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Great Gatsby Party Comparison
Number of words: 762 | Number of pages: 3.... garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys..."(p. 44) A full scale orchestra provides music all night for the hundreds of guests, laughing and dancing.
A second variation between Myrtle and Gatsby, is their class of wealth. Myrtle is from the "valley of ashes," but she is continually trying to live the life of the rich. She is obsessed with money and admits to losing interest in her husband after learning "He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in..."(p. 39) because he didn't have one of his own. Myrtle also complains about the " .....
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On As I Lay Dying
Number of words: 995 | Number of pages: 4.... comments and thoughts like Cora's, he just simply stated the events as he viewed them. Previously Anse Bundren said "We be beholden to no man ...never yet been, " page 19. However, Tull says "Like most folks around here I done holp him so much already I can't quit now," page 32. So from Tull the fact that Anse is total dependant on others is revealed.
Also, during one of Cora's narrations she makes a key observation about the relationship between Addie, and her two sons, Darl and Jewel. Cora says that Addie was always partial to Jewel, "but that it was between her and Darl that the understanding and the true love was." page .....
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Candide's Constant Search For Satisfaction
Number of words: 720 | Number of pages: 3.... then hung, the Baron went from a man of great standing to a slave, and Cunégonde was forced into slavery as well. Candide's search for freedom ends up getting him in a great deal of trouble everywhere he goes. From Lisbon to Cadiz to Eldorado to Surinam to Bordeaux to Portsmouth to Venice and many other unknown lands, Candide finds nothing but trouble. At the conclusion of Candide's adventures, he is reunited with his close friends whom he never thought he would see again. They end up living together, despite many misfortunes, and prospered only after they started working again to make life better for each other.
Throughout .....
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
Number of words: 878 | Number of pages: 4.... is another symbol Hawthorne uses. Like the prison, it also symbolizes sin and guilt. “The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made
manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron” (60). It provides the setting of several important scenes in the novel. It is where Hester is forced to stand for three hours as punishment, where Dimmesdale, Pearl, and Hester stand in the night, and where Dimmesdale reveals himself and dies. It is also a symbol of truth because Dimmesdale’s great revelation occurred there.
The second setting is the forest just outside of the town. It proves to be a kind of dramatic foil to the i .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 4
Number of words: 993 | Number of pages: 4.... of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marries someone who can provide wealth, property, and security to his wife. Nanny knew nothing about love since she never experienced it. She regarded that matter as unnecessary for her as well as for Janie. And for that reason, when Janie was about to enter her womanhood in searching for that love, Nanny forced her to marry Mr. Logan Killicks, a much older man that can offer Janie the protection and security, plus a sixty-acre potato farm. Although Janie in her heart never approves what her Nanny forced her to do .....
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Moby Dick: Moral Ambiguity
Number of words: 1349 | Number of pages: 5.... the reader.
Ultimately, it is the dichotomy between the respective fortunes of Ishmael and Ahab that the reader is left with. Herein lies a greater moral ambiguity than is previously suggested. Although Ishmael is the sole survivor of the Pequod, it is notable that in his own way, Ahab fulfills his desire for revenge by ensuring the destruction of the White Whale alongside his own end. Despite the seeming superiority of Ishmael’s destiny, Melville does not explicitly indicate so. On the contrary, he subtly suggests that Ishmael’s survival is lonely and empty upon being rescued: "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her r .....
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Native Sun: Themes Of Racism, Violence, And Social Injustice
Number of words: 777 | Number of pages: 3.... about blacks, and would probably accuse them of
many more crimes. Luckily for Bigger, though, the Relief Agency did find
him a job with the Daltons. When Bigger went to the Daltons house for the
first time, he brought his gun, because it made him feel equal to the white
people.
When Bigger got to the Daltons house, he didn't know whether to enter
the house by the front or back door. He looks for a way to the back, and
realizes the only way in is through the front door. As he rang the doorbell,
he felt very disturbed. And when he started talking to Mr. Dalton, Mr.
Dalton asks Bigger about his past crimes, which made Bigger .....
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Stephen Kings' It
Number of words: 791 | Number of pages: 3.... "You are not real".Etc.Bill who is
George's brother is asking Richie,another survivor,if he would come with
him to the an old house with him.He agrees and brings sneezing powder and
Bill brings a gun and a sling shot.They crawl under the porch and through
the window into the ancient house.They stay together and meet the clown he
has changed into a leper and is coming towards them.Bill shoots but it
doesn't affect the monster.The leper grabs Bill and start choking him.Then
Richie blared at it one of his voice imitations.That made the creature turn
away and let go of Bill.They both then scrambled out of the house and into
the fr .....
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The Crucible: The Evil Of Fear
Number of words: 577 | Number of pages: 3.... leads him
to early, not fully thought out conclusions. Hale is determined to end the
alignments these witches have with the Devil, and he knows the court is too.
Later, Hale's views on the courts change and he becomes less obedient to
it's decisions. When the judge finds out that John Proctor, an accused witch,
plows on the Sabbath, he becomes disgusted; but Hale questions his authority.
"Your Honor, I cannot think that you may judge the man on such evidence." (p.78)
Hale is slowly starting to see how much authority the judges have that they do
not deserve. He is becoming doubtful in their decisions. Hale, seeing the .....
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On The Road - The Role Of Wome
Number of words: 545 | Number of pages: 2.... little Mexican wench and I told her so” (p. 80) This quote makes clear Sal’s intentions with this woman, and also the fact that he is somewhat racist. Then when Sal gets a job working in the fields with Terry, it’s as if he views it all as a camping trip, or even an experiment, to possibly further himself spiritually.
“There was a bed, a stove, and a cracked mirror hanging from a pole. It was delightful" (p. 96) Notice the way Sal makes light of their circumstances. He does not appear to even consider Terry’s poor situation, and that she always has to live like this. Sal was just with her for the ex .....
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