An Analysis Of Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"
.... in Slaughterhouse Five, he attempts to reconcile the guilt
which one feels when one is randomly saved from death, while one's friends
and loved ones perish. Billy Pilgrim's own life was spared, but was never
able to live with himself knowing that so many others had died. The
feelings of guilt which emerged from his having survived the bombing of
Dresden and from Billy's fortunate escape from death under the shelter of
the fifth Slaughterhouse haunted Billy through much of his life. Billy
Pilgrim did not consider his survival a blessing, but a curse. A curse to
be forced to live on with the guilt of survival. Billy Pilgrim face .....
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Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5: Fate
.... that Tralfamadorians cannot understand the human concept
of time, they have the ability to pick and choose when they want to live
each moment of their lives ,unlike humans, especially Billy Pilgrim who
has no control of his unpredictable "time tripping[s]."
Furthermore, the Tralfamadorian's belief that life is predetermined
has caused them to concentrate on the good things in life and forget about
the bad, which has lead them to become very un-sentimental life forms. They
constantly use the phrase "so it goes" for everything that goes wrong,
including such emotion evoking things like deaths. They show no remorse or
sorrow beca .....
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Lawrence's "Sons And Lovers": Relationships
.... Thus the
relationship between the two is a struggle for an identity. The
relationship is a struggle between Paul and his mother and Paul and Miriam.
The main conflicts between Paul and Miriam are between physical-
spiritual differences and his mother. Miriam holds spirituality very close
to her. Thing with Miriam are always on a very spiritual level. Lawrence
showed this sometimes with depiction's of flowers. Paul has other needs
that Miriam herself feels that she could never fulfill. "You make me feel
spiritual and I don't want to be spiritual." (190) Eventually, Miriam
introduces Paul to Clara to hopefully fulfill these needs. .....
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Sphere: Summary
.... the few people left discover whoever
enters the Sphere is granted the power that everything they think or
imagine happens or is created. Either it's conscious or subconscious,
while they're sleeping or awake, or even if they really want it to happen.
They also it was planted by another world as a test of its full
capabilities and consequences. Ted actually imagines his own death, only to
kill himself. Once their emergency submarine is lost, they realize they
have a serious problem being trapped together. So sadly, eventually
everyone dies 1,200 feet below the rest of the world.
I would recommend this book to anyone who .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman Is A Tragic Hero
.... Ben went "into the
jungle at 17 and cam e out rich at age 21". For a while, the American Dream
was alive in Willy too. He helped stake out new territory by selling his
goods, his son Biff was going to go to university w ith a scholarship and
he had a home with no apartments closing on him. But now, he was forced t o
work on commission at old age, fired later by his godson, his favored son
Biff had wa ndered about the country doing many odd jobs all over the
country for many years, his frien d's son Charlie was successful and his
home was now surrounded by apartment buildings which blocked out the
sunlight. He was not a success i .....
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Spook: Summary
.... Muriel get into an argument about
what is fair for Mary Ann. Muriel tells Lola and Ross to leave. They do
so with no argument.
That night when Muriel left to go shopping Mary Ann went out for a
walk. She came across a camp and went in. While she was in there a
teenaged boy saw her and called all of his friends over to see her. Mary
ann ran. When she returned home her mother was still not home. Later that
night two men came to see Mary Ann. They shot the Nelson's dogs. Then
they walked down the long driveway. Mary Ann saw them and told them to go
away or she would call the dogs. They told her that the dogs were all dead. .....
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The Stone Angel And The Fifth Business: Analysis Of The Main Characters
.... birth of
Paul Dempster gave him the sense that he is directly involved in it.
Furthermore, he has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household that has
encouraged him to feel guilty about almost every lapse of duty.
So at the beginning of the two novels the reader learns that the
first feeling of guilt that the two main characters share is a birth of one
of the characters presented in the novels. In The Stone Angel Hagar blamed
herself for being born, because it was she that caused her mother's death.
She felt that it should be her who should die not her mother. In The Fifth
Business the main character Dunny felt rea .....
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Comparison Of Herbert's "Dune" And Asimov's "Foundation Series": Effects Of Technology And Belief Systems On The Individual
.... of Muad'Dib (a savior), the desert people on the
planet of Arrakis practiced a religion whose roots came from an
undetermined source. Many scholars have traced the extensive borrowing of
this religion from other religions. Many people were confused to find that
so many ideas in one religion easily reflected another. From this confusion,
the people of Arrakis formed a committee known as the Orange Catholic
Liturgical Church. This church was the first to introduce a type of
religious belief in which there was one god, and the book of revelation was
known as the Orange Catholic Bible. After this church, came the Bene
Gesserit, wh .....
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Pride And Prejudice And The Edible Woman: Negative Effects Of The Society's Influence
.... his
money and connections, and Mrs. Bennet is already dreaming that one of her
children will marry him. In fact, “the business of her life was to get her
daughters married” (53). One of Elizabeth's close friends, Charlotte
Lucas, feels “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance” (69).
She feels that marriage is a vehicle to gain wealth and connections, a view
which has obviously been pushed upon her by society. Elizabeth refuses to
accept this view. She feels marriage is for love, not money, and finds it a
“fantastic nightmare” that “economic and social institutions have such
power over the values of personal relation .....
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A Book Report On Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"
.... do. The lower classes are multiplied by a budding
process that can create up to 96 identical clones and produce over 15,000
brothers and sisters from a single ovary.
All the babies are conditioned, physically and chemically in the
bottle, and psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the
society with both a liking and an aptitude for the work they will do. One
psychological conditioning technique is hypnopaedia, or teaching people
while they sleep--not teaching facts or analysis, but planting suggestions
that will make people behave in certain ways. The Director also makes plain
that sex is a source of happiness .....
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Summary Of Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter"
.... he asks the identity of the child's
father, he discovers Hester has refused to divulge this information. From
the balcony overlooking the scaffold, the young Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
also asks for this information and eloquently appeals to Hester to publicly
name her partner in sin. She refuses.
Upon her return to prison, Hester is distraught, and Roger Chillingworth, a
self-proclaimed physician, comes to calm her and the babe. Chillingworth,
who is actually Hester's husband, refuses to publicly acknowledge her and
share in her shame. He makes Hester promise to keep his true identity
secret and vows to discover and avenge hims .....
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Paulsen's "Canyons": A Summary
.... voice speaks to him. It wants to be returned to the Sacred Place. All
the memories from the canyons the Apache warrior has come to Brannon, as
though he experienced before, but hadn't. Once the skull is put in it's
scared place in Dog Canyon, both Brannon and the skull can rest. Brannon
starts to head home and is greeted by the police and his mother, who ask
for an explanation. Brannon explains the whole thing to them, and they
understand and appreciate him more. This book really explains the way that
the Apaches lived and how hard it was to be accepted by the tribe as a
'man.' I feel that the Apache boy, Coyote Runs, .....
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