"Fighting On Two Fronts": Henry Fleming In Red Badge Of Courage
.... night by the campfire. Henry could only listen because he was still
'wet behind the ears'. He felt left out and often sat alone wondering
about battle. War was like an illusion to him. He couldn't imagine people
slaughtering each other. "Aren't we too civilized to massacre ourselves?"
he often wondered. After hearing the tales of battle, Henry began to be
intimidated by fear. Would he run when faced with death or would he have
the courage to fight? This question was always on Henry's mind. Finally,
after many months of monotonous camp life, the question was answered.
After hours of marching one day, Henry's re .....
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary
.... next
mission with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This
plane only carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their
radar. But, as they were approximating (approaching, advancing on) the
first SAM surface gun destroyed most of the plane. The crew ejected within
the midst of the night; Grafton landing safely, but Cole's back broke.
Eventually, they were rescued by a helicopter, but an A-1 Skyraider pilot
who was killing off the Vietnamese that were trying to shoot the crew.
The setting of the book was in the Vietnam Era, most likely in the
early years. There were various settings like the aircraf .....
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The Fountain Head: Individualism
.... subjects. His
plan to manipulate the public and gather them as a whole was directly
countered with every move that Howard made. One of these major moves was
the building of the Stoddard Temple. With the temple, Roark had the
freedom to build whatsoever he choose. This gave him a medium to express
his viewpoint without having any restrictions. After the delayed unveiling
of the temple, it was condemned by the public. At the head of this group
was no other than Toohey. He wrote articles in the newspaper on how the
temple in no way represented the human spirit. The temple allowed Howard
to display his individualism, his uniq .....
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Frankenstein: Morality
.... another monster
he may be rid of both monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I
will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt
monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor,
if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that
the monsters will not keep their promise and stay in Europe envoking fear
into townfolk.
The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for
the good of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever
they please. "A race of devils would be propegated,"(pg. 163) thinks
Frankenstein to h .....
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Frankenstein: Good And Bad Choices
.... 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 went wrong. Frankenstein made the
being and by t .....
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Frankenstein: What Makes It A Gothic Novel?
.... the desolate isolation. Yet there were
still glimpses of happiness in Shelly's “vivid pictures of the grand scenes
among Frankenstein- the thunderstorm of the Alps, the valleys of Servox and
Chamounix, the glacier and the precipitous sides of Montanvert, and the
smoke of rushing avalanches, the tremendous dome of Mont Blanc” (Goldberg
277) and on that last journey with Elizabeth which were his last moments of
happiness. The rest goes along with the melodrama of the story. Shelly
can sustain the mood and create a distinct picture and it is admirable the
way she begins to foreshadow coming danger. Shelly does this by starting a
t .....
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Franny And Zooey: Childhood
.... case as children. They came
from a relatively large family, consisting of two parents and seven
siblings. The Glass children had a radio talk show called the "Wise Child"
when they were younger. Such pressures put upon the children resulted in
which Zooey calls "The Wise Child complexes". He believes that they never
really left the air. He believes that instead of carrying a normal
conversation, he expound on everything and ;therefore, is not able to keep
his mouth closed.
The two eldest siblings of the Glass children, Seymour and Buddy, have
influenced both Franny and Zooey, who are the two youngest in the family.
Zooey bel .....
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Galapagos: James Wait's Rebirth From An Iron Age In Galapagos
.... wanted money and
someone to converse with. Leon Trout tells us in the beginning of the book
about James' marriages: “Wait had so far courted and married seventeen such
persons-and then cleaned out their jewelry boxes and safe-deposit boxes and
bank accounts, and disappeared.”(Pg. 8) James Wait portrays his cruelness
and decisiveness towards women in the story. He shows his state of an “
Iron Age” and he cheats people into entering it so that he may attain power
to manipulate them and live off them like a parasite. He probably knows he
acts corrupt but he does not want to accept it just yet.
James Wait begins to realize his pr .....
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The Great Gatsby: The Destructive Effects Of Wealth
.... attributed to
their snobby behavior.
The attitude in the first chapter showed a lot of the ugliness
attributed to wealth. Tom especially showed little and at times no sign
of a pleasant attitude while Nick visited his home. He always found a way
to throw in that he was better than Nick, "I've got a nice place here."
and when he blurted out that he had " never heard of them " (the company
that Nick was working for) just to make him fell superior to his wife's
cousin. Very rarely does money bring out the good in people and Tom is
probably why.
In this essay, I told about the effects that came from the
destructivness of .....
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The Great Gatsby: Sign Of God
.... might fool me but she could fool God. I took her to the window… I
said ‘God knows what you've doing, everything you've been doing. You may
fool me, but you can't fool God!'" (160) The window he was looking out,
was the window that directly pointed at Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. This sign
that Wilson saw as watch, also watch his wife being slaughter. This was a
sign symbolized God, and yet, it allowed many affairs to go which led to
myrtle's death. A God with any kind of power would have stopped all the
wrong in society, but the inept God, also had to show that he can not
always save you.
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An Analysis Of The Glass Menagerie
.... over and over is the
fire escape. This has different meanings to the characters. For Tom, it
is a place where he can escape to. It is where he goes to escape from his
mother's nagging. He is open to the outside world when he is on the fire
escape. It is his way out. For Laura, it is where the gentleman caller
enters and where the outside world is brought inside to her. But to
Amanda, the fire escape is not only where the gentleman caller enters, but
where he will come in and rescue her daughter from becoming a spinster.
Amanda feels that if the gentleman caller comes, then he will
rescue Laura. The problem is t .....
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Symbols In "The Glass Menagerie"
.... the past with pretensions to
glory.
"In the South we had so many servants. Gone. All vestige of
gracious living! I wasn't prepared for what the future brought me". p.64.
The glass menagerie represents an escape from reality for Laura.
Tennessee Williams has said:
Those little glass animals came to represent in my memory all the
softest emotions that belong to the recollection of things past. They stood
for all the small and tender things that relieve
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