... The river is quiet and peaceful place where Huck can revert to examine any predicament he might find himself in: "They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low…Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,- s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad…" (p.127). Only a few weeks with Jim and still feeling great ambivalence, Huck returns to the river to think. Twain tries here to tell the reader how strong the "mob" really is, and only when totally alone is Huck able to make the morally correct decision. The natural flowing and calm of the river cause this deep-thought, showing how ...
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... the incidents recounted are realistic: …‘The Masque of the Red Death’ is an allegory in which Death is one of the dramatis personae.” ‘In The Fall of the House of Usher,’ the tragedy is so far from being either gratuitous or a matter of capricious volition that both family and mansion are foredoomed to destruction’” (Buranelli 74). He had a difficult childhood and lived a very disturbed, lonely and sad life. Poe was the second of three children. He had a brother and a sister. He was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 19, 1809. His mother was Elizabeth Arnold and his father was David Poe, Jr. Poe’s mother died two years after his birth on December 8, 1811 ...
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... gold a worthy hoard! (2232-36,2244-46)” In The Hobbit the dragon is introduced by saying: “there he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep . . . Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruby light. (The Hobbit pg.206)” This sounds comparable to a “kings ransom. For some reason people, when they see the dragons treasure, have an uncontrollable urge to steal some of it. “The wretch was terrified! /Yet still he reached out for more ...
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... but would you say what George Milton did was murder? He was saving a life more than taking one. Lenny was already "dead" in a sense at the point that George pulled the trigger. There were a lot of men with shotguns and hunting dogs searching for Lenny, who had absolutely NO chance of escape. For the men who worked at the farm were almost on to where Lenny was hiding and there was no time for Lenny and George to run. If Lenny were to fall in the hands of the people, he would have been tortured and killed. He would have died with the worst feeling of all in his body, hatred, and the hatred of himself. What Lenny did was wrong, but he did not understand ...
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... are not as good as they seem. He also starts to think about romance. Miss Kinnian, or Alice as he later in the book calls her, is Charlie’s night school teacher and then a romantic interest and then a teacher again. She liked the old Charlie, but when he starts becoming smart she finds it harder and harder to keep up with him. Being with him makes her feel strange, inadequate at times. She’s almost afraid of him. She thinks she knows Charlie, but discovers she doesn’t. The people at the bakery employed the retarded Charlie for years. While working there, they stood up for him sometimes, and sometimes played cruel jokes on him. The doct ...
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... of the Catcher in the Rye, the book is still a popular book among teenagers. One of the first major changes in children’s lives today is the break up of the nuclear family. When Salinger wrote this novel back in 1951, the average family consisted of one mother, one father, and one or more children. Today this is rare and far from normal. Today’s “normal” family is undefined. If one were to look at the average family it would probably consist of a single parent with children. Today in the U.S., there are over 8 million single-parent homes (Holzman). Forty years ago, single-parent homes were few and almost unheard of. If a child grew up with a single p ...
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... Her mother abandoned her shortly after giving birth to her. All she had was her grandmother, Nanny, who protected and looked after her when she was a child. But that was it. She was even unaware that she is black until, at age six, she saw a photograph of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marries someone who can provide wealth, property, and security to his wife. Nanny knew nothing about love since she never experienced it. She regarded that matter as unnecessary for her as well as for Janie. And for that reason, when Janie was about to enter her womanhood in searching for that love, Nan ...
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... a girl who is used to unjust treatment. Most of her life she had to live in a house with no one who cared for her and no one she cared about. When she leaves Lowood ( the school she attended as a child and teenager ), I believe she is looking for happiness. Jane is extremely independent, for instance when she walked all the way to town to mail her letter. She is also very cynical like when Mr. Rochester asks if she expects a present from him and she replies that she has done nothing to deserve a present. Mr. Rochester is the other main character of this story. He also is wanting happiness, but mostly he just wants peace. He is brash and blunt, not really caring abo ...
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... Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone whistles, dont turn to look. Dont go into a laundromat, by yourself, at night . .. Women were not protected then."(p. 24) Nobody believed it could happen to them. When the Sons of Jacob took over and began to take away their freedom, they accepted it. They were afraid and the Sons gave them some security. Because they accepted the first few laws, it was hard to refuse to not go along with the ones that followed. When the women were finally stripped of their identities, they felt as though they had deserved it because they had done nothing to try and save any of their other rights. "We looked at one anothers faces a ...
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... the older generations. This is shown in the book and it also happens in reality, which is another reason why I like this book. This is a fiction novel, but the story told is like a non-fiction book; giving readers a sense of realism. As a Chinese reading , I understand the narrator’s feelings and predicaments. Although she is an Asian, her thinking lies more on the American side. Leila wants to move out to stay with Mason but yet she fears leaving her mother alone and also of what her mother might say in regards to a girl staying with a man before marriage. In Asian culture, cohabitation is not popular and widely accepted. In the book’s narrative hierarchy, I find ...
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