Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
.... 90)This tells of what may be the conflict
in the plot.
The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly
expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time
of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater
heart. Anna tells her that Kitty was depressed because Vronsky spent the evening
with her. She exclaims that it wasn't her fault. Dolly remarks that Anna sounds
exactly like Stiva. Anna appears to be offended and says that she is nothing
like Stiva. In the end she ends acting similar to Stiva.
Kitty was quite depressed and Dolly knew what was .....
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Anna Karenina: Characters And The Life Novel
.... one is presented with the details that
allow the waiter to contribute to the novel in means beyond simply the presence
of a minor character. His description and actions provide the novel with a
sense of "real life".
Another way in which Tolstoy gives the minor character a sense of life
is by making them unpredictable. One sees this in the character of Ryabinin.
When initially discussed, the reader is told that upon conclusion of business,
Ryabinin will always say "positively and finally" (p161). However upon
conclusion of the sale of the land, Ryabinin does not use his usual tag.
This tag would normally be characte .....
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Anne Frank Remembered: Review
.... of her story
must be given.
The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies. She
was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents until the
age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of
undernourished and sick children and was to be adopted by a Dutch family. She
became used to the Dutch way of life as she grew older and soon she began to
consider herself Dutch, not Viennese.
Her association with the Frank family began when she was given a job
with the Pectacon Company, owned and operated by Mr. Otto Frank. His company
made and sold pectin, which was use .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
.... do not really have their own "song" in a sense, and therefore, are
characterized by other people's viewpoints.
Throughout the novel, Scout, Jem, and Dill are curious about the "mysterious"
Boo Radley because he never comes outside of his house or associates with anyone
in the neighborhood. The children are, in fact, afraid of him because of all the
stories they hear about him from the people in Maycomb. For example, Miss
Stephanie tells the children that while Boo was sitting in the living room
cutting a magazine, he "drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them
out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his .....
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Rand's "Anthem"
.... love is shown when "we bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but
when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us. We seized their
body and we pressed our lips to theirs."
Equality is excited with the joy of learning when he finishes his work of
building a light bulb. "WE MADE IT. WE CREATED IT. We brought it forth from
the night of the ages. We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone and only.
We know not what we are saying. Our head is reeling." The emotion shown by
Equality after having just built the light bulb is pride and happiness because
he has just created some power unknown but to the p .....
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The Life And Work Of Anthony Burgess
.... on in this paper. Anthony Burgess's work in A Clockwork Orange and
Enderby's Dark Lady strongly reflects significant events or influences in his
own life.
Anthony Burgess was born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England in
early 1917. (Stinson 1). Both of Burgess's parents were members of the theatric
arts: His father was a pianist, his mother was a musical actress. Burgess went
to a Catholic elementary school, and was one of the many victims of the "iron
discipline and largely rote memorization" (Stinson 2) typical in such schools of
the time. Burgess attended Xaverian College, and later moved on to the
inexpensiv .....
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Analysis Of Pearl In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
.... after having an
affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister. Pearl's birth proves that
Hester cheated on her husband Roger Chillingworth provoking the stories action.
The novel opens with the people of Boston staring and laughing at Hester holding
Pearl while standing on the town's scaffold. At this time, Pearl is three
months old. Years later Hester gets released from jail and lives with Pearl in
the outskirts of town. Since Hester becomes alienated from Boston, Pearl turns
into "her mother's only treasure!" (Hawthorne 76). Hester makes bright red
clothes for Pearl that parallel the scarlet "A." At age three, Pearl end .....
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Chopin's A Pair Of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers
.... reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when
she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going
through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not
thinking at all" at this point.
Mrs. Sommers's mind is not working like it used to at the beginning.
All of a sudden nothing is too expensive, she eats the expensive restaurant,
buys shoes, gloves, and magazines "such as she had become accustomed to read in
those days". These things give Mrs. Sommers a "feeling of assurance, a sense
of belonging to the well-dressed multitude". Now, she is one of those rich
important people, and .....
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: Summary
.... to him - the empty one. (Solzhenitsyn, Pg. 107)
The smart move that he does is to place the empty mitten on top and take the
risk that the guard will only search the empty one. Shukhov was lucky. Another
example of having to be smarter is after they find the wood panels, they want to
carry them back to make the place where they work warmer. Shukhov knows that if
they carry it flatways, it will be easily noticed by others, so, they hold it
upright in between them and set off. If they are seen by the superintendent, for
instance, it will look as if there are three of them walking together. In this
way, they cheat the guards as wel .....
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Joyce's "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man": A Review
.... the family estate, Simon returns to his former
school and converses with his former classmates. Stephen is upset to hear of
his father's wild behavior as a youth, and of his flirtatious nature. He begins
to rebel against his strict upbringing, striking back at his familys'
traditional values and way of life.
Religion is an ever present force in Stephen's life. He attends a
religious school from an early age, and is a devout Roman Catholic. He has
great reference for the priests at his school, and even fears the rector. As
his life progresses, Stephen experiences great feelings for women, and finally
gives into his desire whe .....
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Native Son: Reviews
.... repetitive, and
overdoes his melodrama from time to time. Fadiman does not believe Wright to be
a finished writer just yet. However, he does think that Wright possesses the
two absolute necessities of the first-rate novelist, passion and intelligence.
He also understands that Wright must have been greatly affected by the labor
movement, which may have contributed to Native Son.
At the conclusion of his review, Fadiman once again compares Native Son
to An American Tragedy. He says that the two novels tell almost the same story.
Although He feels that Dreiser's novel is filled with better, more controlled
knowledge; he fee .....
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Flaws In Twain's "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"
.... do have to
give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you can only take so much
filler. Then when John Wayne (The Duke) and Elvis (The King) come along there
seem to be four or five stops along the river that except for one little detail,
are the same. Please excuse the jump back, but how coincidental is it that you
have a Duke and a King on the same raft in the middle of the Mississippi river
(yes I do know they are not really royalty but that does not matter)? Even
during all of this complaining I have done I did find humor in such things as
when Huck was observing some local “loafers” and their discussions about
borr .....
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