C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure
.... a few failures that hindered his successes.
Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships.
This was both a success and failure. It was a failure because after heating the
shot for a considerably long period of time the shot began to deform. This
deformity of the shot wouldn't allow it to fit into the cannon. Hornblower
realized his mistake after one of the shots wouldn't fit into the cannon. This
slowed their operation down but didn't cause a defeat to them. The situation
with Hornblower gambling is mostly in my opinion a success but it could also be
a failure. The way I think it would be a .....
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Summer Of The Monkeys: Jay Berry And His Conflicts
.... novel. For Jay Berry to succeed his goals of bringing the
highly intelligent circus monkeys home he has to have a great deal of
determination. He shows an example of this when he fails to succeed his first
few times out, but he never gives up, and has the same motivation the next time
he tries to catch the monkeys. Another inner force that helps him on his way
is his confidence. For anybody to achieve a certain goal they have to feel
confident about what they are trying to achieve. Jay Berry is always confident
about his new scheme to catch those extraordinary circus monkeys. Jay Berry
displays this when his Grandfather com .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Superstition
.... of him being an uneducated slave, and Huck being the white boy who
has had some schooling, that their beleifs in this superstitous hairball would
differ. This is not true as seen when Huck is the one that comes to Jim for the
powers of the Hairball. Huck wanted to know what his father, Pap, was going to
do. Huck had found out earlier that Pap was back in Town. Both Huck and Jim are
very superstisoius as most of the people were then. There was not a lot of the
modern technologies that we have today to prove many superstitions false. The
hairball really does not tell Huck anything that he really already did not know.
It only t .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
.... top of him.
2. Huck Finn's relationship with Jim changes as the story progresses. Analyze
how and why the relationship changes, supporting your answer with at least three
examples from the story.
Jim, a slave owned by Miss Watson, is a very interesting character in
the book. He seems like a person who is filled with superstitions but later
down the river we learn about his fine attributes like his unselfishness and his
love for Huck. Because he is more than a stereotypical slave, Huck and Jim
throughout the book develop a very loyal friendship and become very good friends.
Jim, who acts like a father figure towards Huck .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
.... symbol which is carried throughout the novel is
undoubtedly the scarlet letter A. It initially symbolizes the immoral act of
adultery but by the end of the novel the "A" has hidden much more meaning than
that. The "A" appears in many other places than on the chest of Hester Prynne.
It is seen on the armor breastplate at Governor Bellingham's mansion. At night
while Dimmesdale is standing on the scaffold he sees a bright red letter A in
the sky. While Pearl is playing near the bay shore she arranges some grass in
the form of an A on her own breast. But one of the most important A's is one
the spectators see burnt on Dimme .....
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Symbolism In Camus' "The Plague"
.... to please a god or receive a reward.
Finally, without a god (or even with a god for that matter) Camus says
that we need to be responsible and create our own hope. By looking carefully at
the characters in the book, I plan to also show Camus' press for responsibility
among the people. The ultimate goal of this essay is to make prominent Camus
philosophical views of a godless world in which the people hold the
responsibility of living a moral and hope-filled life.
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Critique
.... extraordinary adventures.
Analysis
One of the most predominant themes in this novel is that of deception.
Deception, in one form or another, is used with an avid consistency throughout
the story. Two personifications of deception were the characters, King and Duke.
They were "entrepreneurs" of deception (which is a polite way of saying
hustlers). Samuel Clemens writes about them so ingeniously, that after a while
the reader is able to understand the true nature of these tricksters, and that
most of what they utter is either fabrication or a twisted truth.
"I'd been selling an article to take tartar of the teeth-and it .....
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Brave New World: The Advancement Of Science
.... exist
on the reservation. Instead, humans are raised in conditioning centres. R.T.
Oerton points out that "Present knowledge indicates, for instance, that a child
cannot be deprived of parents or parent figures, as were the children in Brave
New World, without suffering lasting pathological damage to his
personality."(Oerton CLC 7 308). Another threat that the Bokanovsky process
poses to society is that life is not highly valued. "Murder kills only the
individual and, after all what is an individual? With a sweeping gesture he [Mr.
Foster, director of hatcheries and conditioning] indicated the rows of
microscopes, the .....
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The Jungle: The Appeal Of Socialism
.... worker safety had no persuasion. Early on, there was no one
for these immigrants to turn to, so many suffered immensely. Jurgis would later
learn of worker unions and other groups to support the labor force, but the
early years of his Americanized life were filled, with sliced fingers,
unemployment and overall a depressing and painful "new start".
Sinclair, has shown in a dramatic style the hardships and obastacles
which Jurgis and fellow workers had to endure. He made the workers sound so
helpless and the condtions so greusome, that the reader almost wants a way out
for Jurgis. Sinclair's The Jungle is a "sublimina .....
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
.... I wanted. and that would settle your conscience when
you went out to swindle others. (Richler 1959, 312)
The betrayal of Yvette, her speaking to Simcha, and the loss of hers and
Virgil's friendships also punishes Duddy. They are the only two people in the
world who ever loved him for himself, and didn't want anything but his love in
return. In the loss of their friendships, Duddy is being punished for his
rotten treatment of other people, even his only friends. Duddy may not even
know what he has lost, but he will one day, when he misses having someone to
share his accomplishments and failures with, like he has had up un .....
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The Awakening: Chopin Glorifying Edna's Fatal Situation
.... figuring out what she wants people to believe and how
to behave as a result of reading her book. Edna, whose husband has held her
like a piece of furniture, a piece of personal property, suddenly becomes aware
she is a human being. Leonce certainly errs if he only values his wife as a
piece of furniture. There is nothing wrong if he believes her to be his most
prized possession. The difficulty is that Edna does not look at him in this way.
They should have appraised each other's value with mutual respect.
I would recommend this book to others. It was well written and did not try to
cover up the truth about the life of a woman i .....
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The Black Cat: Deranged Narrator
.... has become obsessed with
doing evil things for the sake of their evilness. This evilness is linked to
his alcoholism. The narrator was most-likely in a drunken state when he hung
his cat, which only infuriated his temper. This separation of friends had a
huge effect on the narrator's deadly temper. His temper is such that anything
that slightly annoyed him caused him to go into fits of rage.
The fits of rage which occupy the narrator for much of the story are all
linked to his pet cats. He points out that he was an animal lover in his
younger days and the feeling was carried through into his maturity. His love
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