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The Invisible Man
Number of words: 483 - Number of pages: 2.... chain becomes a symbol between the narrator and Brother Tarp because
the chain also symbolizes the narrator's experience in college, where he
was restricted to living up to Dr. Bledsoe's rules. He feels that he too
escaped, in order to establish himself again .The narrator identifies with
Brother Tarp because he too is trying to be an individual free of other
people's control. He does not want to be seen as a tool to be exploited,
but instead as a free-thinking human being.The invisible man knows now that
he has been a tool and feels a strong connection with Brother Tarp.It is as .....
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Alice In Wonderland
Number of words: 547 - Number of pages: 2.... a little girl that is still exploring the world
around her, but she finds that she is more mature than the creatures in
Wonderland.
Alice is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of
Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits
house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fan, "I'd
better take his fan and gloves- that is if I can find them", since Alice is
a guest, uninvited, she follows the owners orders. When Alice runs into
caterpillar she calls him "Sir", here is an excerpt from the book , " I
can't explain myself myself, I'm .....
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Beloved
Number of words: 761 - Number of pages: 3.... as
a human should. Slavery degraded African Americans from humans, to that of
animals. They were not treated with any respect, or proper care. Even modern day
criminals, those that have murdered large numbers of people are treated more
humanly then the average slave ever was. The life that the children would of
lived would of been one of complete servitude, they would of never of known what
it was like to live on their own and make their own decisions. This all goes
back to the fact that they would never be human or treated as humans, so based
on this I believe that Sethe was justified in .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 612 - Number of pages: 3.... enlist with youthful enthusiasm in the German army of World War I. As soldiers they know not what awaits them on the battle field. Many of their comrades will die before their very eyes. And for what? They don't know what their fighting against, they're fighting a war that isn't their own. But rather the war of the political leaders of several countries, whose arrogance cost the lives of so many young men. A war can never be fully justified, how do you justify the loss of human life? They know nothing of life but despair, death, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow .....
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Characters And Their Roles In The Great Gatsby
Number of words: 1139 - Number of pages: 5.... he is. We see his true ethics and morals come out in what seems to be the fight of his life. He is one of Gatsby’s only confidants and is there whenever Daisy and Gatsby meet. He is a crucial character of the novel.
Tom Buchanan is one man that no one who reads this novel likes or has any feeling for. He is the antagonist and is the character in which much of the typical macho male aspects are placed upon. He went to school with Nick at Yale and eventually married Nick’s Cousin Daisy. He cam from a very wealthy family in which materialism and the love for money was rampant. Tom w .....
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Imagery Words And Their Role In Literature
Number of words: 1519 - Number of pages: 6.... time there, “danced joyfully, passionately, intoxicated with pleasure, thinking of nothing, but the moment, in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, on cloud nine with happiness made up of all the admiration, of all the aroused desire, of this victory so complete and so sweet to the heart of any woman.” After the party, she discovered her necklace was lost. Since then, things change. There are no more beautiful words to describe Mrs. Loisel, no more daydream and no more fantasy worlds. She struggles for ten years just to pay off the necklace. Mrs. Loisel no .....
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Ambushed Tradition
Number of words: 2626 - Number of pages: 10.... was gone. The warriors stopped fighting against the oppressing white man, because the Indians were nearing extinction. Eventually, for survival, the tribe agreed to sell their land to the whites. The Indians were forced to live on reservations.
Indians, in the United States of America today, are in a constant battle with the duality of their lives. This duality is a struggle between their traditional culture and the modern day society that surrounds them. In the collection of short stories The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie expresses the dual sides of rese .....
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Book Review: For Whom The Bell Tolls
Number of words: 307 - Number of pages: 2.... and is a good guide. In addition to this, he
is also very wise and provides meaningful insight when a situation arises.
There has been no turning point in the book other than Robert Jordan
getting his mission orders which is really the beginning and not a turning point.
My personal opinion of the book so far is good. I like the usage of language,
the way a character speaks, the lack of contractions, and where the story is
headed. The start has been good and I hope it carries through to the end. .....
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C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure
Number of words: 417 - Number of pages: 2.... the command of the Retribution,
although his command of the Retribution did not come until later when the war
started again.
Hornblower had also had a few failures that hindered his successes.
Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships.
This was both a success and failure. It was a failure because after heating the
shot for a considerably long period of time the shot began to deform. This
deformity of the shot wouldn't allow it to fit into the cannon. Hornblower
realized his mistake after one of the shots wouldn't fit into the cannon. This
slowed their .....
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Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" And Desai's "Clear Light Of Day": Tension And Conflict Between Traditional And Modern Views
Number of words: 945 - Number of pages: 4.... which it was meant to preserve." But traditions continued on,
including ritual killing and banishment of one of the village leaders. But
then things begin to change more rapidly with the coming of the
missionaries. When they gave them the "evil forest" to build their
churches on there was no turning back. Many of the abused and outcast were
converted when they saw that these new people prospered in the evil lands.
The people started to revolt against their traditional gods. "Three
converts had gone into the village and boasted openly that all the gods
were dead and impotent" The .....
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