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The Cause And The Loss: Comparison Between "Mice And Men" And "Flowers
338 Words - 2 Pages.... she cried... She struggled
violently... and then she was still; for Lenny had broken her neck." (page
91). In innocence of his own strength, Lenny had killed a woman and
suddenly traded his innocence for guilt.
Charlie grew up having a paradise-like world where he supposedly had
many friends. His lifelong ambition, to become smart. When the chance came
he took the offer readily, unprepared for the changes in his life it would
bring. "And what was that Joe and the rest of them were doing. Laughing at
me. And the kids playing hide-and-go-seek were playing tricks on me and
they were laughing at me too... I felt naked" (page 30). All of a sudden
Charlie realized everyone ....
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The Awakening: Edna Pontellier's Spiritual Awakening
432 Words - 2 Pages.... self up for them. Her individuality was preserved during her life by her separations from her family. Edna bought the house around the corner in order to go and be away from her children and paint. Towards the end of her life, Edna realizes that she is becoming consumed by her family. They are taking over her soul. “But she knew a way to elude them.” (p. 115) Her actions around her suicide greatly symbolize everything she hope to achieve in her life, and finally found in her death. As she walked down to the beach for the last time she put on her bathing suit. When she arrived at the shore, “she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her.” That symbolized ....
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A Lesson Before Dying
1295 Words - 5 Pages.... to realize that he was a man and not an animal like the white people had led him to believe. Throughout the entire novel, Grant is battling this idea in his head because he doesn’t feel that even he knows what it is to be a man. He doesn’t believe that he is the right person to talk to Jefferson. But by the end of the novel, he figures out what it is to be a man.
Minor Characters: Miss Emma is Jefferson’s grandmother. She is the one who had the whole idea of Grant going up to the jail and talking to Jefferson, showing him that he is a man. Tante Lou is Grant’s aunt. She is the person who raised Grant to be the good, kind person that he is. She is a ....
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The Gradual Development Of Cha
805 Words - 3 Pages.... through the examples of their use of face paint, the death of Simon and the destruction of the conch.
In Lord of the Flies, an example of their move from civilization to anarchy lies the use of face paint among the boys on the island. Some of the boys, like Ralph and Piggy, never wear face paint. This shows that they stay civilized throughout the story, while the other kids do not. Early in the story, when the hunters chase after a pig, they all where mud, clay, and charcoal as face paint to be “like things trying to look like something else-” (Lord of the Flies, William Golding, p. 66). Later, when Jack forms his own tribe they go hunting with masks of pig ....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
1062 Words - 4 Pages.... do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (90). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem's pants that tore on Dill's last night. Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to Scout's primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree. She never gave anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout escorts Arthur home and sta ....
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Summary Of The Heart Of Darkness
1758 Words - 7 Pages.... who measures his skull and
cautions him to remain “calm” in the jungle, Marlow takes a French steamer
to the mouth of the Congo River. The steamer moves very slowly, making
many stops along its way, and Marlow marvels at the vastness and mystery of
the jungle. They pass a French gunboat firing shells into the dense, black
depths of the jungle. Marlow is told that there are enemy natives hidden
there, but it is struck by the absurdity of this war with the “darkness”
and its invisible forces. Finally, the steamer reaches the mouth of the
Congo and Marlow disembarks.
Here, he boards another steamer, commanded by a Swede, and starts
on his first leg of his journey up ....
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Summary Of 1984
838 Words - 4 Pages.... Anyone
who showed any discontent or disapproval towards the Party was seen or heard,
and taken to Ministry of Love, which concerned itself with law and order. No one
knew what happened in the Ministry of Love, but people who were taken there most
often disappeared. Their very existence falsified by the Ministry of Truth.
Winston hid his hate of the Party very well from the telescreens. He
hated the party but he knew there was nothing he could do. He had heard of an
anti-Party organization called the Brotherhood, but there was no way of knowing
if it really existed. He didn¹t know if anyone felt the same way he did, but he
was sure there must be.
The Party was reconstruc ....
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Jim's Role In Huckleberry Finn
2359 Words - 9 Pages.... doesn't mean we can't experience it. Adler says, "We
learn from experience—the experience that we have in the course of our
daily lives. So too, we can learn from the vicarious, or artistically
created, experiences that fiction produces in our imaginations." Jim
reveals several things about himself through his actions and by what others
say about his actions. I would like to examine a couple of scenes
involving Jim to show some of his notable traits. The first passage I'll
use is in chapter 11. This is the chapter where Huck finds out that some
people are going to see if there is anyone on Jackson Island, where Huck
and Jim currently are. After Huck tells Jim that m ....
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