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A Rose For Emily: Comparison To The Sound And The Fury
<view this essay>.... name, undoubtly thinks that any young man no matter who he is, is unworthy of his daughter. These selfish beliefs and views are successful in getting rid of any young men that did try. This in turn confines Emily into the beliefs of the past and relying only on her father(mother long dead) for a family. Actually Miss Emily does possess some "aristocratic" traits. She has great independence and dosen’t go with the bureaucratic rules and regulations. This in turn gets some admiration from the people of Jefferson(the town) as it is "digging" into the future. But then Mr. Crierson died and all she was left was the house. This event made her "human" in the eyes .....
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Nick Carraway: A Good Narrator
<view this essay>.... Nick Carraway as the narrator of the story because he was neutral. The story took place in Long Island, New York, in the 1920's. There were two egg-shaped Island; one was called East Egg, and the other one was called West Egg,. While West Eggers were using the new money, and East Eggers were using the old money, Nick Carraway was coming from Chicago with no money. Because Nick did not belong to either East Egg or West Egg, his opinion did not give any advantages on either side. This made the story more interesting for readers.
Second, the advantage for Nick to be the narrator of the story is he was Daisy Buchanan's cousin. Daisy was the only woman wh .....
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The Lord Of The Flies
<view this essay>.... how people use objects to give power, like a crown, sceptre, or other thins that show who has power. We also learn that objects don’t really give power when people choose not to obey it, like Ralph’s conch. The pig’s head, or Lord of the Flies, is an important object. To Jack it is a sacrifice for the beast. This object shows that people will make religions and rituals to control their world, even when what they think is not true. is also a symbol of Satan, or the Devil. When Simon talked with , he learned what the real evil was, which is the evil in people’s hearts. is a symbol of the things we make up to be the cause for evil, when those things aren’t the r .....
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Candide
<view this essay>.... irony, this proposal is actually written to entertain the upper-class. Therefore the true irony in this story lies not in the analyzation of minute details in the story, but rather in the context of the story as it is written. One of the voices that is present throughout the story is that of irony. The story itself is ironic since no one can take Swifts proposal seriously. This irony is clearly demonstrated at the end of the story; Swift makes it clear that this proposal would not affect him since his children were grown and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to think that a rational man would want to both propose this and p .....
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Technology In A Brave New World
<view this essay>.... with their rank in this world where
love, viviparous reproduction, and knowledge of anything beyond your job serves
no purpose. A look at Brave New World supports Eddy's beliefs on the importance
of humanities in society because of unethical genetic experimentation and the
character's lack of individuality.
The society of Brave New World has gained the knowledge to produce
babies much like their God, Henry Ford, produced the Model T. They have taken
this technology and exploited it for their own benefit. They have created with
their hands without using their head or heart. Scientists toy with the embryos,
cutting off oxygen to those predestined to be .....
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Great Expectations: True Goodness In A Person
<view this essay>.... with these “common people” just wouldn’t do it for him. He wanted to be something better than he was, but it’s not just because he was selfish and ignorant, it was also contributed to by Estella, a girl Pip fell in love with. “…Why, he is a common laboring-boy,” (561) were the exact words that broke Pip’s heart and drove him to yearn so much to be a gentleman. He dreaded the word “common”. It was not good enough for his girl, Estella. He had what Dickens called “great expectations”.
Pip’s expectations of are what finally bring him to realize the importance and value of true goodness. He is brought to London where he was to become a gentleman. But .....
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Summary Of Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
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way with his pregnant wife? One day Wen Fu's wife came to tell him that
their daughter was dying of dehydration caused by vomiting and diarrhea.
Since he was playing cards he didn't pay much attention to Winnie and his
response was; "If she dies, I wouldn't care!" (pg.336). A couple of
minutes passed and the situation was getting worse. Therefore, Winnie
brought Yiku, the baby, to show Wen Fu that she was really sick. She
thought that maybe this way his husband was going to react to the problem
and help for the baby to live. When he saw his daughter he said; " Why
didn't you tell me she was this way?" (pg.337). One day Wen Fu went to a
restaurant with .....
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Huckleberry Finn
<view this essay>.... to endure. Previously Twain wrote in a style we call the romantic style, where everything is covered up so it will look peaceful and happy.
Throughout the most part of this story people are the biggest hypocrites. How can they expect people to be "civilized" when they own slaves? Being "civilized" is the whole theme of the book and what is considered "civilized" anyway? This is what Huck hates about society, people are wrong and corrupt, and he can't understand it. The only people who aren't corrupt are those who are considered morally wrong and incorrect by the already corrupt society. To Huck, nobody needs to be "civilized" in order to live happily. To liv .....
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