give up, don’t ever give up.” It is Friday afternoon and a mentally exhausted Sean Wallace arrives home from school following a very long day of schoolwork with nothing on his mind besides finals, which will commence Monday. “How was school Sean?” inquires Sean’s mother. “Fine,” replies Sean nonchalantly. Suitably named Angel, she is Sean’s inspiration and comforter. She has devoted her entire life to her two kids, Sean and Sean’s older brother, Frank. Aside from inspiring and comforting Sean, Angel a ...

Number of words: 1831 | Number of pages: 7

Beloved

... all night long. Strangers rested while their children tried on their shoes. Messages were left there, for whoever needed them was sure to stop in one day soon." (Morrison, 87) Sethe was enveloped with love and security, while Baby Suggs, the local spiritual leader, became the driving force in the community, gathering the people together to preach self love and respect. "When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the Clearing..." (Morrison, 87) Tw ...

Number of words: 927 | Number of pages: 4

The Great Gatsby Ending

... entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own. I didn't want to hear it and I avoided him when I got off the train." This entire paragraph signifies the grave change that has occurred in Nick's life. Just as Gatsby's house is empty, so is Gatsby's dream unfulfilled. Gatsby's vision of the American dream destroyed him and left no remnants behind. The grass is symbolic of their belief in ...

Number of words: 1445 | Number of pages: 6

Imagery And Symbolism In THE T

... of the night,” The reader conceives in their mind the image of a tiger with a coat blazing like fire in the bowels of a dark forest. This creates a negative impression of the tiger, so some might say that the tiger is symbolic of evil. Some people may go even further to conclude that the tiger is a symbol of Satan. Perhaps mainly the people who derive their interpretation of hell from Dante’s Inferno, or other works of literature that portray the devil as a predator, cloaked in flames residing in the darkness of hell. The same typ ...

Number of words: 687 | Number of pages: 3

Lord Of The Flies

... talking to the , discovering the truth about who/what the beast really is (The evil within everyone). When Simon returns from his journey (of finding the beast) to reveal the truth to everyone about the beast, everyone (who mistakes him for the beast) attacks him. The result being Simon's death. (Mind you, everyone includes Ralph (representing himself), Jack (evil), and Piggy (good)) Now you may interpret the reason everyone attacked Simon in 2 ways. One may interpret this death as 'it was dark, they misplaced him for the beast.', or one ...

Number of words: 518 | Number of pages: 2

Beowulf

... more than killing anyone and anything he could to become immortal for his deeds through the poems and songs written about them. was a flawed hero and showed it in many different ways with the way he acted and things he said. If you look beneath the surface of to his character you will see that he only stood for himself and himself alone. The first, and one of the biggest problems that shows is boastfulness, even for a Viking. One example to show how boastful was, is when he talked about the swimming contest with Brecca. It all s ...

Number of words: 909 | Number of pages: 4

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