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An Analysis On "Araby"
Number of words: 615 | Number of pages: 3.... to her ... and yet her name was like a
summons to my foolish blood. (4)” He feels ashamed and ridiculed by his
earlier inability to communicate with Mangan's sister. He sees how
distracted he was by his anticipation of the bazaar. He recalls that he “
had hardly any patience with the serious work of life. (12)” The narrator
is embarrassed by the time he had wasted, and the ease with which he became
distracted. The near total worthlessness of the bazaar at the time the
narrator arrives is an extreme example of vanity. Not only does the
narrator feel ridiculed by the vanity involved in this situation, he also
feels .....
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3.... deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his
interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and
Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating.
Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then
married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy
back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted. He
found out that Daisy .....
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A Separate Peace: Gene And Finny's Relationship
Number of words: 573 | Number of pages: 3.... emotionally attached. After Finny's first accident, the relationship grows stronger. "Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas."
Gene begins to feel that Phineas is part of him. "Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies...that way he, the great athlete, would be way ahead of me." In Chapter four, Gene's doubts of Finny's loyalty and concern for him surface, causing Gene to push Finny away and despise him. A later realization restor .....
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The Old Man And The Sea: Isolation
Number of words: 2132 | Number of pages: 8.... his one bed, one table, one chair, and
his wife's picture that he did not stand to look at so he took it down. At
the same time the open door takes us through the old man's mind showing his
hope that someone will stop by his cottage some day and come in without
knocking.
Another incident that shows the isolation of the old man is the Terrace.
The terrace is a place that shows how other fishermen treat the old man and
make him feel as a stranger among them. The narrator of the novel supports
this idea when he says: " They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen
made fun of the old man and he was not angry." ( P 11)
The young .....
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The Crucible: Summary
Number of words: 391 | Number of pages: 2.... and petty.Instead Paris is also a selfcentered and greedy " don't a minister deserve a house to live in"(30)
Lastly, Abigail wants revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. In Act one, for example Betty tells Abigsil " you drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife" (19). Also Abby displanp her revenge on Elizabeth by making a puppet. Marry makes a puppet while in court and she sticks a niddle in the doll. Marry gives the doll to Elizabeth as a gift, and then one evening at dinner Abby sits down to eat ang drops to the floor, and cries of pain in her belly. She say's " it fell's like a niddle poking me and it's Elizabeth whose doing it" but .....
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Hemmingway-hills Like White El
Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3.... del Toro) in the two peoples relationship.
This story also gives you images of the happenings going on in the story. “The station between two lines of rails” gave you the image of a choice of which track or option in life they were going to take. Were they going to go the one direction and get the abortion (as planned) or were they going to choose the other track, keep the baby and go home. Hemingway also uses images to tell you the choice they make. When it says “he picked up the two heavy bags and carried them around the station to the other tracks” it is telling you that they changed their minds, .....
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Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 709 | Number of pages: 3.... farm
(eventhough he was already set free by Miss Watson's will). Huck Finn
changes as we go through the story because Jim is really almost his
slave and he grows to like having Jim wait on him.
In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain depicts Southern life and society
in the 1870's. The main point that Twain makes is that Southern life
is not as glorious as it's made out to be. We can tell this be several
ironies between the way Southern life was depicted and the way Twain
describes them. One of the ironies is that plantation owners were
supposed to be like kings, but Twain takes one of these "kings",
Colonel S .....
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Abortion In Toni Morrison's Beloved
Number of words: 1352 | Number of pages: 5.... hiding and being on the run plays tricks on the
mind of slaves. Shown by Paul D in his most discouraging conflict comes in
contact with a rooster, Mister. Humiliated by the fact that an animal was
walking around with more power, he doesn't understand how an animal can
have a better life, and place judgement on a human.
During the time of slavery the love between a mother and her
children dims. Through scars mothers and children were to have secret
relationships. In Sethe's only memory of her mother she was introduced to
a scar underneath her breast which could always identify her mother. After
her mother was hung, Sethe did .....
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Irony In 1984
Number of words: 421 | Number of pages: 2.... completely watches over every move a person makes keeping them controlled with fear.
The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the opposite of what was thought. One example of this is Winston's general health. From the beginning of the book, it is shown how horrible his health is and is continually getting worse and more difficult, but as Winston gets involved with Julia then he begins a metamorphosis into a more healthy person. Another major example is the betrayal of many of the people whom Winston thought were his friends, suc .....
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The Infinity Mirror
Number of words: 716 | Number of pages: 3.... transforms into a
disadvantaged who has been gifted with talent. Tularecito becomes a man at
the age of six, "The boy grew rapidly, but after the fifth year his brain
did not grow any more," To Franklin, Tularecito is grace, and graceless.
He is talented in all things of any physical strength, and well proficient
in the creation of beauty, and an artist in the care for life of nature.
The touch of Tularecito brings beauty, and life, and love to the world,
until he becomes enraged, (should anyone endanger what came from the touch
of his hand). Franklin looked into Tularecito's mirror and saw what
Tularecito was.
Authority vie .....
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