To Kill A Mockingbird: Life Lessons Of Jem And Scout
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children knew that was the reason that he did it too.
There are many things that we all learn about life as we go on
through life this book showed us some of the things that people learn from
other people in your lifetime, it also showed us some life lessons and they
were some pretty good ones.
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The Sword In The Stone
.... mews have a military rank. Their leader is an
old falcon, who Sir Ector keeps for show. The birds who rank below the
falcon, hold her in highest regard because of her age. She applies her
power over the other birds with no concern for their lives. In one
instance, Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of a crazy hawk who
almost kills him. On the other hand, her seasoned age brings respect,
since she had not been released once she outlived her usefulness as a
huntress. This allows her to maintain a powerful grip over all the birds
she rules through fear and respect.
Next, Wart is transformed into an ant and posted wit .....
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"The Gift Of The Magi" And "The Necklace": Money And Its Control On People
.... only cares about money. In the story, she
and her husband are invited to a party. She has her husband spend the 400
francs he has saved for a gun, on a dress she wants to wear to the ball.
She also wants something beautiful to go with her dress, so she borrows a
gorgeous necklace from a friend.
Madame Loisel was the hit of the party. At the end of the night,
she discovered she had lost the necklace. Madame and her husband take out
loans so that they could buy a replacement and spent the next ten years
paying it off. Madame was forced to work, which made Madame Loisel's looks
deteriorate. Finally, at the end, we find out the neckla .....
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Gulliver's Travels And The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen: Similarities
.... being locked up for trying to romance the
queen, Munchausen accidentally stumbled upon Berthold. He then moved on to
search for the next of his companions. Munchausen fell off of the moon
into a vulcano where Vulcan, who was a Greek God, lived. He then sat down
to drink tea with Vulcan and discovered that Vulcan's servant was none
other then Albrecht. While in the home of Vulcan, Munchausen was
introduced to his wife, and fell in the love with the sight of her. Vulcan
saw this, disliked it very much, and became jealous. The same thing
happened to Gulliver, who had many enemies in Lilliput. Flimnap, Treasur
er of the Real .....
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Zora Neale Hurston's: Their Eyes Were Watching God
.... Ah wouldn't let de sun go down on us single. Ah'm a man
wid principles. You ain't never knowed what it was like to be treated lak a
lady and Ah wants to be de one tuh show yuh." (Pg.28) Janie is promised
that she will be treated quite well. So naturally, she leaves Logan and
sets out for a new town with Jody. This relationship can be classified as
equal in some aspects. However, for the most part, this too becomes a
marriage based on inequality. Joe gains the power he wanted and Janie gains
part of the wealth and fame associated with his power. Therefore, both Joe
and Janie are looked up to by the townspeople. To some extent, .....
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East Of Eden: Riches
.... both of them and they think it is the only way for them to enjoy the
pleasures of life.
Adam Trask is also a strong believer that money is the only way for
one to live a life of luxury. When inheriting the money form his father,
Cyrus, Adam is anxious to spend the money to build a better life for his
brother and himself. While his brother is skeptical, Adam decides that
he should move west in order to buy a nice farm to raise a family on.
Upon his arrival at Salinas, Adam is willing to pay whatever it takes to
buy the best plot of land. Only with money would this have been possible
and would he be happy.
Cyrus T .....
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Emma: All Human Beings Are Judging
.... break out of the repression of morality; instead,
she upheld the moral code that caused her miserable life. Only in the end
did Tess fight back and kill Alec, but she did not do it for her own
liberation but for the love of another man. Hardy implied the idea that
women were always subordinate to men. He applauded Tess for learning and
upholding Angel's believes and gave Tess no believes of her own
Like Flauber and Hardy, Tolstoy was a moralist. From the beginning
to the end, Tolstoy's heroine was consumed by her own moral believes. Anna,
like Emma, wanted more than what society offered her, and actively decided
to pursue her dr .....
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Beowulf And Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot
.... do while they wait, it is essential for that reader to either
understand or experience the same feelings that Vladimir and Estragon are
experiencing. Vladimir and Estragon are waiting; waiting for Godot, to be
exact; and Beckett wants the reader to feel as if he or she were waiting
also. Along with the feeling of waiting that a reader may experience, he
or she might also understand how Vladimir and Estragon feel at times:
Unsure, not very anxious to move on, and constantly having to wait. A
feeling of timelessness is even evoked, allowing almost anyone from nearly
any time to understand Vladimir and Estragon's predic .....
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A Doll's House: Role Of Women As The Comforter
.... their role in society.
Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a
relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her
infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her
resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of
Torvald by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her
opinions, including the decision of which dance outfit to wear, to her
husband; and Nora's flirtatious nature contradicts her devotion to her
husband. These occurrences emphasize the facets of a relationship in
which women play a dependent role: fina .....
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Interpretation Of Rushdie And Kazantzakis' Stories
.... to distinguish what
prominence God had maintained in my lifetime. I could scarcely believe that
such literature would not have a profound effect on an individual who
possessed strong religious background (this assimilates the decision of the
exodus Rushdie has maintained contrary to the threats of the Islamic
community) Never have I encountered such literature that treads upon on
line between celestial religion versus oppresive regime Therefore, in
analyzing and interpreting each piece of fiction, I was able to understand
what similarities they held and why such novels can procreate an
undersirable amount of calamity in the wor .....
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Book Report On Tim O'Brien's Vietnam
.... was a college graduate from a small town in Minnesota. I could
not imagine graduating college and then being asked to fight in some war
that you could care less about. Tim made it through boot camp and he was
sent off to war. At one point he even thought about going AWOL. That idea
was changed as he sat in a Seattle hotel room and decided to stick it out
and go off to Vietnam. Many soldiers went AWOL, either over in Vietnam or
in the States before they were sent off to fight. Tim was put into Alpha
Company when he arrived in Vietnam. Alpha company was a good company;
either that or they were just plain lucky. They lost thei .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Portrayed As A Troubled Young Man
.... "looked so nice and
white". Then he aims at a fire hydrant, but stops again
because that also looks "too nice and white". Finally
he decides not to throw it at anything and closes the
window...What Holden sees through the window is for
him a visual embodiment of what he unconsciously
seeks: a state of Being which is distinct from the flux
of this world of Becoming, with its corruption, violence,
noise, decay and death." (Burrows 84)
When Holden talks to us about how much he loves the museum, he says
that the museum is great because everything just stays behind a piece of
glass and does not change. Some things s .....
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