Tom Sawyer
.... the necessity of
giving some answer, and his was "David and Goliath," to the surprise of the
visitor, the consternation of the head teacher and the amusement of the school.
When Tom went to church he took a large snapping bug (which has a grip like a
crab) with him, and it got hold of a church-going dog, which rushed around the
building and howled in a manner highly unbecoming to the place. When he was sick
his aunt gave him pain-killer, and when she went out he gave a dose to the cat,
which squawled, rushed around like mad, upsetting everything, and then jumped
through the window, breaking a pane of glass in the way. Aunt Polly .....
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Trainspotting: A Novel By Irvine Welsh
.... thief. His friend Simone is nicknamed
Sick Boy for good reasons. When he is high he hears voices in his head willing
him to do evil things. He likes to shoot dogs as their masters are taking them
for a walk, and he enjoys using women for nothing but sex.. Rents' date on
occasion, Hazel, was abused by her father when she was young, and she chooses to
shoot up to solve her problems. Rab McLaughlin, or Second Prize, drinks himself
into oblivion every chance he gets. Davie, a cousin of Renton's has recently
become HIV positive from a girl who was raped by a psychopath. Davie chooses to
take revenge on him by pretending to kill the only .....
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Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood
.... causes his family to depend on almost
no one. He believes that they live on their own because of his fathers drive
for survival. When Sarty mentions the way his father commands his sisters to
clean a rug with force "...though never raising his voice..."(148), it shows how
he sees his father as strict, but not overly demanding. He seems to begin to
feel dissent towards his father for the way he exercises his authority in the
household. As we near the end of the story, Sarty's compliments become sparse
and have a different tone surrounding them. After running from the burning barn,
he spoke of his dad in an almost heroic sense. .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Opression Of Women In Society
.... on the piazza, the narrator finds herself relegated to an out of the way
dungeon-like nursery on the second floor, appropriately equipped with "rings and
things" in the walls. Windows in each direction provide glimpses of the garden,
arbors, bushes, and trees. The bay is visible, as is a private wharf that
adjoins the estate. These views reinforce isolationism; they can be seen from
the room, but not touched or experienced. There is a gate at the head of the
stairs, presumably to keep the children contained in their play area.
Additionally, the bed is immovable as it has been nailed to the floor. It is
here that the narrat .....
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Thomas More's Utopia
.... the necessities of life if that cursed
money, which is supposed to provide access to them, were not in fact the chief
barrier to our getting what we need to live. Even the rich, I'm sure, understand
this. They must know that it's better to have enough of what we really need than
an abundance of superfluities, much better to escape from our many present
troubles than to be burdened with great masses of wealth. And in fact I have no
doubt that every man's perception of where his true interest lies, along with
with the authority of Christ our Saviour..... would long ago have brought the
whole world to adopt Utopian laws, if it were no .....
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A Clockwork Orange: Violence And Corruption
.... little
to protect the citizens, for how else could a fifteen year old kid and three of
his friends rule the streets? They also seem to relish beating Alex for the
reason that they don't get to do it often. However, by the third part of this
book, crime is almost non-existent, but the police are far more brutal.
Neither of these scenarios is the better of the two. In fact the cops are not
out to help the people, they only want to serve themselves. Alex, during his
first beating, confesses and hands his droogs to the police, but the police do
nothing to capture them. The reason the people are so afraid “...then a bolt
drawn, .....
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Waterlily By Ella Cara Deloria
.... happily ran into their family's tiyospaye. The reason why it was so
fortunate is because Blue Birds parents and brothers were killed one day when
Blue Bird was about fourteen. They were taken in and made to feel at home.
Along with finding their family, Blue Bird also met her new husband, Rainbow.
Rainbow was a good provider, hard worker and a widow who had a son. Little Chief.
Together, Rainbow and Blue Bird would have two more children.
One of the major customs that was most interesting was that of the Sun
Dance. Here, Dakota men would fast and dance continuously. If any requests
from the men to the Gods were made, the men .....
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Pride And Prejudice: What's Love Got To Do With It
.... even
goes as far as to say that "it is better to know as little as possible of the
defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life" (p.21). Charlotte
considered Mr. Collins "neither sensible nor agreeable" but since marriage had
always been her goal in life, "at the age of twenty-seven, with having never
been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it" (p.107). Charlotte is
speaking to Elizabeth on her marriage to Mr. Collins, "I am not romantic, you
know. I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins'
character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of
happin .....
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Jack London's White Fang: Summary
.... many tricks. His value to them was priceless except a man named Beauty
Smith found a way to buy him through liquor. Beauty Smith used White Fang as a
valuable fighter. He arranged fights and took in bets on them. White Fang
whipped everybody he fought until he fought a pitbull. The pitbull had White
Fang by the neck and was slowly going in to open the jugular. Then a man named
Weedon Scott punched Beauty Smith and pried the pitbull's teeth off of White
Fang's neck. Scott started to love White Fang and pet him. White Fang was
afraid at first that Scott would hurt him. White Fang came to love Scott.
White Fang even got s .....
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"Managemment Of Grief" And "A Pair Of Tickets": Women's Images
.... actions show us that she is far from the
voiceless, week female she was brought up to be.
Shaila was not responsible for her own heredity. She could not control much of
her environment in which she was brought up, but she had the power and internal
strength to face the life with her individual rejoinder. She admits to being
"trapped between worlds" (543), and we can feel the internal struggle between
"traditional" and "rebellious" tendencies. It seems that Shaila does not
realize herself that "rebellious" part already won over. The last indication
of victory was the poem of love she wrote to her husband in the hospita .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... a boy's gota have a good time
at his best friend's bert'day party.
I was at Sam's house. Course I warn't de only one dare. His Pa, Judge
Clemens and Ma, Miss Jane Lampton, till she married of course, was dare and I
reckon his whole 'tire family must da been at dat house, can't barely remember
it was only his fourth birthday back in 1839 (Howard 1). Ya, me and Sam been
friends ever since he moved here, best friends too, he was born an lived in
Florida, Missouri prior to now. He moved here at the start of this year. See
lots of people don't give me much thought cause me bein uneducated and havin a
Pa like I do an all. .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Human Nature
.... at the time
they were evacuated from England, there would've been no deaths, no Lord of the
Flies, and certainly no beast. Because if they had came with a good human nature
then how would there have been a beast which Golding classified as the basic
evil inside all of us. Another thing that ties in with this that children try to
copy what they see adults do so if a child sees an adult smoke up or drink then
he may believe that it is okay or it is right because their parents do it. As
George Orwell once said "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a
child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and the .....
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