... her daughter was born, “‘ She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right’ I said, ‘I’ m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’” (Fitzgerald 21). These statements explain her opinion on how females should be, and also shows the insincerity in her personality. Daisy is also very confused about what she wants. When she is faced with having to make a decision between Jay Gatsby, her old love, and Tom Buchanan, her husband, she is not sure whom to choose. It is a choice that is based upon remaining materialistic, “old money,” with Tom or being torn ap ...
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... the key, to let him understand that he could take his ease as much as he liked.” Gregor’s sister is the only member of the family who seems human in her treatment of Gregor. She treats him fairly well by bringing food to his presence, showing that she still has solicitousness. “He had been of the opinion that nothing at all was left over from his father’s business” The family now has a financial problem, Gregor is unable to work and he is struggling against his own form, his own identity. Gregor, who was once fairly self-sufficient, must now rely on his parents for food and shelter. After Gregor’s transformed, it is not a metamorphosis of himself physically ...
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... out from under their mutilated mothers' bodies, only to be shot as target practice by the GIs. It is later estimated that approximately 500 civilians were murdered, and (probably) no VC were in the area. I could go into detail about the killing. However, most of the book was devoted to the time before the massacre, and afterward. The officers and GIs of "Charlie Company" were introduced in the beginning of the book: the officers had been social outcasts all their life (LT. Calley & Medina). Both had decided to devote their life to the military. The GIs were selected for "Charlie Company" specifically because they had all scored too low on the initial ex ...
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... reward. The people who have not been forced to look into the eyes of a dying comrade, whose legs have torn off due to the shrapnel of a mortar, can not sympathize with the broken hearts of the soldiers. They only visualize a possibly strenuous battle resulting in few casualties and from which their troops emerge elated and victorious. The soldiers on the front lines actually experience events, which scar their minds with thoughts of death and destruction. Remarque displays these ideas of pain and suffering through ignorance, fear, and inhumanity. Remarque depicts the misconception of war, by capturing the unknowingness that prevents those not fighting the war, fr ...
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... existed became very important strategically. Most notable are the Varda-Morava corridor, which connected the Aegean Sea and the Danube, and the Iron Gates of the Danube, linking Central Europe and the Black Sea, that controlled much of the trade between the Mediterranean and Central Europe since ancient times. Most of the populations have lived separated from each other geographically and culturally, developing very strong national and tribal allegiances. This region is a frontier between Eastern and Western European civilizations and has also been influnced by Islam during the Turkish invasion. The roots of the conflict in the Balkans go back hundreds of years. Fa ...
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... eyes of a bureaucracy, and in this sense, K is guilty. However, the question of K's guilt is not important to Kafka's intention to show his idea that "the innocent and the guilty [are] both executed without distinction in the end." In Kafka's beliefs, the courts treat all men as if they were guilty. Joseph K is a prime example of this treatment. He is never told about his crime, nor of how the trial is going. He merely waits until he is summoned, and if he is not, he is still forced to live his life according to the courts. This is what Kafka believes happens to all individuals; they are controlled by the society, and forced to agree with what the society ...
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... moment, no one likes to be yelled at and they will eventually lose interest in what you are talking about and continue with whatever they were doing before you interrupted them. To keep people’s attention you have to talk in language that they understand, and find a compromise between shouting at them and quietly asking for attention. After you get an audiences attention and are able to keep their attention, you’re home free. People are gullible. You can make them do whatever you want with the power of your voice; you just have to make them think that they’ll like it or gain something from it. There are countless examples of this that are spoken and written. Almost ...
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... “Yet it is true, each day I long for home, long for the sight of home.” As he plainly states, Odysseus greatly misses his home, and his tears show us just how much he misses it. In the duration of the story Odysseus has to make several sacrifices in order to get to the home he longs for so much. In Book 12, Circe foresees that Odysseus will have to let some of his men die. “The Ithacans set off. But Odysseus never reveals to them Circe’s last prophecy – that he will be the only survivor…” This shows how much he’s willing to do and sacrifice in order to get home. There are many obstacles that stand in Odysseus’ ...
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... mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal for a great period of ti ...
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... the other who was the heir to the house grew up a slave. After a murder it was realized who was really who and the mistake was returned to normal. Roxy, the mother in Pudd’nhead Wilson was first seen as a hero in the book. She saved her own child from slavery and put her masters child into it. This idea does not work out and son grows up beating her and whipping her. Her son turns into the laughing stock of the town. According to the website http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/applebaum/roxy.html, Roxy is very naive. Her second sign of stupidity was after she lost all her money from the steamship she returns to Dawson’s Landing hoping her son will help ...
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