The Joy Luck Club: The Gap Between Mother And Daughter
.... baby. This made her think she is a murderer. Ying-Ying lived in her past for a long time; she can hardly forget the pain of her unsuccessful marriage. Actually, in real life, Ying-Ying wants to hide herself, her tragic past and her pain. Ying-Ying also wants her second husband believes she was from a poor family, and he married her saving her from a catastrophe. But she would not tell her husband and her daughter about the catastrophe.
"I let myself become a wounded animal. I let the hunter come to me and turn me into a tiger ghost. I willingly gave up my chi, the spirit that caused me so much pain" (JLC P285)
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Love Story By Segal: What Is Love
.... writing allowed readers to laugh as well as cry with the characters as though they were along with them.
Erich Segal begins his novel by informing the readers of the tragic death of a "twenty-five year old girl", who by the second page, readers can identify as Jenny Cavilleri, a "wisecracking Radcliffe music major". Even though well aware of the ill-fated destiny of this beautiful young woman, readers will still cry as the heroine of this book experiences her last days of life, and her unfortunate death. However, even as Jenny knows she has only minutes left to live, she is still as sharp-witted and opinionated as ever. As .....
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Animal Farm: Power And Control Of The Farm
.... rules to favor himself. Squealer again is responsible for the wrongdoing. All of the Seven Commandments of Animal Farm are eventually broken before the commandments are "revised" to prove the pigs did nothing wrong. In the eighth chapter, the commandment that strictly forbids animals to kill one another was cunningly changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause" after a series of executions of supposed traitors and probable Snowball followers. Napoleon forced confessions and eliminated these probable traitors under the newly revised rule. The new rule favored his popularity, respect, and increased his hunger f .....
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Coming Of Age In Mississippi: Anne Moody
.... across the street and this led to one of her first experiences in realizing her black skin made her appear inferior to the whites. Anne and her sister accidentally followed their white friends into the white section of th4e movie theatre, not realizing they were not permitted and their mother immediately dragged them out. It was then that she realized "that not only were they better than me because they were white, but everything they owned and everything connected to them was better than hat was available to me." (p. 38) She then set out to find the "white folks' secret" by playing doctor and examining her siblings and whit .....
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'Checking Out' A&P
.... the ocean for twenty years" (482). This town, and this A&P, like the people in it, are boring and stagnant.
The characters in this A&P are the most persuasive external factor in Sammy's internal conflict. The reader arrives at the scene to find Sammy ringing up a "cash-register-watcher", whom he describes as being "a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows" (480). She nearly has a stroke when Sammy accidentally rings up her HiHo crackers twice. This woman is most likely a "sheep" (481), but quite an aggressive one. We don't really see her slimy, nosy side that epitomizes these creatures. The average .....
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Charles Dickens’ Personal Experiences In Great Expectations
.... They started to take care of themselves when they were teenagers. That gave them a few good qualities such as being strong and independent.
They have another similarity dealing with women. Pip loves Estella, but she does not love him back. She looks down on him because he is not wealthy and is not very well educated. Dickens does not have much luck with women, either. He loses his first love. It seems that he cannot keep a girlfriend. If he does keep one, the relationship does not last long because the girl hurts him (Sirs).
Dickens and Pip get something I like to call good luck. Dickens becomes a successful writer. He finds .....
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The Cask Of Amontillado: Irony And Foreshadowing
.... me. I shall not die of a cough,” and Montresor replies, “ True – true,“ (11800). But unlike his name suggests, Fortunato is not so fortunate. He does not realize that he is walking towards his own death, and example of dramatic irony.
While Fortunato is drunk, he gives Montresor a sign that he doesn’t understand. The sign is that of a mason. As a sign to prove to Fortunato that he is a mason, Montresor shows his trowel. The trowel is another symbol of foreshadowing because it is a tool used in the killing of Fortunato. When they reach the end of the tunnel, there is recess in the wall. Montresor tells Fortunato that the .....
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London's To Build A Fire: Naturalism In Modern Life
.... frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."(p.1745) At first when the man started his journey to the camp, he felt certain that he could make it back to camp before dinner. As the trip progressed, the man made mistake after mistake that sealed his fate. The man's first mistake was to step into a pool of water and soak his legs to the knees. This blunder forced the man to build a fire to dry his wet socks and shoes so his feet would not freeze and become frostbitten. When the man began to build a fire he failed to notice that he was doing so under a large, snow laden spruce tree where he .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Tragedy Of War
.... of war. Even though they may be able to go home after the war is over, they will constantly have to fight themselves. Another force that led to the loss of innocence at the front was the things that the boys were learning. They refer to themselves as “stone aged veterans” even though they are only twenty. The young men learn things such as how to properly stab a man and that a shovel is much more effective weapon than a bayonet because it does not get stuck. The effects that these experiences have on a young mind are terrible. Once these boys started thinking of themselves as “stone aged veterans”, that is what they became. .....
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Brave New World: Beliefs Of Sex And Drug Use
.... It is also encouraged by the government to engaged in with many different people and not to often with the same person. Society as a whole looks down on the people that have sex with only one partner. Drugs are also a socially accepted activity that is government controlled. The government issues a certain amount of drugs a day for the citizens to enjoy that night.
Human Creation is an issue that is talked about and practiced in Brave New World. The society is made up with classes of people that have had their intelligence and personality predetermined for them. These ideas have become a major debate in the world of the 21st .....
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Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
.... the end of a landing stage to signal a romantic reunion, is similar to the green light at the end of Daisy's dock, which becomes a key image in The Great Gatsby. The initial appearance of the green light occurs when Nick sees Gatsby for the first time, standing in front of his mansion. The light becomes the symbol of hope for a reunion with Daisy.
Therefore, this is an appropriate symbol of Gatsby’s life. Gatsby is living alone in a world of darkness, trying to find one thing to bring him happiness. His life has had many ups and downs. He finally receives some breaks and is able to do well for himself. The longing in his hear .....
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The Lesson By Toni Cade Bambara
.... Junebug, Q.T., and Rosie Giraffe. A mixed bag, but all share the same poor life. They are treated to a taxi ride instead of the usual subway downtown and the group is exposed to Fifth Avenue and the richness of the people in that part of the city. At the expensive toy store, their minds are stretched beyond belief at the price of toys. Miss Moore cleverly interjects a few questions to get them thinking. It works; even on stubborn Sylvia who thinks she got away with something by not returning the change from the taxi ride, never dreaming Miss Moore planned it that way. The story concludes with Sylvia feeling something weird in her c .....
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