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The Catcher In The Rye
<view this essay>.... she makes him feel depressed and sorry on her behalf. He was further disappointed when she tries to rob him for his money even though he tries to be nice to her. He also has a date with an old girlfriend, and asks her to flee from this corrupt world and live in the woods with him. She doesn't share the same opinion. Holden meets some more people, but non of them can solve his problems. He feels more depressed and lonely. He walks around in the rain soaking wet, he is sure he is going to catch pneumonia. But before he leaves this world he wants to visit his little sister, Phoebe, to say good bye. He admires her a lot and they communicate very well. Holden real .....
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Great Expectations: Themes Of Love, Redemption And Isolation
<view this essay>.... her fellow man. By hardening her heart and
suppressing her naturally affectionate nature, she committed a crime against
herself. Miss Havershams love for Compeyson is of a compassionate kind, this
blinded her to his true nature, as Herbert remarked, "too haughty and too much
in love to be advised by anyone." At Compeysons desertion her anger and sorrow
became extreme and she threw herself and Satis House into perpetual mourning and
a monument to her broken heart, shutting the world out and herself from the
world. Her only concession is in her adoption of Estella.
Miss Haversham has ulterior motives in adopting Estella, this is not a
loving action .....
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Black Boy
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Report On Book Titled Black Li
<view this essay>.... Eater, I would have done something to help him in some fashion. I think that I am more of a leader than a follower… more of an activist. I stand for my rights as well as other people’s rights.
I was very secure in my feelings through the book in that I was brought up to have an open mind about others racial backgrounds as well as my own. The whole concept of someone disliking someone else due to a racial difference baffles me. Differences between people are the one thing that holds are species together. We embrace it, but yet use it to discriminate, separate, and emotionally destroy others.
In Black Like Me, John was a white man that stepped in .....
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An Analysis Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
<view this essay>.... view of society and corruption of the
human race as a whole.
To understand the pessimism of the book, we must first understand
Huck. Huck is a character though whose eyes we see the ugly truth about
mankind. Huck is always on the run from people. In the beginning we see him
living a prim and proper life with the widow. He is then abducted by his
father, and for a time is relieved to get out of the moral trappings of the
town, and live sloppily, doing whatever he wanted to do. "It was kind of
lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day." (24) After some time, and
being unable to endure the abuse of his father, he runs away. Huck is as
dissatisfied .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
<view this essay>.... his teacher, Kantorek to his eventual death in the war. Between these extremes are the important parts of Pauls journey and they are basic training, the death of his close friend Kemmerich, his experiences on the front, the time he spent with the french girls, when he went on leave, also the time at the Russian P.O.W. camp, the killing of the Frenchman, and his time in the hospital with Kropp. Beyond this the only significant things are when his friend and companion Kat died, and in the end Paul himself died. With these events in mind this is how the rest of this is organized: chronologically.
Paul and his friends started to lose their innocence the day t .....
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The Women Of The Grapes Of Wra
<view this essay>.... Just as when a single driblet of dye is dropped into a glass of water and disperses throughout, her strength permeates to the rest of the family, infusing them with her mightiness. Also, when the Wilsons' car breaks down and Pa proposes splitting up just for a short time until the car is repaired she threatens him with a jack handle. She knows that all they have in the world is each other and without that themselves to hold on to the have nothing. There is a saying "one finds comfort in numbers" however in this case it is "comfort" is replaced with survival. In addition, near the end of the book, when the boxcars have flooded and it seems all hope .....
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Mila 18: The Affair
<view this essay>.... mother told her about men was true.
Deborah's mother told her to be careful of those boys. She told
her that they would make her pregnant. Deborah first became pregnant, and
recalled what her mother said to her.
Deborah also recalled her mother telling her that sex was ugly and
painful. Paul Bronski asked Deborah to get an abortion because she was so
young. This was very painful for her. When in bed Deborah served her
sentence. The guilt of sex was deeply implanted in her. She practiced
pretending to enjoy love-making so as to not offend her husband. Deborah
didn't experience either fulfillment or the smaller pleasures of love-
making. She was totally .....
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