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Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald's Self-Portrait
<view this essay>.... used a Jewish character to emphasize some of the most inferior aspects of American life. Fitzgerald always felt that his wife, Zelda, was a detriment to him. Despite all of his love for her, he ignored this feeling and it never wavered. A letter from Fitzgerald to his daughter, Scottie, explains:
When I was young I lived with a great dream. The
dream grew and I learned how to speak of it and make
people listen. Then the dream divided one day when
I decided to marry your mother after all, even though
I knew she was spoilt and meant me no good. I was
sorry immediately I had married her, but being
patient in those days, made the best of it and g .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Wearing Masks
<view this essay>.... these characters up until the second
part of the book, where Jem becomes disagreeable, moody, and displays
general discontentment with his sister and her conduct.
Jem said of scout: "It's time you started bein' a girl and acting
right!"(115). Scout was reasonably appalled by his new manner, and asked
Atticus about it. "Reckon he's got a tapeworm?"(115). Although Scout's
conceptions about his [Jem's] behavior may have been wrong in some
respects, she was right to recognize he wasn't acting his usual self.
I believe these behavioral changes may have been because of Jem
acquiring a mask. He began wearing this mask around the start of his
teenage years, as .....
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A Rose For Emily
<view this essay>.... for taxes. When they did this she ranted and raved that Colonel Sartoris has written her a letter in which relieves her of any taxes. She told the tax collectors “See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.” The fact that the tax collectors could not see Colonel Sartoris is because Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years. Even the furniture that she had was not updated. Emily’s parlor was furnished with heavy, leather-covered furniture that was cracked from not being used. She had been trapped in the ways “Old South”, and did not care to change as time went by.
Another factor that showed Miss Emily was no .....
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Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes: Hardships Of Tracy Whitney
<view this essay>.... setting her free. Although she is free, her life still seems like
a cell, no one will hire her because of her record and no one from her past
wants anything to do with her. This leads Tracy to a life of deception and
theft; however, this new life of crime leads Tracy to a newfound happiness.
In Sidney Sheldon's book If Tomorrow Comes, the charact er Tracy Whitney
endures many hardships and faces a major moral decisions that leads to
Tracy's happiness, showing that tragedy results in something pleasant.
In this story, the character Tracy Whitney goes through a series of
changes, which lead to her eternal happiness. Tracy's character is
differen .....
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Huck Finn Racism
<view this essay>.... For someone to think that Twain considering the era was racist would ludicrous.
Considering that Mark Twain is a revolutionary writer and must use detail from an era to make the story unique he shouldn’t be considered racist. Their time period is set around the Civil War which was fought for abolishment of slavery. Huck to some people would be the argument for Twain’s racism, but Huck was raised from a boy by people with extreme hatred towards blacks such like Pap and Miss Watson. Even if bigotry was part of Huck’s attitude towards blacks it should be excused. Towards the end of the novel Huck encounters Aunt Sally who makes a rema .....
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A Catcher In The Rye
<view this essay>.... don’t know that he got the axe yet and he doesn’t fell like telling them just yet so he decides to stay in a hotel until his parents expect him home for Christmas vacation.
When he arrives in the city he hops on a cab to a cheesy hotel for the night and as he is alone in his room he feels lonely and sort of depressed so he goes to the bar in the hotel for a drink. All the people in the bar make him even more depressed so he decides to call it a night. On the way to his room, in the elevator the elevator attendant offers to send him up a hooker for the night. Being a virgin Holden decides to take him up on the hooker. Once the hooker makes it up to .....
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The Awakening: Edna's Path Through Life
<view this essay>.... a mother.
She needs to fill the void that has been empty for so long. She finds
herself looking aimlessly beyond the path toward a destination of new
feelings, adventures, and awakenings her quest for true love.
Edna stands under this symbol of love, she is faced with a dilemma.
Should she kiss, (or in this case, marry), whether or not it is love? Or
should she pass by the opportunity and prepare herself for the hurricane
winds of a disappointed and disapproving society? Edna chose to do what
society wanted her to doshe got married and left her fantasies and dreams
in the depths of the shadows. "The acme of bliss, which would have been a
marriage with the t .....
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The Crucible
<view this essay>.... slightly downcast, and their mouths were to be shut unless otherwise asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts a .....
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