The Diary Of Anne Frank
.... addition to changes in the lives of Jewish people, normal existence changed for others as well. Everyone, Jewish or not, had to register to record their name and address. Those who were Jewish could then be singled out. In order to separate them, they were given identification cards and made to wear a yellow Star of David. Anne makes reference to this segregation in her diary when she tells about going to her secret place. “We could see by their faces how sorry they were that they could not offer us a lift; the gaudy yellow star spoke for itself” (Frank 14). Therefore, as a result of a yellow star, people who were once frie .....
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Intensity : What An Understatement
.... teenager and run into the hall. She does like most of us would do; she hides under the bed. Koontz really makes it feel like you could be the one squished under that bed. When the killer leaves the room Chyna searches the house undetected and finds her friend and everyone else had been brutally but quietly murdered. With revenge burning inside her, she rides undetected with two corpses on Edgler’s motor home. On the ride she witnesses two more killings and learns of a girl captive in his basement, whom she becomes determined to free.
Back at Vess’ log cabin in an Oregon mountain range, the suspense really begins to bui .....
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Sexuality In Wiseblood
.... body, he first thought that it was a skinned animal. When he realized what it was, he at once left the tent, ashamed, and perhaps frightened of the object before his eyes.
Hazel’s reaction was not unnatural. The sight with which he was confronted would invoke both fear and embarassment within most ten-year-olds. Not only was the body nude, but it was inside a casket as well. The author parallels this vulgar display of sexuality with death itself. But Hazel reacted to more than just the sight of the object. He at once realizes that he was not supposed to watch the naked lady, that it was sinful to do so. He feels ashamed for hav .....
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Friendship Is The Key
.... trouble for others. One situation was when Tom and Huck decided to play a trick on Jim by putting his hat above a tree he was lying by, leading Jim to think he was "bewitched" by witches.
Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn’t wake. Afterward Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance… (15).
Ignorance was a tool for Huck in the beginning of the story to survive. He used the ignorance in himself to look past the hurt he caused Jim. The tricks Huck played were looked upon as just games and not as disrespectful acts in his own igno .....
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The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
.... with the idea of being with Daisy, not actually in love with Daisy. Finally, he is betrayed by it with the help of Daisy's husband, Tom Buchanan, and the death of Myrtle Wilson. Gatsby is called great, which you can call him great by virtue of his ability to commit himself to his aspirations, but at the same time Gatsby himself is a liar, adulterer, a criminal, and someone the narrator, Nick Carraway, has only scorn for. So, as time rolls on in The Great Gatsby , Gatsby and his aspirations for realizing the so-called "American Dream" seem to drift further and further apart as the forces of time seem to do in Jay Gatsby. .....
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"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
.... the story, Pelayo and Elisenda. The author does not portray the divine as one might think. When a person thinks of an angel they think of a very elegant, beautiful figure usually clothed in white with a spiritual presence. Garcia does not portray angels in this typical way. In this story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," he describes the angel as being, very old, foul smelling, and having unusually enormous wings, but lacking the ability to fly. By taking the "real" and making it "surreal," Garcia Marquez expresses the notion of "magical realism." This style of writing is what made the author what he is today (Gonzalez).
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A Separate Peace: Adolescence
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While reading this story I was under the impression that Gene was a very smart person. Then once he began to spend time with Finny, the two boy’s personalities started to combine. Usually when this happened the boys did things that were against the rules. An example of this is when Finny talked Gene into skipping school and going to the beach. “The beach was hours away by bicycle, forbidden, completely out of all bounds. Going there risked expulsion, destroyed the studying I was going to do for an important test the next morning, blasted the reasonable amount of order I wanted to maintain in my life, and it als .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Going Crazy
.... I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous”(Gilman 293). The symbolism utilized by Gilman is somewhat askew from the conventional. A house usually symbolizes security but in this story the opposite is true. The protagonist, whose name we never learn, feels trapped by the walls of the house, just as she is trapped by her mental illness. The windows of her room, which normally would symbolize a sense of freedom, are barred, holding her in (Biedermann, 179, 382). From the beginning the reader is given a sense of the domineering tendencies of the narrator’s husband, John. The narrator tells us: “ John is a physician, and perh .....
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Call Of The Wild: Buck
.... John Thorton went up and beat up the Scotch half-breed cut Buck free from the harness and the man left without Buck. Buck joined Thorton's team of dogs. They went to a bar; Thorton made a bet with a man that Buck could pull one thousands pounds of equipment by himself. Buck did it and Thorton won sixteen hundred dollars worth of gold. Thorton went on a search for the gold that everyone was talking about. Throton made it and found a gun and some blankets and there was no one around, he did not think anything of it. He saw all the gold and collected fifty bags of it. Buck went exploring and found a friend and it was a timber wolf. .....
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First Love: Vladimir's Voyage
.... notions of romanticism which he acquires from the poetry and romantic literature that he reads in his childhood. "I would take a book with me - Kaidanov's lectures, for example - though I seldom opened it, and spent most of the time repeating lines of poetry aloud to myself - I knew a great many by then."( p. 23) From his first encounter with the mystical enchantress, his behavior alters without his understanding the reasons behind these modifications: "As I was going to bed, without quite knowing why, I spun round two or three times on one foot; then I put pomade on my hair, lay down, and slept like a top all night." (p. 27) Spinn .....
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A Meeting In The Dark: A Loss Of Priorities
.... that John would make the same mistake, which he has. Perhaps that is why he is so strict on his son.
John was a very selfish young boy. He is concerned more about himself and what he is losing than what is important. He sneaks out of his hut to go to the Makeno Village to see the mother of his unborn child, Wahumu. As he walks along the path, he passes a woman. They engage in idle conversation, and he continues down the path. He feels proud for speaking to her and others noticing, until he realizes [concerning Wahumu and the baby] "Father will know. They will know." (100). The fear comes back. The fear of losing his status, the .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... members of Paul’s unit, who were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul’s unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war camp with severe starvation problems and again questioned the values that he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war. After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front. During an attack, .....
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