Zeinert's The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Summary
.... To say that
"witchcraft" is the answer the these questions. The unfortunate
circumstance for some of the accused witches/wizards was that some of them
had admitted to such crimes. The girls had fits and calling outs that
didn't benefit them either.
Some important happenings were when at Reverand Burrough's trial he
argued that there were no such things as witches or wizards and that was
considered a lie to the court since others had already confessed. Another
event of somewhat similar nature was at her execution on Gallows Hill,
Goody Good, said to the minister on hand that wanted her to confess " You
are a liar. I am no m .....
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Modern Relevancy Of A Christmas Carol
.... day and age, Christmas is also known as a time to spend with loved
ones. The winter holidays are the most joyful because of the time we spend
with our close friends and relatives. No one could ever be happy spending
Christmas by themselves, especially in our society. However, there is a
difference between Christmas one hundred years ago and Christmas in the
present. These days, giving gifts is considered more important than
celebrating Jesus Christ's birth or spending time with family. In the
1800's nothing was more important at Christmas than family.
Charles Dickens portrayed different morals to be learned in A
Christmas .....
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Zane Grey
.... In the novel The Vanishing American Marian is an
eastern girl who moves out west to be with her true love Nophie. Nophie is
an Indian she met and fell in love with. At first Marian struggles with
the harsh conditions and hot weather. She almost gives up but continues to
push on. Gradually she becomes stronger and able to deal with the climate
and the problems nature throws at her. This gains her a lot of respect
from the westerners who had previously looked down on her. She receives a
new understanding on life and comes to be regarded as an equal.
At the turn of the century there was a revival of an interest in .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Thoughts And Feelings
.... near obsession with death might come from having
experienced two deaths in his early life. He constantly dwells on Allie,
his brother's, death. From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves
and misses Allie. In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the
pain of his loss, Holden brings Allie's baseball mitt along with him where
ever he goes. The mitt has additional meaning and significance for Holden
because Allie had written poetry, which Holden reads, on the baseball mitt.
Holden's preoccupation with death can be seen in his contemplation of a
dead classmate, James Castle. It tells the reader something about .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Beast Within Us
.... This is kind of like Jack's own way of initiating himself
into a different person. Then after we see Jack as a different person, we
see such acts as the death of Simon, the smeared blood on the children's
faces, and the attempt on Ralph's life. All these things show how his
inner demon's presence. Another place where we see the evil come out is in
the words of the young boys. Especially concerning Jack and Ralph. The
arguments that these two get into never stop from beginning of the story to
the end. A natural desire for leadership takes over their emotions and
persuades them to say things that they would not normally say. .....
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The Invisible Man: Philosophy Through Characterization
.... peak in the
narrator's quest since it sets him for his struggle in searching for
himself.
The narrator adores the college however is thrown out before long
by its president, Dr.Bledsoe, the great educator and leader of his race.
Ironically the narrator had seen Dr.Bledsoe as an idol aiming to gradually
impersonate him. He was expelled for permitting, Mr.Norton , one of the
college founders into the slave quarters and the Golden Day bar. After
that incident the Invisible Man goes through the sense that he is losing
his identity. This initiates an air of confusion as the narrator is now
brought in a quarrel against himself.
In t .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Breakdown Of A Society
.... eventual rescue. The specs were used to start the first fire.
Without them, they have no chance of rescue.
At one point in the story, Jack and Piggy began to fight and Jack
hit Piggy's glasses off. They hit a rock and shattered one lens. This
symbolizes the loss of one-half of their chance of rescue.
One day, Ralph, Simon and Piggy saw a passing ship in the distance.
Unfortunately, their fire had gone out because nobody had fulfilled their
responsibility of tending to it. They boys are now more engrossed with
hunting than concentrating on being rescued. They concentrate solely on
the hunts and give no concern to buildin .....
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Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
.... and prosperous
one did not need the comfort of towns or advantages of education, one only
needed the vast open plains of the llano. Gabriel's wife encouraged him to
give up the wild lifestyle and move into town where they could build a
family together. He did this but it crushed his adventurous spirit. He
was forced to give up his land, herd of animals, and close group of vaquero
friends who in turn condemned him for leaving. His life in town was much
different and became evident that he was not truly happy. He showed these
feelings by drinking often and frequently separating himself from the
family. Reluctantly, he attended .....
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William Faulkner's Absalom
.... in
Absalom, Absalom.
Thomas Sutpen is the son of a poor mountain farmer who founded the
Sutpen estate. Thomas Sutpen stands for all the great and noble qualities
of the South, and at the same time represents the failure of the South by
rejecting the past and committing the same types of acts that his ancestors
did (Brodhead 34). He rejects his own father to adopt a plantation owner
as his surrogate father, who acts as a model of what a man is supposed to
be. When the plantation owner tells Sutpen to use the back door instead of
the front door, Faulkner is using this as an example of the negative
southern mores o .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Racism
.... should
never be brought onto anyone. Prejudice is another example in which hate
should not be brought forth in.
To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates prejudice through Boo Radley.
Boo shows us that thoughts can be brought onto a person, just because they
are different. People believe that he is a crazy man, due to the fact that
he never goes outside. The truth is that he is really a loving and caring
individual, who is just quiet and shy. He proved to us through the helping
of Scout and Jem that every rumor that was spoken about him was false. He
proved to us that we must understand where a man has been in order to judge
hi .....
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Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
.... He wakes each morning only wanting work for
money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many
lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy,
a man representative of Jesus Christ in both his initials "J.C." and in his
beliefs. The preacher is the one character that throughout the novel always
knows what he must do: to help those less fortunate fight in anyway
possible in order to get what they deserve. Tragically, Jim Casy is killed
by a police officer while trying to protect Tom. From this incident, Tom
Joad learns that he must lead the crusade that Jim had died for. In t .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout And Maturity
.... of the gifts,
she later realized they must have came from Boo. This was the start of her
acceptance of Boo as a "nice" person.
When Miss Maudie's house caught on fire, Boo surprised Scout.
Atticus stated, "Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you
didn't know it when he put the blanket around you." (Lee, p. 72) Boo came
to Scouts rescue by putting a blanket around her. Scout began to think of
Boo as a kind man not a monster.
At the end of the novel Scout stated, "An' they chased him ‘n'
never could catch him ‘cause they didn't know what he looked like, an'
Atticus, when they finally saw him, .....
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