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The Invisible Man: Philosophy Through Characterization
<view this essay>.... At first the
timid Invisible Man is invited to attend his scholarship award ceremony.
However with other Negroes he is rushed to the front of the ballroom where
a stripper frightens them by dancing in nude. After staging the "battle
royal" and attacking one another in response to the drunken shouts of the
rich white folk, the boy is brought to give his prepared oration of
gratitude to the white benefactors. An accidental remark to equality nearly
ruins him, but the narrator manages to survive and is given a briefcase
containing a scholarship to a Negro college. This acts a high peak in the
narrator's quest since it sets him for his struggle in searching .....
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The Great Gatsby: Is Nick Genuine?
<view this essay>.... see's Gatsby and they talk for a few minutes.
By meeting Gatsby Nick has changed for the better. His idea's and actions
all start to change. He becomes very genuine. Sometime after the party,
Nick says "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was
one of the few guests who had actually been invited." (Gatsby, p.41) He
said this because most of the people at Gatsby's parties just invited
themselves. This is the time when Nick's character is showing some
development of genuineness.
Another time that Nick shows his development into a more genuine
person is when he helps rekindle the love between Jay Gatsby and Daisy. He
does this by se .....
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Rattle Bone
<view this essay>.... in several places during the book. Clair uses this writing method by mentioning the name October Brown, partly because Brown is involved at the beginning and towards the end of the book. Ms. Brown became an important part of Irene’s life, not only by being one of the main reasons for her parents’ divorce, but also by helping Irene accomplish one of her goals. The time that occurred between these two events in the book connects Rattlebone and is a very good use of foreshadowing. Another example of Clair’s use of this writing method is the experience of the divorce between Irene’s parents. This long-term process displayed Irene̵ .....
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Helen Of Troy Willing Resident
<view this essay>.... back home in Lacedaimon. It is because of Aphroditę, Helen has stayed with Alexandros so long and laid with him in bed.
When Iris, messenger of the gods, tells Helen that Alexandros and Melelaos are going to fight for her, she reacts with sorrow and regret.
"These words pierced Helen to the heart. She longed for her husband of the old days, for home and family. At once she threw a white veil over her, and left the house quickly with tears running down her cheeks."
Once she gets to the battlements, Priam calls her over to sit by him. He feels sorry for her and tries to take her mind off of her situation by asking her to point out members of the Achaian a .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: First Person Narration Is Critical
<view this essay>.... Holden
is alone, bored and restless, wondering what to do. He decides to leave Pencey,
his school, at once and travels to New York by train. He decides that, once in
New York, he will stay in a cheap motel until Wednesday, when he is to return
home. His plan shows the reader how very impetuous he is and how he acts on a
whim. He is unrealistic, thinking that he has a foolproof plan, even though
the extent of his plans are to "take a room in a hotel.., and just take it easy
till Wednesday."
Holden's excessive thoughts on death are not typical of most
adolescents. His near obsession with death might come from having experienced
two deaths in his early life. .....
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Summary Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
<view this essay>.... of owning a nice white house and being overwhelmed
with fruit was quickly put to end after their first night in California.
Ma says, "But I like to think how nice it's gonna be, maybe, in California.
Never cold. An' fruite ever'place, an' people just bein' in the nicest
places, little white houses in among the orange trees." They had been
lied to by the handbills and other propaganda that was circulating in the
dust bowl region. The growers in California knew that the people of the
dust bowl would have to leave their houses because of the crisis. They
also knew the more pickers they had the lower they could make their prices.
The number of handbills sent .....
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A Book Report On Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"
<view this essay>.... voices--Lenina's, Fanny Crowne's, Mustapha Mond's--that at
first sound chaotic but soon give us a vivid understanding of this brave
new world.
The first three chapters present most of the important ideas or
themes of the novel. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explains
that this Utopia breeds people to order, artificially fertilizing a
mother's eggs to create babies that grow in bottles. They are not born, but
decanted. Everyone belongs to one of five classes, from the Alphas, the
most intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the dirty jobs that
nobody else wants to do. The lower classes are multiplied by a budding
process that can create up .....
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Blindness In King Lear
<view this essay>.... was letting himself be fooled by Regan and Goneril, and giving them his throne. For they did not love him at all, he could not understand the depth of Cordelia's love for him. He banished her from the kingdom without one thought to what she had said. Lear's last words to the only daughter that truly loved him were;
".....for we/ have no such daughter, nor shall we ever see/ that face of hers again. Therefore be gone/ without our grace, our love, our benison." (Shakespeare 1, 1. 262-265)
Lear's blindness also caused him to banish Kent, one of his most loyal followers. Kent tried to stand up to Lear in Cordelia's honor, but Lear would not listen to what Kent .....
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