A Literary Analysis Of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
.... to this imagery, however, is Kerouac's use of extensive, though necessary, detailed description. The magnitude of the imagery in this story could never have been attained without the use of the vivid details that brought every place and situation to life. Sal's experience in Mexico, for example, uses wide ranges of description to let the reader know just how Sal is feeling through everything that happens to him. This kind of description is showcased in many places thoughout the book. Kerouac's stunning use of description to give the story an uncanny sense of realism plays a major role in making the story what it is.
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Nick Carraway: A Good Narrator
.... the story is he was Daisy Buchanan's cousin. Daisy was the only woman who was the protagonist's, Jay Gatsby's, love. Because Nick hadn't seen Daisy for a long time, he brought up the questions about the relationship between Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan. This let all the readers realize that Tom had a woman outside besides Daisy. Also, Daisy told Nick almost everything: her sadness to be Tom's wife, and the little girl that she had with Tom, and Daisy also introduced her friend Jordan Baker, a golf champion, to Nick. Later on they became a couple for a short period. Because Daisy told everything about herself to Nick, r .....
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“Changes In M. Lantin’s Perspective”
.... and within one month his hair turns white (15). He becomes desperate and is on the verge of both a mental and financial breakdown. After leaving her things the way she had left them for some time, he finds himself penniless. He realizes that he could sell her “worthless” trinkets for six to eight francs a piece (20). He finds out that these trinkets were worth quite a large sum of money. He now knows his wife’s secret: the jewelry is real. He then sells all the jewelry and made a profit of some 200,000 francs (68). He tries to fill the void that his wife has left in his heart, with money. He celebrates lavishly, with fin .....
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Gulliver's Travels: Political Satire
.... The Tory party leaders at the time were Edward Harley and Bolingbroke. (source 6) His main duty with the Tories was writing pamphlets defending the Tories administration. These pamphlets are where Swift got his start writing satires against the organizations that he did not like. In 1715, the Tories fell from power and Swift no longer had a place for himself in England. He returned to Ireland to become the dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The next eleven years of his life were spent in what he considered exile. Despite Swift felt little joy or satisfaction being in Ireland, he did become involved with the Irish peo .....
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Character Analysis Of Metamorphosis
.... He often dreams of the day when he is able to quit and rid himself of this tiring job. Even though he greatly dislikes his job, he continues to work for them because this job pays well and he believes that his family is in debt. Is Gregor's boss really his father' creditor? Perhaps at one time, his boss was but now Gregor is lead to believe so because his father wants him to provide for the whole family.
All of a sudden, Gregor discovers that he had turned into an insect and his world is not the same anymore. Instead of panicking and wondering why such an incident would happen, he thinks about his job. He worries that he doesn't .....
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The Great Gatsby: Capturing The American Dream
.... Nick, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want.
Later, as we see, Gatsby still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes...but of course I'll say I was." He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns home. "How long are you going to wait?" "All night if necessary." Gatsby cannot accept that the past is gone .....
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The Right Stuff
.... series." This sentence shows many technical aspects about the craft. The sentence did not seem overloaded with details because they are spaced out. Tom Wolfe’s writing helps the reader better understand the technical aspects.
Another device used to keep the reader's attention was the intertwining plots. In the first part of the book, the life of a typical pilot is portrayed. The rest of the book is a mixture of the four primary characters. The style is as follows: first, there is an interesting action sequence followed by a factual section. Next he switches to another character and the pattern continues. By doing this, .....
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Summary Of Walden Pond
.... to the self-actualization rather than to cash in the bank. Those are just some of the materialistic terms that Thoreau uses to refer to non-materialist values, making fun of the capitalist in the process.
Thoreau uses the opportunity of the first chapter to discuss the issue of how we spend our time and energies. It is obvious that his townspeople are not as economical as they spend many hours working very hard to accomplish very little, showing a false sense of economy. Thoreau believed that all attempts to redeem mankind from its problems were useless unless such attempts began with the person. The individual person ha .....
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Mother/Daughter Relationships In Beloved
.... relationships between Sethe and her mother, Ma’am, and Sethe and her daughter, Beloved.
The mother-daughter relationship between Sethe and her mother starts the cycle of perceived abandonment, betrayal and recovery inherent in the novel. Sethe is the daughter of a slave woman that suffered through the Middle Passage. The only memories that Sethe has of her mother, Ma’am, are two vague instances were first her mother was pointed out to her “stooping in a watery field wearing a cloth hat as opposed to a straw one” (Morrison 61) and secondly where her mother showed a young Sethe her identifying mark. The one encounter Set .....
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The Webb Story And The Efforts To Rebut It
.... among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about 10 CIA officials were provided Times cover...[as] part of a general Times policy ... to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible."
The situation at the Washington Post was hardly different. In 1988, the paper’s owner, Katharine Graham, said in a speech at the CIA’s Headquarters: "There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
Graham’s words came amid six years o .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Theme
.... by not eating properly, and by beating himself with a whip. Roger Chillingworth, his physician and Hester’s husband constantly reminds him of his sin. Near the end of the book, Dimmesdale finally tells the people of his sin and is redeemed just before he dies.
Roger Chillingworth was Hester’s husband in the Old World. He sent her to the colonies to make a home while he finished his affairs. After two years many people believed him to be dead. He finally shows up when Hester is on the scaffold. He changes his name and lives to find and torture Hester’s lover. That is what he does until Dimmesdale dies. Then he has no .....
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
.... Utterson finds out that Hyde has complete access to Dr. Jekyll's house. A few night’s later, Utterson goes to a dinner party at Dr. Jekyll’s house and stays late so he can question Jekyll about his will and Hyde. Dr. Jekyll gets aggravated with the discussion.
About a year later, a maid witnesses the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, but the killer leaves before he can be caught. The maid tells the police it was Hyde. The police go to Hyde’s apartment but the housekeeper says he is gone.
On another Sunday walk, Utterson and Enfield pass down the street where Enfield saw Hyde and the girl long ago. They go around the corner .....
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