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Comparison Between Grapes Of W
Number of words: 860 | Number of pages: 4.... is the one who has cared most for her during her life; however, she considers him her worst enemy for keeping her son away from her. Her physical entrapment due to her behavior and actions, eventually lead to her death. Grampa is also physically trapped, because of his old age. His inability to move around freely has an impact on his lifestyle. Grampa is always trapped in his household and in the vehicle the family is travelling in to get to California. When he does not wish to travel, he is drugged and is forced to go on the journey. Now the entrapment can be seen in the truck; he is physically unable to do anything and ultima .....
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The Good Earth: Summary
Number of words: 1143 | Number of pages: 5.... (32). Soon later they had another son and a daughter. During this time, Wang Lung purchases some land from the House of Hwang, where O-lan was once a slave. With this extra land, he would be able to make enough silver from his next harvest to join both pieces of his land.
All hope ends once famine drives the family from their home and they end up on the streets in a city of southern China where they had to beg for just enough to feed themselves. His two sons are raised away from the land and exposed to life on this streets. The sons had less value for the land than their father. Wang Lung grew up with the land- being t .....
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Redemtion And Salvation In A T
Number of words: 1286 | Number of pages: 5.... begins when he is imprisoned unjustly for eighteen years. The solitary time spent in the prison waiting for his certain death is so excruciating it makes Manette go insane. When Dr. Manette is finally released he does not even know his own name: "one hundred and five north tower" (Dickens p 37) is all he says when asked. Mr. Lorry and Lucie Manette have the emotional stressful task of restoring Dr. Manette back to health: "to restore him to life, love, duty, rest, comfort" (Dickens p 22). It took more than five years for Mr. Lorry and Lucie to reinstate Dr. Manette's health and even still he has a lot of trouble dealing with f .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Alienation
Number of words: 1280 | Number of pages: 5.... the delicate toil of the needle," but she feels she
does not deserve the gratification. Though sewing could be "soothing, the
passion of her life …Like all other joys, she rejected it as a
sin." Hester no longer feels worthy to wear the finery she is capable of
sewing for herself. All of the "gorgeously beautiful" things she has "a
taste for" are sold to others, they "found nothing… in…her life to
exercise [themselves] upon." Instead of applying her time towards "the
better efforts of her art", which she would enjoy, she employs in
"making coarse garments for the poor" in order to repent for her sin.
Hes .....
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Summary Of Wuthering Heights
Number of words: 371 | Number of pages: 2.... both Thrushcross
Grange and the story's namesake Wuthering Heights.
When Heathcliff died, I imagine that he was very sad that his plan
did not work out. I'm sure he would have changed his ways if he knew the
outcome. Or maybe not. Maybe he would have taken great pleasure in
knowing that he created a hellacious time for his victims. Maybe he would
have loved knowing that people hated him. In that respect, I think he
suffers from George Wallace disease.
In closing, Heathcliff had a rough and tumble childhood. He faced
many problems when his sweetheart married his half-brother. He plotted
revenge on his enemies, cousins an .....
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The Sword In The Stone: Kay Gets What He Deserves
Number of words: 432 | Number of pages: 2.... to Kay and although he may not
have been superior to Kay, he certainly had a better personality and was
kinder than Kay. With Merlyn's `education', the Wart learned not only how
to lead well, but also to be a better person, and Merlyn taught him much
about how to treat other people with respect and to relate better with them.
When the Wart meets Robin Wood and Maid Marion, he learns through Marion
that women are no different to men and should be treated equally. He is
also taught the pointlessness of violence when he requests a joust between
Sir Grummore and King Pellinore. Before the joust, Wart thinks that it is
noble and bra .....
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Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor
Number of words: 1497 | Number of pages: 6.... religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with his proposed futuristic culture. But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of various methods of escape from reality is shown to be a path to discovery. In Brave New World, the main characters of Bernard Marx and the "Savage" boy John both come to realize the faults with their own cultures. In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag begins to discover that th .....
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Life Experiences In Farewell T
Number of words: 1175 | Number of pages: 5.... at Manzanar dealt with the issues of her identity of an American against her Japanese heritage, and also with school.
During her time at Manzanar, Jeannie was surrounded by almost exclusively Japanese people, and did not have much exposure to Caucasians, or people of other races. Therefore, she did not know what to truly expect when she went out into the “school world” outside of Manzanar. She had received some schooling while in Manzanar, however, the American schools were drastically different from the schools inside of Manzanar. While inside Manzanar, Jeannie learned more skills in the fine arts, such as baton twirling, .....
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Great Expectations: Self Conflict
Number of words: 532 | Number of pages: 2.... 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 to the
shortcomings he sees in himself. He meets a man by the name of Magwitch,
who he immediately refuses to see as anything but a cold criminal, one
inadequate by his new-found standards. He would later review these
feelings and see that underneath the petty judgement Pip gives to the man,
there rests a caring man, that Pip comes to respect. This revelation would
surface again in the third stage. .....
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Similarities And Differences Between The Bridges Of Madison County And The Storm
Number of words: 1190 | Number of pages: 5.... Franchesca, and Richard Johnson had two children, Michael, and Carolyn. “The Storm” involved one married couple, Calixta and Bobinot, they to had children but only one, named Bibi. In both of the stories, there was a man who interrupted the day to day life of the two wives. In “The Bridges”, the man’s name was Richard Kincaidj, a photographer for National Geographic, and in “The Storm, the man’s name man involved was Alcee’. In “The Bridges”, Franchesca was an educated woman, she had been an English teacher before she married Richard. In contrast, Calixta was portrayed as an uneducated woman. between Cali .....
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