All Quiet On The Western Front: Themes
.... the nature
motif is expressed most dramatically in the following passages. These passages
mark the three distinct stages of nature's condemnation of war: rebellion,
perseverance, and erasure.
The first passage occurs in Chapter Four when the troops are trucked out
to the front to install stakes and wire. However, the narrator's squad is
attacked unexpectedly by an English bombardment. With no visible enemy to fight,
the soldiers are forced to take cover and live out the bombardment. In the
process, the earth is shredded and blown asunder. It is during this melee that
many of the companies' horses are wounded, and begin t .....
|
|
Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
.... child and her brief
personal experiences.
The narration of Absalom, Absalom!, can be considered a coded activity.
Faulkner creates the complex narration beginning at chapter 2. It ironic that
one of Faulkner's greatest novels is one in which the author only appears as the
teller of the story in one brief section; The details of the hero's arrival,
Thomas Sutpen, into Jefferson in chapter 2. Although Faulkner sets the scene up
in each section (The omniscient narrator), most of the novel is delivered
through a continual flow of talk via the narrators.
Quentin appears to think the material for the first half of the chapter
2. Th .....
|
|
Abuse Of Power Within A Clockwork Orange
.... his freedom
to choose is now gone. He is left without any reason to live. When he realizes
that he is no longer a man because of his absence of choice, Alex decides to end
his life. The author illustrates through Alex's violent actions, how they
represent his abuse of power through his freedom of choice. Alex consistently
chooses evil as a means to display his power over the innocent and the good.
While beating and raping a young girl, he states with pride, "So he did the
strong-man on the devotchka, who was still creeching away . . . in very
horrorshow groodies"(22). This proves that he feels he must display his power
t .....
|
|
A Case Of Needing: Serious Revisions
.... Karen Randall, the daughter of an eminent physician, dies
as the result of a botched abortion. Art Lee, a Chinese obstetrician, is accused
of performing the D & C that has resulted in her death. Though Lee is known to
be an abortionist, he vehemently denies any involvement in the case. Lee calls
upon his friend, forensic pathologist John Berry, to clear his name.
John Berry careens back and forth from one Boston hospital to another,
trying to figure out who actually performed Randall's abortion, and why it
killed her. The investigation is complicated by the fact that Randall was not
even pregnant. Slowly, a picture emerges of Ra .....
|
|
Accounts Settled: A Review
.... cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and
shoots the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance, "his
eyes held the boy unwinkingly as he waited in the fiendish way of cats for the
moment when the man must stir, or make an attempt to escape, the moment when his
ingrained fear of man would be swallowed up by the rising tide of his blood-
lust" and "moments passed, horrible heart-thudding moments, during which neither
man nor animal stirred". Another method that the writer us .....
|
|
A Summary Of A Christmas Carol
.... than he…Nobody ever
stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear Scrooge, how are
you? When will you come to see me?'. No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,
no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his
life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge." (Dickens 14).
Next there is Tiny Tim, he seems to be a symbol of hope in this story even
though he has to use a crutch to walk and he is very small. Despite his
disability, he constantly keeps the spirit up and tries to maintain it in all
his brothers, sisters, and parents, even though they are poor. He is the .....
|
|
A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote
.... show
each Saturday. Sook has never visited one before, but asks Buddy to go instead
to come back and tell she the stories of the picture show. After dinner, Sook
and Buddy retire to a room in a faraway part of the house where her sleep's at
night, to count their treasure. When finished counting, Buddy declares the
total was thirteen dollars. Sook, being a very superstitious person, throws a
penny out of the window. The next morning Sook and Buddy go to town to purchase
the necessary ingredients for the cakes. Whiskey, the most expensive and
hardest to obtain ingredient was needed to complete the day's shopping. Since
w .....
|
|
Universial Themes In "The Return Of The Native" And "Great Expectations"
.... here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't like to
speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again” [Johnny
Nunsuch]
“ A gentleman--ah! What did she say to him, my man?” [Diggory Venn]
“Told him she supposed he had not married the other woman because he liked his
old sweetheart best; and things like that” [Johnny Nunsuch]
[Book First, chapter 8, pp. 82]
This chance exchange reveals that Wildeve is meeting with Eustacia. Venn uses
this to his advance by announcing himself to Mrs. Yeobright as a suitor for
Thomasin. This backfires because Mrs. Yeobright tries to use the second suitor
to forc .....
|
|
As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner
.... and it is Anse who
is lazy. Furthering on Jewel and Anse's relationship, I feel that it is fairly
evident that Jewel knows that Anse is not his father. This is illustrated in the
following section on page 136: "Jewel looked at Pa, his eyes paler than ever.
'He won't never eat a mouthful of yours' he said. 'Not a mouthful. I'll kill him
first. Don't you never think it. Don't you never.' "The antagonism Jewel holds
toward Anse is enormous, and this scene intensifies it showing that Jewel knows
the truth or at least has a fair idea. We also see that Darl knows, and how he
knows. At the end of the chapter, he sees his mother cryin .....
|
|
A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"
.... what
your job will be, to whom you will have children with.
In The Handmaid's Tale the story takes place sometime in the near future
after some kind environmental catastrophe that makes it impossible for most
women to have children. To solve this problem some radicals set off a nuclear
bomb in Washington during a full session of congress and then declare marshal
law. They then systematically took all rights away from women and forced the
ones that could have children into camps where they would be contracted out to
powerful ranking officials to have their children. These women are referred too
as "handmaids."
Next, I would .....
|
|
A Comparison Of "Of Mice And Men" And "The Great Depression An Eyewitness History"
.... more to help everyone. Lennie and George worked for ranches and
also in the fields. "He's a good skinner. He can rassel grain bags, drive a
cultivator. He can do anything." (Of Mice and Men p.22).
If you really look closely, George and Lennie's way of life and the
Great Depression have a good deal in common. George and Lennie were outcasts
in life. George Milton was small in size and a very smart man compared to
Lennie. He was actually only of average intelligence. Lennie Small was a large
person and very retarded. Since Lennie was so retarded he did not grasp the
things that were happening around him. For example, if so .....
|
|
Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
.... mistresses) wasn't happy with something
and blamed it on the slave(s), forcing them to deal with the harsh consequences.
An example is when the cook sends dinner out to Dr. Flint. Sometimes, when he
does not like a dish, the cook gets whipped, other times he shoves all the food
down the her throat until she chokes. I feel that this is very offensive
treatment because that is not a justified reason to do something, as severe as
choking someone. Even though she was one of his slaves, instead of doing that,
he could have just told her, or even yelled, to cook something different-she
would have gotten the point. I guess Dr. Flint, .....
|
|
|
