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Things Fall Apart
Number of words: 1711 | Number of pages: 7.... villagers become convinced that the new religion has some sort of magical power, and this weakens their confidence in their own culture.
Once again, racism pervades the novel, with the intrusion of the missionaries into the lives of the villagers. The weakening ties in the village are reflected in the story of Okonkwo and his family. Nwoye's conversion to the white religion fills Okonkwo with uncontrollable
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anger because he is a man who must be obeyed. For the first time Okonkwo is faced with a threat to his very system of belief. “To abandon the gods of one's father and go about with a lot of effeminate men clucking .....
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Frankenstein: Good And Bad Choices
Number of words: 540 | Number of pages: 2.... the
rest of his life. When Zeus finds out that Prometheus has stolen his fire,
he took Prometheus to a top of a mountain and chains him to the mountain.
Every day an eagle comes down and rips him open and eats his insides.
During the night Prometheus would recover during the night.
After Victor Frankenstein created his being, he called it pure evil,
but in reality, Victor made his being evil. When Prometheus opens the box
that his bother sends to him (Pandora's box) he lets out all the evil
things that corrupt the world.
Frankenstein can be compared to Prometheus. Both Frankenstein and
Prometheus made things that undoughtily w .....
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The Time Machine
Number of words: 604 | Number of pages: 3.... you think. We picture the future as very advanced and evolved with much more technology than we have now. But in this novel, the reader can see that the progress of mankind could almost go in a cycle. We start off at a low level and as a species, we grow and evolve becoming more advanced. We can only reach a certain peak before we go back down again, which is what happened to the Eloi and the Morlocks. It is interesting to note that technology is not what saved the Time Traveller from these future people. It was fire. Fire scared and killed the Morlocks. In this future, there is no sign of knowledge and what was learned in all of .....
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1984: The Party's Control Over The Thoughts
Number of words: 1077 | Number of pages: 4.... 9).
Oceania has no courts or prisons, only the Thought Police and Ministry of Love. The Thought Police serve to help the party maintain the strictest level of orthodoxy among its followers, and further contribute to the loss of juridical rights, for as O'Brien eventually explains to Winston, "The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about" (Orwell 209). The doctrine crimestop indicates the degree to which the definition of crime no longer encompasses action: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as thought by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought...(it means) protective .....
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Neighborhood Shock
Number of words: 1050 | Number of pages: 4.... or anger, that accompanies working in an alien society. One feels trapped in an absurd and indecipherable nightmare" (72). I also think this is a great example of what Barnlund refers to as "interpersonal understanding" (68), the desire of people to associate with others that share the same views as themselves and who express themselves in similar ways. I think the significance of this scene is the way it shows people still feeling isolated and alone in an unfamiliar culture even though there are others right next to them suffering from the same depression. It is the failure to communicate with those around them that keeps pe .....
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Rand's "Anthem"
Number of words: 583 | Number of pages: 3.... into the
forest, and the first sign of forbidden love is shown when "we bent to
raise the Golden One to their feet, but when we touched them, it was as if
madness had stricken us. We seized their body and we pressed our lips to
theirs."
Equality is excited with the joy of learning when he finishes his work
of building a light bulb. "WE MADE IT. WE CREATED IT. We brought it forth
from the night of the ages. We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone
and only. We know not what we are saying. Our head is reeling." The
emotion shown by Equality after having just built the light bulb is pride
and happiness because he has ju .....
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Lord Of The Flies; Jack Is A Devil
Number of words: 397 | Number of pages: 2.... acts. Jack is evil because of him being always murderous. He is
always wanting to hunt things and not care what happens to the animal.
Once he gets incharge of his own group he paints his face and his red hair
make him look like the devil. He uses threating comments to get other
people join his group. And he goes on savage acts like going and beating
up Ralph and Piggy for Piggy's glasses. Jack is always bulling his way
through all the boys like he forces Piggy to give him Piggy's glasses.
Jack is evil like when he sees that it is beginning to get dark and he
unexpectedly orders the tribe to do its dance. All the boys leap up .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage: Fear Of First Battle
Number of words: 522 | Number of pages: 2.... When he is in the first battle he tries to run but is caught by an officer and made to go back and fight. His attitude changed from being confident to being scard of fighting.
Jim conklin is also a soldier in the 304th regiment who talks with Henry and tom. When Conklin was talking to Henry and Wilson about how they felt about fighting their first battle, he says that he will run if he sees everyone else running. He is the only one to admit to everyone that he is scared about fighting. He is also the only one not to run away from the first battle even though other people were. When Henry sees him walking in the road after the wa .....
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Crime And Punishment In Wuther
Number of words: 487 | Number of pages: 2.... owner of the Heights. Heathcliff also trespassed when he imprisoned Catherine upon her visits to his son Linton. He coerced her into marrying Linton while her own father was dying, and so gained ownership of Thrushcross Grange as well as the Heights.
These corporeal sins are not without their spiritual counterparts. One of the most prevalent crimes committed in the novel is not by Heathcliff, but against him. Partly influenced by her stay at the Linton’s, Cathy (Earnshaw) sees Heathcliff as lower than herself, and that “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him.” This hars .....
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The Old Man And The Sea
Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3.... a fish of enormous size. He could not pull it up because it was so strong. He had to hold onto it until the fish was tired and decided to come up. Then when it would come up, he would take his harpoon and stab it in the heart so it would die. This fish was taking all the strength out of him and it was pulling his skiff farther and farther out. Now he wished that the boy was here with him to help
him pull it up. It was 3 days later until he finally got the fish to jump out of the water. When it did he saw that it was the biggest marlin he ever saw. To regain strength and pull the fish in, he had to eat the bonita that he c .....
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