Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo's Life
.... who hated the sight of blood. Unoka never stood for any unnecessary killing, and was reputed for being "weak with his machete" (18). He would rather wield away his time playing on the flute than watch a battle or wrestling match. Because of this, Okonkwo loved to fight. He had a quick temper and was always ready to pounce on anyone at the slightest hint of an insult. By the time he was a teenager, "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond" (1) as the best wrestler ever to fight. Okonkwo had done battle in many wars and had already won his fifth human head.
Unoka was an idle man, who would sit for hour .....
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Stand By Me: Loyal Friendships And Families
.... him feel like he should have been the one to die, instead of his brother, Dennis. At the times when Gordie needed somebody the most, Chris was there to comfort him and talk to him. This was first significantly shown when Ace and his friend had taken Dennis’s hat. Dennis was Gordie’s deceased brother that had died in a car accident a few months prior to the movie. Chris stuck up for Gordie and was hurt badly as a consequence of his actions, and then, after that still comforted Gordie about the lost hat. Red Brower is the dead boy they had gone on their trek to see. This venture had brought Gordie and Chris much closer toget .....
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Huckleberry Finn: On The Surface…
.... any kid - white, black, Hispanic, anything - needs to be removed from required reading… We try to teach them every day not to be racists”(Simmons 1).
This means then, that books that discuss racism to its fullest (fullest including the language of the period) are inappropriate for students to read. Honestly, though, how many high school students haven’t heard the word nigger? And it’s not like Twain’s usage was meant to be derogative- he was merely showing how bad racism was back then. The fact that it remains an issue today- a problem that was never quite solved- is the reason why the book is so criticized. David Bradley, au .....
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The Themes Of Great Gatsby
.... sense of “understand,” are Nick and Owl Eyes. The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg seem to reinforce the theme that there is no all seeing presence in the modern world.
The past is a central importance in the novel, whether it is Gatsby’s personal past, his affair with Daisy in 1917, or the larger past to which Nick refers in the closing sentence of the novel: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” The past holds something that both Gatsby and Nick seem to long for: a simpler, better, nobler time, perhaps a time when people believed in the importance of the family and the church. Tom, Daisy, and Jo .....
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A Farewell To Arms: Experiences And Their Influences
.... times of war. Hemingway ends the first chapter with an understatement that when winter came there was an epidemic of cholera in the army, but “only seven thousand died.” Only. Hemingway’s cruelly flattened language paints a picture of genuine horror. All of this sets the scene for tragic happenings to come and allows the reader to be able to sympathize with the soldiers and with others.
Hemingway also allows his readers to partake in the experiences of World War 1 when the protagonist of the novel, Frederick Henry, is wounded badly when he is on the front. Hemingway uses irony when Frederick says, "Well, I knew I would not .....
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How Is Tension Built Up In “The Monkeys Paw”
.... around the two hundred pounds. “How could £200 hurt you?” says Mrs White ironically, she will find out! There are two real climaxes in the story – one is how they get the two hundred pounds (and the fact that Herbert’s death is a shocking mutilated death) and the second climax is the tension associated with the knocking on the door.
Herbert the son is himself the focus in what he says and in what happens to him of some tragic irony. (a) He refers to the mummy and uses the words: “Before I come back.” He never does come back. (b) His mother says of her son: “When he comes home.” Again he never does, and (c) Herbert himself say .....
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Chaucerian Moral And Social Commentary In The Canterbury Tales
.... important to medieval society and culture. As the son of a well to do wine merchant, Geoffrey Chaucer lived in close proximity with the lower classes, no doubt becoming quite familiar with the culture and attitudes of the commoners. Perhaps most vital to Chaucer’s ascension into poetic greatness evolved because of his unusual access and acceptance into the upper world of aristocracy. As an adolescent, Chaucer was sent by his father to serve as a page to Lionel of Antwerp. This initiated Chaucer into the world of the nobility to which he became a distinguished honorary member. Chaucer worked in many critical posts .....
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Slaughter House Five: Time Travel
.... he goes back or forward in time. If someone died, or something didn't go the way it should have, he leaped. When the reader finally begins to understand what's going on and where he is at a particular time, Vonnegut changes the time period. . Why does Billy's time travel? He says it's because of the Tralfamadorians. They did this to him so that he would never have to face the real world. I believe that this is from the war and its's post traumatic stress disorder. It seems that he can't handle dissatisfaction, he doesn't want to handle it. He is not out to change the future of the past though. He is just there to get out .....
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The Great Gatsby: A Total Failure
.... only express himself in terms of money or rather his wealth represented him as a man of high status. He had no respect for himself because he went around telling people lies about himself and his family and the way he based his life he would be a nobody without his money.
Gatsby failed to understand that a materialistic woman like Daisy would never truly love him. Gatsby had to leave Daisy when he went to war. (Fitzgerald. p66). Daisy got married to Tom because she was impressed by his wealth. Jordan describing the wedding said, “He came down in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach hotel and the day befo .....
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The Pardoner: Chaucer's Religions Diction
.... The first impression of "gentle" and "noble" allow the Pardoner to seem humble and nice, while he is actually his greedy, sleek nature as he sells fake relics (728).
Next, Chaucer focuses the description of the Pardoner on his head and the relics he sells. The "hair as yellow as wax," "no hood upon his head," "a little cap," "bulging eyeballs," and "no beard" reveals the particular details of the Pardoner’s head, expressing the importance of his intellect in his life (695,700,703,704,709). The detailed depiction of the relics, "a pillowcase / … [of ] Our Lady’s veil," "a gobbet of the sail / Saint Peter had," "a cross of metal .....
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Property Of
.... she drank from a bottle of tequila made it evident she was no child.
The narrator convinces Danny the Sweet to let her come with him to the secret meeting before the Night of the Wolf, in hopes of catching McKay's eye. The Night of the Wolf is a fight between the Pack and the Orphans, which would determine who would have control of the Avenue and the honor that goes with it. It was this night she would learn McKay would never love her. "'What I want is for you is to fall in love with me.' 'No,' said McKay. 'No?' I said. 'No. I don't go in for that,' said McKay. 'That falling in love, I don't go for that.'"(43). She would .....
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
.... who got the rebellion started even though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Old major tells the animals that the source of the problem is man, they must overthrow man to abol .....
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