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The Scarlet Letter: Guilt
<view this essay>.... out of her head 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 .....
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Different Strokes For Different Folks
<view this essay>.... has lunch with
Nick Carraway she says, “‘I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind
me of a---rose, an absolute rose. Doesn’t he?’”(Fitzgerald 19). Daisy
says this knowing that it may sound stupid, but she feels that all women
should put on an act. Daisy makes a statement to Nick about when her
daughter was born, “‘ She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head
away and wept. ‘All right’ I said, ‘I’ m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’
ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a
beautiful little fool’” (Fitzgerald 21). These statements explain her
opinion on how females should be, and also shows the insincerity in her
perso .....
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Hobbit
<view this essay>.... bowls of the lonely mountain. Along the way, the company gets into trouble with goblins who live in the misty mountains, spiders who live in Mirkwood forest, and other destructive and harmful creatures, and they often escape only because of the assistance of Gandalf and other good creatures they meet. Bilbo proves himself essential to the quest, saving the dwarves on many occasions with his valor and skill. His success is partly due to a magic ring that he takes from a strange, dark creature named Gollum, who lives in the dank, dark caves below the Misty Mountains. Gollum is clammy and slimy and he refers to his ring as my precious. Bilbo even manages to disco .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Comparison Of Movie And Book
<view this essay>.... boys, from an academy, getting off a survival raft. They are on a
suvival raft because their plane crashed. The boy's clothes are torn and
they look like they were at sea for days. They arrive at the island and
right away they start searching for food and shelter. They are all from
America also.
In the book it starts out with a boy,from a private school,
searching and he meets up with the other boys. They are all British in the
book. The one boy, Ralph, meets another boy, "Piggy". Soon after that they
find the other boys . The other boys are from a British choir/academy
school, and they were all wearing uniforms. The oldest was Jack Merridew,
he was he wa .....
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The Metamorphosis: Gregor Was An Unselfish Person
<view this essay>.... of time for a
break. By the time he got back, the other employees were still eating breakfast.
Under the belief that he was the sole provider for the family, Gregor
took up a job with his father's creditor, before even consulting his family.
They, at the time, were of course impressed. The flat they were living in was
chosen by Gregor. Making enough money, he hired a cook and servant. He was even
thinking of sending Grete to the conservatorium to further enhance what he
believed to be musical talents.
Even after his metamorphosis, he never asked for much. Showing his
concern for others' wellbeing, he hid under the couch so as not to disgust
a .....
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Summary Of Twelve Angry Men
<view this essay>.... to take a minute
for each juror to tell their side of the story and what they personally
think about the case. After a lot of main points were made such as there
being two of the identical knives, the woman in her apartment saying she
saw the murder take place through the window of the El train, and how the
old man said that he heard the boy say that he was going to kill his father
and then went to his door to see the boy run down the stairs. After all of
this has taken place they decide to take another vote. The verdict is
still 11 to 1 in the favor of guilty. Juror eight is now going over the
time periods of when the woman said she saw the murder. Juro .....
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Hesse's Siddhartha As It Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs
<view this essay>.... man's journey in search of truth.
Early in life, Siddhartha and his friend Govinda hear the teachings of the
Buddha. Govinda is convinced of the validity of the Buddha's teachings and
becomes one of his followers. Siddhartha, on the other hand, was not
satisfied with the Buddha's teachings because he believed that it was not
possible to obtain true enlightenment through the words of others but that
it must be experienced empirically. Siddhartha therefore rejects the life
of a Brahmin to become a Samana (a wandering person who gives up material
possessions for his faith). After he tires of this life, he moves on to
learn the art of love from a woman name .....
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Huckleberry Finn Essay
<view this essay>.... not doing something that the widow is trying to make him do, he remembers where he is, in society. If he doesn't do these things he will be an outsider and society will not accept him as much. As he is on the river, he lays back and relaxes all the time. Whenever he goes back into society, he finds that he can not live within its limits so he always denies who he really is and makes up some false identity all the time. When he finally runs from society at the end, one last time, it was clear that he believed that society was too much for him. Also that they would try to make him civilized again, which he didn't want, so he goes off alone to finally be truly .....
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