Summary Of Aycliffe's The Lost
.... back in Cambridge, as he describes his travels through Eastern
Europe, his frustrating encounters with bureaucrats, and the gloomy life in
today's Bucharest. Meanwhile, he hires a research assistant, Liliana, to
help him establish his bona fides as the owner of Castle Vliacu.. Liliana
and her secret boyfriend, however, hope to lead him into opening not an
orphanage but rather a hotel at the castle, a business likely to gather
great financial rewards. A grinding winter journey to the castle takes
Michael and Liliana through villages where many peasants seem never to have
seen a car. When their own breaks down, the two nearly die of .....
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The Dubliners: Summary
.... madness as well as his
physical and spiritual paralysis. He understands that the priest had been
a living his life in a way he felt would be satisfying to the church which
eventually led to his death. When The boy is finally able to see the priest
he has a moment of truth and understanding. He understands that his world
is the same as the priest, he relies on the books of the Church and his own
eyes for information. He believes that it was the way the priest was living
his life that made him become crazy and the young boy does not want the
same for his life. By the end of the story the boy comes to realize that he
has learn .....
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The Stranger: Existentialism
.... knife, and the intense
heat along with the salt from his sweat in his eyes that was bothering him.
Meursault shot the Arab mainly because he was uncomfortable and not because
he felt threatened, but in any case he made the decision to shoot him. In
the next chapter Meursault can't understand why he would need an attorney
for his case because it's simple to him, he had murdered a man and was now
ready to pay the consequences. He had made a choice that might not have
been the right one but he accepted it and was ready to go through with his
decision to wherever it would lead.
The other part in The Stranger that helped me to un .....
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The 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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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
.... is witness to Janine's confession of being raped. She doesn't
comment on how the blame is placed on Janine. Is this because Offred has
begun to accept the words of Aunt Lydia, or more likely, is she silent to
create emphasis on the horrific deed? The answer is easily satisfied when
the reader finishes the novel. Offred must realize the injustices if she
feels compelled to reveal her story on the tapes. She must grasp the
importance of conveying the atrocities that were executed during the
Gileadian area.
Offred is representative of an average women also because she has
experienced no great traumas. She isn't just ambival .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Jack Merridew - Not Guilty
.... and Piggy, the boys were uncontrollable.
On the night that Simon died, we were having a feast while "a thing came
crawling out the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly." (p.152) The boys,
especially the littluns, were so terrified, they thought Simon was the
beast, so they attacked with the thought of killing the beast not Simon.
Ralph was at that incident as well. He was one of us.
As for Piggy, the rock that struck Piggy was not launched by my
hand. The boys were bright enough to act on their own. "Roger started
throwing rocks from atop the castle while his other hand was still on the
lever where he leaned all his we .....
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Billy Bud: Contrast Between Good And Evil
.... of the dawn." Claggort's death completely contrasts
with the pure death of Billy Budd. Billy's death is portrayed as good,
conquering, and symbolic, which directly foils that of Claggort's. Not
only using symbolism, Melville also uses characterization to contrast good
and evil.
Characterization is used to contrast the concepts of good
and evil. Billy Budd is "like a young horse fresh from the pasture
suddenly inhaling a vile whiff from some chemical factory." Billy's
innocence and purity is exterminated at the hands of his main enemy, John
Claggort, " much such as Adam presumably might have been ere the urbane
Serpent wr .....
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Hesse's Siddhartha: Siddhartha's Character
.... would show him another part of how people in his world lived.
Siddhartha did not allow himself to stick to something that he could not
feel to be right, thus he could not stay and worship the gods his father
worshipped. He, as discontent people long for, set out to search for the
internal happiness that he had not redeemed yet.
As Siddhartha wandered through his multiple phases in life, he
learned overwhelming aspects. He seemed so above the common people, yet he
discovered that he became more and more like them. He too had
uncontrollable feelings of emptiness. The next life that Siddhartha
embarked on was his life wi .....
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The Medea: Women's Rights
.... girl
who married him." (260-263) It may have seemed in the beginning of the
monologue that Medea was out to join forces with the other women in
complaint to the way they are treated, but Medea was out for revenge. That
was underling everything she said.
When one looks at the women's liberation movement that occurred in
the united states history, one will see that the women wanted to appear
stable and sane. The women wanted equal rights and they used logical and
rational arguments. If liberating women was what was in Medea's mind she
would have tried to put women in a positive light. Instead she resorted to
her evil, and us .....
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Old Man And The Sea: Themes Of Santiago Against Nature, Figures Of Christ
.... with figures of Christ. It
mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other
characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of
biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin,
his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might
be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal for a great period of
time and is sure it will work this time. Later, though, when Santiago
needs him for the quest he sets out to do, Manolin deserts him, although
he may not have wanted to at this time. In the novel Santiago comes upon a
force bigger than his skiff, the marli .....
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Ignorance And Racism In Heart Of Darkness
.... critics would have never called Conrad a racist, during
his time, but rather a great story teller who is kind hearted to "Blacks".
Conrad constantly referred to the natives, in his book, as black savages,
niggers, brutes, and "them", displaying what we see as racism toward the
African people. Conrad wrote, "Black figures strolled out listlessly… the
beaten nigger groaned somewhere" (Conrad 28). "They passed me with six
inches, without a glance, with the complete, deathlike indifference of
unhappy savages" (Conrad 19). Achebe, also, detected Conrad's frequent use
of name calling, "Certainly Conrad had a problem with niggers. .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Summary
.... over in Paris
the tension is mounting. The Monseigneur, and the Monsieur the Marquis are
murdered by the French Resistance. Much secrecy occurs among the French
peasants. The Defarges are two of the main characters in the resistance.
Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette are eventually married and have a daughter.
It turns out Charles Darnay is really the nephew of the French Marquis that
was murdered. Darnay goes back to France to try and save a man named
Gabelle. Darnay himself is captured and ends up in prison. He is rescued by
his friend Carton. Carton takes Darnay's place in prison and thus, Darnay
is saved. Miss Pross is a dear f .....
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