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Frankenstein
Number of words: 880 | Number of pages: 4.... acts of violence to compensate for its mistreatment. At "birth," when the first spark of life shot through the creature, there is an apparent natural love and respect for the creator. Victor, on the other hand, fled in disgust at first sight of " the miserable monster which I have created"(57)and hoped to never see it again. But like a child, 's monster returned expecting to be accepted: " And his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks...one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me"(57). Despite the initial desertion by i .....
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The Sound And The Fury: Caroline Compson Focused Directly Upon Appearances
Number of words: 834 | Number of pages: 4.... it is,
Dilsey said. He aint wore out the name
he was born with yet, is he. Benjamin
came out of the bible, Caddy said. It's a
better name for him than Maury was."(Faulkner 58)
Mrs. Compson felt that Benjy did not deserve the family name of Maury. In her eyes he was not her son. She found it impossible to love a feeble child.
Caroline Compson's fixation upon sound and appearance led to the death of Quentin. She forced Harvard upon her son. Mrs. Compson felt that she would be looked upon as an important person if she could say her son attended Harvard. She had no concerns over what effects sending Quentin to Harva .....
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Gawain And Roland
Number of words: 869 | Number of pages: 4.... particularly bright. Roland had the same type of problem. His honor
also got him to into trouble. One perfect example of this was when Roland
made his Uncle Ganelon so angry by antagonizing him that Ganelon used
Roland's concept of honor to make Roland take the rear guard and be
slaughtered. Roland antagonized Ganelon by saying: "Quoth Roland: ‘
Ganelon my step she is the man" (SOR, ln.229) Roland also felt honor bound
not to call for reinforcements against the pagan horde until almost every
single one of the knights were dead. "Companion Roland, your Olifant now
sound! King Charles will hear and turn his armies round; .....
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1984: The Party Has Many Slogans
Number of words: 1818 | Number of pages: 7.... The people are supposed to
feel more comfortable with a ruling party that is just like them. The billboard
is also found on every landing and every streetcorner. The overbearing number
of posters is a way for the Party to continuously remind its citizens of its
presence and ingrain the message into the people's conscience and subconscience
minds.
"Big Brother" is another name for the Party. It's an ironic choice of
words for the Party's second name. First, the notion of a “big brother”
connotes a child's big brother. One thinks of comfort and protection, fun and
trouble, and love and other feelings when thinking .....
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Symbolism- The Chrysanthemums
Number of words: 447 | Number of pages: 2.... if Elisa was to leave the valley, like the Chrysanthemums, she would be dumped out on the "road of life"
The chrysanthemums are the most powerful symbol in the story. Not only do the flowers represent motherhood for Elisa, they also represent her womanhood. Elisa isn't described as being a very feminine woman. Steinbeck instead uses the word "strong" to describe her. All of her surroundings such as the house and the valley are also described as being very stark. The only colorful thing in the story are the flowers. It is obvious that the symbolism of the flowers is encompassing of Elisa's whole livelihood: her own mother's "garde .....
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The Quest Of A Hemingway Hero
Number of words: 1560 | Number of pages: 6.... a priest because he
admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle. He is told by the priest to go to Abruzzi, there in the mountains he can relax and forget about theworries of war. But Fredrick is
hardheaded and listens to his friends and decides to go to Naples, there he
drinks and travels from one house of prostitution to another and yet he is
discontent because his life is very unsettled. This vacation was his free
ticket out of the war but Fredrick does not realize nor understand how bad
this war is. He decides to return due to his pride and patriotism. .....
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The Scarlet Ibis
Number of words: 410 | Number of pages: 2.... example is at the end of
the story when Doodle and his brother were running to the house during a
thunderstorm. Doodle's brother was far ahead and just let his brother behind
like he did not care about him. Doodle's brother then hears Doodle scream,
"Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!" Doodle's brother kept on
running until he became too tired to run. He stopped and waited for Doodle, but
nobody came. He then ran back and found Doodle under a bush. Doodle was dead.
This shows how selfish and mean Doodle's brother was to Doodle. He worked
Doodle hard just so friends would not make fun of him. Doodle's br .....
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Willy Loman’s Struggle With The American Dream
Number of words: 1265 | Number of pages: 5.... having a functional family,
and discovering happiness in each of those categories. Those components of
the American Dream were not found in Willy Loman’s life. Willy’s life
lacked happiness. The only time Willy remembered happiness in his life was
when his boys were young, even then he was not completely happy. “Remember
those two beautiful elm trees out there? When I and Biff hung the swing
between them?”(Miller 17) Willy was always reminiscing about the past in
his flashbacks. His flashbacks proved his unhappiness. Willy had flashbacks
about his affair with another woman. “Whyn’t you have another drink, honey,
and s .....
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Scales Of Justice
Number of words: 388 | Number of pages: 2.... with it. While Webber and Borland were on duty, the saw a moving car collide with a parked car, and Webber was told to do a U-turn. This was because if they caught the guy that did it, they would have to do several hours of paperwork. There was also a scene in the show when Borland told Webber about a time he found a corpse in a river, and they dumped in back inside because it would be too much of a hassle dealing with it.
Accepting kickbacks is another small manner of corruption that occur in the police force. Sergeant O’Rourke influenced a lady to choose a funeral parlour, while she was mourning and unstable. He would t .....
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The Joy Luck Club: Differences Between Generations
Number of words: 688 | Number of pages: 3.... people’s misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to keep any family members’ promise. Instead of their daughters, who "can promise to come to dinner, but if she wants to watch a favorite movie on TV, she no longer has a promise" (p. 42), "To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn’t real gold . . . [my bracelets] must be twenty-four carats, pure inside and out." (p. 42)
Towards the end of the book, t .....
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