Lord Of The Flies: Golding's Reality - Fact Or Fiction
.... stranded on an isolated and uncharted island when
their plane crashes. As the boys try to unite to try to become rescued
they begin to separate and a tribe of savage hunters is formed. After a
while the boys lose all sense of civilized behavior. This is when you
realize that the boys have lost all manners and civility that had been
instilled as they where raised, thus showing the savage beast in the heart
of all men. This book shows how easy it is for man to revert back to the
evil that is deep in his heart. This book also shows that if a bunch of
well mannered school boys can turn evil, one can imagine what can happen
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Summary Of Willie Morris' "Good Old Boy"
.... City was built on.
Next, the book told about the childhood life of the author, Willie
Morris. Willie, his dog Skip, and friends had many exciting adventures
together in that small town. They ranged from school day pranks to having
saved the town from a band of thieves.
They usually spent a lot of their time in Bubba's Model A Ford.
Bubba was about eleven or twelve and had a car. They mainly stuck with the
guys, but Rivers Applewhite, a girl friend, went with them on many of their
adventures. They took trips up into the hills some weekends to look for
old Civil War battlefields.
One year a huge crime wave .....
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Good Versus Evil: Wars In A Separate Peace
.... at the start of the novel or are they
mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint with this quote at the point Gene
thinks Finny is finally going to "get away" with something he did. "This
time he wasn't going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming
unexpectedly excited at that."(page 20) This shows us that even though
they are friends, Gene feels that Finny is too perfect and he needs to see
a sign that he is human, that he is not the super-popular "benevolent" kid
everyone else thinks he is. "He had gotten away with everything. I felt a
sudden stab of disappointment."(page 21) Finny, like usual had finally
gotten himsel .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: The Hardships Of The Common Man
.... throughout the book, he is confused, and not as
headstrong as Ma. Tom Joad is a very complicated individual, who is a
tremendous asset and at the same time, a tremendous burden. His parole
cuases his family an unneeded worry, while his ability to get work while
very few people do, also benefited the family. He is the main
protagonasist for his family, with his independent nature, and the main
follower of Jim Casy's philosophy on human nature, with Jim being much
more of a talker, and an idealist to actually put what he preached into
action. Jim Casy has fequently been compared with Jesus Christ, and his
lifestyle of preaching an .....
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Summary Of Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath"
.... Because of the current financial
state of the family they have to settle for living in squalid camps which
are called Hoovervilles. Tom gets into a fight at one of the camps with an
abusive deputy. The sheriff soon comes to arrest Tom, but Casey offers to
go in his place. The family soon finds a nice camp which is government run,
but they cannot find jobs that are nearby. Sine they can't find jobs the
move to a peach-growing area where pickers are needed. When they drive
into the Hooper Ranch to get a job, they see an angry group of people at
the gate. Tim finds out that night that the people are a group of workers
who are .....
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Summary Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
.... they had the lower they could make their prices.
The number of handbills sent out far out numbered the number of jobs
available. Many people in the dust bowl were constructing a view of
California that was devastatingly false. However most of the people had to
go somewhere, and all they knew was agriculture, so the natural thing was
to go to the only place in the country at that time that was in pe ak
agricultural condition. This was all true in the case of the Joads. They
had no experience with any other kind of lifestyle. They were farmers and
they thought that was what they would remain. What they became was job
hunters, s .....
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An Analysis Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
.... There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the
turtle at the beginning to the rain at the end. As each symbol is
presented through the novel they show examples of the good and the bad
things that exist within the novel.
The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of the situation facing
the drought-stricken farmers of Oklahoma. Dust is described a covering
everything, smothering the life out of anything that wants to grow. The
dust is symbolic of the erosion of the lives of the people. The dust is
synonymous with "deadness". The land is ruined ^way of life (farming) gone,
people ^uprooted and forced to leave. Seco .....
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Great Expectations: Pip's Life In The Upper Class Society
.... like this and finds
great differences in his new lifestyle and his old. Pip gains much with
his new found wealth. He gets new clothes; which help him fit into his new
lifestyle. Also, he makes new friends and interacts with the higher class;
Something which was looked down upon and almost outlawed when he was four.
After his sisters death, Pip visits his village and his brother-in-
law Joe to attend his sisters funeral. He feels remorse for his sister but
also feels that it isn't his home anymore and feels uncomfortable. This is
peculiar to Pip, considering a lifestyle that he lived with for years was
now mysterious and not .....
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Great Expectations: Pip's Personality Change
.... was treated by Estella, he went on loving
her only because of her astounding beauty.
As Pip progressed in life, he became increasingly ungrateful to the
people that had raised and cared for him as a child. His disrespect was
most strongly shown towards Joe. Having not seen Joe for a number of years,
Pip shows that he would rather have continued his now prosperous life
without having anything to do with Joe, when he thinks, "Let me confess
with what feeling I looked forward to Joe's coming... Not with pleasure
though I was bound to him by so many ties; no, with considerable
disturbance and some mortification." (p 630) Despite .....
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Great Expectations: Pip
.... learned from Mr. Jaggers. The "Walworth Wemmick" is
calm, good-natured, and kind. He is entirely faithful to his father, the
"Aged Parent." He is the man who hands out Pip's allowance when he is young,
under the orders of Jaggers. Also he is one of Pip's friends helping him in
time of need with his "Walworth Statements," of advice.
Mr. Jaggers, probably one of the most intelligent men throughout
the book, is hired by Magwich to hand out money and relay information to
Pip. Jaggers is a clever, arrogant and careful Lawyer. He never commits
himself to anything and is portrayed throughout the book as a person
interested only in .....
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John Gardner's "Grendel": Good Vs. Evil
.... about the whole situation.
Like animals they are frightened of anything that is different from what
they are used to. When Grendel attempts to communicate they show their
ignorance and simple-mindedness. Instead of taking the time to understand
the anomaly in their world they panic and decide to destroy it. Without
being able to view the story from Grendel's point of view the reader might
assume that the humans had every right to attack. Another example of the
same type of simple-mindedness is their second premature attack on Grendel.
After hearing the shaper's words Grendel weeps, "'Mercy! Peac e!'"(ch.4,
pp.50) in the hope .....
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Guilt And How It Is Handled
.... but also in daily life.
A famous case is the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Whether he committed the
crime or not, O.J. has shown no signs of guilt. This can be interpreted as
meaning that he either did not commit the crime, or he did so but is hiding
the guilt. If the second situation is true, then he has emotional scars
that do not show exactly like Dimmesdale. A more common example takes
place in schools. Sometimes a student will cheat on a test, but not be
able to feel a sense of accomplishment about the grade. Guilt has overcome
this student and made it difficult to enjoy the success of a good grade
because it was obt .....
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