An Analysis Of The Lord Of The Flies
.... on Ralph and his experiences on the island.
As leader of the group, Ralph has a great deal of responsibility and must learn
how to work with this responsibility. Through the course of the story, Ralph
changes from an adolescent child to a mature person, but ends up breaking down
at the end of the novel. This aspect of Ralph's character is a way that Golding
depicts human behavior in society, which is the main theme of the book.
As the novel begins, Ralph is portrayed as being a normal adolescent who
is irresponsible and negligent. Even when he is chosen as leader, he still is
depicted as an inexperience boy. One example of t .....
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A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
.... spend
their time working in the fields or at home performing familial duties.
Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room where they would
presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-afternoon meal” (PARA. 55).
As a consequence, poor health combined with inadequate opportunity results in
low morale. A morale which the writer is identifying with the middle class of
his times “that same quality which in later years would cause his descendants to
over-run the engine before putting a motor car into motion” (PARA. 20)
The Snope family manages to survive and find work. However, the work
offers little other .....
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A Critical Analysis Of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
.... his plan to
hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sailor, a man that had
a heart of stone. Ahab had a personal grudge against Moby Dick. Moby Dick was
responsible for taking off Ahab's leg in a previous voyage. Ahab's plan was
essentially an unauthorized takeover, what the whaling company had not in mind.
Ahab was very irrational and ludicrous; his plan seals the fate for himself and
the crew of the Pequod. In the tragic ending of Moby Dick, all of the
characters die except for Ishmael. Ishmael survived Moby Dick's attack of the
ship with the help of a coffin that his close friend Queequeq built. Ishma .....
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Mark Anthony's "Crypt Of The Shadowking": A Fantasy
.... and goes to find his old traveling companions who once made up the Company
of the Dreaming Dragon. After reuniting, the company goes to find the tomb of
Merrimeck to find the secret of the shadow song, the known power against the
Shadowking and the nightstone. As the company travels to toward the Fields of
the Dead, they encounter a shadevar, a horrifying and powerful foe thought to
have been banished from the world of Toril long ago. After a wild battle, and
the death of the shadevar, the company thief, Ferrit, searches the corpse and
finds a ring which enabled the shadervar to communicate with the frighteningly
powerfu .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism In The Forest
.... itself is a
open door to another world, a wicked world that would take her away from her
present situation, but that is not the only door that the forest holds.
The forest is an open door to love and freedom for both Hester and
Dimmesdale. It is a place where the letter on their bodies can no longer have
an effect on them if they choose. A world ruled by nature and governed by
natural law as opposed to the artificial strict community with its man made
puritan laws. Its as if the forest represents a key to the shackles the Hester
and Dimmesdale have been forced to wear, all that they have to do is unlock it.
Although if the .....
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A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
.... before the shooting
or after up until that point. A hog can't show emotions, but a man can. There
is the epiphany of the story, where Mr. Wiggins realizes that the purpose of
life is to help make the world a better place, and at that time he no longer
minds visiting Jefferson and begins becoming his friend.
Mr. Wiggins' relationship with his Aunt declined in this story, although
it was never very strong. His Aunt treated him like he should be a hog and
always obey, yet she wanted him to make a hog into a man. His Aunt was not a
very nice person, she would only show kindness towards people who shared many
of her views, and theref .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
.... imagine. All our senses are assaulted:
we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up together in a
cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the wounded horses
(Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies, swelling up and belching
gases, dumped into a huge shell hole (Chapter 6); and we can almost touch the
naked bodies hanging in trees and the limbs lying around the battlefield
(Chapter 9).
The crying of the horses is especially terrible. Horses have nothing to
do with making war. Their bodies gleam beautifully as they parade along--until
the shells strike them. To Paul, their dying .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Speaks Her Ideas
.... she wanted. When it came to Janie wanting to talk or speak her mind,
he would not let her, and that made her feel like she was less of a person than
he. Until one day, towards the end of their long marriage, when Jody made a
very mean comment about Janie's body. She came back with, "When you pull down
yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life." After these words came out,
Jody hit her. These harsh words could never be forgiven. At the end of their
marriage, before Jody died she finally told him her feelings. "....And now you
got tuh die tuh find out dat you got tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you
wants a .....
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All My Sons: Miller's Chief Criticism Of American Society
.... save his business from being shut
down. Furthermore, he goes on to allow the blame to fall on Steve, in order to
save himself from going to jail, even though Steve was not the only one guilty.
Keller tries to rationalize his actions by saying that he committed this heinous
act for the benefit of his family- so that they will have money and everything
else they need and can live happily. "Chris... Chris I did it for you. It was a
chance and I took it for you." This portrays the human characteristic of
creating a false sense of innocence in spite of ones guilty actions- and
conscience.
Honesty only comes out of ones guilty consci .....
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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
.... and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has simple
changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much have we
changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England, we killed
people for conducting scientific experiments and believed this was against the
teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World is a mirror to our own
when we view the past. If a person from the present were to see the sacrifices
and eating of the human flesh by the Aztec Indians, that person would see it as
barbaric in contrast to his own culture. Isn't it .....
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The Jungle By Sinclair: A Man Of Many Colors
.... power to be an ideal husband.
Rudkis, like many other good-hearted people, had to circumb to the evil
powers of greed. He buys an expensive house that he could not afford. He could
settele for a house of lesser value that suits his needs just as well, but he
doesn't. Eventhough he is somewhat conned into buying it, his greed still
convinced him. Shortly after this, he is so eager to get more money, that he
starts to behave immoraly. After he lost his job due to an injury, he sinks
into a life of crime as a foe of society. He becomes a mugger and a grafter.
He dupes fellow workers as an undercover operative for the Democrat .....
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An Analysis Of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
.... her love of literature, to open this
barrier and allow Maya to end the silence. By doing this, it enhanced Maya's
courage and willingness to conquer other barriers and fortresses. Maya's love of
literature expanded and opened her horizons. One of Maya's favorite pieces of
literature is The Tale of Two Cities. She enjoyed it because it was a tale of
her life, although in different cities, now being St. Louis and Stamps, it
seemed as if she was reading her own autobiography, which is, in fact, rather
portentous and foreshadowing. With the first line of the book being, "it was the
best of times and the worst of times...", it pain .....
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