... A bias that surfaces early on, is the mention of Robert's wife, "Beulah!" The narrator exclaims, "That's a name for a colored woman." (Carver, "Cathedral," 182) Here, by attaching a stereotype to a simple name, he exhibits the precise indiscretion of a closed-minded bigot, and then eventually reaches humility through his awakening. The narrator possesses several other prejudices that also hinder his humility. Later on, for example, the narrator sees Robert for the first time and the man's appearance startles him: "This blind man, feature this," he says, "he was wearing a full beard! A beard on a blind man!" (183) Later still, the narrator reinforces h ...
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... family lives through one hundred years in this manner, before their destiny is fulfilled. This novel is about how a family is able to survive, for a time, in solitude. So, it is appropriate that the setting is a newly settled village, which is deep in the jungle, away from the world that has condemned them. is an almost magical story where the past, present and future seem to merge into one. It tells the story of a family, rather than an individual, and how two people’s mistake results in their descendant’s downfall. If the setting was in an urban environment, the story would have made no sense, or at least lost a bit of its effect. Instead, these peop ...
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... box cannot be a positive idea is because the occasion that it was for was not a greatful event, most likely the people would try to get new props each year. Since the occasion is not a greatful occasion the people in charge do not care if the box is old and ripped up. When iteams are old and ragged people seem to look down on them. A second characteristic that the box had was its color. The color black always symbolizes darkness or evil happenings. Since the color of the boz is black, it indicates to the readers that the event that is going to take place is evil. If the color of the box were a briught color people might be cheerful and happy instead of worri ...
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... and peace, Morrison uses her characters' references to their serenity and soothing nature as messages that only in nature could these oppressed people find comfort and escape from unwanted thoughts. Almost every one of Morrison's characters find refuge in trees and nature, especially the main characters such as Sethe and Paul D. During Sethe's time in slavery, she has witnessed many gruesome and horrible events that blacks endure such as whippings and lynchings. However, Sethe seemingly chooses to remember the sight of sycamore trees over the sight of lynched boys, thus revealing her comfort in a tree's presence: "Boys hanging from the most beautiful sycamores in ...
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... found out Oliver was staying with Mr.Brownlow. So oneday Fagin sends his boys to kidnap Oliver. In the months that follow, Oliver stays with Mrs.Maylie and her niece Rose. Then one of Fagin’s thieves, Monks, goes to the Bumbles to buy the evidence of Oliver’s parentage- a locket left by his mother. Monk throws it into a river, then tells Fagin to make Oliver a thief again. One day Nancy, a thief, overhears Fagin and Bill Sikes talking about Oliver and what they are going to do to him. Bill Sikes finds out Nancy told Rose Maylie and beats Nancy to death. Bill Sikes hangs himself accidentally while trying to escape with Oliver. Then Mr.Brownlow adopts Oliver and t ...
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... It wasn’t anyone’s fault.” His wife returns sharply, “You don’t believe that, you say it, but you don’t believe it.” He looks for answers elsewhere. Cal begins searching within himself for a conclusion. “I’m the kind of man who…?” He can’t answer this question without being too painfully truthful; afraid of finding something he doesn’t want to see. He begins noticing imperfections in himself. “He has noted this about himself lately: He drinks too muck when they go out. Because drinking helps.” Cal finally comes to a conclusion that there was nothing he could have done to prevent the death of his son. He gives up more so than he heals. Conrad. He found his wound ...
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... in the story. First, a young girl is raped and a black man is accused of the crime. The people of the town immediately assume the black man is guilty. Atticus, Scouts father, is a lawyer and takes the case. Because of the is he would have been lynched if it weren't for the innocence of his children. Atticus proves the defendant's innocence but given the time period the man is found guilty anyway. Also, there is a neighbor boy who is supposed to be a severely disturbed. However, it turns out that this bad apple is truly good. He is always leaving little trinkets in a tree for the boy to find and when that same boy gets his trousers caught in the fence the suppo ...
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... book has the author recount the story as an omniscient narrator. The author has told the story in a detached fashion, with the narrator rarely reacting personally to the events, even when they recount horrific events. This style of writing often cheapens the content of the story, making it seems rather impersonal, even for nonfiction. The book itself was written recently, using the author's grandfather's letters as a guide. The author wrote the book in an attempt to better educate herself about her Chinese heritage, and about a nation that seemed foreign to her, a place "you'd find yourself if you dug a hold deep enough to come out the other side of the Earth." ...
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... Hester Pyrnne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face, and at the wink-ing baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. P. 52, 53 As this is happening, all the people see is the crime that Hester committed, not the person behind it. They do not take into consideration, that the crime itself, is not as evil as they make it out to be. Hawthorne describes it as enjoyable to the spectators, by showing ...
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... of the Pencey School, Holden decides to leave early. Before he leaves, though, he visits his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and Holden talk about his direction in life: “‘Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too much, I guess,'” (14). After leaving Pencey, he checks into a hotel where he invites a prostitute up to his room. He gets cold feet and decides not to have intercourse with her, though. Later, Holden decides to take his old girlfriend, Sally Hayes, to the theater. After taking her to the theater, Holden formulates a cra ...
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