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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
<view this essay>.... going because of the mere fact that he wanted to be king. Edmund was deceitful to all of his brothers and sisters, but especially Lucy. He was deceitful to all of them when he told the witch when they were in Narnia. He was primarily deceitful to Lucy when she had figured out how to get to the land. She told him about the closet, but he did not believe her until they were playing hide and go seek and he hid in the closet. Lucy told the others that he had been to the land and Edmund denied it and made it look like Lucy was lying. This showed that Edmund was dishonest.
A change occurred in Edmund’s character when the witch turned a family of animals into .....
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Ordinary People: Loss
<view this essay>.... that it wasn’t anyone’s fault. The death of his first son leaves him confused and looking for answers. The first question he asks himself is who’s responsible. The real truth was there wasn’t anyone to blame; it hadn’t been anyone’s fault. He tries to cover these feelings, “I’m not blaming anyone. It wasn’t anyone’s fault.” His wife returns sharply, “You don’t believe that, you say it, but you don’t believe it.” He looks for answers elsewhere. Cal begins searching within himself for a conclusion. “I’m the kind of man who…?” He can’t answer this question without being too painfully truthful; afraid of finding something he doesn’t want to see. He begins not .....
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Jasmine: Taylor's Significance
<view this essay>.... her the feelings of love and family, is also the man she chose to share her life with.
As an important character in the book, Taylor Hayes helped Jasmine to have chance to get out of the chaotic community that her professorji provided her. The community was an Indian community, with people who has same nationality as her living in the same place. The life living with people who spoke same language as her resulted in her English was "deserting" (p 128) her. Moreover, she had soon realized that she was a "prisoner doing unreal time." (p. 132) By meeting Taylor, he gave her the freedom to explore more America life instead just limited in one place. Her fir .....
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh: Gilgamesh
<view this essay>.... has changed. Gilgamesh becomes scared when he realizes that he isn’t immortal. After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh tries to find immortality by trying to cross the ocean to find it. He sounds weak as he goes on about his reason for trying to immortality. His state of being at this part of the epic is completely different from his arrogant beginning. Gilgamesh has gone from arrogant to scared. Second, the death of Humbaba changes Gilgamesh. Humbaba is evil. Many people who live in the city of Uruk fear Gilgamesh. Most people would say that Gilgamesh himself is evil. He has sex with the virgins, he does what he wants, and he tends to offend the gods. He .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Who Is The Greatest Sinner?
<view this essay>.... will be proven to be the greatest sinner. Having committed the sin of adultery already, Hester’s lack to acknowledge the punishment is another sin all by itself.
The lack of repentance shown by Hester was present through out the novel. The scene in the brook with Arthur Dimmesdale is the perfect example of her lack of repentance. In the Brook, Hester and Dimmesdale, her partner in adultery, made plans to flee to Europe to escape the punishments they had to face. It had seven years that Hester had to wear the scarlet letter. The letter was her punishment, and she was to wear it for life. However, on that day in the brook, “she undid the clasp that fa .....
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Crime And Punishment In Wuther
<view this essay>.... him as a reject from society while viewing Heathcliff’s very existence a grievous crime, particularly because Mr. Earnshaw’s love and affection were displaced towards Heathcliff instead of himself. Far later in the novel, this terrible attitude backfires upon Hindley, who is misused and cheated out of ownership of Wuthering Heights by Heathcliff. This crime parallels another: Heathcliff’s abhorrent abuse of both Hindley in his weakened state and Hindley’s son Hareton, who is made the stablehand instead of the rightful owner of the Heights. Heathcliff also trespassed when he imprisoned Catherine upon her visits to his son Linton. He coe .....
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary
<view this essay>.... and Air Force is. Jake gathers
information from maps and a friend in the navigation department to learn
about a target he wants to go after: The Vietnam Communist Party
Headquarters. The three figure that if they succeed, they'll have a good
chance of hitting the leader of the party. Grafton and his bombardier,
Virgil Cole miss the building completely and just hit a few bystanders and
blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be court-
martialed, President Nixon gives the orders of unauthorized bombings
anywhere in North and South Vietnam. Grafton and Cole fly their next
mission with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This .....
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Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui
<view this essay>.... uses flashback to fill in the details of the story. It tells of the cursed man Oedipus, who was born to Laius and Iocaste, the King and Queen of Thebes. It was prophesied by an Oracle that when Oedipus grew up he would kill his father, marry his mother, and father her children. Fearing this, Iocaste and Laius pierce the child's ankles and leave him on a hillside to die. Unknown to them, a messenger finds Oedipus and nurses him back to health. Eventually, Oedipus is adopted by the King and Queen of Colonus. When he grows up, unknowing of his adoption, he discovers his doomed fate from an Oracle. Seeking to escape it, he flees from Colonus. Once upon the .....
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