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Good Country Irony-good Countr
Number of words: 862 - Number of pages: 4.... story moves on we can see the conflict between Mrs. Hopewell and her daughter Joy/Hulga. Joy/Hulga treats her mother with disdain, and does everything she can to emphasize her own individuality. She professes to believe in nothing. She is a proud intellectual and has little doubt of her belief in “nothingness.” However, ironically in the end she is proven to be very much like her mother in that she falls prey to the same naïve stereotypes as her mother.
She believes Manley Pointer to be “Good Country People,” and is shocked to find out that he is not the good Christ .....
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A Separate Peace
Number of words: 759 - Number of pages: 3.... certainly not Gene's grades. Gene does not realize this, perhaps he simply does not want to admit the truth. He has created an enemy
o protect himself from acknowledging that he is not completely satisfied with his character, or lack of character and individuality.
Gene soon realizes that Finny is not trying to be his rival. However, this realization only makes Gene angrier with Finny. He is irritated at the notion that he is "not of the same quality as Finny,” thus he cannot possibly compete with Finny. At this
int Gene already knows that his enemy is not Finny, but he is not ye .....
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Candide By Voltaire
Number of words: 1159 - Number of pages: 5.... our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare.
By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the futility of needless philosophizing by saying that "...the work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." In each of these examples, the character chosen by the .....
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Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood
Number of words: 846 - Number of pages: 4.... could change for the better
throughout the story. At the beginning of the story he speaks of how his
fathers "...wolflike independence..."(145) causes his family to depend on almost
no one. He believes that they live on their own because of his fathers drive
for survival. When Sarty mentions the way his father commands his sisters to
clean a rug with force "...though never raising his voice..."(148), it shows how
he sees his father as strict, but not overly demanding. He seems to begin to
feel dissent towards his father for the way he exercises his authority in the
household. As we ne .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Simon, The Christ Figure
Number of words: 1310 - Number of pages: 5.... multiplied the loaves
and fishes to feed the poor until they were contented. After this, Simon
disappears from the others to be alone and begins to have feelings that
something is wrong. He starts to have premonitions of the Beast: The Lord
of the Flies.
When the boys set off in a party to find the Beast on the mountain,
Simon starts to see a vision of what they will find.
Simon . . . felt a flicker of incredulity -- a beast with claws that
scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was no
fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the be .....
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Lost Heritage In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
Number of words: 821 - Number of pages: 3.... all day, One winter I knocked a bull
calf straight in the brain with a sledge hammer and
had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. (Walker
289)
And Maggie is the daughter, "homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms
and legs," (Walker 288) who helps Mama by making "the yard so clean and wavy"
(Walker 288) and washes dishes "in the kitchen over the dishpan" (Walker 293).
Neither Mama nor Maggie are 'modernly' educated persons; "I [Mama] never had an
education myself. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-
naturedly She knows .....
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Lord Of The Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm Of Society
Number of words: 1923 - Number of pages: 7.... drive in the libido, the term serving a double Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality
on the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the
portrayal of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to
what he called the destructive drive, the aggressiveness of self-ruin.
Jack's antithetical lack of compassion for nature, for others, and
ultimately for himself is thoroughly evidenced in his needless hunting, his
role in the brutal murders of Simon and Piggy, and final .....
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Essay On Pride And Prejudice: Theme
Number of words: 473 - Number of pages: 2.... an issue for Darcy in that he disliked Elizabeth in
the beginning because of her low social status, poverty, and socially inept
family. Darcy was forced to deal with his prejudice when he fell in love with
Elizabeth. This was not easy for him to do but it was necessary. His snobbery
was countered by his love for Elizabeth. In the end, he overcame his pride and
gave in to his feelings by marrying her in spite of her and her family's
shortcomings.
Elizabeth had her own issues with prejudice with which to deal. Darcy's
cold arrogance and snobbery prejudiced her from him from the beginning a .....
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Death Of A Salesman: The Control Of Linda
Number of words: 465 - Number of pages: 2.... one Linda affects throughout the play. Biff and Happy are also under her effects. Willy always told the boys that if you were handsome, opportunity would come to you. Even though she knows this is wrong, she never teaches the boys right. She simply agrees with everything Willy says. Another example of this is when Biff goes to Bill Oliver for a loan. The two men haven’t seen each other in twenty years but Willy thought Oliver would give him the loan on the spot. She totally agrees with this farfetched statement and says "… isn’t that wonderful…" event though there is no cha .....
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Women In Julius Ceasar
Number of words: 387 - Number of pages: 2.... Portia reveals, that Brutus is indeed, a pompous self-centered man and that they have an un-pleasant relationship.
Calpurnia plays a similar role in the story. She reveals an un-clear part of Caesar. Calpurnia shows Caesars' vague suppositious trait. Until the conversation with calpurnia, Caesar never directly admitted to being suppositious. He always added something in front of his superstitions. However, when calpurnia had the bad dream, she convinced him not to go to the senate. Her conversation also throws light on his character. He was the most powerful man in the world and he had time .....
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