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Away
Number of words: 1083 - Number of pages: 4.... and shows how similar they are. The women are strong and passionate about their causes; they are bound together through generations of going . They leave their surrounding environments in an inner search for peace, compassion, beauty and love. Each woman connects to the other through her uncontrollable passions. The women in the novel are connected throughout each generation by their experiences of the past and present.
The women, in the novel , are connected by their experiences of being . They are connected genetically. Mary is Eileen's mother and Eileen is Esther's grandmother. .....
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"How To Tell A True War Story"
Number of words: 814 - Number of pages: 3.... because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness" (461). After I did this a couple times, I was disgusted with myself and quit. I wanted to keep my memories of war to myself.
During the war I picked up the nickname Krebs and that is what I was known as. When I returned home everyone called me Harold and it felt strange. I feel like at war I was a different person and when I returned home no one knew me as Krebs, they only knew me as Harold. The characters in were given nicknames at war as well. I feel as though the experiences at war have toughened .....
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Reasons For The Downfall Of Ma
Number of words: 547 - Number of pages: 2.... as if that was the normal thing to do. Anything different, anything that deviated from her current life appealed to Emma. What was new was romantic, exciting, bold, and adventurous. She perceived Charles to be a character from one of her books when she met him. He was fairly attractive, but most of all, he was a doctor! He was a man of power to the meager peasant that Emma was. To Emma, this was a man who could give her romance. He could satisfy all of her fantasies.
When Emma realized Charles was just an ordinary man, she felt there was something wrong with him, not her. What her books told .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout
Number of words: 802 - Number of pages: 3.... that Scout has is about Mrs. Dubose. She always thought of her as a mean old lady who had nothing better to do than to yell at children. But, they soon found out that she was in withdrawal for a very serious addiction which was why she was so angry all the time. "Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict. She took it as a painkiller for years"(Lee 111). After she dies Scout starts to grasp the fact that Mrs. Dubose had a very hard time being happy.
Alike many other children her age, Scout is very curious. She is very interested in the peculiar life of her neighbor, Boo Radley. She believ .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Rose Of Sharon And The Starving Man
Number of words: 2090 - Number of pages: 8.... family." Most begin like Tom, "jus' puttin' one foot in front of the other" (Chapter 16). Uncle John lives in the past, harboring guilt over his wife's death. Al lives for girls and cars. Pa is so broken at the loss of his farm that for much of the novel he allows all decisions to be made by Ma. Ma, at the novel's beginning, has only one passion: to keep the "fambly" together. Ruthie torments her brother and exhibits childish ways almost until the end of the book. Even Casy, when the novel opens, is adrift. He's sure there's something to be learned in the midst of all the suffering, b .....
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The Sword In The Stone
Number of words: 886 - Number of pages: 4.... him out of fear.
In Wart's next transformation into a hawk, he soars into the castle's
mews. All the birds in the mews have a military rank. Their leader is an
old falcon, who Sir Ector keeps for show. The birds who rank below the
falcon, hold her in highest regard because of her age. She applies her
power over the other birds with no concern for their lives. In one
instance, Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of a crazy hawk who
almost kills him. On the other hand, her seasoned age brings respect,
since she had not been released once she outlived her usefulness as a
huntres .....
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The Untouchables
Number of words: 576 - Number of pages: 3.... the information he was thinking. Through his actions as a prohibition agent he affected history by enforcing the 19th amendment like no one else ever did. He set a new standard for young law
enforcing agents to live up to. He helped in remolding our police forces from
the corruptment it had been in. Eliot Ness helped to establish police training
programs, and was a said hero in Chicago for his fight against the mob there.
Al Copone made a big impact on history. He set up what came to be
the most notorious Mafia ever in our history. He helped in making Italian
traditions popular .....
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Iago Is Evil
Number of words: 832 - Number of pages: 4.... ill towards Othello. Well, he is sort of mad
that Cassio was chosen as a Lieutenant instead of him. It is interesting
that Iago feels theneed to justify himself to a pantywaist like Roderigo,
who entrusts him with his "purse"without really even knowing him. When
he does not belief his daughter to be "making thebeast with two backs"(I,
i, 113), as Iago so gently puts it, Brabantio calls Iago a villain.
Instead of denying it, Iago simply replies by saying, "You are-a
senator."(I, i, 115) Agreat way to avoid reality is to merely pretend it
is not there. Then, instead of takingcredit .....
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The Great Gatsby: The Green Light
Number of words: 1041 - Number of pages: 4.... intense than a sign
because it can have several meanings in different situations. (Beckson and
Ganz 207)
The green light is first mentioned in chapter one of the Great
Gatsby. Nick, the narrator of the novel, sees Gatsby curiously stretching
his arms out towards the water. Nick went to see what Gatsby was looking
at and all he could see was "...nothing except a single green light, minute
and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."
At this point in the novel the symbol of the green light is
introduced to the reader. The reader does not know that the light is on
Daisy's dock .....
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John Cheever’s Portrayals Of Suburban Life
Number of words: 2518 - Number of pages: 10.... 236). Some criticize his work for lacking a climax and plot making for an uneventful story line. Clearly one thing holds true. Cheever depicts life in American suburbs with humor and compassion in a way that no other can compare to.
Cheever is a self-expressive author who voices his opinion through writing quite effectively. In his novels Cheever creates his own idea of typical suburban New England life and characters. He keeps the main plot of his tales in the general area of New England but changes exact locations ranging from Falconer, to St. Boltophs, to the suburban scenery of Bullet Pa .....
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