The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
.... is how his mother met the sailor, and they fell in love.
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The young boy is happy and begin his friendship with the sailor, and soon found out that his mother has along fell in love with the sailor. Thinking that this is only during the time the sailor is on the port, the young boy did not mind. In fact, he tells his friends about the sailor.
The sailor soon invaded the young boy's home by coming over and sleeping with his mother. This aggravates the young boy, and plots to kill him when he found out that the sailor is marrying his mother. The sailor made a choice over his career and asks the young .....
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The Canterbury Tales: The Knight
.... He makes sure to give full details of each one. The knight in The Canterbury Tales is a important figure and he reflects all of the qualities that a medevil knight should have.
The Knight is one of the few characters in The Canterbury Tales who gets a relatively straightforward treatment. The Knight is described in the Prologue as an experienced fighter who'd distinguished himself on many pilgrimages (lines 45-60) and had fought in some fifteen battles (63). In addition, he is described as both "worthy and wise" and as "meeke as a maid." The Knight wears a tunic of coarse cloth ("fustian") which is stained wit .....
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Epic Heros In Beowulf And Roland
.... 'the miraculous' appear in the epic, they result in no more than a heightening or aggrandizement of reality.
The epic heroes of Beowulf … [and] of Roland go down to defeat and in some sense are responsible for their defeat ....However, we know that even in defeat partially of their own doing. they are heroes nevertheless—men above the common, above the average, whose drive for glory whether heavenly or earthly, raises them beyond the ordinary and the average. They are big persons who are semi-divine, larger than human, who fascinate us by their valor, courage, and even bravura.
The heroes of both Beowulf and Roland .....
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The Jungle: Character Analysis
.... industry is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable efficiency and speed at which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked, packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The tour guide specifically says "They use everything about the hog except the squeal," (The Jungle, page 38).
Jurgis’s brawny build quickly gets him a job on the cattle killing beds. The other members of the family soon find jobs, except for the children. They are put into school. At first, Jurgis is happy with his job and America, but he soon learns that America is plagued by corruption, dishonesty, and briber .....
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“In Cold Blood” By Truman Capote
.... torn by his affections for the two and by knowing of the murders they had committed.
Capote did not begin the book with the murder scene. Instead, he gave the reader a view of the Clutters as people, not just as victims. There is a chance for the reader to get to know and like the Clutters before they are murdered. And he could have given the description of the murders at the point they appeared, but he waited to give those details until Perry's confession. This creates suspense, and the reader is eager to find out what exactly did happen on November 14, 1959. He shows how other people's lives are affected by the murde .....
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Great Expectations: Miss Havisham And Disengagement
.... Not only because of his style, his thematic elements, or his plot structure, but also because of the detail he gives to each character. The book is about loyalty, love, broken hearts, and life. Pip, an orphan, lives with his sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. One day on the marshes, Pip meets an escaped convict who forces him to steal food and a file from the Gargerys for him. The convict is almost immediately recaptured. Pip is subsequently hired by Miss Havisham, a wealthy, elderly recluse, as a playmate for her beautiful, adopted daughter, Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love.
When Jagger .....
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Marigolds By Eugenia Collier
.... fear and anger build up, they move her to an act of destruction. But this act also taught her a lesson in life.
Childhood is meant to be a time of learning and reaching to find that person you want to be as an adult. It seems that every act as a child is based on innocence and ignorance. Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. As a child, even an act of destruction is seen as innocence. During childhood, violence seems to come so normal to children, as if second nature. They tend to think it's their only way of letting go and forgetting their problems in .....
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Billy Budd
.... spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost”(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude, Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is accepted for his looks and happy personality, “…hardly here [is] he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship’s companies of the merchant marine”(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-arms. A man “in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious .....
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The Prince: Politics And Science
.... best defense for fortune, and virtue must be used in order to keep fortune in check. The prince must take advantage of situations based solely on if it is best for the state. He should choose his decisions based on contemporary and historical examples. A prince cannot consider whether his acts are moral or immoral, and he instead must act in an unbiased manner for the state. Also, it does not matter how the state achieves its goals, as long as these goals are achieved. Finally, regardless of the personal morality involved, the prince should be praised if he does good for the state and berated if he hurts the state. Machiavelli's pr .....
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Flatland: Social Satire Of Victorian English Society
.... circle; and, when the number is very great indeed, say for example three or four hundred, it is the most difficult for any delicate touch to feel a polygonal angle." It is also safe to say that ii is very improper to feel another shape in the higher classes, so it is almost never done except in some cases of disrespect and rudeness. The average perimeter of the circumference of a circle is three feet, or in a polygon three hundred sides, and it is assumed that the Chief Circle has ten thousand sides.
Circles were considered perfect because all their sides were equal and if they did have any flaws they were to small to detect. .....
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Zaabalawi: The Wise And Loving Image Of Zaabalawi
.... During this trek for truth the narrator came into contact with several individuals ranging in social status from town commons to the Sheikh of the district, educated men such as lawyers, artists, and musicians, and many local shop tenders. Many of these individuals were in touch with the faith that was beginning to grow in the narrator, understanding the desire and thirst to know this man of miracles. Many also ridiculed Zaabalawi, "openly made fun of him, labelled him a charlatan, and advised me to put myself in the hands of a doctor" (801), thinking he was a quack, a fraud and phoney.
Several times during the j .....
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The Use And Nonuse Of The Theory Of Repressive Hypothesis In Indian Camp
.... extreme pleasure (143). This obsession with sexuality is a definite violation of the limits of the society. " It stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it (repression) except at a considerable cost: nothing less that a transgression of laws, a lifting of prohibitions" (Foucault 142). According to Foucault, violation of the laws governing us is the only solution to get rid of repression from our society. Ernest Hemingway uses the theory of repressive hypothesis to impart grief in the chapter Indian Camp. Hemingway also devises composition which is completely opposite of repressive hypothesis. The parad .....
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