... they will get hurt or killed. People get into gangs not really knowing what they are getting into until the have entered. Many times after a while they realize the gangs beliefs and do not obey by them. The party controlled Oceania people's life in such ways as a gang sometimes does. “Our control over matter is absolute (pg. 218).” The plot shows many aspects of the nazi party also. Hitler brain-washed many people into believing that there was a master race and all others had to follow under certain rules or be punished. The only thing that could stop Hitler was a more dominant party of different beliefs. Orwell's new that power is everything in ...
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... " maintain the balancing act." She could never summon up the courage to face new circumstances. Her mind is never firm enough to challenge the present state. So she makes her choice in the order of morality. She stays with her husband and leaves for India with him. It is more likely that the fate designated Juliet's future. She is married to Dave on her own accord. Therefore, she does what a good wife is supposed to do. 1. Reviewed in : Booklist v.79 p.994 Apr 1, 1983 2. " The Ivory Swing " p.18 In Kerala, where David is on sabbatical to study primitive Indian culture, the couple encounters Yashoda," a widow who does not accept the ...
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... at the new school, Adam seemes to be more mature and calm. Maybe that's because he doesn't have any friends in the new school, maybe because he feels inferior being the new kid and outsider that he is. Adam's relationship to his father seemes to vary a lot. At first Adam looks at his father as if he was a perfect stranger.And he has all rights to do that since they practicly hadn't seen each other att all since Adam was born. Then some kind of a father-son friendship evolves, but I get the feeling that it's only because they feel they have to. When Simon is accused of murder, Adam starts to hate him. Perhaps stop caring about it, is a better way of describing ...
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... him by the use of "miracles" immediately brings Hank to the realization that he can basically do whatever he pleases. His knowledge of nineteenth century technology makes Hank Morgan a "human standing next to apes"(Robinson 190). This section of the story is filled with Twain's commentary on the absurdness of the ideals of Chivalry. When Camelot is looked at from the standpoint of twentieth century practicality, it looks so absurd that it is funny(Robinson 184). An excellent example of this can be found in the banquet which the Knights of the Round Table attend and at which Hank is sentenced. The knights, supposed pillars of Chivalry, sit around the table d ...
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... Odyssey. Concurrent with the time’s belief that women held a subservient position in society to men, the male characters in The Odyssey often expected certain traits and actions that they didn’t expect from men. Also all the societies and lands Odysseus visited that were inhabited by mortals were dominated by men. In The Odyssey women are unequal, treated differently, and are considered inferior to men. Throughout the epic women are not given an appropriate amount of respect by men. The male characters of The Odyssey expect certain traits and characteristics of women that they do not expect of themselves. Men expect that the women in The Odyssey be ...
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... finally, by training the falcon, we can see the comparison between June and Zander(the falcon). First Zander is just a little pet for June. With the training by June, and the mistakes that he fall into the river, he grows matured has been well trained. At the same time, June also has been trained by her mother and, watching the things happen to Zander, June becomes mature too. She helped her mother by carrying suitcases and boxes and walked carefully up the stairs to her room, holding her head high as she had been taught in the dance class. Everybody is supposed to have their own freedom. Without freedom, one will not live like a human being but like a toy. ...
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... at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he eventually returns to find that he and his fellow soldiers have grown. They had learned more about themselves then they ever believed possible. The young soldier becomes a man with plenty of courage by the end of this book. Stephen Crane brings the reader into his book, first with his power of describing details so eloquently, and second by telling us very little of the young soldiers' life, leaving him a mystery. Crane may have even been generalizing all the young soldiers into one. Although he does tell the reader his name, Henry Flemming, he usually refers to him as “The soldier.” He also tells the reader parts of h ...
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... able to stand up against the whites and their religion. When the missionaries first come to the village, the people, who are still secure in their own religion, are confident that the tribal village will destroy them. When this does not happen, the villagers become convinced that the new religion has some sort of magical power, and this weakens their confidence in their own culture. Once again, racism pervades the novel, with the intrusion of the missionaries into the lives of the villagers. The weakening ties in the village are reflected in the story of Okonkwo and his family. Nwoye's conversion to the white religion fills Okonkwo with uncontrollable 2 anger ...
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... Pacific. In this unusual world, all people are merely six inches tall. The tallest trees are only six feet tall, and the largest building, the palace of the king, was tall enough for Gulliver to leap over, although he would not dare do that, for he must be very careful not to crush anyone or break the buildings. The country of Lilliput is in the process of a war with Blefescu, the neighbor island to the north east. Gulliver becomes aware of the complexities of human ways and our helplessness. After returning home for ten months, Gulliver sets sail on another trip. After a few complications, he ends up on the peninsula off North America called Brobdingnag. ...
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... to its meaning, we can not allow it to steer us to the wrong's of the world today. Shelly Fishkin suggests Mark Twain has "obscured" the African American roots when writing Huck Finn. Jim, as suggested by Fishkin, has been plagued with a dialect that should not be represented by the African American race during that time. The question is raised by Fishkin as to if Huck Finn was black? This in turn would take away from the whole basic outcome of the moral lesson that we are all so desperately wanting to hear about. I found it almost appalling to see how one author could so easily turn the goodness of a young white boy and basically call it a lie in the eyes o ...
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