Rand's "Anthem"
.... 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 just created some power unknown but to the
pe .....
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Analysis Of Pearl In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
.... after
having an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister. Pearl's birth
proves that Hester cheated on her husband Roger Chillingworth provoking the
stories action. The novel opens with the people of Boston staring and
laughing at Hester holding Pearl while standing on the town's scaffold. At
this time, Pearl is three months old. Years later Hester gets released from
jail and lives with Pearl in the outskirts of town. Since Hester becomes
alienated from Boston, Pearl turns into "her mother's only treasure!"
(Hawthorne 76). Hester makes bright red clothes for Pearl that parallel the
scarlet "A." At age three, Pearl end .....
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: Summary
.... to him - the empty one. (Solzhenitsyn, Pg.
107)
The smart move that he does is to place the empty mitten on top and take
the risk that the guard will only search the empty one. Shukhov was lucky.
Another example of having to be smarter is after they find the wood panels,
they want to carry them back to make the place where they work warmer.
Shukhov knows that if they carry it flatways, it will be easily noticed by
others, so, they hold it upright in between them and set off. If they are
seen by the superintendent, for instance, it will look as if there are
three of them walking together. In this way, they cheat the guards as wel .....
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Joyce's "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man": A Review
.... the family
estate, Simon returns to his former school and converses with his former
classmates. Stephen is upset to hear of his father's wild behavior as a
youth, and of his flirtatious nature. He begins to rebel against his
strict upbringing, striking back at his familys' traditional values and way
of life.
Religion is an ever present force in Stephen's life. He attends a
religious school from an early age, and is a devout Roman Catholic. He has
great reference for the priests at his school, and even fears the rector.
As his life progresses, Stephen experiences great feelings for women, and
finally gives into his desire whe .....
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Flaws In Twain's "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"
.... I do have to give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you
can only take so much filler. Then when John Wayne (The Duke) and Elvis
(The King) come along there seem to be four or five stops along the river
that except for one little detail, are the same. Please excuse the jump
back, but how coincidental is it that you have a Duke and a King on the
same raft in the middle of the Mississippi river (yes I do know they are
not really royalty but that does not matter)? Even during all of this
complaining I have done I did find humor in such things as when Huck was
observing some local “loafers” and their discussions about b .....
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Summary Of "A Raisin In The Sun"
.... angry
and annoyed by the racist whites. He goes over and at first tries his best
to stay calm over the situation. The white father then says, "Listen, if I
ever see your son with mine, I will througth that little black spoiled brat
back into your yard." Walter becomes enraged and hits the man directly in
the face as hard as he can. This brings an upraw amongst the Youngers and
the entire community. Thus bringing the whites, even those who weren't
before, totally against the Younger family.
After the eventual calming down of the community and the lowering
of racial tensions of the blacks against the whites, grandma Ruth who paid .....
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"A Rose For Emily": A Review
.... the story in a hole different manner. Faulkner used third person
narration and from that we were able to find out many things about Miss
Emily's past. For instance the death of her father, the love she had for
Homer, and how she felt the need for affection. Those ideas she would have
kept to herself, if she were to have told the story.
The language and dialogue that Faulkner provides Miss Emily with
enables the readers to understand how she feels about the town. She is not
very pleased with the changes that have occurred therefore she lets
everyone that she comes in contact with know how she views those specific
changes. F .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: A Satirical View Of The Old South
.... a true friendship. The go
out of their way at many times for the welfare of eachother and they
develop a relationship to which they both contribute. Huck teaches Jim
about diversity, priests and rulers in chapter fourteen when he reads to
him about Solomon and Frenchmen. Jim also teaches Huck an important lesson
on how people should be treated individually.
Another example Twain uses to show the hypocrisies of society is
racism. Twain is not attacking the whole issue of race as much as the role
race plays in society. Twain uses race to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the
rich and "well refined." He starts demonstrating thes .....
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A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
.... in desperate need of a bath (71). Much like the
clean, refreshing water of the Devon and the ugly saline water of the
Naguamsett, Gene's carefree attitude of the summer session vastly differs
from the angry, confused attitude of the winter session.
Likewise, the two sessions, the summer and winter, give a different
sense of feeling toward school and life at Devon School. The summer
session allows Finny to use his creativity. Finny invents blitzball and
founds the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. The students let
their carefree attitudes flow during the summer. Finny and Gene willingly
break the rules to have fun .....
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A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
.... Gene is not sure if he feels the same.
Chapter 4: Gene and Finny (Phineas) wake up and head back to Devon. Gene
fails his trigonometry examination for the first time. Finny tells Gene
that he studies too much. Gene thinks Finny is jealous. Gene wants to earn
the Scholastic Achievement Citation to get even with Finny. Gene knows that
Finny must be best and that he cannot be best if Gene becomes even with him
through his studies. Gene decides that he and Finny are locked in a
complete enmity rather than friendship. Finny announces Leper's intention
to jump from the tree and coazes Gene away from his studies. Gene and Finny
are g .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Characters Are "Recalled To Life"
.... Sydney Carton has
recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the
guillotine. While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far
better thing that I do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest
that I go to than I have ever known." Through these words Sydney
recognizes that by sacrificing his life for Darnay, a loved one of Lucie,
he will be doing the best thing that he has ever done and can do. Sydney
is finally satisfied with himself, he is no longer a drunken fool, but a
hero that now can live or die with himself. By dying, and saving Darnay
for Lucie, Sydney Carton is "recalle .....
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Attitudes Toward Marriage In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
.... to, just as she
ignores Absalon because she wants to. Lines 3290-5 of the Miller's Tale
show Alison's blatant disrespect for her marriage to "Old John" and her
planned deceit:
That she hir love hym graunted atte laste,
And swoor hir ooth, by seint Thomas of Kent
That she wol been at his comandement,
Whan that she may hir leyser wel espie.
"Myn housbonde is so ful of jalousie
That but ye wayte wel and been privee..."
On the contrary, Alison's husband loved her more than his own life,
although he felt foolish for marrying her since she was so young and
skittish. This led him to keep a close watch on her whenever .....
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