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The Lottery
390 Words - 2 Pages.... live through, and perhaps even die as the outcome, on others. She does not want to accept the fact that she was chosen. Mrs. Hutchinson says that it is “not fair”, regarding the final results of . was something she looked forward to until the outcome of was forced upon her. The entire population of the town participates in the tradition of . This shows that the whole community releases a part of their evil onto others. They are all eager to see someone beaten with rocks, however none of them want it to be them. Even the town’s children were involved in the savage ritual. After Tessie Hutchinson was chosen some of the towns children gave some pebbles to her son so he ....
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Ethan Frome: Failure
656 Words - 3 Pages.... his mother died he could not bear the
thought of living in the house alone. His wife was seven years his senior
and always seemed to have some kind of illness. It seemed all she ever did
was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul.
Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay,
they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate
propensity to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon
his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was
always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always
nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had loyalt ....
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Book Report On "The Lost World"
1005 Words - 4 Pages.... island which he had been searching for
and trying to locate for years. The second island is only a few hundred
miles away from the original , and they both were abandoned when a freak
and tragic incident left nearly everyone on both islands dead. Not many
people who knew about the second island survived so it took him a long
time to find one of the old employees of InGen and get him to tell him
about and the location of the island. With his information Levine made a
team of five people to take to the island himself, Ian Malcolm Sarah
Harding, Jack Thorne, and Eddie Carr, the top employee of Thorne. They
were going to leave in two weeks when Thorne finds out that ....
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Wuthering Heights: Edgar And Heathcliff
271 Words - 1 Pages.... and Heathcliff are very diverse opposing forces in the book,
they despise each other because they are total opposites and in search of
the same goal, Catherine.
Edgar is the calm element contrasted by the stormy element of
Heathcliff. Edgar represents beauty with his "blue eyes and even forehead",
while Heathcliff is the ugliness as "the little black haired thing". Edgar
and Heathcliff both show love for Catherine but for different reasons.
Heathcliff loves Catherine because she is "wild and a free spirit" and
wants to be with her forever, yet Edgar loves Catherine because she is his
wife and he wants to protect her from the evil Heathcliff. Heathcliff who
is as "rough a ....
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Summary Of The Old Man And The Sea
1431 Words - 6 Pages.... boat because the old man's luck has left him for
over eighty days, which means he has not caught a fish for a very long time.
The boat the boy is now on is a lucky boat and has caught fish every day
that it has gone out. The boy, Manolin, is the old man's closest friend.
Manolin get's up every day and helps the old man, Santiago, take the mast
down to the shore to his skiff. The captain of the boy's boat does not let
him carry anything, yet Santiago let him carry things when the boy was just
five years old. That is how young the boy was when he first started his
"classes on fishing" as I would call them.
The boy loved Santiago with all of his heart. To prove this o ....
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: Twain Revealing His Own Childhood
1514 Words - 6 Pages.... on his boyhood freedom including school, church, and chores. Not only does he despise these restrictions, but he also will do anything to get out of them. For example, he skips school, and he cons friends into doing his chores for him. While he detests the restraints of life, he loves the liberating parts of life. He longs to take advantage of nature and all it has to offer. A quote from the book that exemplifies Tom Sawyer’s attitude toward life is when the author reveals his philosophy, “that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
The other characters in the story revolve around T ....
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Great Expectations: Self Conflict
532 Words - 2 Pages.... to London. Her rejection of him damages his
pride and esteem so much as to make him want to change his entire life and
character to meet her approval. At this point, he rejects the love that
those like Joe and Biddy offer, and feels he will not see himself as worthy,
unless he meets the approval of the cold and haughty miss Estella. This
powers him to accept an offer to become a gentleman, and to be taught in
London, where he starts to stray ever-farther from those who truly love him.
As Pip begins his progression toward being a gentleman, he is
faced with a world that appears frightening, a commercial world of
protocol and etiquette that Pip blindly sees as the answer ....
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The Great Gatsby - Tom Buchana
402 Words - 2 Pages.... he has received in life it does not reflect his image which is ugly.
People are constantly striving to be like him because of his social status. He is the apex of the society, a very powerful individual, with enormous wealth. He is openly aggressive towards people especially his wife whom he is abusive towards. He also shows abusive actions towards his mistress Myrtle when he meets with her in New York. Tom believes solely that he is more important than anyone else. He also has much hate towards Gatsby when he first meets him, since Tom is particularly jealous of Gatsby’s wealthiness over his own. We see his jealousy when he gets a favour from a friend in New York ....
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