Summary Of "A Raisin In The Sun"
.... angry and annoyed by the racist whites. He goes
over and at first tries his best to stay calm over the situation. The white
father then says, "Listen, if I ever see your son with mine, I will througth
that little black spoiled brat back into your yard." Walter becomes enraged and
hits the man directly in the face as hard as he can. This brings an upraw
amongst the Youngers and the entire community. Thus bringing the whites, even
those who weren't before, totally against the Younger family.
After the eventual calming down of the community and the lowering of
racial tensions of the blacks against the whites, grandma Ruth who paid .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: A Satirical View Of The Old South
.... have a
true friendship. The go out of their way at many times for the welfare of
eachother and they develop a relationship to which they both contribute. Huck
teaches Jim about diversity, priests and rulers in chapter fourteen when he
reads to him about Solomon and Frenchmen. Jim also teaches Huck an important
lesson on how people should be treated individually.
Another example Twain uses to show the hypocrisies of society is racism.
Twain is not attacking the whole issue of race as much as the role race plays in
society. Twain uses race to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the rich and "well
refined." He starts demonstrating thes .....
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A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
.... in desperate need of a bath (71). Much like the clean, refreshing water of
the Devon and the ugly saline water of the Naguamsett, Gene's carefree attitude
of the summer session vastly differs from the angry, confused attitude of the
winter session.
Likewise, the two sessions, the summer and winter, give a different
sense of feeling toward school and life at Devon School. The summer session
allows Finny to use his creativity. Finny invents blitzball and founds the
Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. The students let their carefree
attitudes flow during the summer. Finny and Gene willingly break the rules to
have f .....
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A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
.... Gene is not sure if he
feels the same.
Chapter 4: Gene and Finny (Phineas) wake up and head back to Devon. Gene fails
his trigonometry examination for the first time. Finny tells Gene that he
studies too much. Gene thinks Finny is jealous. Gene wants to earn the
Scholastic Achievement Citation to get even with Finny. Gene knows that Finny
must be best and that he cannot be best if Gene becomes even with him through
his studies. Gene decides that he and Finny are locked in a complete enmity
rather than friendship. Finny announces Leper's intention to jump from the tree
and coazes Gene away from his studies. Gene and Finny are g .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Characters Are "Recalled To Life"
.... Carton has recently
switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine.
While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I
do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I
have ever known." Through these words Sydney recognizes that by sacrificing
his life for Darnay, a loved one of Lucie, he will be doing the best thing that
he has ever done and can do. Sydney is finally satisfied with himself, he is
no longer a drunken fool, but a hero that now can live or die with himself.
By dying, and saving Darnay for Lucie, Sydney Carton is "recalled to l .....
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A Town Like Alice: Discussion
.... by his captain and he finds it so
humiliating that he looses his will to live. When he's infected by the fever he
doesn't fight it and he dies. This is a mentality that is or maybe was very
common in Japan. A person from the west would never feel so bad about loosing
his face as a man from Japan.
The differences between cultures can be something that maybe some of the persons
would like to change if they got the possibilities but it has never occurred to
them to do so because they are used to the way it is. In the book this is found
amongst the Malayan women that has to work on the fields, look after the kids
and sleep on the f .....
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Attitudes Toward Marriage In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
.... to, just as she ignores Absalon because she
wants to. Lines 3290-5 of the Miller's Tale show Alison's blatant disrespect for
her marriage to "Old John" and her planned deceit:
That she hir love hym graunted atte laste,
And swoor hir ooth, by seint Thomas of Kent
That she wol been at his comandement,
Whan that she may hir leyser wel espie.
"Myn housbonde is so ful of jalousie
That but ye wayte wel and been privee..."
On the contrary, Alison's husband loved her more than his own life,
although he felt foolish for marrying her since she was so young and skittish.
This led him to keep a close watch on her whenever p .....
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Bless Me Ultima: The Growing Up Of A Young Boy
.... thought of before
this event. Almost every child Tony's age was preoccupied with activities, such
as playing and horsing around, and certainly not thinking what the future could
pertain. This proves Tony understood the aknowledgement of reality, unlike most
of his peers. When Florence, his freind, questions God, it made Tony gain
skeptisicm. Before, Tony's parents, especially his mother, forced the religion
of Christianity upon him. Tony believed it, since his parents did and he
thought they were always right. Tony's parents did not him to question
Catholisicm, but Florence made him realize you must question all beliefs .....
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Morrison's Beloved: A Review
.... - in - law, and is an
important character in the story in that she brings about many aspects of self-
pride and versatility. Suggs lived through the "slavery" and came out of the
ordeal with strength of her character alone. Slavery at the time broke down the
slaves making them have low self- esteem and low worth. But Suggs brings about
the part of resiliency that was needed to beat the "system." Her faith in God
and self makes her the prominent legacy. As she rose above slavery so have
other individual rose above persecution and hardship across the years. For
instance, World Wars, Holocaust, and the depression to name a few. .....
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"Beware Of The Fish" By Gordan Korman: A Review
.... if the guys tried to terrorize them,they'd beat them to a pulp.) And poor
Mr. Sturgeon has no idea whats goingon. If you think that's weird, wait'll you
see what Bruno does next.
I think that this book is a really crazy book with really funny
characters. A few other books are also written about Bruno and Boots , BUT I
DON'T THINK THEY WOULD BE AS GOOD AS THIS ONE! those crazy, crazy teenagers
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Biblical Allusions And Imagery In Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
.... awards, his
book was banned in many schools and libraries. However, critics never attacked
The Grapes of Wrath on the artistic level and they still consider it a
beautifully mastered work of art. More than any other American novel, it
successfully embodies a contemporary social problem of national scope in an
artistically viable expression.1 In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck utilizes
Biblical imagery and allusions to illustrate the struggle of the Joad family as
a direct parallel with that of the Hebrew people.
Steinbeck bolsters the strength of structure and character development
in the book through Biblical allusions .....
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Billy Budd
.... [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion
always foremost"(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude,
Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is
accepted for his looks and happy personality, "…hardly here [is] he that
cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the
merchant marine"(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye
to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-
arms. A man "in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious
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