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The Cast Of Amontillado
Number of words: 752 - Number of pages: 3.... is vengeful and plans to get “revenge” on Fortunato. Montresor also has a coat of arms which is, “A huge human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel,” with a motto of, “Nemo me impune lacessit,” which stands for no one attacks me with impunity. The coat of arms and the family motto both suggest retribution. The arms symbolize Montresor and Fortunato, Fortunato stepping on Montresor, the snake, and Montresor getting even with Fortunato, the foot. Not only is Montresor vengeful, he is also very intelligent in his actio .....
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Flowers For Algeron
Number of words: 869 - Number of pages: 4.... in their own way, depending on how they interpret the story. In the story, there was a point where Charlie was at a party and they got him drunk, and made him dance with a girl. Charlie had never been with a girl before and didn’t know what to do. They were tripping him when he was trying to dance with the girl. Later after the operation when he is smart he says "…people were laughing and making fun of me…" Maybe Daniel Keyes has seen something like this happen before done to someone mentally challenged.
Daniel Keyes point of view of improving intelligence by artificial means, is that .....
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Brandy's "I Want A Wife": An Analysis
Number of words: 415 - Number of pages: 2.... them a book to them every night. Furthermore,
schooling is another big responsibility that a mother has to take seriously.
Mothers have to make sure that their children are prepared for school, by
registering them. In many other cases mothers have to sacrifice time in
order to attend PTA meetings. So they know what's happening with their
child's education.
The final role a mother has to play is making room for the husband's
sexual needs. She has to make sure the husband is well satisfied, while
giving passionate love. Woman have to supply special attention towards the
husband du .....
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Summary Of Beloved
Number of words: 512 - Number of pages: 2.... Plot
The plot of the novel is loosely based upon the life of a former slave named Margaret Garner, who tried to kill all of her children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arrives, he chases away the ghost, but soon a young woman named Beloved comes to Sethe's home. This woman is strangely similar to Sethe's dead daughter, which is ironic because the word "Belove .....
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Marigolds By Eugenia Collier
Number of words: 616 - Number of pages: 3.... is faced with the challenges of becoming a woman. Her family is living during the times of the depression and as her fear and anger build up, they move her to an act of destruction. But this act also taught her a lesson in life.
Childhood is meant to be a time of learning and reaching to find that person you want to be as an adult. It seems that every act as a child is based on innocence and ignorance. Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. As a child, even an act of destruction is seen as innocence. During childh .....
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Pudd'nhead Wilson: Slavery
Number of words: 853 - Number of pages: 4.... eventually caught. The truth about
him is let out and Tom is set into slavery and "Valet" de Chambre" is set
free.
The issue of slavery comes up throughout the novel. The reality of
slavery is shown in many places in the novel. There are two main aspects
of slavery dealt with most realistically in the novel: sex, and violence.
The reality of sex between slaveholder's and slaves is a main point in the
novel due to the fact that "Roxy", a black slave woman, conceives the child
of an influential white man. This almost certainly was a reality in the
ante-bellum south. For evidence of th .....
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Matilda
Number of words: 787 - Number of pages: 3.... all day and her used car salesman father was at work,
Matilda walked to the public library and read books all afternoon. Matilda's
parents were both so warmless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives
that they failed to notice anything unusual about Matilda. Afterward, Mr.
Wormwood decided to take Matilda to school; in school Matilda found lots of
friends and two special teachers, Miss Honey the gentle teacher and Miss
Trunchbull the head teacher, a harsh and ruthless woman. Miss Trunchbull treated
the kids awfully in her school, so Matilda with her extra powers decided too .
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Lord Of The Flies: Essay On Jack Merridew
Number of words: 1934 - Number of pages: 8.... equal. They are both well - conditioned boys of school age, who
find themselves on a lonely island with some other boys of various age, but
not older than themselves. They share similar opinions about their
situation and its solution. They both want to be rescued and taken home.
They both realize that there are a lot of things they must do to survive on
the island until all of them get rescued. And lastly, they both are
dominant types, but yet at the beginning of the novel they both acknowledge
each other's authority and behave to each other in a friendly way.
At the return Ralph .....
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The Oddysey
Number of words: 777 - Number of pages: 3.... He awoke to meet Athena disguised as a shepherd boy. Odysseus asked the boy where he was because he currently has no idea, he thought the Phaecians did not bring him to his desired destination. The boy tells him Ithaca. In response to this, Odysseus created an extensive lie about who he is in front of Athena. Athena then scolded him for this. The Goddess then told Odysseus that Telemachus is with Menelaus searching for answers and tales of his father.
There are three settings in Book 13 of the Odyssey. This book began in the kingdom of Alcinous where Odysseus began his short voyage h .....
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Number of words: 1052 - Number of pages: 4.... a relatively poor town for the blacks in the neighborhood. The Maya character growing up was impressed by the field workers that would constantly pass through her grandmothers grocery store, with the suffering of their ill paid work. Right from the start of the novel Angelou demonstrates a humanistic sympathy for the Southern blacks. When Maya was a young girl growing up, her brother Baily brought her to see a Kay Francis movie where she was relegated to the colored balcony. In her early adolescence Maya had a great concern for equality and self- determination for the black race, .....
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