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The Pearl: A Review
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village among a similar group of Mexican Indians. They are a fishing village
and also dive for pearls. The second character is a woman named Juana. She is
his commonlaw wife, mother of his son, and better half. She supports everything
Kino does, and offers advice to him whenever he needs it. They have a son named
Coyotito who plays a minor role in the book but a very major part in their lives.
The book starts with Coyotito getting bit my a scorpion. The families needs to
see a doctor but the doctor won't see them because they have no money. Kino
decides to go pearl hunting in an attempt to get some money. He dives and,
after removing some she .....
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Steinbeck's "The Flight": Naturalism
<view this essay>.... naturalism for Pepe. His horse gets hot which
destroys his transportation. He gets shot then a rock perices through his
hand. His arm becomes swollen and he has awful pain. From the wound in
his hand he has poison in his blood stream. He has nowhere to run or hide.
He has no protection since he lost his knife and rifle. Here stands a
stranded, injured “boy” that has no protection or transportation. This
is when his animal instinct begins. When a human he has the talent of
having the art of reason. An animal does things sometimes without even
knowing it. Who in their right mind would put a spider web in their wound.
When he relizes that his time of .....
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The Scarlet Letter
<view this essay>.... that what she did was wrong and that by the puritan society she will be cast into hell. The only reasons she sees the Black Man is cause in her mind she is trying to prepare herself to meet him.
Dimmesdale is going mentally insane because of the effects from guilt. He sneaks out at night to stand on the platform, but why doesn’t he confess. He is a reverend, and should be able to tell everything. That is why it is so hard for him. He is trapped between a rock and a hard space. If he tells the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long ti .....
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The Catcher In The Rye Summary And Analysis
<view this essay>.... story of his last day at a school called Pencey Prep, and of the situations leading to his psychological meltdown.
As the story starts we find that Holden has been expelled from Pencey for academic failure, and is on his way to say good-by to old Spencer, his history teacher. Spencer is a depressing old man suffering from grippe. While talking with Mr. Spencer, Holden shows his first signs of his depression. After an unpleasant evening with his arrogant roommate Stradlater and their pimply faced next-door neighbor, Ackley, he decides to leave Pencey for good and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning to his parents' Manhattan apartm .....
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Experiencing Can Be Corrupting
<view this essay>.... instance, a young female has been contemplating her sexuality. Never engaging in sexual activity before, her curiosity is getting the best of her as she ultimately decides to have sex. Her innocence, along with her virginity, is stripped of her when she performs the act of intercourse before she has made her vows of marriage. This is a simple example of someone going from a state of innocence to a corrupting experience. Another example of someone who has been stripped of his innocence through his experience is well depicted in the famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne illustrat .....
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"Billy Budd" By Herman Melville: Captain Vere
<view this essay>.... flag-lieutenant under Rodney in that admiral's crowning victory over De
Grasse”.
Captain Vere is a rather surprising man to be a captain, for when
he is dressed as a civilian he would never be taken for a sailor. For
example, he never used nautical terms in his everyday conversations. Even
aboard ship, if one did not know that he was the captain, he could easily
be taken for some royal of the king's that is being transported from one
place to another.
As Melville points out, “He had seen much service, been in various
engagements, always acquitting himself as an office mindful of the welfare
of his men, but never tolerating an infraction of discipline .....
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An Analysis Of The Novel Candide By Voltaire
<view this essay>.... he is met by two men who trick him into service in the Bulgarian army.
Candide has a terrible time in the army, he tries to escape, and he is punished
severely. During the confusion of war Candide manages to escape. Time passes
and Candide meets some other interesting individuals and has one bad experience
after the next. One day Candide meets a woman who takes care of him and this is
none other than Cunegonde. They amuse each other with stories of misfortune and
travel around the world. At every place Candide goes something unthinkable
seems to happen to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all
have their own interesting story of misfortu .....
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Lord Of The Flies Reflection
<view this essay>.... novel the boys are British yet in the movie they are American. This not only affected appearance such as clothing and accents, but also the way that the boys acted reflected the different cultures that they had grown up in and was different in each version. An example of this if how they thought of the army, in the novel they mentioned links to world war 2, yet in the movie they only spoke of the army as someone who would save them and war was never really mentioned.
Also a different change from the novel to the movie was the time setting between the two. In the novel the estimated time was the 1940's, and the boys reflected this by starting off on the is .....
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