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Papers on English
Their Eyes Were Watching God -
Number of words: 911 | Number of pages: 4.... a "lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been" (Hurston 20). This description of Logan's house seems symbolic of the relationship they have. Janie eventually admits to Nanny that she still does not love Logan and cannot find anything to love about him. "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (Hurston 24). Janie's prayer seems like her final plea for a change in her life. She says, "Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you" (Hurston 23).
Janie's prayer gets answered with her next husband, Jody S .....
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Ethan Frome 2
Number of words: 336 | Number of pages: 2.... other. Toward the end Ethan and Mattie decide that the only way that they could ever be together is in death itself. The weak attempt at death on top of everything left Mattie a quadriplegic and had to be spoon-fed for the rest of her life by Zeena.
Mattie was in a way, taken advantage of by Ethan. He made her sense that she was needed, which was something that she deserved, but after he found out that he couldn’t have what he wanted; he brainwashed her into thinking that that only way that they could be together is in death. And left them both disabled. .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 866 | Number of pages: 4.... the disapproval of many in town. The incident with Atticus preaching Aunt Alexandra's ideas made Scout feel overwhelmed and worried about what was happening to her father, but shortly after he restored her faith by telling her "I don't want you to remember it. Forget it" (Lee 134).
When Atticus made his stand against the mob at the courthouse, Scout and Jem learned about some of the group dynamics that affect many mobs and gangs. Scout knew Mr. Walter Cunningham to be a good man, one that her father approved of. Yet he was in the mob that was seeking to lynch Tom Robinson. As Atticus later explained to her, he was still a f .....
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Macbeth - Tragedy Or Satire
Number of words: 2072 | Number of pages: 8.... and song. Most important is the plot, the structure of the incidents. Tragedy is not an imitation of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato, that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A successful tragedy, then, exploits and appeals at the start to two basic emotions: fear and pity. Tragedy deals with the element of evil, with what we least want and most fear to face, and with what is destructive to human life and values. It also draws out our ability to .....
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One Big Happy Family
Number of words: 903 | Number of pages: 4.... bathroom with two doors, bedrooms surrounded by paper thin walls, and no bedroom doors. Also a glass panel window that was built into a wall that separated the living room from the kitchen. An added feature left behind from years of construction and now disregarded but adding to the overall character of the house. These unique fixtures and anomalies were what made the trip to the house worth the voyage each year from the city. They were thrust into an alien environment completely different from what they were used to. The whole house was set up with unspoken rules that they all abided by without question. The rooms were assi .....
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The Minister's Black Veil
Number of words: 650 | Number of pages: 3.... that he is hiding something that he doesn't want anyone to know about. Even his fiancé tries to get him to remove the horrid veil and he said he would when the hour is to come. He knows that everyone else should be wearing a black veil because they are all hiding their secret sin as well. Mr. Hooper feels that his secret sin is a very evil thing and he doesn't want anyone else to know about it.
The people in his congregation don't understand why he has to cover his face like that and they treat him a lot differently now just because he has the veil over his face. Mr. Hooper doesn't understand why his people would treat him an .....
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Julius Ceasar 3
Number of words: 539 | Number of pages: 2.... She was also understanding by knowing that Brutus was getting angry and not doing anything to make him angrier. She proved her strength and devotion by piercing her thigh and not expressing her pain. Portia was also a stoic because she did not show much emotion and she also did not express pain. She was a role model for women because she attempted to make her status with Brutus more equal have the relationship of husband and wife more close and together. She was much ahead of her time because women were not considered men's equals until the 20th century.
Calpurnia was the wife of Caesar. She ordered Caesar to stay home and .....
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Number of words: 1955 | Number of pages: 8.... the "u" from the original family name, but William Faulkner put it back) were one of the oldest and most distinguished families in town. Faulkner's mother, like Mrs. Compson, came from a family that was not quite as distinguished, and she never forgot it. But Faulkner's father, like Mr. Compson, was a hard-drinking, bitter man, who couldn't live up to his family's past.
Family, place, and past. These things were most important to William Faulkner. After he was five years old, he and his parents lived only a few blocks away from his grandfather's home, The Big Place. Faulkner's grandfather was a successful lawyer and businessman. .....
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A Dolls House
Number of words: 1501 | Number of pages: 6.... are some whimsical objects that delight her for one moment and bore her the next. She has no concept of how to raise children or how to be a mother at all. At the end of the play Nora admits to Helmer, “ . . . how am I equipped to bring up the children” (Ibsen 608). Nora is not allowed to control anything in her life. How can she possibly take care of children if she cannot even take care of herself? Her controlling husband has kept her ignorant in order to have power over her.
Furthermore, another occurrence in the play that exhibits Nora’s learned ignorance is the looming problem of the illegal loan that .....
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"Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
Number of words: 1042 | Number of pages: 4.... society, we should be teaching a multicultural curriculum.
At my high school, I feel as if I received this type of education. The
teachers encourage students to read not only standard English literature, but
also to study the great writers of other ethnicities. My high school is a
private college preparatory institution in San Francisco. Some authors whose
works we read in our English classes consisted of Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Jane
Austen, Ovid, Maya Angelou, Chaim Potok, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Chinua Achebe,
and C. S. Lewis.
This curriculum is not at all what Schlesinger claims to be the current
"Americ .....
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