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A Woman Mourned By Daughters: An Analysis
Number of words: 448 - Number of pages: 2.... that
she used to do to them. A knot forms in their throats (“what rises in our
throats like the food you prodded in”) as they think about how they used to be
treated.
After the mother dies, the daughters are left with several
responsibilities which are discussed in the next section (Lines 22-28). These
responsibilities are not ones which the daughters would be happy to take care of.
They are so hateful toward their mother and the problems she left are only a
burden to them. They feel that they are still being pushed around even after
she is dead. Even the thought of taking car .....
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The Reasons For Walter Mitty's Daydream
Number of words: 924 - Number of pages: 4.... wife's voice, as she says, "'Not so fast! You're driving too fast! . . . What are you driving so fast for?'" Here the reader sees the sharp contrast between the daydream and real life.
In the daydream, Mitty has the full respect and admiration of the passengers of his imaginary hydroplane. In real life, his only passenger, his wife, scolds him for not driving properly. This contrast between the competent man of the daydream and the incompetent man of real life is repeated over and over. Each repetition shows the difference between Mitty's real and imagined lives.
Mitty is aware .....
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The Lottery
Number of words: 811 - Number of pages: 3.... are doing what all typical kids do, playing boisterously and gathering rocks. The woman of the town are doing what all stereotypical females do, “exchang[ing] bits of gossip.” The men are being average males by chatting about boring day-to-day tasks like “planting and rain, tractors and taxes.”
Despite this comfortable and normal setting, there are hints of the town’s unusualness that foreshadow a surprise ending. For example, is being held “around ten o’clock” in the morning, which is an unusual time because in most towns all the adults would be working during mid-morn .....
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The Rime Of The Ancient Marine
Number of words: 675 - Number of pages: 3.... nor any drop to drink." He is punished harshly for killing the symbol of nature that everyone reveres. He is beaten down by the sun with its rays and is taunted by the endless sight of water that he cannot drink. Nature is the force in this poem that has power to decide what is right or wrong and how to deal with the actions.
The mariner reconciles his sins when he realizes what nature really is and what it means to him. All around his ship, he witnesses, "slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea" and he questions "the curse in the Dead man's eyes". This shows his contempt f .....
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Attitudes Toward Marriage In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Number of words: 1438 - Number of pages: 6.... from the ladies, as well as
the behaviors of both with regards to Alison. Still, Alison does what she wants,
she takes Nicholas because she wants to, just as she ignores Absalon because she
wants to. Lines 3290-5 of the Miller's Tale show Alison's blatant disrespect for
her marriage to "Old John" and her planned deceit:
That she hir love hym graunted atte laste,
And swoor hir ooth, by seint Thomas of Kent
That she wol been at his comandement,
Whan that she may hir leyser wel espie.
"Myn housbonde is so ful of jalousie
That but ye wayte wel and been privee..."
On the cont .....
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A Case Of Needing: Serious Revisions
Number of words: 1994 - Number of pages: 8.... is not the story's main flaw. The biggest
drawback here is a one-two punch of highly technical prose employed to relate a
thoroughly dull story. Karen Randall, the daughter of an eminent physician, dies
as the result of a botched abortion. Art Lee, a Chinese obstetrician, is accused
of performing the D & C that has resulted in her death. Though Lee is known to
be an abortionist, he vehemently denies any involvement in the case. Lee calls
upon his friend, forensic pathologist John Berry, to clear his name.
John Berry careens back and forth from one Boston hospital to another,
trying to fi .....
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The Theme Of Sin In The Scarle
Number of words: 653 - Number of pages: 3.... and she was forced to wear the letter “A” on her clothes for the rest of her life. Hester’s punishment for her sin was distinguished in that the results of her actions were for the most part external. Hawthorne describes what Hester’s punishment was like when he states, “In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it. Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished.”(p.44) Although Hester was somewhat .....
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A Date With Kosinski
Number of words: 1595 - Number of pages: 6.... the book giving the reader a window to see his life through the eyes of Levanter.
Jerzy Kosinski was born in Lodz, Poland in 1933. Kosinski was separated from his parents shortly after Nazi Germany's invasion of Lodz, and the fear and violence that he experienced during World War II left a scar on his soul. Shortly after the war, Kosinski was reunited with his family. Kosinski studied sociology and political science at the University of Lodz. At the age of 24, he left his homeland and established a new culture in the United States, where he taught himself the English language in 4 mont .....
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Hamlet Observations Of Madness
Number of words: 2543 - Number of pages: 10.... Hamlets supposed madness. The two men believe that the cause for Hamlets madness is his lack of “advancement” or thwarted ambition. In a conversation with Hamlet in Act II scene II, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz come upon this idea:
Hamlet: Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz: Then is the world one.
Hamlet: A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
Rosencrantz: We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet: Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it
so: to me it is a prison.
Wh .....
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A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
Number of words: 806 - Number of pages: 3.... future will hold -- hard work for their
landlord and mere survival for them.
No hope for advancement prevails throughout the story. Sarty, his
brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must spend
their time working in the fields or at home performing familial duties.
Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room where they would
presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-afternoon meal” (PARA. 55).
As a consequence, poor health combined with inadequate opportunity results in
low morale. A morale which the writer is identifying with the .....
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