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Fried Green Tomatoes Human Nat
Number of words: 1280 - Number of pages: 5.... her to face a number of less-than-comfortable situations throughout the novel. A prime example of her use of humor was with Smokey Lonesome. When Smokey first comes into the café for a bite to eat, he is so nervous that he can’t stop shaking and he most certainly cannot eat. Idgie, seeing his discomfort, introduced herself and proceeded to tell Smokey a joke. “On November, a big flock of duck, oh, about forty or more, landed right smack in the middle of that lake, and while they were sitting there, that afternoon, a fluke thing happened. The temperature dropped so fast that .....
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Tom Jones
Number of words: 1084 - Number of pages: 4.... in the novel is when the reader finds out that Mrs. Waters is actually Jenny Jones who is Tom’s mother. He sleeps with Mrs. Waters not knowing this. Fielding does not unveil this secret until the end of the novel. The major problem in the book is simple. There is a deceitful man named Blifil. He and Tom are going after the same woman, Sophia Western. Blifil is a kaniving person and besmirches the reputation of Tom. He makes up lies that hurt Tom’s chances with Sophia. Tom is also a bastard and Sophia's father does not want her to marry a bastard. But he does want her to marry Blifil be .....
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Dr. Faust: Quest For Knowledge
Number of words: 435 - Number of pages: 2.... as he wishes. He is also given Mephistophilis to attend to his every need. Despite the attractiveness of the offer at hand, Faust is pledging his soul to eternal damnation. Because he will have access to infinite knowledge and power, Faust feels the bargain is worthy. He does not see hell as a torment despite the difference of opinion Mephistophilis offers.
As the story works towards the actually signing of the contract, a divine intervention occurs as two miracles take place in an effort to stop Faust. He will sign with his own blood. As he writes, his blood congeals and Mephistophil .....
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Lord Of The Flies; Creating A New Society
Number of words: 2008 - Number of pages: 8.... of creating a new civilization for themselves without the help of
adults. The boys must take what they have been taught and incorporate that
into a new society governed by themselves. Before long these boys will
deal with the many fears associated with this new life and the power
struggles for survival that will exist along the way.
The boys' creation of a new society helps the reader to see what
might really happen if a group of young boys is thrown together and must
fend for themselves without any adult supervision (Bowen, 58). This new
found freedom brings about many .....
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The Secret Lion: Symbolism To Reinforce The Theme
Number of words: 557 - Number of pages: 3.... the boys bury the grinding ball, they bury their childhood along with it. The symbolism Ri’os used in his story illuminated the theme, which is change is unstoppable , and that change is always accompanied by loss.
In the story “Miss Brill” the author Katherine Mansfield uses symbolism to reinforce and illuminate the theme. Miss Brill is a very lonely lady, she’s all alone. Miss Brill sits in the park and watches people as if she was watching a play. She has a fur that she wears around her neck, when the fur is not around Miss Brill’s neck it is kept in a box. One day she .....
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Female Power In The Odyssey
Number of words: 1026 - Number of pages: 4.... and show feminine power. In The Odyssey, through cunning manipulation and plotting three women stand their ground in individual protests to get what they want; Penelope’s trickery in evading the impatient marriage proposals by suitors, Helen’s deceit over Menelaos during the Trojan War, and finally the control that Nausicaa seems have upon first meeting Odysseus each illustrate power possessed by females of the epic.
At the Epic’s beginning the reader finds Penelope, Odysseus’ wife in Ithica facing the pressure of suitors who wish her hand in marriage. Despite the f .....
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Less Than Zero
Number of words: 722 - Number of pages: 3.... to be flown in. so a ticket has to be bought and a place to stay. So you need to get in touch with a travel agent. After you have all your DJ’s confirmed, you go off and meet with graphic designers who will design you a flyer. And you need to pay him for the work and for the flyers to get printed. After the flyers are printed then people need to go out and promote the Rave at other places. Anywhere that has the right kind of people. This is not over yet. You need sound, there are a lot of people that do sound, and they bring cabinets of speakers the turn tables everything that’s needs to .....
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Odysseuss Brutality
Number of words: 730 - Number of pages: 3.... he lost control, perhaps it was his years of denying the power of the gods that led him to brutality. Odysseus’s actions are indeed aggressive and morality at this point in his life seems to have faded.
All these things considered, the validity of Odysseus’s actions remain fair. Because of his denial of the power of the gods, Poseidon forced Odysseus to the raging sea. For these years that he was apart from Penelope and Telemachus he felt such pain and longing for Ithaka. And when Odysseus returned finally to his home only to hear of suitors and harlots about his home, he had t .....
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A Town Like Alice: Discussion
Number of words: 495 - Number of pages: 2.... about religion and culture is the
Japanese soldier who walked with the girls in Malaya when they got the stolen
poultry from Joe. The soldier is abused by his captain and he finds it so
humiliating that he looses his will to live. When he's infected by the fever he
doesn't fight it and he dies. This is a mentality that is or maybe was very
common in Japan. A person from the west would never feel so bad about loosing
his face as a man from Japan.
The differences between cultures can be something that maybe some of the persons
would like to change if they got the possibilities but it has ne .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
Number of words: 438 - Number of pages: 2.... However, he made up a story that his father
was sick and needed help and asked the slave hunters for help. They immediately
assumed that his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. Huckleberry, with the aid of Tom
Sawyer, free's Jim. Once again, Jim's escape and freedom are more important to
Huck than societies viewpoint.
The river is also important. The river is symbolic of freedom. It is
also symbolic of good. When Jim and Huck are r .....
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