... sends Pip to a psychotic old ladies house named Mrs. Havisham. Mrs. Havisham is a mean and nasty character who constantly bickers at Pip and tells him of his unimportance. Pip continues to be mild mannered and respectful to Mrs. Havisham yet he begins to see that he will never get ahead in life just being nice. Mrs. Havisham uses Pip as sort of a guinea pig to feel her passion of revenge against men. She does this by using her daughter Estella to torment Pip. Pip’s first and only love is Estella. Estella is very mean and nasty to Pip. Although he receives verbal abuse from Estella, he continues to likes and will not stop liking her, he sees the good insid ...
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... elegance which has been appealing to many since it was written in 1845. The theme of “The Raven” is simple: a man suffering the loss of his love is visited by a speaking raven, whose repetitious, meaningless answers torture him to the point of insanity (see Appendix R) (Decoder, Internet). The feeling of lost love portrayed in the poem might have reflected the death of Poe’s wife, Virginia, in 1847 (Qrisse, Internet). As it is read, a definite rhyme scheme is present: internal rhyme in the first and third line, and end rhymes in lines two, four, and five. All eighteen stanzas of the poem are arranged like this, but Poe never makes it ...
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... the Confessions, life, though valued, was just a time spent before God chose to bring your soul to heaven; contingent of course on the fact that you were a Christian. “Yet in a moment, before we had reached the end of the first year of a friendship….you took him from this world (Confessions, 75).” “When all hope of saving him was lost, he was baptized as he lay unconscious (Confessions, 75).” This passage about e’s friend helps to illustrate that as death drew near in Augustine’s time, thoughts went to the after life in heaven. This hypothesis is furthered when Augustine writes about the death of his mother. “A ...
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... Gateshead determine her imagination: in the pictures she paints, the way she interprets her story. The shocking account of that extreme terror and brutality she suffers from John and Mrs Reed (the book flung at her, shut up in the red-room) points out that the fountainhead of her emotional life is the experience of oppression. Yet, her little self is full of fiery energy (as one of the servants observed: "Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!" ), which like a volcano erupts at times in the form of revolt against the "tyrants". It seems that the child's most burning question is what kind of role she plays in the Reed house: if young John is her "master", s ...
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... of the circumstances of Curley’s hand injury and it is now obvious that her and Curley’s relationship is extremely dysfunctional and probably emotionally damaging to the wife. Another important scene in which Curley’s wife is portrayed in a sympathetic manner is during her conversation with Lennie before her death. She confesses to Lennie that she dislikes Curley because he is angry all the time and says that she comes around because she is lonely and just wants someone to talk to. She speaks to Lennie not because she specifically cares for him, but because she lacks human interaction. Like George and Lennie, she once had a dream she sought for, ...
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... on Billy was getting set up by Claggart. Why? Because Claggart was given bad information about Billy. Claggart was told that Billy didn't like Claggart and wanted to kill him later on the ship. Claggart made his move, telling the captain that a group of sailors on the Ship were going to muteness and that Billy was the leader of this group. Captain Vere asking to bring in Billy about the situation. Billy speechless about the situation didn't know what to do, so Billy attacked Claggart and took him out with one hit. Knowing that Billy wouldn't even hurt a fly proved me wrong. That's why Would of had Billy guilty of the crime of killing Claggart. If ...
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... who tells him God is a spirit. One day Brian imagines that God comes and visits him. God tells Brian that he will get revenge on Art and his grandmother because they were not nice to him.4 Brian's knowledge of God is still young and immature. In the middle of the novel, Brian talks to Saint Sammy and is encouraged to think about God.5 Saint Sammy is a religious man who is familiar with God's Word. He relies on God to show him the right way to deal with Bent Candy. Brian is in such awe of Saint Sammy's knowledge and closeness to God that he then desires to seek after God.6 The knowledge and closeness that Saint Sammy has to God encourages Brian. Brian is s ...
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... show resentment toward the cat, and in a fit of drunken rage, gauges out his eyes. A second example of the narrators craziness is, after a while, the cat’s eye heals and naturally he avoids his attacker. This makes the narrator become even more enraged with the cat than before. So, he takes the cat out to the back yard and hangs him from a tree. This was the very same cat that, at the beginning of the story, he loved and cared for so deeply. After a short while, the narrator gets a second cat that resembles the old one, he decides he will love it immensely and not harm it in any way. However, the second cat begins to annoy him as well. The third example of ...
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... what food is eaten, which prayers are recited, and the typical clothing attire worn during these times. Sara came from a very large family. Thus having many stories and memories to tell in part one. She even has three separate chapters for three different sets of family. Sara Rosen's decision of explaining her family and the traditions set forth, was an exceptional way to start the novel. It gave the reader a more detailed image of what to expect. The reader now fully understands what the Rosen family was experiencing while trying to survive the Holocaust. The reader, also, now has knowledge of what the Jewish Religion is like and realizes all the fa ...
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... them to go with the others to the Klondike. He realized during the trip that he needed to go back to them because he was abandoning them. He left Jon and went back. He later returned with his family. That proves that he was a man that had good values and cared about his family. Acquisitive instinct- Most of the people that went to the Klondike went to find gold, because they wanted more than they already had. Lots of us do that same thing. We always seem to want more than we already have. So we can relate to the book in that way. Even if it is not right to always want more we can see where they are coming from. Plain Folks- When books are about average people, ...
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