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An Interpretation Of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
1166 Words - 5 Pages

.... conflict in the ninetieth century and still today. Faulkner uses personal imagery to portray the feeling that the reader is actually participating in the shocking racial discrepancies of a “dusty” Southern town. Faulkner sets the mood in the first paragraph of his story, with strong descriptions of the seemingly endless dry summer days of the South. He stages the characters with distinctive language patterns, and the repetitive use of the slang term for a colored person, is used much to frequently. The town is demonstrated to the reader as a closely knit community with no strangers. As the rumor becomes clear, it is the men in the Barber shop that bring it to the ....


Summary Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
1217 Words - 5 Pages

.... night in California. Ma says, "But I like to think how nice it's gonna be, maybe, in California. Never cold. An' fruite ever'place, an' people just bein' in the nicest places, little white houses in among the orange trees." They had been lied to by the handbills and other propaganda that was circulating in the dust bowl region. The growers in California knew that the people of the dust bowl would have to leave their houses because of the crisis. They also knew the more pickers they had the lower they could make their prices. The number of handbills sent out far out numbered the number of jobs available. Many people in the dust bowl were constructing a view of Califo ....


The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
709 Words - 3 Pages

.... help the plot to develop? On page 91 through 103 finally and idea gets out about some people being able to communicate through thought- shapes. When Katherine and Sally got caught and tortured they finally tell some of the names to the inspector. This forces David, Rosalind and Petra to runaway to the fringes, and they established some kind of contact with a woman from Sealant (Zealand, On page 134). The help that the sealant woman promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot is greatly influenced, David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is like to live in ....


The Turn Of The Screw: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
1579 Words - 6 Pages

.... symbols can be as an expression of an author's inferiority complex (A. Adler) or of human desires repressed by society (C.G. Jung). There is also a difference in the approach taken by psychoanalytic critics. For example, those of Freud's generation would concentrate on the author and his state of mind, however, later critics focussed more on an analysis of the characters. A psychoanalytic interpretation of The Turn of the Screw can bring about many questions. Primarily those concerning the ghosts, the sanity of the governess and the goodness of the children. A psychoanalytic reading of the novel reveals that the governess is a mad sexual hysteric, which, in turn, leads ....


A Rose For Emily
1296 Words - 5 Pages

.... asking her to call at the sheriff's office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin flowing calligraphy in faded ink , to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment," (40-41). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South didn't have to pay. This change occurred when the North took over the South. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all," (41). Miss Emily might hav ....


Political Allegory In The Book Animal Farm
741 Words - 3 Pages

.... example to base his book on. He makes the characters personify the major players in the Russian Revolution. Orwell uses this to form a well written piece of literature. In "Animal Farm" The Democratic society led by Mr. Jones the original leader of Manor Farm was overthrown by a policy called Animalism. Animalism was a theory concocted by the Old Major a Pig. In "Animal Farm" the pigs were personified as the smartest and the best among animals. The Pigs take control of the farm. The two major idealists Snowball and Napoleon have conflicting ideas. These ideas break snowball away from the rest of the group and make him leave Animal Farm. This lets Napoleon have ....


Johnny Got His Gun Book Report
354 Words - 2 Pages

.... he is injured. He is a prisoner of his mind. Joe has flashbacks and fantasies driving him crazy. He exists in a living hell. He can't distinguish between reality and his dreams. Joe has fantasies of his youth, his father, his best friend, his girlfriend, and Jesus Christ. Eventually he finds a way of communicating with a nurse through Morse Code. She informs the soldiers. At the end of the movie Joe wants them to put him in a sideshow where, as a freak, he can make a living by making people see what happened to him in the war . If they won't do that, he wants them to kill him. The army does not do either. The nurse tries killing him but does not succeed because a army officer ....


Man Is Evil The Lord Of The Fl
584 Words - 3 Pages

.... leaned toward Ralph and whispered “they use to call me ‘Piggy’” Ralph shrieked with laughter he jumped up “Piggy!,Piggy!”… (Golding 11) Now that was only one example of why man is naturally evil. Right there Piggy decides to place trust in Ralph and in seconds it is shattered. This could relate to society in that if some one tells another person something in private. Then the next day when the kid goes back to school it’s all around school it would be nearly the same thing. There is another passage from this book that may help prove that man is naturally evil. It reads, “…“I’ve got the conch, Ralph thi ....



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