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The Scarlet Letter: Secrets. We Have Them, We Hide Them, But Can We Live With Them?
945 Words - 4 Pages.... Reverend
Dimmesdale says, "She will not speak." It is ironic that the person who
committed the sin with Hester is the one who announces publicly that she
will not reveal the name of the other sinner. Later, Chilling worth wants
to know who it is and he says, "Thou wilt not reveal his name?" Hester
refuses and continues to hold her silence. Then Chillingworth, still
trying to find out the name of her lover, comments, ". . . but Hester, the
man lives who has wronged us both! Who is he?" When he says this, he is
hinting that he is going to do something to Dimmesdale. This is why Hester
makes Chillingworth promise not to kill her lover if he finds out his
identity. C ....
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A Perfect Day For Bananafish
712 Words - 3 Pages.... The spiritual problem of the outside world is mostly a matter of material greed, especially in the west, and materialism. On the other hand, his own spiritual problem is more a matter of intellectual greed and true spiritualism.
In addressing the suicide, the difference should be distinguished between the "See More Glass" that we see through little Sybil’s eyes, and the Seymour Glass that we see through the eyes of the adult world. Even though these two characters are in theory the same man, they are slightly different in some ways. You could also say that they are the same character in different stages of development. Whatever the case may be, the "reasons" for t ....
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Helpless Before The Iron In Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing"
655 Words - 3 Pages.... does her best in bringing up Emily, she lacks good technique in the early part of her parenthood when parent child interaction mean the most. When Olsen writes "Though her cries battered me to trembling and my breasts ached with swolleness, I waited to the clock decreed," she shows the lack of knowledge the mother had in caring for a newborn because she ignores her maternal instincts and instead chooses to go by the book (p. 169). With just one line in the story, this statement packs powerful reasoning into the mother's helplessness, showing how her immaturity and lack of knowledge is working against her and to no fault of her own.
Closely related is the narrator's ....
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The Pearl Greed And Its Abunda
775 Words - 3 Pages.... would produce for them, albeit the pearl wasn’t theirs. Conclusively, it solitarily begets their despondency, subsequently restoring the usual lifestyle, unfortunately for them. Kino’s destiny was much demoralizing, in the actuality that his whole life was contaminated by the meager existence of the treasure.
The decease of his son, and the tension between Juana, his wife, and him, triggered Kino’s breakdown. Because Kino was exceedingly possessed by the prosperity the pearl might possibly produce for him, he even assaulted Juana, as a result of her recognizing that the pearl and the greed it caused was gradually diminishing Kino and her community ....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Love FOr Children
313 Words - 2 Pages.... a catcher in the rye. When Phoebe asks Holden what he wants to be when he grows up, he makes up a job where he stays in a field of rye and catches the children that fall off the cliff.
Holden has a very special relationship with his younger sister Phoebe. He admires her very much and says that she is one of the few people that he can really take to. He does not want to see her grow up. It is Phoebe who ultimately saves Holden.
Holden Caulfield is a confused sixteen-year-old who refuses to grow up. He is frightened to face his approaching adulthood and often thinks of killing himself so he doesn’t have to. He often thinks of his deceased brother Allie who will always ....
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Like Water For Chocolate And Master Harold: Oppression
1346 Words - 5 Pages.... her own
destiny. However in both cases there are signs of rebellion, and protestation,
even though both novels do not end the same end the same, both Sam and Tita get
their point across.
Hally is a young white boy living in Africa, it is safe to say that he
was raised by a black man by the name of Sam. Now Hally is starting to grow up
and he is noticing things which he did not notice when he was younger. He
realized that where he lives white people have certain rights over black people.
Hally owns a cafe and he has got two black men working for him, one of which is
Sam. Hally walks in one morning and finds Willie and Sam dancing, preparing for
a dance contest. "Hally- ....
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Tom Jones
1084 Words - 4 Pages.... see lives that are in more turmoil than their own. This is why we have soap operas on television today. He achieves this by using characters that seem to be imaginable. He puts these characters in amazing situations. When the reader believes that they have something pinned he puts in another twist that sends your senses spiraling. A specific instance in the novel is when the reader finds out that Mrs. Waters is actually Jenny Jones who is Tom’s mother. He sleeps with Mrs. Waters not knowing this. Fielding does not unveil this secret until the end of the novel. The major problem in the book is simple. There is a deceitful man named Blifil. He and Tom are going after the same ....
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Lord Of The Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm Of Society
1923 Words - 7 Pages.... animalistically rapacious gratification needs. In
discovering the thrill of the hunt, his pleasure drive is emphasized,
purported by Freud to be the basic human need to be gratified. In much the
same way, Golding's portrayal of a hunt as a rape, with the boys ravenously
jumping atop the pig and brutalizing it, alludes to Freud's basis of the
pleasure drive in the libido, the term serving a double Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality
on the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the
portrayal of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to
what ....
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