The Influence Of Reading On Anna Karenina And Madame Bovary
.... her mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels
that she reads.
They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted
ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed at every relay,
horses ridden to death on every page, dark forests, palpitating hearts, vows,
sobs, tears and kisses, skiffs in the moonlight, nightingales in thickets, and
gentlemen brave as lions gentle as lambs, virtuous as none really is, and always
ready to shed floods of tears.(Flaubert 31.)Footnote1
Emma's already impaired reasoning and disappointing marriage to Charles
caused Emma to withdraw into reading book .....
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Alvarez Shows Language Is A Tremendous Difference In Everyone's Lives In His Story
.... family in the United
States. His parents were easy-going people, with thoughts of letting Rudy
develop on his own. He learned English much the same way Yolanda learned Spanish.
He was taught by his parents. He also absorbed the culture around him and he
learned the American way of doing things. Rudy had quite a bit of freedom. He
could have come and gone as he pleased. He had no restrictions, and was allowed
to grow freely. With that opportunity Rudolf Brodermann Elmenhurst was able to
laugh along with everyone else at the mention of his difficult to pronounce name.
He had been allowed to grow unrestricted, but not unchecked. Wh .....
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Albert Camus' The Stranger: Meursault Is Aloof, Detached, And Unemotional
.... enjoying a cup of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a
smoke with a caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The
following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes to the beach and meets a
former colleague named Marie Cardona. They swim, go to a movie, and then spend
the night together. Later in their relationship, Marie asks Meursault if he
wants to marry her. He responds that it doesn't matter to him, and if she
wants to get married, he would agree. She then asks him if he loves her. To
that question he responds that he probably doesn't, and explains that marriage
really isn't such a serious thin .....
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The Summer Of The Falcon
.... June also has been trained by her
mother and, watching the things happen to Zander, June becomes mature too. She
helped her mother by carrying suitcases and boxes and walked carefully up the
stairs to her room, holding her head high as she had been taught in the dance
class.
Everybody is supposed to have their own freedom. Without freedom, one
will not live like a human being but like a toy. But, too much freedom for a
ungrown child will cause danger rather than help him grow, because he will not
know how to handle the freedom and how to control himself, so he will do the
things that may harm other people and himself. In th .....
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The Sun Also Rises: A Review
.... enough credit quotations with,
",he said," or, ",said Brett," or, ",Bill replied." In SAR it stood and called
attention to itself. I wasn't particularly bothered by His not telling me who
said what, but it was very...pointed. I first noticed around the hundredth page
or so. Then I realized I couldn't keep track of who was speaking. By not
dwelling on it, though, sort of (hate to say this) accepting it, I managed to
assign speech to whomever I felt was speaking. Gradually I came to enjoy it, in
another plane of reading, figuring out from whom words were originating. To not
notice it, as if it were one of those annoying 3-D poste .....
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The Sun Also Rises: Liberal Use Of Dialogue By Hemingway
.... he is
too far behind to catch up. Jake always seems behind, or at least only a
marginal player put so in his position because of his injury. He must have had
relations with Brett before the injury and was a "player" before it, so this
leads to the assumption that Jake purposely removed himself from being a
participant.
As I was reading I was trying to make connections and read into the story to try
and understand if there was more there than what was just on the page. It was
hard, for me, to see more than just the story, but perhaps Hemingway just wanted
the reader to experience other people's lives. I say this because many of t .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Much Symbolism
.... for so long was the ultimate price that
Hester paid for Pearl. With Pearl, Hester's life was one almost never filled
with joy, but instead a constant nagging. Pearl would harass her mother over
the scarlet "A" which she wore. Pearl would also make her own "A" to wear, and
sometimes she played games with her mother's, trying to hit it with rocks. When
Hester would go into the town with Pearl, the other children would make fun of
her, and Pearl would yell and throw dirt at them. So, in this case, Pearl
symbolized the decimation of Hester's life and mental state.
Although Hester had so much trouble with Pearl, she still felt t .....
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Test Of One Knight's Chivalric Attributes
.... anyone in the hall to the
beheading game and no one takes him up on it. Arthur, angered by the Green
Knight's taunting, is about to accept the challenge himself when Gawain steps in
saying "would you grant me this grace" (Sir Gawain, l. 343), and takes the ax
from Arthur. This is a very convenient way for the author to introduce Gawain
and also to show Gawain's loyalty to Arthur, but it seems almost too convenient.
There is an entire hall full of knights, why does Gawain alone step up? Why is
it that a superior knight such as Lancelot does not step up? The Green Knight
is big and of course he is green, which might expl .....
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The Things They Carried: Necessities
.... such as these really did
nothing more than give the men a false sense of security, which was probably
necessary to cope with their surroundings.
Last but certainly not least they carried with them love, guilt,
memories, and fear of death. Lieutenant cross, for example carried love, guilt,
and even though he tried never to show it, fear. Tim O'Brien shows us this in
the passage shortly after the death of Ted Lavender, "He pictured Martha's
smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men,
and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop
thinking about her "(8). For the .....
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The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
.... of the colonized's humanity, his subjecthood, by the
colonizer in order to justify his exploitation.
Fanon's next novel, "The Wretched Of The ` ``Earth" views the colonized
world from the perspective of the colonized. Like Foucault's questioning of a
disciplinary society Fanon questions the basic assumptions of colonialism. He
questions whether violence is a tactic that should be employed to eliminate
colonialism. He questions whether native intellectuals who have adopted western
methods of thought and urge slow decolonization are in fact part of the same
technology of control that the white world employs to expl .....
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Why The Name "Things Fall Apart"
.... can see that Okonko's life falls
apart was when he was thrown out of the clan for a few years. From this episode
one can see that Okonko's hopes dreams have begun to fall apart. His hopes of
being a rich and popular individual had drifted away with this upsetting
incident. Okonko had no longer had his farm or animals. Also Okonko lost faith
with most of his friends. This goes to show that Okonko lost faith with his
friends, like his father lost faith with his.
Another episode that showed the downfall in Okonko's life was when Nwoye,
his oldest and favorite son, converted to the white mans religion, Christianity.
To Okonko this was .....
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Things Fall Apart: An Analysis
.... predictably afflicted results.
This was a society where a man was judged by his own achievement and not
that of his fathers. Yams were the primary crop of Umuofia. A sign of
manliness was if you could farm yams to feed your family. Okonkwo is respected
because of his hard work.
The complex patterns of Umuofia's economic and social customs materialize
throughout this novel as we see Okonkwo compelled to rid himself of any
similarities that his father had. Unoka had no titles, was lazy and when he died
was greatly in debt.
Some may wonder how a society like the Ibo's functioned, how they enforce
its laws with no kin .....
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