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Great Expectations 3
Number of words: 1075 | Number of pages: 4.... acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of manners, religion, and education that the Widow and her sister impose upon him. Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom is a boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life of adventure. Huck is eager to join Tom Sawyer .....
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The Glass Menagerie 2
Number of words: 475 | Number of pages: 2.... of society as a whole than personal happiness. However to a single person, happiness generally seems to be more important than responsibility. An unhappy person that spends their entire life being burdened by the responsibility of another person might as well be a slave.
In the case of Tom Wingfield, leaving his family's home in search of happiness was an appropriate and understandable action. This is because his mother was so unrealistic in her expectations of him as well as extremely critical that it was self-destructive for him to stay in such an environment for any longer. His sister Laura was around twenty-four years old a .....
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The Times They Are A Changin
Number of words: 551 | Number of pages: 3.... indicates a stronger will and mind set. “For he that gets hurt/Will be he who is stalled,” illustrates that if there is resistance to young people’s ideas against the war in Vietnam, the idea of free love and the distaste for accepted social structures, that peace may not be an option. Dylan goes as far as to say “There’s a battle outside/And its ragin/it’ll soon shake your windows/and rattle your walls.” These stanzas are not literal in the sense of war, but lends emphasis to the will of the revolutionist’s idea. Change will come; the battle is seen between good and bad, yin and .....
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Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People
Number of words: 1605 | Number of pages: 6.... and slaughtered Job's cattle. He then cursed Job with
painful boils all over his skin, so to make his every movement filled with
excruciating pain. Many times Job's wife asked him why he didn't just
curse God, and ensue Gods wrath to strike him dead. Job's friends told him
to denounce his faith in God, after all look where it got him. Yet Job
remained faithful to God's will. When God saw how devoted and trustworthy
this humble servant was to him, he appeared to Job and rewarded him with a
new home, new children, and a new fortune. God came through for a servant
who was faithful and true. Most people in this situation w .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 1392 | Number of pages: 6.... Rose met at the nursing home whose only communication was spelling words. After meeting this patient, Rose dreamed that Flo was in a cage and spelling words like the old patient she met in the nursing home. Rose tells Flo about her visit to the nursing home and is obviously trying to influence Flo into going to the home. Flo is suffering from some sort of dementia, perhaps Alzheimer's. In this story the author doesn't tell the characters ages, Rose's occupation, and other information necessary to develop a clear picture. Instead, Munro makes the reader use more of ones imagination in developing the story. Although Munro is n .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bird Movie R
Number of words: 361 | Number of pages: 2.... are not as strongly expressed. Boo Radley does not seem to be as bad in the book as he is in the movie. In conclusion, the reason why the movie is not as detailed as the book is because there are just too many important details to cover and so the movie does not add the insignificant events. Also, the orders of events are different because many things will not go as smoothly if events do not switch places. Moreover, the events or characteristics of the characters are not as detailed in the movie because the movie is rushed. There is a limit of time in the movie while in the book, it doesn't matter how many details are wr .....
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Naturalism In "The Open Boat"
Number of words: 1454 | Number of pages: 6.... of view. The story is somewhat based on one of Crane's actual life experiences. In Crane's Life and Times, Crews states, " The Open Boat is almost a factual account of Crane's experience, but is also a work of art whose place among the best American short stories is secure" (125). With the story being told through the correspondent's point of view the story gives Crane an advantage to be very descriptive. In Stephen Crane's: Naturalist and Impressionist, Walcutt says, "Crane's writings on naturalism are very descriptive to his readers" (215).
Another important aspect of realism in, "The Open Boat," is the location of the .....
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Of Mice And Men
Number of words: 780 | Number of pages: 3.... their farm. The men are always picking on Crooks and Curley's wife threatens to have him hung all the time. The boss is always taking his anger out on him. Curley's wife is young, beautiful and very lonely. She is the only female on the ranch and she teases the men to amuse herself. Her husband considers her nothing more than an object. Her dreams were one day to become an actress; instead she manied Curley because she had no way to support herself. I believe the most important character in the book is George Milton. He took the responsibility upon himself to look after Lennie and that in itself is a job. George is always trying t .....
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Regret Or Apology?
Number of words: 1080 | Number of pages: 4.... Erich
Segal got it exactly wrong. Love doesn't mean never having to say you're
sorry. Love means being able to say you're sorry..., being strong enough
to admit you were at fault." Tannen boldly stated (109). I agree with her,
I don't think that saying you're sorry and admitting you were wrong makes
you weak at all. In my family I was taught that admitting that you were
wrong made you a stronger, better person. Not everyone was raised the same
way I was, in a household of nothing but women, so I guess that that is one
possible reason men may find it hard to admit guilt.
Why does it seem to be more of a task for men, we .....
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Courage Under Fire
Number of words: 1942 | Number of pages: 8.... the military ethos and its effect on many individuals.
The movie begins as many war films have, on the battlefield. Lieutenant Colonel Nat Serling (Denzel Washington) finds himself in an impossible situation, under heavy attack at night in the middle of the Iraqi desert. He is being assaulted by the Iraqis and in an instant loses his long time friend to the horror of “friendly fire.” He has ordered his crew to fire on another American tank under his command. Back home, the government is eagerly searching for Gulf War heroes and as a result, Serling is decorated for his bravery; yet, deep inside, he really knows that it is .....
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