Moby Dick
.... in this book is Ishmael, a Christian, schoolteacher and part-
time sailor. Ishmael's role in the hunt for “Moby Dick” is to interpret what is
happening. He discusses his reasons for going to sea and interprets and looks
for understanding a number of reasons for any specific action where other
characters only understand one reason.
C. It is hard to say what changes take place in Ishmael's personality, since he
is the narrator he doesn't talk about himself, he only talks about what he sees.
D1. Ishmael befriends Queequeg who is a cannibal. Even though Queequeg is very
ugly Ishmael sees that Queequeg has an honest hea .....
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Book Review: Nemesis
.... is a very intelligent young woman at fifteen years of age.
As a child, all who encountered her sensed that she was different. Her wide
eyes absorbed all that was around her and seemed to know a great deal. Growing
older, her “uniqueness” established itself as a gift in which she is able to
read into the body language of others. A slight movement, a stuttered word, the
smallest hesitation gives her indication as to one's true feelings and motives.
Some mistake this gift as her being a “psychic”, but she is not. Marlene has
only learned how to interpret little signs often overlooked.
Now a young woman, Marlene's uncanny abili .....
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Black Like Me
.... station, Griffin
acquired “hate stares “ from many whites on the benches waiting for their buses.
Griffin boarded the bus, and during the trip he conversed with a man named
Christophe, and when the white passengers got off the bus during the rest stop,
the bus driver prevented the Negro passengers from departing. The Negroes were
about to urinate all over the bus, but they decided it would just be another
thing for the whites to hold against blacks. They arrived in Hattiesburg and
John took a cab to a hotel to rest. In the hotel, Griffin tried to write a
letter to his family, but there were too many things blocking his mind.
Aft .....
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The Night Of The Hunter: The Preacher
.... when this revelation takes
place, the woman of the night sees the preacher in the midst of taking out the
knife, and she screams. The shouting brings a Negro servant, and the preacher
is forced to kill both the servant and prostitute. In Powell's sick and twisted
mind, God had merely changed His mind when Preacher's life was in danger. There
is a contradiction in “God's words” and clearly the preacher is merely using his
“conversations” to aid in his own egotistical self-interest.
The fact that Preacher lies to most people that he meets is a way in
which he puts up the holy act to mask his evil soul. He is an expert in
sand .....
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A Woman Mourned By Daughters: An Analysis
.... the mother dies, the daughters are left with several
responsibilities which are discussed in the next section (Lines 22-28). These
responsibilities are not ones which the daughters would be happy to take care of.
They are so hateful toward their mother and the problems she left are only a
burden to them. They feel that they are still being pushed around even after
she is dead. Even the thought of taking care of their sick and dying father is
thought of as a chore instead of a blessing.
The final section of this poem (Lines 29-33) basically states that if
they do something, and it isn't exactly the way their mother .....
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Of Mice And Men: The Importance Of A Close Friendship Between Two People
.... likes him. He is the kind of guy you would want as a friend. He is
called a Jerkline skinner. He is a person that is very easy to get along with.
So he becomes one of George's good friends.
The saying "The need for social companionship is a basic urge common to
all mean and deserves consideration as a fundamental aspect of life." Because
people need friends to get along in life. Without friend's life would be
pointless. You could have no fun in life.
The saying "The tragedy of the novel is that the two are so perfectly
connected that when one is destroyed the other is automatically destroyed."
When Lennie is dest .....
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Of Mice And Men: Friendship And Loyalty
.... you do, it is okay to dream and work as hard as you can to reach it .
For all it shows for friendship and loyalty it also shows how sometimes you have
to do things you never thought you would do. For example in the end when George
is forced to shoot Lennie in the head you would never have thought he would do
that, but you can see that under the circumstances he had no other choice. He
only had two choices let the other people get to him first and watch them
torture Lennie while he died a long horrible death or do it himself and get it
over quick were Lennie did not know what hit him. This is also true in life,
many times we are .....
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Black Like Me: Racism Is A Foolism Misunderstanding Of Man
.... white store owner would have not
hesitated in the slightest to allow such privileges. How could these people be
so blind as to not see that a black person breathes the same air, eats the same
food, and has the same internal functions as themselves? This misunderstanding
stares them in the face and they can't see it. Their selfishness and fear is
completely unnecessary but it remains because the whites have never been exposed
to any other way of life. This is why the whites can not allow such common
privileges to Mr. Griffin or any other black person. To treat a black as an
equal was absolutely unheard of.
Fatigued from re .....
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Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
.... myth that all is well in the world.
His family, after all, "are people of good taste. They do not discuss a
problem in the face of the problem. And, besides, there is no problem." Yet,
there is not one problem in this family but two - Conrad's suicide and the
death by drowning of Conrad's older brother, Buck.
Conrad eventually contacts a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger, because he feels
the "air is full of flying glass" and wants to feel in control. Their initial
sessions together frustrate the psychiatrist because of Conrad's inability to
express his feelings. Berger cajoles him into expressing his emotions by
saying, "That's w .....
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Essay On Pride And Prejudice: Theme
.... forced to deal with his prejudice when he fell in love with
Elizabeth. This was not easy for him to do but it was necessary. His snobbery
was countered by his love for Elizabeth. In the end, he overcame his pride and
gave in to his feelings by marrying her in spite of her and her family's
shortcomings.
Elizabeth had her own issues with prejudice with which to deal. Darcy's
cold arrogance and snobbery prejudiced her from him from the beginning and it
took Elizabeth a lot longer time to overcome her prejudices than it did Darcy.
This was because Elizabeth was a very caring person and did not like the things
that Darcy had said abo .....
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Pride And Prejudice: Irony
.... but in Pride and Prejudice the emphasis is on the irony, values and
realism of the characters as they develop throughout the story.
Jane Austen's irony is devastating in its exposure of foolishness and hypocrisy.
Self-delusion or the attempt to fool other people are usually the object of her
wit. There are various forms of exquisite irony in Pride and Prejudice,
sometimes the characters are unconsciously ironic, as when Mrs. Bennet seriously
asserts that she would never accept any entailed property, though Mr. Collins is
willing to. Often Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth serve to directly express the
author's ironic opinion. .....
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Pygmalion: Professor Higgins' Philosophy
.... are two possible translations of Higgins' philosophy. It can be
viewed as treating everyone the same all of the time or treating everyone
equally at a particular time.
It is obvious that Higgins does not treat everyone equally all of the
time, as witnessed by his actions when he is in "one of his states" (as Mrs.
Higgins' parlor maid calls it). The Higgins that we see in Mrs. Higgins'
parlor is not the same Higgins we see at the parties. When in "the state" Henry
Higgins wanders aimlessly around the parlor, irrationally moving from chair to
chair, highly unlike the calm Professor Higgins we see at the ball. Higgins .....
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