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Lord Of The Flies: Characters And Conflict
573 Words - 3 Pages.... to do what he feels is the right decision even though many times it is not a popular decision with the rest of the kids. “Ralph says to Jack as long as you and you hunters remember the fire” and Jack says “You and your Fire!” (Golding 49). This refers to how he doesn't think it is very important because he would rather be having fun hunting.
Ralph is not the only character in Lord of the Flies that is faced with conflicts, but I feel he is faced with the most difficult conflict. He has to mature so quickly in order to be responsible and get himself and the rest of the kids rescued. I think that would be the toughest task a twelve year old boy could be asked to d ....
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Huckleberry Finn
1754 Words - 7 Pages.... up so it will look peaceful and happy.
Throughout the most part of this story people are the biggest hypocrites. How can they expect people to be "civilized" when they own slaves? Being "civilized" is the whole theme of the book and what is considered "civilized" anyway? This is what Huck hates about society, people are wrong and corrupt, and he can't understand it. The only people who aren't corrupt are those who are considered morally wrong and incorrect by the already corrupt society. To Huck, nobody needs to be "civilized" in order to live happily. To live a happy life he wants to be able to live a life of swearing and smoking and that would be perfect. He's not hurti ....
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Robinson Crusoe
1264 Words - 5 Pages.... a plantation. Soon after this Crusoe bought his own plantation. When other plantation owners needed slaves to work their farms they asked Crusoe to sail to Africa. Crusoe agreed and set sail. On the way there they ran into many storms. Three men were killed very soon. The twelfth day was a hard one. The biggest storm hit. Its waves were giant. The ship was in very bad shape and Crusoe had to abandon it. He and the other sailors loaded into the small boat and paddled to land. All of the sudden a titanic wave crashed onto the boat. It drowned everyone but Crusoe. He was lucky to be alive. When he got the strength to walk again he found himself a safe place to sleep for the nig ....
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Young Goodman Brown 2
964 Words - 4 Pages.... people and how what he thought was the truth is really not. When Goodman Brown starts his voyage he knew what he was going in the woods to do, what he didn’t realize is that the same reason he went to the woods was the same reason as the towns people. When Goodman encounters Goody Cloyse in the woods he is shocked that he sees her out there “A marvel, truly, that Goody Cloyse should be so far in the wilderness at night fall.”(Hawthorne 98) When he learns of her travels and of how she is acquainted with the old man he is in disbelieve that a women that taught him religion is evil. When Goody asks the old man for a hand to take her to a communion he o ....
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Huck Finn 4
1608 Words - 6 Pages.... book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a fictional story about a boy’s adventure floating down the Mississippi River. This book is organized into 43 chapters each containing at least two events each which are written above the chapter number. The book contains many ideas and events but there are three main ideas portrayed throughout the book.
The first idea that is portrayed is how African Americans are treated in this time period. This idea is portrayed throughout the book by Jim the run-away slave who floats down the river with Huck. The author portrays this idea through the way Jim acts, the way Huck and other whites treat Jim, and how Jim is forced into ....
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Standing In The Light
636 Words - 3 Pages.... After about a year of
living with the Lenape, white men came and took Catharine and her brother
away. This really made her confused because she had just found herself with
the Lenape and now she has to find herself with her own family again. She
never quite found herself with her people, but she would always know where
she truly belonged.
2 The main character of this book was Catharine. She was strong-willed and
adjusting. She was strong-willed when she had the strength to adjust to her
new ways of life. She was pulled from her old life, to her new life, back to
her old life. It was very difficult for her because both the Quakers and the
Lenape were two ve ....
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The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis Of The Characters
1504 Words - 6 Pages.... Pearl. The bigger controversy though, is who is Hester's
"partner in crime." But for seven years, Hester does not reveal it to
anyone, not even her husband, Roger Prynne, who comes to town the day she
is brought up on the scaffold. Prynne is not happy about finding his wife
convicted of being an adulteress. He feels that the other guilty party
should be up on the scaffold with her. His deep want to find the guilty
party, leads him to disguise his identity, and he becomes, Roger
Chillingworth. Hester agrees to keep his secret. The novel takes us
through the seven years that Hester keeps quiet. A reader of the novel
finds out early that Arthur Dimmesdale is the man H ....
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Antiheroism In Hamlet
834 Words - 4 Pages.... the protagonist, Hamlet, is depicted as an antihero. One main factor which gives Hamlet such a label is that he draws sympathy, as well as admiration, from the reader since Hamlet feels the pain of losing his father along with the burden and obstacles in avenging his murder. Act four places a special emphasis on Hamlet's intelligence. In scene two, Hamlet is very insolent and rude towards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with such phrases as, That I can keep your counsel and not, mine own. Beside, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son of a king? (IV, ii, 12-14) The reference to the sponge reflects the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ....
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