The Squire's Tale: Franklin
.... his "gentilly" (674) or "gentillesse" (694). If we are to believe
what the Franklin is saying, that he admires his gentillesse and that he
wishes his son "myghte lerne gentillesse aright" (694), we should also
assume the Franklin would try and also show gentillesse. In fact, from the
General Prologue we know that the Franklin was a member of Parliament and a
feudal landholder (Clark 161). Both were positions in higher society in
which he would be familiar with gentility and also be expected to follow it.
However, interrupting someone in the middle of his speech would be
something a person with gentillesse would be hesitant to .....
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Friendship Of The Musketeers
.... small skirmish with the Cardinal's Guards. D'Artagnan
asked Athos to pardon him and let him be on his way but Athos being the
brave and gallant musketeer, demanded a better aplogy, d'Artagnan was very
insulted by this so he challenged Athos to a duel at twelve o'clock. The
d'Artagnan ran towards the door, in the process of exiting, he ran into
Porthos who was just entering the door, while talking to a fellow musketeer.
D'Artagnan asked once again to be forgiven for his mistake, but Porthos
also wanted a better apology. Once again d'Artagnan was insulted. They then
set up a duel for one o'clock. Following that incident, d'Artagnan .....
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The Glass Menagerie: The Tragic Effects Of The Past
.... through life. Tom is unsuccessful with his job
at the warehouse and Laura cannot seem to fit in with the outside world.
These personal downfalls in life drive Tom into a life of poetry and movies,
and Laura into a world of glass figurines.
Tom is unsatisfied with his work at the warehouse and feels his
life lacks adventure. Therefore, he finds it through writing poetry and
watching movies. When business is slow at the shoe warehouse, Tom goes to
the washroom to work on his poetry. Tom finds adventure in poetry because
he is able to create and control his own world. Along with poetry, Tom
retreats to the movies every eve .....
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The Great Gatsby
.... love for a woman and the catastrophic
events that take place as a result. This was indicative of many people of
the day who had a spouse but often had someone else on the side. Although
this book is not the kind that exciting motion pictures are made of, It
was regarded as one of the masterpieces of American literature.
The plot centres on a fictional World War I army veteran named Nick
Carraway. After his involvement in the war on the allied side with a
machine gun battalion, he returned to his home in Chicago. With no clear
direction of what he wanted to do with his life, he decided to move to New
York to enter in .....
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The Good Earth: Chapters 1-13 Summaries
.... of eggs red and give them out so that everyone
will know he has a son.
Chapter 4: O-lan recovers easily from the birth and sets back out in the
fields working with Wang. It tells of Wang's lazy uncle and his problems.
It is becomeing Fall and it is harvest time. Wang Lung sells his harvest
and makes a big profit. He puts the extra money in a hole in the wall in
his room.
Chapter 5: Wang decorates red stamps everywhere for good luck in the new
year. O-lan returns to the House of Hwang. She finds that the people there
are becoming poorer due to great expenses. Wang then decides to buy good
land from the great house and is very ha .....
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The Good Earth: Summary
.... and treated their elders. I think we
should try harder to do this here in our culture too.
Wang Lung's uncle was a lazy and greedy man. Wang Lung did not
like him that much and wished that the Chinese custom of paternal relatives
living with their families did not exist. The only thing his uncle was
good for was preventing a local group of marauding bandits from pillaging
the house of Wang because his uncle was an important official in the group.
Wang Lung gets his uncle addicted to Opium which later caused his death.
I think Wang Lung's uncle represented evil in this book and he spread his
evil thoughts throughout his fa .....
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The Good Earth: Success In Wang Lung's Life
.... to an older generation. This was an
unfortunate occurrence, but Wang Lung was able to hook his uncle on opium,
thus making him a passive nuisance which could then be relatively easily
ignored.
A third thing to go wrong was when he had moved into the house of
Hwang. This was when his uncle's son returned to the city with his fellow
troops who were fighting in the war. This caused a major disruption in
Wang Lung's courts and many things got destroyed. This also caused a
second very bad thing to happen. This was that his youngest son, after
hearing the stories from all of the soldiers, then hand an argument with
Wang Lung, .....
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The Great Gatsby: The Green Light
.... chapter one of the Great
Gatsby. Nick, the narrator of the novel, sees Gatsby curiously stretching
his arms out towards the water. Nick went to see what Gatsby was looking
at and all he could see was "...nothing except a single green light, minute
and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."
At this point in the novel the symbol of the green light is
introduced to the reader. The reader does not know that the light is on
Daisy's dock. Therefore, one cannot affiliate Gatsby with Daisy. The
reader does know that Nick admires Gatsby for his dream which is some way
linked with the green light. The color green represent .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: No One Man, But One Common Soul
.... Charles Dickens of California; a social critic with more sentiment
than science or system. His writing is warm, human, inconsistent,
occasionally angry, but more often delighted with the joys associated with
human life on its lowest levels (Holman 20). This biological image of man
creates techniques and aspects of form capable of conveying this image of
man with esthetic power and conviction; the power to overcome adversity
through collectiveness, or in this case, as one combined soul(Curley 224).
Steinbeck's basic purpose of the novel is essentially religious,
but not in any orthodox sense of the word. He is religious in .....
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The Great Gatsby: Illusions
.... who feels
that he must discredit his name. Tom, however discredits name to draw
Daisy away from him when he finds that Gatsby has become interested in
Daisy. When Tom confronts Gatsby, and begins to crumble his illusion,
Gatsby is as cool and confident as he always is.
Tom's voice, incredulous and insulting: I told you I went there
[Oxford]," said Gatsby.
"I heard you, but I would like to know when."
"It was in nineteen-nineteen. I only stayed for five months."
Tom glanced around to see if we mirrored his unbelief. (136)
This passage shows that even Gatsby has bought into the illusion that he
has crea .....
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The Great Gatsby: Morals And American Idealism
.... Now, at the time when this story takes place in the
spring of the 1920's Daisy and Gatsby still have a thing for each other and
their growing romance develops throughout. Taking what he has got going
with Daisy for granted, like almost everything else he's got going for him,
he begins to loose what he wants the most, Daisy.
While Daisy and Gatsby are having their little affair Tom is having
one of his own with Myrtle, the wife of an auto garage owner. Theirs too
develops throughout the story.
These two secrete relationships go and on through the book.
Meanwhile the backgrounds of the main characters as well as ideas/morals .....
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Foreshadowing And Flashback: Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
.... he turned and caught it
with trembling fingers and set it back in place. 'I'm sorry about the
clock,' he said. 'It's an old clock,' I told him idiotically."
(Fitzgerald, pg. 92) This quote is the first use of foreshadowing which
is in chapter five. It pertains to all of the trouble Gatsby causes as he
tries to win Daisy back. The past is represented by the clock and how
Gatsby wants to repeat it with Daisy. (Eble, pg. 963) This quote
foreshadows to the end of the novel when Nick is left to tell the story of
the dreamer whose dreams were corrupted. (Eble, pg. 963) "they smashed up
things and creatures and then retreated .....
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