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The Pearl
<view this essay>.... try to cheat Kino, but he doesn't
sell the pearl. He then tries to go to the city to sell the pearl but before he
can go he is attacked by someone trying to steal the pearl from Kino, Kino had
to defend his self by stabbing and killing the attacker. So he has to flee the
town because there are trackers comeing after him, his wife, Juana insists on
going with him so they flee up to a mountain to get away from the trackers.
There were three trackers , two on foot, one on horse with a rifle. Kino
decided to attack them while they were sleeping, so when he attacked them Kino
first tried to get the man on horse, in the struggle Kino killed the trackers
but his .....
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An Analysis Of The Mayor Of Casterbridge
<view this essay>.... is selling furmity, a liquid pudding made of boiled wheat,
eggs, sugar, and spices. Henchard consumes too many bowls of furmity spiked with
rum. Feeling trapped by his marriage and under the influence, Henchard threatens
to auction his family. The auction begins as a kind of cruel joke, but Susan
Henchard in anger retaliates by leaving with a sailor who makes the highest bid.
Henchard regrets his decision the next day, but he is unable to find his family.
Exactly eighteen years pass. Susan and her daughter Elizabeth-Jane come
back to the fair, seeking news about Henchard. The sailor has been lost at sea,
and Susan is returning to her "rightful" husband. At .....
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The Pit And The Pendulum
<view this essay>.... is hard to imagine the prisoner could ever survive his immense torture but he did. In the end the prisoner was rescued by General Lasalle after Lasalle invaded Toledo. The ending was proper for the plot, because he deserved to be rewarded after his immense torture. It is a major coincidence that they invaded Toledo to save the falling prisoner from his death. The plot is suspenseful. It kept you on you're toes at every moment because of the ever danger of death in each paragraph. In the conflict the plot is subtle and complex as well as a struggle between and all-good hero and an all-bad villain. The prisoner is being tortured by a person that seems to b .....
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Psychoanalyzing Hamlet: Freud
<view this essay>.... is fully aware of his own motives. This assumption in itself produces the very matter in question. Take for example Hamlet’s hesitation to kill the king. Hamlet believes that his desire to kill King Claudius is driven by his fathers’ demand for revenge. If this were true, Hamlet would kill Claudius the moment he has the chance, if not the moment he knows for sure that Claudius is guilty of murdering his father. Why does Hamlet hesitate? One must call into question what Hamlet holds to be true. If Hamlet’s given motivation for killing the king is legitimate, then Claudius should die at about Act 3. Because Hamlet’s actions do not corre .....
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Walking The Tight Rope
<view this essay>.... growing, even as they are being
wiped off the planet everyday. Herein lies one of the greatest
challenges facing the Black world in the 21st century: how do we
combat the dominant public image of young Black men that has
largely been produced by mass media? Tupac Shakur's life and death
is a microcosm of the larger picture. Do we dare peer into it?
Rap music is no longer simply the local, communal form of
entertainment that it was at its inception in the early 1970s. And even
the thriving commercial entity it became by the late 1980sÑas gangsta
rap moved from the margins of hip-hop culture to the centerÑhas
already been transformed. Despit .....
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1984, Science-fiction Or Reali
<view this essay>.... believe that 2+2=5. Though all this may seem purely science fiction, 1984 subtly parallels our reality in many ways.
In 1984 the government was able to watch every move their citizens made by the use of telescreens, helicopters and spies. “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a blue bottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol snooping into people’s windows”(Orwell 4). However unlikely it may seem, our government has the capability to watch us just as “the party” watches the citizens of Oceania.
As we speak, hundreds of satellites or .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
<view this essay>.... society.
In To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout Finch, a little girl growing up in a small
Southern town, tells the story of her childhood, when she witnessed the
trial of a Negro falsely accused of raping a white woman. The Negro's
lawyer is Scout's father, Atticus Finch. He defends the Negro vigorously,
though he expects to lose the case. As well as being the story of childhood,
it is also the story of the struggle for equality of the American Negro.
To Kill A Mockingbird can be read as the story of a child's growth and
maturation. Almost every incident in the novel contributes something to
Scout's perception of the world. Through her experiences she grow .....
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The Effects Of Setting On Character In "The Masque Of Red Death" And "The Shawl"
<view this essay>.... which was evident from him being a prince and
owning a magnificent castle. This castle is where he ran to hide from the
Red Death. He was scared of dying. He figured if he isolated himself and
his closest friends he would be safe. Stella on the other hand was a
persecuted Jew in and on her way to a Nazi concentration camp. Death was
everywhere. She had no fear of it but she did not want it to come. She
just lived her life trying everything to survive. She had nowhere to hide
as Prospero did. Yet in the end Prospero had to face death while Stella
did not, even though she was in the camp. The attitudes of the two
characters and the setting probably are w .....
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