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Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
469 Words - 2 Pages.... thoughts and supplant them with mindless entertainment. For example, when Mildred over dosed on tranquilzers and sleeping pills, Montag had doctors take the poisen out with a machine, as she slept with the bee in her ear. When she woke up in the morning Montag said, “I wanted to talk to you…she said”(Bradbury 19).
The toaster in the Montag;s house, it did all the work. “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18).
The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine ....
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
414 Words - 2 Pages.... helped
Becky and Muff Potter by intelligence. With Becky it was the adventure in
the caves without Tom and Becky would have a harder time to get out. With
Muff it was that he and Huck witnessed the murder and Tom came through and
told the truth. Without Tom, Muff could have been hung or go to prison for
a long time.
Tom uses his head in serious situations. For example when Injun
Joe was upstairs and Tom has to be quiet. It seemed nothing else mattered.
Tom works best under pressure because he thinks more about it.
Somehow, Tom had sensitivity for others, even others didn't have it
for him. Like the situation with the torn page of the teachers book. Even
though Tom didn't ....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Love
628 Words - 3 Pages.... even going
to make her plow the fields-a job that requires a considerable amount of
strength: strength that Janie didn't have. Janie complained that nothing
beautiful was ever said. She had no love with Logan Killicks. That is why
she left him for a man that showed much potential to give the kind of love
she was looking for.
The whistling man that Janie ran away with was Jody Starks. With
Jody, Janie thought that she would forever have "flower dust and springtime
sprinkled over everything." She thought she'd have "a bee for her bloom."
She didn't exactly find this in Jody though. In him she definitely found
change and chance, but still not the love she was look ....
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The Metamorphosis: Complexity And Irony Of Man In Society
424 Words - 2 Pages.... basic institution of society, and Gregors predicament as characterized by his transformation, results in the breakdown of the regular flow of this unit. As a provider, Gregor’s social self has immense meaning. Sufficently he nurtures the familie’s economic needs, binding the unit, and in this way is regarded as fruitful and useful. The irony lies in the realization that Gregor’s change is merely external, and despite his obvious inability to further produce, he is disregarded as a social burden, unable to sustain his role in the system. His mind however, his intentions remained that of his old self. But on account of his inabilities his family is revolted by him ....
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The Chrysanthemums: Elisa Allen Comes To Life
483 Words - 2 Pages.... begins his narrative with a very detailed physical description of Elisa. She is a thirty-five year old women living in Selemas Valley in central California (304). She has a “lean and strong”(304) face. Elisa’s eyes are “as clean as water” (304). Her figure appears “blocked and heavy in her gardening costume” (304). She had on a pair of “clodhopper shoes” and a “man’s black hat pulled down over her eyes”(304). Her figure is completely covered by a “corduroy apron with four big pockets” (304). She wears a pair of “heavy leather gloves to protect her hands while she works” (304). Elisa has strong fingers(308). Her hair is “da ....
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Old Man And The Sea: Themes Of Santiago Against Nature, Figures Of Christ And Relationships Between Characters
1475 Words - 6 Pages.... the first
part of nature is himself, for which he must fight off his hunger. This is
a harsh part of the story. He manages though to get a few bites in the
form of flying fish and dolphin of which he would like to have salt on.
This part of the story tells of a cold and harsh sea, that is, one that has
value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as
well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though,
and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal
pool with life called `Cannery Road'.
This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It
mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Chris ....
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Humanity's Fall In "The Garden Of Eden"
1139 Words - 5 Pages.... presented as being
more evil than God and his disciples are good. God addresses the Son to be
in the likeness of himself in Book three by saying, "The radiant image of
his glory sat, his only Son."(Bk. 3, 63-64). Although this implies that
the Son is a model of perfection as is God, it does not clarify it by
stating it outright. Milton definitely portrays Satan's evil in Book four
by asserting that Satan is hell and that evil is his good because good has
been lost to him. (Bk. 4, lines 75, 108-110). Satan's moral state further
decays in Book nine as detailed in a soliloquy at the beginning of the book
by Satan. Satan recognizes his descent into bestiality after once be ....
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Animal Farm: Political Issues
1253 Words - 5 Pages.... of the world as a "raft sailing through space, with, potentially, plenty
of provisions for everybody"(Grennblatt 106).
Animal Farm is a satirical beast fable which has been heralded as
Orwell's lightest, gayest work(Brander 126). It is a novel based on the first
thirty years of the Soviet Union, a real society pursuing the ideal of equality.
His book argues that this kind of society has not worked and could not (Meyers
102). Animal Farm has also been known as a an enter-taining, witty tale of a
farm whose oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome a cruel
master and set up a revolutionary government(Meyers 103). On another, more
serious level, it is a pol ....
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