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Huck Finn Is A Very Troubled Young Boy
<view this essay>.... that lying and stealing aren't wrong,
proved very useful in getting him out of many of these predicaments.
Because Huck's father brought him up to be such a great liar and a
stealer Huck has been able to escape from many close calls. One instance
in which Huck wriggles himself out of trouble is when he and Jim, the
runaway slave are traveling down river on the raft. Huck while off on a
little excursion in his canoe runs into two men running away from some
angry villagers and their dogs. When they plead and beg for Huck to save
him and he finally accepts they are very gracious. When they arrive on the
raft and notice that Jim is a black slave they inqu .....
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The Sun Also Rises: Thoughts Of The Lost Generation
<view this essay>.... of taking a trip to South America, “ ’Would you like to go to South America, Jake?’ he asked, No’” (Hemingway 17). Furthermore, as the book progresses, Hemingway gives Jake as drunken personality and his obnoxious behavior that he exhibits shows a broken man. “I had picked her up because of a vague sentimental idea that it would be nice to eat with some one. It was a long time since I has dined with a poule, and I had forgotten how dull it could be” (Hemingway 24). However, whenever Jake interacts with Brett Ashley, he loses his previous ideas of romanticism being absurd. Since their previous relationship of being lovers had failed they now tried a relation .....
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A Freudian Turn Of The Screw
<view this essay>.... James never committed to ghost story or psychological meanings, it is almost too obvious that there were hidden messages.
Henry James can capture a reader by the imagination and hard thinking. There is enough evidence to convince proponents of either opinion. It’s probably not so much the evidence as it is the predilection of the proponent that determines their choice. A person who has an imaginative soul or who finds it easy to rise above the mundane restrictions of everyday life would probably argue that Peter Quint and Miss Jessel are ghosts, where as a more logical thinker with a literal sense of mind would probably search out the explanation in psychop .....
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The Hobbit
<view this essay>.... a plan on how to regain the treasure stolen by the dragon Smaug. Biblo is shocked to realize these plans involve him. He then realizes that Gandalf has tricked him by inscribing on his door that he was a burglar seeking a job with lots of excitement. With all this talk of quests and glory Biblo decides to join the party after all.
Gandalf reveals a key and a map of their journey, which ends at the Lonely Mountain. It is there that the treasure of Thorins' ancestors is guarded by Smaug. The quest begins and the party meets at the Green Dragon Inn. From there they venture into the Lone-lands. As heavy rains begin to fall, Biblo notices that Gandalf is missing. .....
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Biblical Symbolism In East Of
<view this essay>.... plot of East of Eden is centered upon the two sets of brothers representing Cain and Abel. Both pairs are similar to Cain and Abel in the way they go about winning their fathers’ favors. All four give gifts to their fathers, and the fathers dismiss the gifts of Charles and Caleb, the Cain representations (Marks, Jay Lester. p.121). Caleb and Charles Trask are obviously the more malignant brothers. They are also the more loving towards their father. Steinbeck’s purpose in this is to illustrate the need of the Cain character in the story. Abel, Adam and Aron, is the opposite of his brother and naturally good and pure. The purpose of Adam and .....
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Araby By James Joyce And A Sun
<view this essay>.... The main characters both painfully learned that this initiation was beyond their control. It was impossible for them to ignore the new realities which they both came to understand. The new found awareness was so powerful that it changed each boy’s entire outlook and they both began to see the world through new eyes.
The type of initiation both characters had was a distressing journey from innocence to knowledge and experience. The two narrators had different attitudes and reactions to the initiation experience. In Araby, the reader learns of the boy’s initiation in the final sentence: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided b .....
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Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)
<view this essay>.... what to wear the next day, she would have to worry about whether or not her family would be safe or taken to a concentration camp. Inge not only had to face the problem of keeping her family together, she had to find a way to maintain a friendship with her best friend Lieselotte. Lieselotte’s father was a Nazi and forbade her to keep any contact with Inge, but the two girls would always find a way to see or write to each other even when things were rough. Inges father also began to disprove of their friendship and pretty soon if either one were to mention the other’s name she would be punished. Yet the girls refused to forget each other. One day Inge re .....
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Investigating The Style And Te
<view this essay>.... him to easily express his feelings and ideas in a way that could not have been achieved otherwise.
One aspect of “On the Road” which allows Kerouac to express the theme of personal freedom is use of a spontaneous method of writing. This method creates a free flowing rhythm and structure, which emphasises the theme of personal freedom due to it’s loose style and ability to capture the true feelings of the author as he writes. This original style was used by Kerouac in order subconsciously to express the thoughts of the mind in a continually flowing way without the constraints of the traditional rules of writing. Kerouac stated that when .....
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