The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
.... a
"sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked
the trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The
fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions. Soon
even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted him greatly.
"It will destroy us all" she yelled as her attempt to rid the family of the
pearl had failed. Kino had not listened however, and soon Juana began to lose
her spiritual side and for a long time she had forgotten her prayers that had at
once meant so much to her. She had tried to help Kino before to much trouble
had .....
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Stephen King's The Stand: Summary
.... admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes crazy
when he realizes how serious Fran has become with Stuart Redman, one of the
newcomers to their traveling group. Harold becomes insanely jealous and plots
to separate them, even if it means murder.
Harold doesn't admit it to any of them, but his dreams are different
from theirs. In his dreams the "Dark Man" offers Harold power and respect,
something Harold could never imagine in the past. Harold knows his destiny is
to go to Las Vegas.
The group arrives in Boulder, and soon after are joined by over one
thousand others who dreamt of Abigail and this place. The .....
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Gulliver's Travels: Summary
.... town, to the ocean, squashing the
people of Lilliput as he goes, Gulliver makes use of his urine to save the
palace. While this vulgar episode was a display of bravery, it infuriated the
emperor, causing revenge to be vowed on Gulliver. Rather then be happy that
both the emperor and the palace are not in ruin, the littleness of the
government and the people in general is displayed in this act. Another display
of this is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but
the emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the
emperor's ambition seem extremely low (Bloom, Interpretations 84 .....
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Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
.... Thus it is clear that casual wrong follows her and yet
the wrong is not made by her.
Tess' true strength is her determination to overcome her misfortunes.
When the Durbeyfields' horse, Prince died, Tess took control of the situation
of the horse's death and the beehive delivery. She takes care of the kids and
she had done well in school, even though Tess seems to go nowhere. Also when
she leaves her job of taking care of the flock at the d'Urberville household,
because of her experience with Alec, it showed she tried to take control of the
situation. Even when Alec was following her home on his carriage asking her why
she left, .....
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Huck Finn: Conflict Between Society And The Individual
.... people.
The theme becomes even more evident once Huck and Jim set out, down the
Mississippi. Huck enjoys his adventures on the raft. He prefers the freedom
of the wilderness to the restrictions of society. Also, Huck's acceptance of
Jim is a total defiance of society. Ironically, Huck believes he is committing
a sin by going against society and protecting Jim. He does not realize that
his own instincts are more morally correct than those of society'.
In chapter sixteen, we see, perhaps, the most inhumane action of
society. Huck meets some men looking for runaway slaves, and so he fabricates
a story about his father on the .....
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Superstition In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is the size of a fist
that he took from an ox's stomach. Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here?
But the hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a
counterfeit quarter. Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball
talks to Jim and Jim tells Huck that it says. "Yo'ole father doan' know yit
what he's a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den ag'in he spec
he'll stay. De bes' way is tores' easy en let de ole man take his own way.
Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. One uv'em is white en shiny, en
t'other one is black. .....
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The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe: Love And Attraction
.... than robbing houses he begins attending
church services on Sunday mornings. In an effort to court Miss Amelia, he
learns proper etiquette, such as "rising and giving his chair to a lady, and
abstaining from swearing and fighting". Two years after Marvin's reformation,
he asks Miss Amelia to marry him. Miss Amelia does not love him but agrees to
the marriage in order to satisfy her great-aunt. Once married, Miss Amelia is
very aloof towards her husband and refuses to engage in marital relations with
him. After ten days, Miss Amelia ends the marriage because she finds that she
is unable to generate any positive feelings for Mar .....
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The Canterbury Tales: Analysis
.... which emerge in city scenes such as a
merchant and an innkeeper.
The church class was a nun, a friar, and a pardoner. Chaucer used very
keen detail to make the characters seem lifelike and almost modern in their
personality traits.
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
.... to his parents'
inevitable wrath.
Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and activities over
these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown,
symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression, impulsive spending and
generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his eventual nervous collapse.
However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around Holden as it
always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman stuff' that is
happening to him - until it begins to encroach on their well defined social
codes. Progressively through the novel we are challenged to t .....
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions To Classical Mythology
.... of the Artist), Joyce succeeds
in giving definitive treatment to an archetype that was well established long
before the twentieth century (Beebe 163).
The Daedalus myth gives a basic structure to Portrait of the Artist.
From the beginning, Stephen, like most young people, is caught in a maze, just
as his namesake Daedalus was. The schools are a maze of corridors; Dublin is a
maze of streets. Stephen's mind itself is a convoluted maze filled with dead
ends and circular reasoning (Hackett 203):
Met her today point blank in Grafton Street. The crowd brought us together. We
both stopped. She asked me why I never came, sa .....
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The Deerslayer: View Of The Native Americans
.... path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is
symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again
through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest
into the little clearing we are face to face with... two opposing moral visions
of life which are embodied in these two woodsmen" (cited in Long, p. 121).
Critic Donald Davie, however, disagrees. His contention is that the
plot is poorly developed. "It does not hang together; has no internal logic;
one incident does not rise out of another" (cited in Long, p. 121). But
according to Robert Long, Bewley has a bet .....
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Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain: Summary
.... each time, they begin to tell a story
which continues through six numbered sections. The story relates the life of a
baby who grows into the sun's wife who then has a ·child who becomes two
children, who become honored people in the eyes of the Kiowa. These stories do
not explain things like the creation of the people, or the reason dogs and men
are friends, or the origin of Tai-me. They tell what happened to some people.
The last part of the book, the last third, is mostly narrative. Instead
of telling myths to explain things, Momaday tells stories which relate events
without any significant outcome. Also, in contrast to the .....
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