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Pearl's Contribution To The Scarlet Letter
853 Words - 4 Pages.... walks
through town with her mother the other kids shout and curse at her. Pearl
takes it in stride and defends her mother and fends off the evil children.
The adults of Boston, mostly Puritans, talk behind Hester's back about the
child being one of a sinner. Another common stereotype filled by Pearl is
whenever an adult is occupied with something then the child finds something
to do. When Hester went to the woods to meet with Dimmesdale, Pearl went
off to play in the brook while the two adults talked and then she stopped
when her mother called. A second example is when Pearl accompanied her
mother to the seashore where they met Chillingworth, Pearl wandered off by
herself ....
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Hamlet Character Analysis For
1253 Words - 5 Pages.... version, and to Branagh’s version, and these distinct stages of emotion constitute incontestable physical responses towards other characters in the play.
In Shakespeare’s version, in the beginning of the story, Hamlet’s character was struggling with the sudden marriage of his mother, Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius, a month after his father is death. He is disturbed at the speed with which his mother has recovered from mourning her dead husband to marry the new king. He expresses his frustration and confusion during his soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 2 after the new King's announcement to his people. Later he learned that his father’s ghost was sig ....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Innocence To Experience
1393 Words - 6 Pages.... looked at through the
eyes of our young narrator, Scout Finch. Scout’s innocent perspective
compels her to ask questions about why whites treat blacks the way they do.
These questions are crucial in Scout and her older brother Jem’s search
for their own identity. They must find their own position and what roles
they will play in the whole racial game. When Atticus tells Jem and Scout
to, "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird," he is referring to the notion that a
mockingbird is a harmless creature and does nothing but sing and bring
happiness to the world. Harper Lee takes the title for her novel from this
pa ....
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Upton Sinclairs Book The Jungl
572 Words - 3 Pages.... (Bloodworth 67). Also his purpose was to expose the meat industries. He wanted to make the people feel safe and to get good quality food. Upton Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the Stomach" (Blinderman 60). When he said this he was talking about how he exposed the meat industry. Also he made the legislation change. There were some critics on the reasoning Sinclair used in "The Jungle". "His reasoning so false, he is naïve in his disregard of human nature". Also "…his conclusions so perverted that the only effect can be only to disgust many honest sensible folk with the very terms he used so glibly" (Blinderman 103). Sinclair's book ....
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Guilt And How It Is Handled
614 Words - 3 Pages.... he increases his guilt because Hester must endure all the
blame. Dimmesdale's guilt eats away at him and leads to his doom. On the
other hand, the adulteress handles the guilt by telling other people and
showing them that she feels guilty. The people forgive her after time but
Dimmesdale still feels guilty, and since time has passed can not face the
truth. A situation that creates guilt can also illustrate how people deal
with difficulty.
Guilt does not only appear in literature, but also in daily life.
A famous case is the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Whether he committed the
crime or not, O.J. has shown no signs of guilt. This can be interpreted as
meanin ....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme Of Prejudice
1633 Words - 6 Pages.... as an "opinion formed without taking the time and care to judge
fairly". The main focus of part one is Boo Radley. Boo was considered to
be an outcast by many of the people in Maycomb. He never came outside,
except for two occasions in the book. The first time Boo comes out is when
a fire breaks out at Miss Maudies, and Scout is standing outside in the
cold. Boo wraps a blanket around her, without her knowing that he did.
The other time didn't happen until part two, when Jem and Scout are
attacked by Bob Ewell. People were prejudiced against Boo because he is
different. The children had not seen him so they made up stories about him
(Johnson,1). They were afraid of hi ....
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Comparsion Between Hearst And
1221 Words - 5 Pages.... Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from Creation unto this Present:"
In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace, encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall wherein are fertile Meddowes, pleasant springs, delightfull Streams, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be removed from place to place…
Kane's house in Citizen Kane fits this description well it had meadows, springs, streams, and statues of all sorts of animals, whether chase or game. Hearst house in California's Santa Lucia Mountains also fits Samuel Purhas description of Xanadu. Hearst house is known as L ....
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