The Island Of Dr. Moreau
.... thirst for blood is pacified
through a combination of sedatives and shock discipline. But events triggered
by Prendick's unexpected arrival are about to break Moreau's God- like
domination over these resentful creatures.
The last drawing in my visual essay symbolizes a catastrophe. This was
a point in the novel were all hell broke loose. Prendick found himself in the
middle of a violent eruption between the doctor and his "family." Moreau,
Montgomery, and most of the beasts lost their lives. Prendick himself was even
forced to kill. It ended up that he was the last one left on the island except
for a few beasts. .....
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The Light In The Forest: Analysis
.... be a skilled writer. I found
numerous strengths and only two weaknesses. One strength was his use of strong
visual images. "What he hungered for most was the sight of an Indian face
again-his father's, deep red, shaped like a hawk's, used to riding the wind,
always above the earth, letting nothing small or of the village disturb him-his
mother's, fresh and brown yet indented with great arching cheek wrinkle born of
laughing and smiling, framing the mouth, and across the forehead, horizontal
lines like the Indian sign of lightning, not from laughing but from war and talk
of war, from family cares and the strain of labor-and his s .....
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The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe: An Analysis
.... healing juice and a dagger. that was the climax of the book because
the spell of the White Witch was fading. Then they met up with Aslan and he
freed all the stone figures and made them his army. The resolution of the book
is when Aslan's army and the witches army confront and Aslan's army wins.
Peter kills the witch at the end of the battle.
The impression I got from this book is that Naria is a land of
surprises and I'm excited that this years assignment will allow me to read more
of " The Chronicles of Naria " . I liked this book because of the surprising
events like when Aslan died then came back to life. I would recommend .....
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Carson McCullers' The Member Of The Wedding: Summary
.... with
the letters J and a. Her positive thinking induces a euphoria which
contributes to a rejection of the old feeling that "the old Frankie had no we
to claim.... Now all this was suddenly over with and changed. There was her
brother and the bride, and it was as though when first she saw them something
she had known inside of her: They are the we of me." Being a member of the
wedding will, she feels, connect her irrevocably to her brother and his wife.
Typical of many teenagers, she felt that in order to be someone she has to be a
part of an intact, existing group, that is, Jarvis and Janice. The teen years
are known .....
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The Metamorphosis: Gregor Was An Unselfish Person
.... his
concern for others' wellbeing, he hid under the couch so as not to disgust
anyone by his sight. Although they brought him food everyday, he barely ate any
of it. He even wished he were not such a burden on the family, and that he could
have transformed back into his old self.
All of the actions mentioned above displayed Gregor's unselfishness.
After his metamorphosis, nobody indicated they were grateful for what he had
done. After his first absence, the chief clerk himself appeared at Gregor's
house to see what was the matter. When Gregor did not open his door, the chief
clerk accused him of stealing the company's .....
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The Mill On The Floss: Summary
.... is met
with opposition. In the eighth chapter he goes to his brother-in-laws house to
demand the money that he owes him so that he can pay his wife's sister Mrs.
Glegg. In chapter nine you read about the Tullivers going to visit the Pullets.
In the tenth chapter Maggie pushed Lucy in the mud because she is receiving
most of Tom's attention. When Tom goes to tell on her she runs off and can't be
found. In the eleventh chapter Maggie decides to run away to the gypsies, but
after learning how poor they were and how little of food they had she decides to
go back home. In the twelfth chapter you read that St. Ogg is named for it's .....
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The Old Man And The Sea: An Analysis
.... lives become connected through that line as they live
each moment according to the other's actions. Even the old man is not sure who
is better, him or the marlin, and he mentions several times they are not that
different. And whether or not the sharks ate his fish, it only matters that the
old man brought him to the boat and defeated him.
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Zinn's A People's History Of The United States: The Oppressed
.... the problems that we as a nation have today. It is refreshing to
see a book that spends space based proportionately around the people that lived
this history. When Columbus arrived on the Island of Haiti, there were 39 men on
board his ships compared to the 250,000 Indians on Haiti. If the white race
accounts for less than two hundredths of one percent of the island's population,
it is only fair that the natives get more than the two or three sentences that
they get in most history books. Zinn cites population figures, first person
accounts, and his own interpretation of their effects to create an accurate and
fair depiction of the .....
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The Outsiders: An Analysis
.... they are poor and cannot affect the authorities.
I hope you would enjoy and learn something about the book from reading this
analysis.
Plot Development
The plot development in the book, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, was easy to
follow. In this part of the book analysis I will give some more details about
the plot development.
There were no hooks or hurdles in the beginning of the book, the first sentence
starts right away with the plot—without any forewords. This is the beginning of
the first sentence: “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the
darkness of the movie house...” (page 9). As you can see, it goe .....
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The Pearl: A Review
.... an attempt to get some money. He dives and,
after removing some shells, catches a glimpse of something shiny out of the
corner of his eye. He removes the oyster that he saw the gleam from, and
returns to the surface. Inside the oyster he finds a huge pearl that becomes
known as, the Pearl of the World. Almost immediately there after, people try to
steal it. The doctor tries to steal it after giving the baby a medicine to make
it seem ill, however Kino wakes up and chases him away. The next morning, he
goes to town to try and sell the pearl but the prices he gets offered, he feels,
are to low. That night he gets attacked se .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Corruption Through Aestheticism
.... of his own soul,
when he finds this object, he can create masterpieces by painting it (Bloom
109). He refuses to display the portrait of Dorian Gray with the explanation
that, "I have put too much of myself into it" (Wilde 106). He further
demonstrates the extent to which he holds this philosophy by later stating that,
"only the artist is truly reveled" (109).
Lord Henry Wotton criticizes Basil Hallward that, "An artist should
create beautiful things but should put nothing of his own life into them"
(Wilde 25). Ironically, the purpose of Basil Hallward's existence is that he
is an aesthete striving to become one with his art .....
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Albert Camus' "The Plague"
.... the man the best that he could, but he ended up dying.
Michael was the first person to die of this illness. After his death, many
cases of this illness were reported widespread. Again more details of sickness
and death, this is the parallelism for this novel.
As the reports of sickness and death came to inform Dr. Rieux, he tried
to comfort and cure the plagued patients. About ninety percent of the people
infected had died. He wanted a stop to this plague. Quickly he linked the rats
with the people. He knew that the rats began to get sick before the people did.
At this time many people had the plague, except for t .....
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