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Huck Finn Essay
Number of words: 806 - Number of pages: 3.... ways of nineteenth century society and the “improper” behavior that Huck is accustomed to dealing with. This insight that Twain gives to the reader is further expanded with the introduction of Huck’s Pap into the story. After leaving Huck for a little over a year, Pap comes back for Huck, figuring he may have something to gain. “That’s why I come. You git me that money tomorrow- I want it.” [29] are Pap’s words to Huck when they first reunite. Pap, the person most responsiable for Huck’s welfare, is the person who abuses Huck the most. Even though Huck is outside of the ci .....
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Human Nature: Exposed
Number of words: 1420 - Number of pages: 6.... his writing, it becomes apparent that Twain supports the
thematic idea of the human race being hypocritical. For instance, take the
scene in Chapter 20 where a group of people in Arkansas are listening to the
sermon of a preacher. In this descriptive passage, it can be inferred through
Twain's writing that the average person of this time was in fact "blinded" by
religious influences. The significance of this event can be observed later on
in Chapter 21 where Twain describes the horrific abuse of animals. "There
couldn't anything wake them up all over, and make them happy all over, like .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 1399 - Number of pages: 6.... Miss Caroline seems to have been instructed upon a strict standard on how her students are expected to behave, but when she encounters something different, such as Scout's advanced ability to read, she advises Scout to stop being advanced, whereas a modern-day schoolteacher would capitalize on Scout's ability to read and encourage her to read more. "You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade." (pg. 23) The strict, recipe-style, rubric method of teaching that Miss Caroline uses is once again emphasized here. Miss Caroline once again discourages Scout's advanced abilities and reg .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
Number of words: 1054 - Number of pages: 4.... 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 crazy plan which entails
running away with Sally, getting married, .....
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
Number of words: 1495 - Number of pages: 6.... and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168). Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. .....
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Mila 18: The Affair
Number of words: 545 - Number of pages: 2.... sex was deeply implanted in her. She practiced
pretending to enjoy love-making so as to not offend her husband. Deborah
didn't experience either fulfillment or the smaller pleasures of love-
making. She was totally unemotional.
When Deborah met Christopher she said she was drawn to him like a
little girl that took his hand and was led through the black evil forest to
the golden castle that sat on a cloud. The time when they had done
everything but go to bed came. Deborah threw a tantrum, and Chris
understood completely that it was her fear of an inability to perform.
Deborah opened he .....
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Stoker And Rice's Books About Vampires
Number of words: 1924 - Number of pages: 7.... mist. He uses these powers so humans dont detect his presence.
As a gas he can pass by humans without them even noticing and as a bat he
can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time. Rice's novels mention
nothing of being able to morph into a bat, mist or anything else for that
matter.
The ability to fly is used in each novel but they are used very
differently. In Dracula the count can fly but, in order to do this he
must turn into a bat and fly as a bat would fly. More powerful vampires in
The Vampire Chronicles can fly as , for example, super man would fly. In .....
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A Clean Well Lighted Place
Number of words: 2031 - Number of pages: 8.... nerves. Unfortunately for the old man, this light is an artificial one, and its serenity is fleeting and deficient. Maybe the old man hides in the shadows of the leaves because he recognizes the shortcoming of his sanctuary. Perhaps he is drawn to the shadows so that the darkness of his own age will not be so visible as it would be in the full force of the electric light. His body is dark with effects of illness. Even his ears bring him a sort of shadows as they hold out the sounds of the world. The old man's deafness is a powerful image used in the story. Deafness shuts the old man out fro .....
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A Rumor Of War
Number of words: 555 - Number of pages: 3.... were not Viet Cong. During war, innocent people are killed all the time in trying to win the fight. I do not understand how action is only taken on selective occasions. I am sure that many innocent women and children are killed when bombs are dropped unexpectedly, I do not see how this is any different. The sole aim of this war was to kill Viet Cong. I think that it would be very difficult to distinguish between the Viet Cong and civilians, especially because many Viet Cong tried to pose as civilians, and even carried false paperwork. Caputo made many statements about how important he .....
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Friendship Of The Musketeers
Number of words: 881 - Number of pages: 4.... this is shown throughout the book. It all started when
d'Artagnan was pursuing the man from Meung and ran in to Athos, who was
freshly wounded in a small skirmish with the Cardinal's Guards. D'Artagnan
asked Athos to pardon him and let him be on his way but Athos being the
brave and gallant musketeer, demanded a better aplogy, d'Artagnan was very
insulted by this so he challenged Athos to a duel at twelve o'clock. The
d'Artagnan ran towards the door, in the process of exiting, he ran into
Porthos who was just entering the door, while talking to a fellow musketeer.
D'Artagnan asked once agai .....
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