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Beowulf 3
Number of words: 905 | Number of pages: 4.... his code of honor still obligates him to fight against an evil, fiery dragon. For fifty years he has governed his kingdom well. While Beowulf is governing, the dragon "...kept watch over a hoard, a steep stone-barrow" (Norton 55). Under it lays a path concealed from the sight of men. Over centuries no one had disturbed the dragons kingdom until one day when a thief broke into the treasure, laid
Hand on a cup fretted with gold this infuriated the dragon. "The fiery dragon had destroyed the people's stronghold, the land along the sea, the heart of the country" (Norton 57).
Wiglaf is the only person who stays with Beowulf to serv .....
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Animal Farm: Political Issues
Number of words: 1253 | Number of pages: 5.... also been known as a an enter-taining, witty tale of a
farm whose oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome a cruel
master and set up a revolutionary government(Meyers 103). On another, more
serious level, it is a political allegory, a symbolic tale where all the events
and characters represent events and characters in Russian history since
1917(Meyers 103).
Orwell uses actual historical events to construct Animal Farm, but
rearranges them to fit his plot. Manor Farm is Russia, Mr. Jones the Tsar, the
pigs the Bolsheviks who led the revolution. The humans represent the ruling
class, the animals the workers and th .....
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The Great Gatsby: Moral Decline Through The Interpersonal Relationships
Number of words: 408 | Number of pages: 2.... it. Gatsby wants Daisy, and Myrtle just
wants to be higher in society. Gatsby plays the god-like character in this
book so his means are good but both him and Myrtle do bad things to get
higher in a crowd that will never take them in. To make themselves appear
better to the other crowd, they lose some of the moral fiber that was there
to begin with. (Fitzgerald, -page 83) Loss of morals in the 1920' in
America caused the American dream to vanish. The god-like character of the
book was a good person but he did bad things like bootlegging and joining
in organized crime. Affairs happened in the elite crowd between Tom and
Myrtle. .....
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Blood Justice
Number of words: 1065 | Number of pages: 4.... on a jury when an African American was on trial. This defense tactic by Brown was a legally intelligent thing to do but this actually became the motive for the mob to kill Parker.
On Friday April 24th J.P. Walker, Preacher Lee, Crip Reyer and L.C. Davis got into Reyer’s Oldsmobile and they took off on a mission to kill Mark Charles Parker. (3 other cars of men followed) They went to the courthouse/jail in Poplarville and they could not get in. So they went to Jewel Alford’s House (The jail keeper) to get the keys to the Jail. Alford went with the four men to the courthouse. When he got there he went in and down the hall to S .....
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Lord Of The Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm Of Society
Number of words: 1923 | Number of pages: 7.... sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality
on the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the
portrayal of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to
what he called the destructive drive, the aggressiveness of self-ruin.
Jack's antithetical lack of compassion for nature, for others, and
ultimately for himself is thoroughly evidenced in his needless hunting, his
role in the brutal murders of Simon and Piggy, and finally in his burning
of the entire island, even at the cost of his own life.
In much the same way, Piggy's demeanor and very character links h .....
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Trainspotting: A Novel By Irvine Welsh
Number of words: 560 | Number of pages: 3.... or
Spud (as everyone calls him) is a habitual thief. His friend Simone is nicknamed
Sick Boy for good reasons. When he is high he hears voices in his head willing
him to do evil things. He likes to shoot dogs as their masters are taking them
for a walk, and he enjoys using women for nothing but sex.. Rents' date on
occasion, Hazel, was abused by her father when she was young, and she chooses to
shoot up to solve her problems. Rab McLaughlin, or Second Prize, drinks himself
into oblivion every chance he gets. Davie, a cousin of Renton's has recently
become HIV positive from a girl who was raped by a psychopath. Davie chooses to
ta .....
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“Pearl: The Scarlet Letter Endowed With Life”
Number of words: 1368 | Number of pages: 5.... Hester from death and Dimmesdale from eternal sorrow. It was Pearl who acts as a guardian angel to Hester and Dimmesdale. She both guides them and teaches them the true lessons of life.
In the beginning of The Scarlet Letter, the infant Pearl represents the immoral love affair between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. The whole town recognizes the fact that Hester had committed adultery because her husband had not been seen for over two years, and Hester had just bore a child who was only a few months old. When Hester walks to the scaffold, ready to pay for her crime, she realizes that the infant symbolizes her sin of adu .....
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My Son's Story
Number of words: 826 | Number of pages: 4.... working for a
human-rights organization. “It was then that it began, that it was
inescapable. Needing Hannah”(53). Sonny and Hannah share the same fierce
drive to end apartheid. They are fighting the same battle. She is his
understanding. With Hannah, Sonny feels “the ultimate joy of making love
with someone who, too, is in the battle, for whom the people in the battle
are her only family, her life, the happiness she understands”(67). Sonny's
wife Aila cannot possibly grasp what this cause means to him because she
isn't involved in the movement as he and Hannah are. Therefore he seeks
discernment with a woman who .....
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"The Hobbit"
Number of words: 830 | Number of pages: 4.... Bilb had answered his own question, when he
summoned the courage to save the dwarves from perils along the way, such as
goblins, giant spiders, and elven dugeons. He did this all with the help
of a Ring, enchanted to make the wearer invisible. "Bless my soul, a hobbit
CAN be useful!" But usefulness in itself does not a task complete. There
was still the fact that the dwarf's gold had not been claimed, and Smaug
still lay in the heart of the mountain. The band of travelers had crossed
much terrain, hills, mountains, swamps, and gloomy forests, including the
dark Mirkwood itself. Within these settings, conflicts with the ot .....
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Summary Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
Number of words: 1217 | Number of pages: 5.... crisis. They
also knew the more pickers they had the lower they could make their prices.
The number of handbills sent out far out numbered the number of jobs
available. Many people in the dust bowl were constructing a view of
California that was devastatingly false. However most of the people had to
go somewhere, and all they knew was agriculture, so the natural thing was
to go to the only place in the country at that time that was in pe ak
agricultural condition. This was all true in the case of the Joads. They
had no experience with any other kind of lifestyle. They were farmers and
they thought that was what they would rem .....
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