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The Chosen, By Chaim Potok
Number of words: 1155 | Number of pages: 5.... earlocks, grows a beard, and wears the traditional Hasidic outfit, but he doesn't have the reverence for it that he should. Danny is a genius. His religion forbids him to read literature from the outside world, so he struggles with his thirst for knowledge and the restraints that have been put on him by both his father and his religion. He lives with his father, mother, older sister, and younger brother in Brooklyn as well. The first antagonist is Danny. He and Reuven had many difficulties. They resolve their problems in the course of the book, but at the beginning they hate each other. Their religious views are also very opposit .....
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Brave New World 3
Number of words: 1170 | Number of pages: 5.... and cloning closely parallel the process of giving birth in the Brave New World. In Brave New World, people are born artificially in test tubes. Everyone is condidtioned to be the same: to share the same characteristics, their way of thinking, and their ideas. People who claimed individual thought against the community- such as Bernard in the beginning of the novel- were considered to have a defect from a lab mistake during birth, and were ostracized from the community, until they conditioned themself to think like the rest of the community. Scientific development in both genetical engineering and cloning, have made the i .....
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Edgar Allan Poe And The Raven
Number of words: 2113 | Number of pages: 8.... the point of insanity (see Appendix R) (Decoder, Internet).
The feeling of lost love portrayed in the poem might have reflected the
death of Poe’s wife, Virginia, in 1847 (Qrisse, Internet). As it is read, a
definite rhyme scheme is present: internal rhyme in the first and third line,
and end rhymes in lines two, four, and five. All eighteen stanzas of the poem
are arranged like this, but Poe never makes it seems unexciting or
repetitious. Probably the most noticeable and most brilliant aspect of “The
Raven” is it’s saturation of symbolism. The raven (see Appendix R) itself is
the main symbol, r .....
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Machismo In One Hundred Years
Number of words: 1131 | Number of pages: 5.... of Solitude". Machismo is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as: "exaggeratedly assertive manliness; a show of masculinity." Colonel Aureliano Buendia best exemplifies this definition. Marquez uses the Colonel's amoral, irrational actions and behaviour to reveal the terrible consequences of machismo.
Aureliano inquires about sexual activity at a very young age. He begins to gradually comprehend what his older brother is experiencing wiht Pilar Ternera. Of course it is only human nature for young Aureliano to let curiosity overcome him and to ask questions, especially having an older brother whom he admires and respects as a role mo .....
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A Worn Path
Number of words: 1158 | Number of pages: 5.... what she has. Although she is old, she has extremely dark hair, wears a red bandana, and has much “life” within her:
Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden color
ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under the bark. (87)
It is almost as if she is a part of nature herself, when Eudora Welty describes her as having a tree within her forehead. She is a very lively person, and is willing to go through this obstacle course of vicissitudes of the cold earth: .....
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The Theme Of Catch 22
Number of words: 1345 | Number of pages: 5.... though in remote instinctive distress and kept repeating ‘Illegal Tobacco, Illegal Tobacco” (Heller 421). This obsession with profit comes up as a major theme throughout the Bible and the book of Job is not an exception. Job’s friends bring up several times that if Job was less greedy maybe he would not be stricken with such a terrible plight. Job’s friend tells him “The heavens will reveal his sins, and the earth will give testimony against him. Hi wealth will disappear beneath the wrath of God. This is what awaits the wicked man, for God prepares it for him.” (Job 27:20-29). Although it is not revealed what beco .....
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The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
Number of words: 7517 | Number of pages: 28.... Banner." And Edward Fitzgerald, Scott's father, was a handsome, charming man, but one who seemed more interested in the family name than in hard work.
The McQuillan and the Fitzgerald in Scott vied for control throughout his childhood. He was a precocious child, full of energy and imagination, but he liked to take short cuts, substituting flights of fantasy for hard work. On his seventh birthday in 1903 he told a number of the older guests that he was the owner of a yacht (perhaps the seeds of Gatsby's admiration for Dan Cody's yacht in the novel). As an adolescent he loved to play theatrical games--pretending to be drunk on a s .....
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Man Is Evil The Lord Of The Fl
Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3.... back to school it’s all around school it would be nearly the same thing.
There is another passage from this book that may help prove that man is naturally evil. It reads, “…“I’ve got the conch, Ralph thinks you’re all a bunch of cowards, running away from the boar and the beast. And that’s not all.” There was a kinda sigh on the platform as if everyone knew what was coming. Jack’s voice went up; tremulous yet determined, pushing against the unco-operative silence. “He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.” Jack clutched the co .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 1066 | Number of pages: 4.... Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that she wrongfully
treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree. She never gave
anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout escorts Arthur
home and stands on his front porch, she sees the same street she saw, just
from an entirely different perspective. Scout learns what a Mockingbird is,
and who represents one.
Arthur Radley not only plays an important role in developing Scout
and Jem, but helps in developing the novel. Boo can be divided into three
stages. Primitively, Boo is Scout’s worst nightmare. However, the author
hints at Boo actually exi .....
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The Parable
Number of words: 691 | Number of pages: 3.... Lee Pai, for help. Lee Pai tells Rosemary he is sorry but he can't help her. Not knowing what else she can do, Rosemary goes back to Sven for help. She spends the night with him and the next day he takes her across the river. Rosemary and Hernando are then together at last. The evening before their wedding, Rosemary feels the need to tell
Hernando what she had to do to get across the river. When she tells Hernando, he is very hurt and upset. He calls the wedding off and "banishes Rosemary as a soiled woman" (). Rosemary is very distraught over this and turns to John (an acquaintance) for a little comfort. After hearing her .....
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