A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
.... vaulted, breaking the school record. He then told
Gene never to tell anyone about Finny breaking the record. Both of these
instances are incredibly alike. Finally, Finny was symbolicly killed
because of society. Finny was wounded and wound up in a cast. He
eventually died after he had seen what society really was. This situation
is a lot like Mason's situation. Mason moved out of our neighborhood and
his new next door neighbor introduced him to drugs, killing that free
spirit which made him alive. Society had taken the best of both Mason and
Finy, but like Gene, I still had that inspiration which could never be
stolen from eit .....
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Religion And Its Effect On Stephen Dedalus
.... for
disrespect become evident when he complains to the rector about the actions
of Father Dolan. His confused attitude is clearly displayed by the end of
the chapter when he says, "He was happy and free: but he would not be
anyway proud with Father Dolan. He would be very kind and obedient: and he
wished that he could do something kind for him to show him that he was not
proud." Stephen still has respect for his priests, but he has lost his
blind sense of acceptance.
As Stephen grows, he slowly but inexorably distances himself from
religion. His life becomes one concerned with pleasing his friends and
family. However, as h .....
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Summary Of Pike's "Remember Me"
.... is to earth, yet it is different than the earth mortals know so
different that it is indescribable, by all except the writer, who
definitely knows how to write. If I gave away the ending it would be
devastating to those who have not read it. Even when I have told a short
summery of the story, for those who have not read it would be missing a
great book if they neglected to get a hold of it and read it. It is very
deeply moving, especially if it has been read more than once.
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Resurrection In A Tale Of Two Cities
.... Darnay is saved by the ingeniousness of Sydney Carton, and he too
is suddenly resurrected or "recalled to life".
In both "Book the Second" and "Book the Third," the reader gets
different perspectives of the resurrection theme. Jerry Cruncher is a
body-snatcher and he refers to his late night activities as though it is an
honest trade. His son knows of his father's nocturnal activities and
expresses his desire to follow in his fathers footsteps: "Oh, Father, I
should so like to be a resurrection-man when I'm quite growed up!" (166).
This parodies the resurrection theme because it is a simple physical
resurrection of corpses fr .....
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O'Grady's Return With Honor: Summary
.... was in the eighth grade he became fixated on the
idea he was going to be a pilot In high school he was a kicker on the Long
Beach Gators, which was his high school football team. He began as a
second string player but a good friend, who was a professional kicker,
helped him to improve. This along with his strong will led him to become an
all star kicker. In the fall of his senior year he slaved to boost his
grades. He applied for admission to the Air Force Academy in Colorado
Springs. Even though his grades were good his Sat scores were low and he
was rejected. He was disappointed but his goal was still to become a
fighter pi .....
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An Analysis Of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" And "The Devil And Tom Walker
.... Now Rip
was sort of a say nothing do nothing when it came to his house and wife.
His wife would bad mouth him and yell at him, but Rip wouldn't do much
anyway. He would just go off and sleep. Now Tom and his wife on the other
hand would battle to the death. Tom would yell and scream and so would his
wife. Tom would hide money and so would his wife. In both of the stories
they wife husband relationship would be a turning point in both cases.
And last the way they both got what they wanted. In Rips case he
wanted to get rid of his wife and his jobs. He goes to the forest to escape
from his wives verbal abuse. He gets his wish .....
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The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
.... is greatly influenced,
David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the
Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is
like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman rescues David,
Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city like the one
in David's dreams. Because of the telepathy David discovers that such a
city really exists but most of all through Petra they establish contact
with a more civilized people than they are. Because of the conflicts in
the story it leads the main characters to discover the sealant city.
Telepathy not only affects the pl .....
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Robinson Crusoe
.... and a couple of hatchets, he
starts out building a shelter for himself. From acquiring these new skills,
he adds onto his house and learns to form his own tools. Out of new
experiences with these tools and his vivid imagination, he now has the
ability to build anything that he wishes for. Later, he builds a table,
chair, shelves, a summer home, canoe, and a boat. Robinson Crusoe shows us
that a person can fight against the odds and win because of pure
determination, even if he doesn't know how he will ever do it.
When Crusoe first steps on the island, he knows nothing of it. He
doesn't have a map or a compass, so it i .....
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Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
.... history starting back in World War II when famous people
like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated
again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia).
The more recent occurance of defection to the US of a high ranking deputy
chief of staff del Pi¤o D¡az happened in 1987 (pg. 24, "A flight to
freedom"). Ramius was the main character in the novel who decided to
defect. The character helps Clancy to develop reasons for which such a
high ranking commander would defect and later cause conflict to occur
between the U.S. and Soviet Union. The use of historical facts common
during .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Evil And Mistriss Hibbins
.... touch of her garment, as if it carried the plague among its gorgeous
folds." Here, it says that the townspeople were so scared, that they
thought her evil was contagious.
Mistriss Hibbins also effects the way some of the characters think
in the novel. In one part of the novel, Mistriss Hibbins tells Pearl, the
daughter of Hester Prynne, that Dimmesdale, who is her father, is the
"Prince of Air". "They say, child, though art of the lineage of the Prince
of Air!" In this quote she was telling Pearl that Dimmesdale is the devil.
Pearl gets influenced by her and believes her father is the devil. In one
scaffold scene, Pearl y .....
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Running Wild: Essay About The Novel Hiroshima
.... the worlds deadliest bomb that
changed history forever. All they saw was split second, tremendous flash of
light which gave them just enough time to turn there heads and then chaos
rang out like church bells on a Sunday morning.
When the bomb detonated all hell broke loose. Miss. Sasaki was
knocked unconscious when her bookcase trampled her to the ground. Dr.
Masakazu Fugii was tossed, like a stone, into the nearby river. Mrs.
Hatsuyo Nakamura was trapped under her many household items. Fr. Wilhelm
Kleinsorge feel to the ground, and hid behind his desk. Dr. Teru Fumi
Sasaki simply fell to the ground. And finally Rev. Mr. Ka .....
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Crime And Punishment: Characterization
.... compassionate side could be
represented by the little boy. The child, watching the beating, realizes
the absurdity of it. He even rushes to Mikolka, ready to punish him for
killing the mare. This illustrates Rodion's internal struggle while
contemplating the murder of Alyona. His humane side, the child, tells him
to live and let live. And his "extraordinary" side, according to his
definition, tells him that he should eliminate Alyona altogether, for the
good of man kind.
On the other side of the coin, Raskolnikov could be represented by the
mare itself. However, the burden which the mare must carry (the cart, the
people, e .....
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