Steinbeck's East Of Eden
.... were two
bodies ." Cathy had set the house on fire and broke into the safe to steal the
family's money. As the investigators scooped the place, they noticed that the
bolts stuck out and there were on keys left in the locks. They knew it was not
an accident. Cathy's body was never found, but the town assumed that she died.
"If it had not been for Cathy's murder, the fire and robbery might have been a
coincidence. " Steinbeck, again, portrays the reader that Cathy is a monster.
"when I said Cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so." Steinbeck is
reassuring the reader that Cathy is a monster and with the evidence before .....
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The Awakening: Edna's
.... and how she feels about
herself, which greatly differs from the mother-woman image. She says: "I would
give up the unessential; I would give my money; I would give my life for my
children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only
something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me." This
specifically contrasts the mother-woman idea of self-sacrificing for your
husband and children. Also, the "something . . . which is revealing itself"
does not become completely clear to Edna herself until just before the end, when
she does indeed give her life, but not her self for her children' .....
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The Awakening: Edna
.... and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable
annihilation. (Chopin, 588)
Edna struggled to make her life more fulfilling. Edna wanted what?
Passion, excitement? She states to the Doctor, "But I don't want anything but
my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample
upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others--but no matter--still, I
shouldn't want to trample upon the little lives." (Chopin, 629).
In the title of "The Awakening" I get the impression of someone waking
up and deciding that their life is not what they want. Edna goes from being
reasonably .....
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Ethan Frome: Life As A 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 itsel .....
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Ethan Frome: Ethan Lost Control Of His Life
.... to Zeena. If he would have married Mattie
and left Zeena, he would not have been in the sled accident, and consequently,
he would have lived a much happier life with Mattie.
The second way Ethan could have changed the direction of his life is if he
would have sold the farm and never have married Zeena. This would have saved
him many years of problems and unhappiness. He would never have met Mattie,
which means he would never have injured himself in the sled accident. If he
would have lived in another town besides Starkfield, he might have been an
engineer and married a woman who would treat him better than Zeena ever did.
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Lord Of The Flies: The Evil & Primitivism In Man
.... conduct of society. Each chapter begins with
order, which means that Ralph has control. Ralph uses the conch to show order
and the right to speak. By the end of each chapter there is no order and there
is usually chaos, this shows that evil and/or fear has control, meaning Jack has
control. Allegorically in the world it would be a legislative government versus
a military type of government. Where Ralph is the legislative and Jack is
military. The disorder caused by Jack, threatens the island and the society
that Ralph has tried so hard to form. Ralph wants to have a fire, so they can
be rescued, but Jack is more worried ab .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Evil Of Isolation
.... contact, save that of her daughter, Hester must
endure of lonely existence. "In all her intercourse with society, save that of
her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged to
it."; therefore, she turns to herself for reflection of her shame. When Hester
must walk through the town, she suffers "an agony from every footstep." Frequent
suffering does not inure Hester to her inner torment; instead, the same grows"
more sensitive with daily torture." Hester's ostracism from a stoic society and
the burdensome nature of her shame, deprive her off life. Treated as a dangerous
delinquent by society, Hester beg .....
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Fahrenheit 451
.... sharing and discussing their love
for books.
"Theory hell," said Montag. "t's poetry." (pg. 97)
This is actually what changed Guy's life. When Guy re-entered the room at
his wife's party he had a book in his hands. Mrs. Phelps, one of his wife's
friends asked him if he was reading up on fireman theory. He was so frustrated
with her because of her expression of false views that night about war, husbands
and children that he finally spilled it. He wanted her to understand that books
were a good thing and that they could teach you to be more objective towards
society and its beliefs.
"Do you ever read any of the books you .....
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Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books
.... venomous kerosene upon the world." (Bradbury
3) This made the reader not only visualize the hose but get a feel for the mood
about the firemen at that time. Another example of good description is how he
described the physical appearance of the firemen. "Their charcoal hair and
their soot-colored brows and their bluish-ash-smeared cheeks where they had
shaven close." (32) The adjectives charcoal and soot-colored describe the color
of their hair but also are words that relate to their job as a fireman. Finally,
an excellent example of Bradbury's descriptive writing was when Montag pulled
the trigger and set Captain Beatty on fire. " .....
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Fahrenheit 451: A Censored And Structured World
.... is the fire chief Beatty. Beatty is a man who
once was educated but has now turned his back on education and works to destroy
it. Beatty knows what is in books but chooses not to care, not to do anything
but help the destruction of books.
The loss of the characters freedom to read and to think was not an act that
was forced on the people but, embraced by the people. The people loved the idea
of not having to think anymore. The desire to confront issues was gradually lost
by the people. Since the desire the desire to confront issues was lost people
stopped doing anything that was so called "politically incorrect" so as .....
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Fifth Business: Search For Self Identity
.... to the unoffending son," (Davies' 40) illustrates how the town treated
Paul because of his mother's actions. Paul leaves his past because of the
actions displaced by his mother and the guilt he feels because his "birth was
what robbed her of her sanity," (Davies' 260) explains why Paul left Deptford.
However, while Boy merely tries to ignore his Deptford past, Paul tries to
create a completely new one and Paul asks Dunstan to write an autobiography that
"in general terms that he was to be a child of the Baltic vastness, reared
perhaps by gnomelike Lapps after the death of his explorer parents, who were
probably Russians of .....
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First Knight And The Ox-Bow Incident
.... should be abolished all together. The Knights believed that the law was
good and is there for a reason, while the cowboys felt the law was wrong and
took action into their own hands.
The two groups both showed a special friendship for each other, yet their
friendships were based on different feelings. They were always ready for action
and didn't have the time to express their friendship to others. Their
friendships were almost always a temporary thing, meaning one minute they could
be your best friend and the next, your worst enemy. They also didn't express
their love like the Knights did. They showed their appreciation .....
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