Eveline By James Joyce
.... being involved in problems and stress time after time. So who’s to say that if she changes her environment that other problems wont build up again like the dust.
A promise is supposed to be something that is sacred. It’s something that is not ever to broken and this is what Eveline’s mother asked out of her. “ Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could” (6). This promise is not just an ordinary promise; it’s one that if it were broken would always be on the mind of Eveline. This promise is also very unfair to Eveline bec .....
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The Old Man And The Sea: Modernist Literature
.... Santiago and Manolin. "The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him" (10). From the narrator the reader learns that the boy takes care of the old man by bringing him food and supplies. The narrator tells the reader what Santiago is thinking while he is fishing.
The third characteristic is a simple direct style with a basic vocabulary. The choice of words creates basic concrete pictures with no flowery language. For example, "He knelt down and found the tuna under the stern with the gaff and drew it toward him keeping it clear of the coiled lines" (57). Hemingway uses this style because he thought that con .....
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The Sun Also Rises: Thoughts Of The Lost Generation
.... relationship of being lovers had failed they now tried a relationships of being best friends. As this new relationship develops, Jake and Brett draw back when the other becomes too emotional. “The street was dark again and I kissed her. Our lips were tight together and then she turned away and pressed against the corner of the seat, as far away as she could get. Her head was down” (Hemingway). The reader thus concludes that Jake contains an internal conflict between his behavior around his friend Cohn and his friend Brett, which he wants to further the relationship.
In spite of the characterization of actions used by .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Summary
.... were not at all beneficial to the people of this land. The family, which Steinbeck wrote about, although fictional, represented a sample of the thousands of farmers that were forced off their land and into a new part of the country (French 8).
The Joads were a closely-knit family. As the novel opens, Tom Joad, their son, whom was returning from a seven-year jail sentence for manslaughter, rejoins the family. Tom returns home only to discover that home is no longer what he had left four years earlier. His family had moved in with their Uncle John, after the banks had taken away their home. The effects of the Dust b .....
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Major Themes In Faulkner’s Light In August”
.... off the entire continuity of the book. It seems that Faulkner's desire for unity is not as strong as is his desire for truth to individual response. Thus Lena is a frame, she serves only to accentuate Christmas's story, by contrast. Faulkner demands the reader follow, and realize this.
So we now see Christmas's childhood. From the beginning, Christmas is two things. One, he is a totally clean slate in that he has no idea whatsoever of his past, his origins. He is neither predestined to good nor evil, simply born. By this same token, Christmas is left confused. Unable to determine where he belongs, because he has no i .....
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Hester Prynne: Learning And Changing
.... known in the time frame of the novel as Roger Chillingworth, and to her lover, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale.
Early on, Hester recognizes that the scarlet letter has and will continue to impart lessons to her: "I can teach my little Pearl what I have learned from this...this badge hath taught me, - it daily teaches me, - it is teaching me at this moment,- lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and the better, albeit they can profit nothing to myself." (111) Years of thought (which estrangement from society made room for and forced upon her) reinforced for Hester the value of truth "I who the scarlet letter has disciplined in .....
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Surfacing: A Summary
.... she forges later on will be greatly influenced by these images of youth.
The narrator’s first relationship with a man turns out to very detrimental to her well being. The man is married and unavailable yet she describes her feelings for him as “unique, the first, that’s where [she] learned.” (150). She goes on to say that she “worshipped him” and refers to him as a “non-child bride idolater” (150). The feelings of un-reciprocated adoration that she had towards her first love go to greatly influence later relationships. She approaches them as a war, with a winner and loser.
In her current relationship with Joe, the a .....
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Hildegard Of Bingen
.... She truly was an artist in every sense of the word, learning everything she could, linking things she learned and using untaped portions of the brain, creating her own genius. Her soul spoke and probably still speaks to artist of rare genius today. She must still be of great instrumental influence for Dr. Fierro and others like her to travel around the world on her behalf.
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The Handmaid's Tale
.... another crummy power trip."
- page 228
The Commander's Wife also takes advantage of the power she has over Offred's life. In return for performing the illegal act of having sex with a man other than the Commander, the Wife will produce a picture of Offred's long-lost child. This form of blackmail cruelly introduces hope to Offred, a notion which has been foreign to her for many years. She suddenly envisions hope of regaining her previous life, along with all of the rights she once took for granted. The day which began this horrible nightmare, is one she will never forget. In this one day, Offred lost her job, access to .....
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A Time Of Prejudice
.... door comes to visit his aunt. His name is Dill. Jem, Scout and Dill, as children, find their daily childish pleasure in harassing the most mysterious character in the book Boo Radley. As Scout would say, “He went out at night when the moon was down and peeped into peoples’ windows.” Later they found out that that was obviously untrue; they were just uneducated about Boo.
In the book, Atticus, whom I might add is a well-respected lawyer in Maycomb, defends the case of a black man; Tom Robinson who is no doubt innocent, but due to racist white peoples’ thinking – no matter what – is felt to be guilty. In this book it shows how .....
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The Chosen
.... Hasidic outfit, but he doesn't have the reverence for it that he should. Danny is a genius. His religion forbids him to read literature from the outside world, so he struggles with his thirst for knowledge and the restraints that have been put on him by both his father and his religion. He lives with his father, mother, older sister, and younger brother in Brooklyn as well.
The first antagonist is Danny. He and Reuven had many difficulties. They resolve their problems in the course of the book, but at the beginning they hate each other. Their religious views are also very opposite. Once they overcome their dif .....
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"Master Harold ...And The Boys"
.... Willie treated his girlfriend.
Although Willie's son was neglected, the baby's mother was beat. Willie's father had more influence on his life than he wanted to. Willie treated his girlfriend as if she were beneath him, as his father did to him. On page (9) Willie shows his disrespect for women.
The best thing that could have happened to Willie was the accident his father was in, when Willie was eighteen years old. It killed his father. Willie refuses to talk about the incident. Few people actually know what happened to him. The important thing to Willie is, he is gone. As cruel as his father was, Willie still .....
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