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The Truth Behind The Madness,
Number of words: 1129 - Number of pages: 5.... interruption of his wedding with Jane. “Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family, idiots and maniacs through three generations!”(Brontë). Later, in the same chapter, she is further described as having a “discoloured face”, “a savage face” with “fearful blackened inflation of the features”, “the lips were swelled and black”. Nowhere in the novel she allows “the madwoman in the attic” to have a voice, to explain what may have caused her madness. She shows no pity for her, and neither does the reader feels that .....
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Kate Chopins The Awakening
Number of words: 10531 - Number of pages: 39.... talks about her childhood in Kentucky bluegrass country and her sister's upcoming wedding.
Leonce wakes Edna when he enters the bedroom that night. He relates his experiences of the evening, but she responds only with sleepy half-answers. Her lack of interest in his evening bothers him. He checks on his sons and informs Edna that Raul seems to have a fever. She replies that the child was fine earlier, and he criticizes her lack of motherly concern.
After a cursory visit to the boys' bedroom, Edna refuses to answer any of her husband's inquiries. Leonce soon falls asleep, but Edna is wide awak .....
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A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
Number of words: 964 - Number of pages: 4.... his
somber barrier and shows emotions. At that point he became a man, not a hog. As
far as the story tells, he never showed any sort of emotion before the shooting
or after up until that point. A hog can't show emotions, but a man can. There
is the epiphany of the story, where Mr. Wiggins realizes that the purpose of
life is to help make the world a better place, and at that time he no longer
minds visiting Jefferson and begins becoming his friend.
Mr. Wiggins' relationship with his Aunt declined in this story, although
it was never very strong. His Aunt treated him like he should be a .....
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Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now
Number of words: 2186 - Number of pages: 8.... its head in the sea, its body at rest curving
afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land"
(Dorall 303), he hears rumors of Kurtz's unusual behavior of killing the
Africans. The behavior fascinates him, especially when he sees it first
hand: "and there it was black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids- a head
that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and with the shrunken dry
lips showing a narrow white line of the teeth, was smiling too, smiling
continuously at some endless and jocose dream of that eternal
slumber"(Conrad 57). These heads that Marlow sees are fir .....
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Another 1984
Number of words: 1057 - Number of pages: 4.... renting the
apartment is the fact that their is no visible telescreen. The
owner told Winston the he never had one because, “Too
expensive. And I never seemed to feel the need of it
somehow.”(82) In truth their was a telescreen behind the
etching, which leads to the capture of Winston and Julia. The
apartment was a huge symbol of the past to Winston. The
apartment is decorated with relics of the past: a double bed,
a metal etching of a church, a bookshelf filled with ancient
tomes. Winston and Julia use these items as constant
reminders of the past they are longing for. They believe t .....
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Hands: Paranoia
Number of words: 1162 - Number of pages: 5.... 884) "In a way
the voice and hands, the stroking of shoulders and the touching of hair were a
part of the school Master's effort to carry a dream into the young minds."(p.
884) This is a man that was run out of a town for something that was not a bad
thing. Nor was this something intended the wrong way. Mr. Myers did touch only
to pass on something great, a dream. Mr. Myers was run from a town. "They
intended to hang the school master."(p. 885) "As he ran away in the darkness
they repented their weakness and ran after him."(p. 885) Mr. Myers was so
paranoid about touching someone he .....
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The Effects Of Sin On Hester P
Number of words: 660 - Number of pages: 3.... two, when she bravely faces the humiliation of the scaffold: "And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison,"
Hester's daughter, Pearl, is "a blessing and is a reminder of her sin."
As if the scarlet A were not enough punishment there "was a brat of that hellish breed" which would remind Hester of what had happened in the past. The "brat" could have been given away to Governor Bellingham yet Hester proclaimed that Pearl "is my happiness!...Ye shall not take her! I will die first!" Not a person in Boston, .....
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The Many Faces Of Love In Arth
Number of words: 5113 - Number of pages: 19.... as far as love among human beings is concerned. But Wolfram develops love’s definition to the point where the only true love is the love and service of God. In order to clarify this development of the concept of love from simple human desire to a sublime commitment to the almighty, let us examine in detail the works of these perpetuators of Arthurian Legend.
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain contains an account of the events that lead up to the birth and reign of King Arthur. Geoffrey tells of Uther, the King of Britain whose longing for Queen Igerna culminates in Ar .....
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John Updike AandP
Number of words: 1222 - Number of pages: 5.... and acted as though they did not live in his town. The girls were ignorant of Sammy's local culture as they seemingly had spent the day at the beach, and had not lived in his town nor spent much time in it at all.
"The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it"(79). John Updike has Sammy describe these girls in such great detail in order to point out there untouched nature. These girls did not wear any make up, and they barely had any clot .....
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The Killer Angels
Number of words: 579 - Number of pages: 3.... to be apart of for the soldiers.
The setting for the book takes place in Pennsylvania, where the Battle of Gettys-burg is fought. The author provides many detailed maps of both army's positions.
Throughout the book, the reader is shown the pain, difficulty, anguish, and other dilemmas the armies face leading up to the final confrontation. In the beginning of the book we learn about the North from a spy for the South. His job was to scout the North's position as well count the number of troops. He reports to General Robert E. Lee and recalls what he saw. The spy's information proved use .....
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