To Kill A Mockingbird: An Analysis
.... Scout also realizes that she wrongfully
treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree. She never gave
anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout escorts Arthur home and
stands on his front porch, she sees the same street she saw, just from an
entirely different perspective. Scout learns what a Mockingbird is, and who
represents one.
Arthur Radley not only plays an important role in developing Scout and
Jem, but helps in developing the novel. Boo can be divided into three stages.
Primitively, Boo is Scout's worst nightmare. However, the author hints at Boo
actually existing as a nice person when he .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
.... They did not succeed. But he showed
affection for them by leaving them gifts in a tree. Finally at the end of the
book he proves he is a good person by saving Scout and Jem's lives. In this
instance Scout may have found that to negatively prejudge someone is wrong. She
also learned compassion.
Scout also learnt about the ugliness of life. About death and pain.
This lesson occurred while her brother had to read to a sick and dieing old lady.
This lady's name was Mrs. Dubose. She had been a morphine addict and had decided
to go clean till her death. To die as a free women, to die knowing she had won.
Scout describes her .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Summary
.... County. Heck Tate is the county law
official.
I think the protagonist in the story is Atticus Finch because he has the
main part and he has the biggest decision to make. The decision being whether to
defend or not to defend Tom Robinson.
To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in
Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression
when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States.
The story begins during the summer when Scout and Jem meet a new
playmate named Dill who has come from Mississippi to spend the summer with his
Aunt Rachael. Dill is .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice Is Part Of Our Inherent Nature
.... Maycomb are narrow-minded, bigoted and hypocritical,
and Atticus Finch is not. Nothing can be done to make the prejudiced, perverse
people hear the truth. This dogmatic attitude does not occur exclusively
between the whites and the Negroes either. The community's unsubstantiated
stories about other citizens also demonstrate their heedless to the truth and
prejudiced natures.
Arthur Radley, otherwise labelled Boo, has for decades been maliciously
slandered, in the county. The people that have done so do not know Arthur, and
the reason they can make such judgments escapes me. When there was a series of
pets being mysteriously s .....
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Tom Sawyer
.... Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun Joe
blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they
knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and
Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in
their tracks if they ever tell and rot", then in their own blood they signed
their initials TS and HF.
A few days after that incident Tom, Huck and Joe decided to go and
become pirates because no one cared for their company anymore. They stole some
food and supplies and then they stole a raft and paddled to an island in th .....
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Ellison's "Battle Royal"
.... My battle royal was a little bit different from the boys in the story.
I did not really suffer from outside torment. The battle I faced was mostly
inside myself. People didn't have to say anything and I would be judging myself
and putting myself down. Like the boys in the boxing ring fighting one another,
I would have to fight with my own feelings to overcome things. Each time I made
a decision I had to be critical about what was good and bad for myself. Even if
I didn't do anything wrong I blamed myself for things that would go wrong.
My battle with low self esteem was an ongoing problem. It pretty much
got to the point wh .....
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Wife Of Bath
.... her views.
It is considerably easy to understand the Wife's views about feminism,
because in her time women did not have the same privilege's as men. She
expresses her strong opinions, which results in gaining the power that she
always wanted.
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Winston Smith's Downfall
.... words were being used to transform all literary works of the
past into an acceptable state for the present. It was factors such as these
that prompted the intellectual rebellion and desire for knowledge which
ultimately caused the downfall of Winston Smith.
As time passed, Winston Smith had a growing awareness of himself as an
individual and of the fear that the Party invoked into every aspect of life.
His decreasing ability to remember events of the past disturbed him, as he
wondered what life was like before the Revolution. His rebellion towards the
Party begins in a small way, when he begins to keep a diary for “the .....
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Wyrd
.... Berengaria the 'news' of his demise. Unable to cope with such a
revelation, she died and was entombed, as a mummy, with her book beneath the
priory. Found by two archaeologists in modern times, her book was recovered and
her tomb destroyed. Sent to a group of Australian women (in order to keep it
out of the claws of the modern De Ville, Professor Horniman), the book found
it's way into the hands and heart of Trace, a street kid from Sydney, come
north as part of a modern children's crusade. Unwilling to return to the slums
of Kings Cross, Trace had found her way to the women's homes and beguiled
herse-lf of them. To conclude the s .....
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Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City: You Are The Coma Baby
.... he has
hit rock-bottom.
The Coma Baby is shown to be the symbolic representation of the main
character through his actions and philosophy toward life, a philosophy wholly
irresponsible and unmotivated. As the main character approaches he asks the
Baby if he's going to come out. The Baby responds with "No way José. I like it
in here. Everything I need is pumped in."(line 11) This remark illustrates the
main character's attitude toward life. With the condition that the Baby gets
what he needs, he has no motivation to improve his situation. This parallels
with the main character, who , provided he has his cocaine, does li .....
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Youth : Then & Now
.... of the past benefit in the fact that they accomplished thier goals, and
have many special memories to reflect on, as Marlow did.
1. Joseph Conrad, "Youth," Story and Structure Laurence Perrine (ed) (Toronto,
Harcourt & Brace, 1966) p. 14
Bibliography
Conrad, Joseph "Youth" Story and Structure. Perrine, Laurence. Toronto.
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1966
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The Anasazi Indians
.... compared to other religions of
the world. Anasazi Indians chose to bury their dead either in the trash or
against walls. The ghosts of the Anasazi were feared widely by most Navajos for
some reason. The oddest thing about the Anasazi is that they had some kind of
infatuation with a humpbacked, flute playing man named Kokopelli, or the
Watersprinkler. On many walls all over the area, a drawing of Kokopelli can be
found. These Indians also drew wide shouldered forms called Kackina Spirits, and
a "Big Chief" looking out from a red stained shield.
There were many odd things about this tribe, such as, "Why did these
people disappear .....
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