The Veldt By Ray Bradbury
.... this house". The parents in the story look upon their children's
needs as services instead of ways of expressing any love or care.
In the story we never learn anything about the children except for
their obsession with the nursery, "I don't want to do anything but look and
listen and smell; what else is there to do?". When the parents tell the
children the idea of shutting down the computerized house "for a vacation",
the children react shocked and stay with their one, single characteristic
given, they act shocked "Who will fry my eggs for me, or darn my socks?".
You see then the children's primary relationship is .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Ma Joad The Leader
.... but she always maintains a front for the rest of the family.
When Ma had fears, "She had practiced denying them in herself." This
extraordinary self-control helps to keep the Joad unit together and alive.
Ma, like all leaders, must be forceful for things to work in her
favor. Numerous situations occur in which Ma must be forceful or
relinquish her role as the head of the family. Her forceful leadership
occurs once when the family, without Ma's consent, agrees to leave Tom and
Casey behind to fix the Wilson's car. Ma feels this will break up the
family and uses a jack handle to prove her point. It is at this point Ma
rep .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
.... must not be lived as a game, although he
agrees with Mr. Spencer in order not to sound inferior to him. A Danish
philosopher and existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard, once wrote, "I must find
a truth that is true for me… the idea for which I can live or die." Holden
stays true to this statement as he leads a life, not as a phony, but as
himself, leading a solitary life in order to stand up for what he believes
in, even if he stands alone. Holden seeks the truth that, when the
ultimate motive becomes uncovered, remains to be free of corruption. Even
the good things in life, the good and honest acts, can be contaminated due
to the .....
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Comparison And Contrast Dickens' Oliver Twist And Pip
.... At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my
waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
(Chapter II)
Pip is brought up by his sister “by hand”, and that has become a
perfect reason for his sister to abuse him. When he starts to see Miss
Havisham, he is looked down by Estella, who would abuse him mentally by
saying the meanest words.
She came back, with some bread and meat and little mug of beer.
She put he mug down on the stones of the yard, and gave me the bread and
meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace.
I was humiliated, hurt, spurned .....
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Ways How Huckleberry Finn Tries To Help Jim
.... that he decides to help jim out of slavery.
He's emotional values comes in at this point also. He feels very weird
having to do this but he decides to do it anyway. He doesn't care if he's
going to hell since he believes that he has done unpleasant things before
in his life. But the main reason is to help jim.
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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty - Character Study Of Walter Mitty
.... overshoes,"(88) but he did give
in to his wife in the end, and bought the overshoes. Another incident that
shows Walter Mitty is stubborn occurs when his wife told him to put his
gloves on, then Walter Mitty puts them on, but when his wife is out of site
he took them off immediately.
The most obvious trait of Walter Mitty is his constant day dreaming.
Throughout the whole story, Walter Mitty is being distracted easily by
everyday events. His dreams turn these simple events into wild fantasies
such as being a surgeon, bomber pilot and a captain of a sea vessel. An
example of how he changes something from everyday life in .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Comparison Of Movie And Book
.... to the viewers. Up to that point we were used to McMurphy
being a lively and cocky character. What we were exposed to was a character
with totally contrary characteristics. He looked like a dead corpse with
just enough energy to breathe. This was a truly moving scene that lead to
Chief suffocating the lifeless body.
This film was a poor adaption of the novel. The events in the movie
were not accurate when compared to the novel. The biggest difference in my
opinion was the charcterization. In the novel we really get to know the
background of
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Boys Life: Techniques Used To Develop Loss Of Innocence
.... author uses magical realism many times throughout the novel.
When Cory and his friends do their annual ritual at the end of the summer,
they pretend to fly with their dogs (pg. 187). They do this at the
beginning of the summer because it shows the innocence and magic that they
begin to lose. It also shows that they lose almost all of their
responsibilities during the summer. This ritual brought the boys together
and kept them very close to one another. The author uses magical realism
during the time when Cory's dog, Rebel, was sick and later dies. The
author uses great detail when he describes that Rebel has really die .....
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Water Is Wide
.... to
the event.
"Since the faculty was all white, the black
students walked the halls in silence, tears
of frustration rolling down their cheeks and
unspoken bitterness written on their faces in
their inability to communicate their feelings
to their white teachers." (p. 11)
This reaction to the assassination stayed with Pat for many years. Pat
Conroy's view have changed drastically. He is currently a liberal after
watching and witnessing many acts of brute force against blacks. "I
lobbied for a course in black history in a school 90 percent white." (p.
13) Pat wanted change but he wanted to .....
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Of Mice And Men: Insight Into The Life Of The Characters
.... child. He will do what ever George tells him to: "Curley was flopping
like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's hand.
George slapped [Lennie] in the face again and again and still Lennie held
on. Through Lennie's actions we can see that Lennie is very similar to a
child. Lennie's first instinct when he is scared is to hold on. Just as a
little kid holds on to its mum or dad when they become frightened, Lennie
holds on to objects.
As of Lennie's low intelligence to understand his strength, he
becomes frightened and kills Curley's wife and as a result, she ends up
being killed : "She took Lennie's h .....
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Summary Of The Old Man And The Sea
.... just
five years old. That is how young the boy was when he first started his
"classes on fishing" as I would call them.
The boy loved Santiago with all of his heart. To prove this one
day the boy bought some minnows for the old man. That same day he also
bought him a "can" of coffee. That day he wanted to go fishing with the
old man, but the old man refused to let the boy come with him. He said,
"You are with a lucky boat, stay with it." The boy was heart broken but
soon got over it and went fishing with his boat. The boat the boy was on
had a captain who was nearly blind. So the boy told the old man that he
would tell t .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Comparison Of Holden And Me
.... to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life in general to make it
seem he was very knowing of these habits. I myself have found me doing this
at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a group and do
things similar to what others do in order to gain acceptance by them. I
smoked a cigar once with two friends of mine because they kept going on and
on about how great cigars were, but that was only once. Holden and I both
place people on levels other than our own for amount of knowledge and
likeness to ourselves.
Holden used the term 'phonies' to describe more than a few people in
this book. He used the .....
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