The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall: Ellen Weatherwall
.... young women with a peaked Spanish comb in her hair and a painted fan.” Ellen was characterized by her beauty and delicacy. “She is a prize to be claimed by a worthy man.” She dreams of getting married and living happily ever after. She depended too much on one man. George is to give her his name, but if not “chaos is to come again.”:
Such a fresh breeze blowing and such a green day with no threats in it. But he had not come, just the same… There was the day…
But a whirl of dark smoke and covered it, crept up and over into the bright field where everything was planted so carefully in orderly rows. (Porter, 126)
After she inv .....
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THe Catcher In The Rye: Summary
.... name are purely symbolic. The meaning is as the children are running thorough the rye they do not see the cliffs ahead and the plummet they will make. When they make this "fall" they lose their child-like innocence. This fall could be related to a moral dilemma like maybe the city in the raw. Where he/she would be exposed to prostitution, drunkenness, and maybe drugs. Holden Caufield sees himself ruined and tainted by the world. He has failed out of school, drinks, and smokes. His attitude is it is too late for me. But, there is a ray of hope in his life; he feels it is his duty to save other children from the world as a catcher .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of The Social Structure
.... way the people of St. Antoine get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with a cruel regard for life. Another place where Dickens describes this revolution lunacy is when the crowd of "five thousand demons" come around the corner "dancing" to the Carmagnole, the song of the revolution. This shows that everyone who has a part in the revolution has become like one, a large mass of mindless people who only have death on their minds.
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“A Raisin In The Sun”: Struggles
.... 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….” 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. Walter encounters his problem and comes up with an idea of opening up his own business, to get control over his life, and puts up all his effort to achieve it. Even though h .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... close friend and a recruit whom he had comforted earlier, Paul went home finding that war had isolated him from his family and his childhood. With the return to his unit he again felt the presence of belonging. Soldiers had become his family. The mental anguish was again vividly displayed after Paul killed a French soldier; discovering that the soldier had a family, Paul slipped into a deep agony vowing to prevent such wars from again occurring. The depth of the emotions that soldiers experienced created a very believable example of the psychological impacts of war. By having the plot told by Paul, the reader can truly get inside .....
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The Crucible
.... Proctor who are the saintliest of people are accused of being witches, something must be wrong. Mary Warren has a difficult decision to make. She has realized that her whole way of life has been based on injustice. However, how can she extricate herself from Abigail and her friends, not to mention her new feelings of confidence. Mary decides to speak out against Abigail and the others for their false accusations and said that she " tried to kill me numerous times"(57). Yet as she does this heroic act of overcoming her old reality, Abigail pretends that Mary is also a witch using the poppets against her(73). Mary is now faced wi .....
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Pecola
.... shoes with the wad of gum peeping out from between the cheap soles……Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything” (p80)
Thus she thinks it is only the outside that counts. She thought that if she were able to change the colour of her eyes to blue, that being a symbol of beauty in a white culture, her life would change; she would be looked at, be respected, accepted and admired.
“if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say beautiful, she herself would be different” (p34)
The white cultures’ judgements were forced upon Pecola; she like society identified herself as black, and therefore dirty, unequal to white .....
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Character Development In Dead Poets Society
.... that he is handsome and ?preppy?. The reader creates a picture in his (or her) mind of a very attractive, Matt Damon-type (he is so hot), above average high school male. Contradictory, in the movie, Charlie is shown as a rather average, scholarly gentleman, leaving no room for the imagination take over. Also, Knox Overstreet is described in the novel as a curly-headed, athletically built young adult; but, in the movie, he is shown as tall and lanky with straight hair. Still, contrary to those characters, the character of Mr. Keating is portrayed precisely the same in both works as an average, scholarly, middle-aged man. .....
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Okonkwo: Overwhelmed By His Past
.... with the concept of being different from his father, beginning his life having nothing.
With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. . . . But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future. It was slow and painful. But he threw himself into it life one possessed. And indeed he was possessed by the fear of his father’s contemptible life and shameful death. (18)
Okonkwo will try whatever he can to be unlike Unoka. He is determined to gain respect and admiration by Umuofia, unlike his father. The strong p .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Theme Of Punishment
.... what was done in the past was wrong and that the scarlet A was the right thing to do, therefor it is worn with a sense of pride.
The child, Pearl, is "a blessing and as a reminder of her sin." As if the scarlet A were not enough punishment there "was a brat of that hellish breed" which would remind Hester of what happened in the past. The "brat" could have been given away to Governor Bellingham yet Hester proclaimed that Pearl "is my happiness!...Ye shall not take her! I will die first!" Not a person in Boston, nor Hester herself thought highly of the little child and Hester refused to let Pearl go. Hester carried t .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Women In Society
.... symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that she is kept in the house.
One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizes not only her potential but also her trapped feeling is the window. Traditionally this symbol represents a view of possibilities, but now it also becomes a view to what she does not want to see. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. But she says nea .....
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"The Heptameron"
.... out, someone of the higher class could obtain someone as a mistress but not as a wife. Marriage always had to be approved by your mistress. No matter how much one loved another, it also had to be consented between both sides of the family. You could not remarry until mourning was done. And a couple could not be active right after the wife gave birth. Most of the time, when a wife becomes a widow, she goes into religious life. It was thought of most honorable to do so. Another interesting aspect to marriage in the stories, a woman could marry young, so young that it was not lawful of the husband to sleep with her yet. Therefore, abi .....
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