Ethan Frome: Failure
.... to have found someone that cared for him, was
always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always
nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had loyalty to his wife.
Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure.
Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up against his wife. His
wife claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed
more help around the house. She told him without any discussion that Mattie
had to go. Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision.
His wife also decided that Mattie had to leave the next day itself .....
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Animals In The Eyes Of The Dragon
.... Dennis, son of Brandon, has journeyed to from
PeynaÆs farmhouse. DennisÆs mission is to go back to the castle where
Thomas the Tax-Bringer and Flagg, the kingÆs magician, live and are at
high power. Peyna, who has just given up his Judge-GeneralÆs bench, has a
feeling that there is some reason why Peter has asked for the Royal
Napkins and his motherÆs dollhouse. Dennis is to find this reason by
sending a letter to Peter, who is imprisoned at the time. Dennis journeys
from PeynaÆs farm in the Inner Baronies back to the fearful castle with
nothing except for the risks of getting killed. Five days later, with not
a soul knowing th .....
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Field Of Dreams: Ray Kinsella A Classical Hero?
.... on both a physical journey as well as a journey of the heart.
After hearing voices proclaiming, "If you build it, they will come," Ray
risked the economic and emotional stability of the family he loved dearly
to build a baseball field. At first, Ray Kinsella was highly skeptical,
but eventually he realized the significance of his obscure calling. Upon
the completion of the baseball field, "Shoeless Joe Jackson", the baseball
player who had been his father's hero before he passed away, suddenly
appeared in the field to talk with Ray and to play baseball. As the plot
progressed, Ray continued to receive messages. After each new .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding Reduces The Power Of His Message
.... the
other boys cannot see that it wasn't a beast. The author uses the boy's
fear against them, and although this could possibly happen in the situation,
Golding uses it as a weapon against them, their morale and their
companionship. I think that the boys split up and go to Jack because of the
fear - he can kill the beast, he can get them meat, and if they ever get
upset, he can start a dance and all will be fine.
The whole message of the story is about the `darkness of man's heart',
which exists in everyone. To emphasise this side of human nature, the
author had to make a situation where it was possible to display these
charact .....
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Different Changes In Different Characters Of Lord Of The Flies
.... island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some
cases, made the false politeness that had clothed them dissipate. However,
the changes experienced by one boy differed from those endured by another.
This is attributable to the physical and mental dissimilarities between
them.
Jack was first described with an ugly sense of cruelty that made him
naturally unlikeable. As leader of the choir and one of the tallest boys
on the island, Jack's physical height and authority matched his arrogant
personality. His desire to be Chief was clearly evident in his first
appearance. When the idea of having a Chief was men .....
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Subject: Giovanni & Lusanna-by Gene Brucker
.... from how it was when they lived. Another
strange thing about their society is the open humiliation that people were
subjected to. It was said that Lusanna first husband was called a ¦cuckold
¦ to his face. People who were said to earn money in a dirty fashion often
had blood or paint thrown on their steps. These kinds of things are just
not normal or permitted in today¦s world. It is true that they do
sometimes occur, but the responsible party often ends up looking worse
that the person they were trying to hurt.
Lusanna was said to have had several lovers. She was not able to become
pregnant due to medical problems. This .....
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Compare Two Biographies Of Wayne Gretzky
.... name was Walter. However, in the
book "Gretzky and Taylor", it did not show anything in Gretzky's childhood.
It was started when Gretzky became the NHL player, a member of Edmonton
Oiler's rookie. How he became the hall of the frame. The description of
this book was very interesting. The writer show the thing through the game.
For example the first chapter was talking about the 1984 Stanley Cup final
between the Edmonton Oilers and New York Islander.
"Wayne," he said, "don't worry about not scoring so far. Just make
sure that when you do get a goal for us is a big one. " (Page 15 Gretzky
and Taylor ) From this conversation .....
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Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
.... on two legs instead
of four, and seem to be much like people. As Gulliver says, "It was with
the utmost astonishment that I witnessed these creatures playing the flute
and dancing a Vienese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the greatest
humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the Lord Edmund Burke"
(162). As this quote demonstrates, Gulliver is terribly impressed, but his
admiration for the Houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful.
For instance, the leader of the Houyhnhnms claims that he has read all the
works of Charles Dickens, and that he can singlehandedly recite the names
of all the Kings and Quee .....
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Mordecai Richler`s Solomon Gursky Was Here
.... in
conjunction with his family and their exploits. Every character in this
novel is in some way corrupt or failure. Moses is an alcoholic who did not
live up to his potential; Bernard is a greedy self-centered bastard;
Solomon is a cheat, when it comes to gambling, women and anything else you
can think of. Richler, through this exaggeration of corruption and
failure, is satirizing the idea that Canada is a second rate nation. One
character, in conversation with Moses, once said:
"Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the
disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. The French-Canadians consumed by
self .....
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Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale
.... Handmaid's Tale" the main female characters
find ways to escape their situations rather than deal with them.
Offred from The Handmaid's Tale uses different tactics to cope with her
situation. She is trapped within a distopian society comprised of a
community riddled by despair. Though she is not physically tortured, the
overwhelming and ridiculously powerful government mentally enslaves her.
Offred lives in a horrific society, which prevents her from being freed.
Essentially, the government enslaves her because she is a female, and she
is fertile. Offred's reminisces about the way life used to be by
remembering stories about he .....
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Master Harold: Differing Influences On Fugard
.... is obviously against Sam's suggestion of Jesus
Christ, because Hally makes it clear that he is "an atheist" (1303). This
disagreement between Sam and Hally is really just an example of the
religious tensions in South Africa during Fugard's lifetime between the
"Theory of Evolution," (1301) which was becoming more accepted, and
Christianity, which was taught by Jesus Christ.
A second discussion between Sam and Hally that occurs after Hally learns
that his father has gone home demonstrates the racial tensions of Fugard's
lifetime in South Africa. When Sam starts lecturing Hally about how he
treats his father, Hally becomes an .....
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Harper Lee: Introduction To Harper Lee
.... the repeal of
the corn laws."
Sources Of To Kill A Mockingbird Among the sources for Miss Lee's novel are
the following:
(1) National events: This novel focuses on the role of the
Negro in Southern life, a life with which Miss Lee has been
intimately associated. Although it does not deal with civil
rights as such - for example, the right to vote - it is greatly
concerned with the problem of human dignity - dignity based on
individual merit, not racial origin. The bigotry of the
characters in this novel greatly resembles that of the people in
the South today, where the fictional Maycomb County is located.
(2) .....
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