The Dead: A Necessary Introduction
.... for bringing it up, and tosses her a coin in thanks, and as an indirect apology. He then rushes away to avoid further discussion, and perhaps his guilt as well.
The reader also discovers very quickly that Gabriel is very well educated. He is to give a speech at the dinner table, and he struggles with whether or not he should include certain poetic and academic references. He feels that he will appear superior to the guests, and that his speech will be misunderstood, or not understood at all. He is conscious of the feelings of the people around him.
In our class, readers are ignorant towards the political views of the people .....
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Helpless Before The Iron In Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing"
.... just one line in the story, this statement packs powerful reasoning into the mother's helplessness, showing how her immaturity and lack of knowledge is working against her and to no fault of her own.
Closely related is the narrator's single status in a time of male dominance and no charitable family organizations. The mother is acquitted from any wrong doing because her husband abandons her and Emily early in the story because he " could no longer endure" (p. 169). This act causes the mother to have to raise Emily on her own and with no experience. This proves to be one of the major causes of the families turmoil. There is .....
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The Sundiata
.... was important to the survival of the troops. A great hunter would never die of hunger or wounds not treated properly.
In the Sundiata, the Muslim rulers were portrayed as powerful, respected, good rulers. Sundiata was a Muslim as well as Soumaba Cisse¢. When Sundiata first arrived at the court of Soumaba Cisse¢, he was at prayer. Soumaba Cisse¢ gave asylum to the exiled Sundiata and his family. He offered his home to be their home, allowed Sogolon to rest, and her children to be dressed and treated like royalty. When Sogolon became sick, he sent the family to a place where she could get better (Niane 33-35). Sundiata wa .....
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A Raisin In The Sun: Achieving Impossible Dreams
.... and dignity and contribute to sacrificing their time into working endless hours to keep the house. Ruth says, “Lena—I’ll work… I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to—but we got to move…”(Hansberry 112). Through the struggle of poverty, one can still achieve success by keeping their pride and confronting the problem.
Walter often struggles with his identity and individuality as a person. He feels as if an empty life lies ahead of him with no future. He states, “Sometimes I can see the fut .....
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Emily Bronte's Life And Wuthering Heights
.... him as a young boy. Edgar Linton is well-mannered, considerate, financially secure gentleman who sought only the love of Catherine. Many of those who read this novel would support the blatant obvious; Edgar Linton as the unsung hero of the story. That though is the blatant obvious and the easiest choice to consider within the novel. But the true hero of the novel is Heathcliff, due to the misfortune and bleakness of his past.
When examining Heathcliff’s youth, it is very apparent to see why he has turned to seek vengeance against the world. Discovered in the streets of Paris by Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine’s father, he is b .....
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Summary Of Beloved
.... children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arrives, he chases away the ghost, but soon a young woman named Beloved comes to Sethe's home. This woman is strangely similar to Sethe's dead daughter, which is ironic because the word "Beloved" is the only word engraved on her baby's tombstone, though it is never entirely clear if the woman truly is the baby's ghost turned to flesh.
The women in Beloved are the .....
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Frankenstein: Rights And Responsibilities
.... When Dr. Frankenstein decided to introduce a new being into the world, he didn't have to consult anyone, answer any questions or think into the future. With no monitoring, one scientist not only caused four unwarranted deaths, he endangered the lives of many more. "The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend; my father even now might be writhing under his grasp, and Ernest might be dead at his feet." Although Frankenstein was disgusted by his creation, he was still obligated to ma .....
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Northanger Abbey: Reader's Response To Heroine
.... ways of the world, is immediately impressed by the more sophisticated Isabella. After their first meeting this is clear as she watches her leave; "(she) admired the graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her figure and dress, and felt grateful, as well she might, for the chance which had procured her such a friend." Jane Austen's interjection here, ("as well she might"), expresses the reader's feelings at this point.
Up to now we have had few clues as to Isabella's less desirable character traits, and so we are guided, along with Catherine, into feeling grateful for her patronage of our heroine. No direct commen .....
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A Changed Man
.... angered by the fact that he now must suffer for those who left and no longer send any letters, and seems to believe that they are at fault for the weakening of his family and of his tribe. Still, he knows that the fate of these family units lies in his hands now, and with the urgency of the situation in mind, the journey begins with the
...fear of the unknown, the fear of the great city where boys are
killed crossing the street, the fear of Gertrude’s sickness. Deep
down the fear for his son. Deep down the fear of a man who
lives in a world not made for him, whose own world is slipping
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The Time Machine By H.G Wells
.... Time Machine brought these concerns into his fiction. It, too, involved the future, but a future imagined with greater realism and in greater detail than earlier stories of the future. It also introduced, for the first time in fiction, the notion of a machine for traveling in time. In this novel the Time Machine by H. G. Wells, starts with the time traveler trying to persuade his guest's the theory of the fourth dimension and even the invention. He tries to explain the fourth dimension before he shows them the time machine so they don't think of him as a magician.
H. G. Wells uses details about the fourth dimension to teach t .....
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The House On Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule
.... to improve and achieve past the expectations set forth by her environment.
The writing style used in The House on Mango Street is a very indirect way of narrative. The author presents to the reader many different stories, stories that if taken at face value could be see as details alone. These stories are short narratives that describe a character in the life of Esperanza, or tell of an action that took place. Each individual story is told as if the reader is to understand, as if the reader is a friend of Esperanza. This is a very personal attraction that The House on Mango Street offers to the reader. These individual stor .....
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The Crucible
.... The Crucible are the hangings and convictions of nineteen men and women and two dogs in Salem in 1692. Their bodies were buried in shallow graves or not at all. The trial of these people are perhaps the most disconcerting single episode in American history. The trials were started when several girls accused members of the community of witchcraft. These accusations led to warrants being issued on Feb 29, 1692 for the slave Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osburn. These were old women of dubious reputations. The three were examined on March 1st. Thereafter, events followed quickly. On April 4th, complaints were filed against Good .....
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