Glass Menagerie: Relationships Are The Conveyance Of Love
.... Amanda doesn't want to realize that her children have different
views than her. Tom and Amanda are always arguing. To get away from his
mother, Tom tells Amanda that he goes to the movies every night and stays
out late to escape Amanda's nagging. Amanda is always telling Tom how to
eat, when to eat, what to eat, how to quit smoking, and what to read.
Amanda doesn't believe that Tom goes to the movies every night. Every time
Tom tries to make Amanda look at Laura realistically, she always ignores
him. She will never let Tom refer to Laura as crippled. By what Tom is
telling Amanda is that Laura is more than crippled becau .....
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Critical Summary: Descartes' Meditations I, II, And VI
.... continues
optimistically in his pursuits after the considerations in this section
shows his implicit belief that he is not being deceived in his current or
future deliberations on the matter. This simple fact seems to contradict
the very essence of this meditation.
The Second Meditation continues to address the issues of evil deception in
body and mind, and aims primarily to draw the conclusion that although at
this point the existence of the body apparently cannot be known, the
existence of the self (which is later equated with the mind) can. This is
based on Descartes' belief: "I think that I am something." Furthermore, he
prop .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... you had to come on time. When you got to the table you couldn’t go
right to eating, but you had to wait for the Widow to tuck down her head
and grumble a little over the vicuals...”
Huck actually got used to living that way, and liked it for a while.
Until one day he said, “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and
allowed she sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time,
considering how dismal regular and decent the Widow was in all her ways;
and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out.”
When Huck’s father came along he got scared. He was terrified of
Pap, his father. He wasn’t in town .....
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To Be A Slave: Analysis
.... Most slave mothers lost most, if not all of their children to
complete strangers who had fat wallets and no consideration. The children
would be raised into bondage and be kept in shackles most of their lives. A
slave named Charles Ball is a perfect example of this monstrosity. His life
was going well in Africa until marauders came and claimed him as their
slave. For most of his life, he would try to gain respect as a slave. Ball
did many unnecessary tasks to impress the master. Since he was a farmhand
however, he remained a farmhand and never really went anywhere. He remained
a petty slave for his entire life until eventually .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Theme Of Punishment
.... 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 the
kid around only becaus .....
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The Ambivalent Relationship Of Nick And Gatsby
.... for which I have an
unaffected scorn.” (6)
Carraway is curious about Gatsby, he can’t quite figure out whether
or not Gatsby is lying because Gatsby resists classification (Donaldson134).
Nick can almost forgive Gatsby for going after Daisy because of his
extraordinary commitment to his dream(Donaldson137). Nick isn’t able to
grasp the depth and intensity of Gatsby’s dream (Donaldson 138). Gatsby
belongs to a vanished past (Ornstein 64). He is set apart by his “
heightened sensitivity.” (6) (Searles 1) Jimmy Gatz inherited a diluted
version of the American Dream of success, a more moral and elegant dream
fit for a countr .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage: Henry Fleming
.... to the actual
battlefields, soldiers running from the battle render information to the
regiment. Henry's thoughts change after hearing the words of the fleeing
soldiers. "He resolved to get a view of it, and then, he thought he might
very likely run better than the best of them" (54). Henry assures himself
that he will run when he faces his first battle. Henry's worst fears come
true when he encounters the enemy for the first time. Henry fights well
amidst the enemy's first charge, yet fear consumes him when they charge a
second time. "He, too, threw down his gun and fled" (69). After Henry runs,
he begins to feel the guilt that .....
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The House On Mango Street
.... veiled by demeaning stereotypes and
afflicted by internal ambivalence. In some ways it resembles the immigrant
cultures that your students may have encountered in books like My Ántonia,
The Jungle, and Call It Sleep. But unlike Americans of Slavic or Jewish
ancestry, Chicanos have been systematically excluded from the American
mainstream in ways that suggest the disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
Although Cisneros uses language as a recurring metaphor for the gulf
between Mexican-Americans and the majority culture, what keeps Esperanza
Cordero and her family and friends locked in their barrio is something more
obdurate tha .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale's Suffering Of Pain And Guilt
.... doing seven years
ago, come hither now, and twine thy strength about me! Thy
strength, Hester; but let it be guided by the will which God
hath granted me! This wretched and wronged old man is
opposing it with all his might!- with all his own might, and
the fiend’s! Come, Hester, come! Support me up yonder
scaffold!”’(p.235)
Dimmesdale also felt guilt and pain about not admitting the sin that he is
Pearl’s father. He was afraid that Pearl would not like him because he had
not accepted her as his child.
“Dost thou thinkest the child will be glad to know me?” (p.193)
“So thou thinkest the child will love me?” (p.237)
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Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June And Her Mother
.... she leaves this place behind her and places
all of her hopes in America and her family there. She wants the very best f
or her daughter June. Even her name, Suyuan, meaning "long-cherished wish,"
speaks of this hope for Jing-Mei, meaning "the pure, essential, best
quality younger sister." Suyuan tells her daughter June that she can be
anything she wants to be, and that she has great talent. At first June is
excited and dreams about what she will become: "In all my imaginings, I was
filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. My mother and father
would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the n eed to
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Fahrenheit 451: The Books And Symbol Of The Phoenix
.... of magazines into the dusty air. They fell like slaughtered
birds.” (page 37) In Montag’s view, the burning books were seen as dying,
hopeless birds. Somehow, Montag saw the books as a sign of happiness and
freedom. He realizes the light in books, and he even pities them for being
burnt without mercy. Flaming pages of books seemed to be ike flapping
wings reaching out for a hand to Montag. “The books leapt and danced like
roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.” (page
117) Instead of seeing harmful books burning to crisp, Montag actually saw
life and freedom taken away from the world.
“Books bom .....
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Theme Of “Richard Cory”
.... he has no problems and that everyone wants to be like him. Also, the
poem states that he is “richer than a king” so the audience gets the
feeling that this is a happy man who is happy with his success in life.
When on the other hand he wants to kill himself. Moreover, the workers on
the pavement say that he is “schooled in every grace” which leads the
reader to believe that he is polite and would not think about doing
something so drastic.
Lastly, the author uses symbolism to illustrate his theme. The fact
that the workers were going to “wait for the light” expresses that they
were going to wait until their turn comes to .....
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