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Review Of The Great Gatsby
<view this essay>.... lost love, Daisy Buchanan. It was also interesting learning about all the other characters: Nick Caroway, holds everyone's trust, Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful young lady who makes men go wild, Tom Buchanan, comes from a very wealthy family, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, husband and wife who have marriage problems. I enjoyed this book because of the interesting characters in the novel.
I disliked this book because it was confusing. At first I thought Jim Gatz and Jay Gatsby were two different people. It was also confusing figuring out the theme of this novel . At first I thought it was about wealthy people not being happy, but all the wealthy people were happy .....
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The Sundiata
<view this essay>.... the jinn, but was neither a good Muslim nor a man of justice.
A great hunter was considered to be an attribute of a ruler. At early ages, the males of the village would go hunting. Though killing animals was the goal of hunting, this activity allowed the young boys to practice for wartime. Not only did they learn the art of hunting; "the medicinal leaves which heal wounds and cure diseases" were revealed (Niane 3). During wartime, a man would have to know how to kill his own food to survive, and knowing which plants would heal the wounds of injured sofas and cure their diseases was important to the survival of the troops. A great hunter would never .....
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Lord Of The Flies; Jack Is A Devil
<view this essay>.... the psychological break symbolically when he baptizes himself with
the blood of a slaughtered pig. With the exception of Ralph, Piggy, and a
few others, he eventually lures the other boys to follow him in a life
consecrated in blood, a life which will lead them to multiple murders.
Abstractly, Jack represents the bestial instinct of the human being
unrestrained by any rational Control.
Jack is a devil because of the savage ways he acts like the red
hair, painted faces, the savage pig hunts, the rituals, sacrifices, and the
terrorist acts. Jack is evil because of him being always murderous. He is
always wanting to hunt things and not care what happen .....
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Great Expectations Why Does Pi
<view this essay>.... for “his” convict as he thought for a while before taking the pork pie, which was so appreciated by Magwitch.
At Satis House it is almost straight away made clear to him from Estella’s language, both body and spoken, that she considers him to be inferior. It is here that, he is for the first time introduced to a girl whom he is later to fall madly in love with. It is here that he is referred to only as boy. It is here that he forms his “Great Expectations”.
From these experiences Pip finds out about what he considers polite society, but Satis House is a place where society is anything but polite. This is exemplified by Este .....
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Native Son And Black Boy
<view this essay>.... reason with him. Through the novel you can really get an idea of how he goes from feeling weak and angry in the beginning to powerful yet sad in the end.
2. Bigger is shown to us at the beginning of the book as a young black boy wanting so badly to be able to everything a white person could do. It is shown to us that bigger keeps all his fear and hate and emotions bottled up inside of himself, especially with whites because of the way that they make him feel. I believe it to be though that Bigger does the most significant change in his character when he kills the young white girl Mary and gets sent to jail. With Mary he was able to let his feelings out .....
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Krutch's "Killing For Sport"
<view this essay>.... proposes some good for himself". There is
emotional persuasion used when the writer sights the hunter as
"gratuitously evil." The writer also characterizes the hunters by saying
they "merely prefer death to life, darkness to light." The writer claims
that killing for sport should not be continued.
The dominant mode of the paper is evaluation. Many of his stronger
arguments use comparison and contrast to show the difference between the
good and the bad. " He seems to get nothing other than the satisfaction of
saying: ‘Something which wanted to live is dead.' " On the other hand the
killer for food receives life in return for his killing, further stati .....
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A Farewell To Arms - Love And
<view this essay>.... a role which will bring them closer together, Hemingway shows the pair's inability to accept "the hard, gratuitous quality of life." Stubbs begins by showing other examples, notably in In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises, in which Hemingway's characters revert to role-playing in order to escape or retreat from their lives. The ability to create characters who play roles, he says, either to "maintain self-esteem" or to escape, is one Hemingway exploits extraordinarily well in A Farewell to Arms and therefore it "is his richest and most successful handling of human beings trying to come to terms with their vulnerability." As far as Stubbs is concerned, Hemingway .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Light And Dark Imagery
<view this essay>.... describes him by how "his dark complexion seemed to have
grown duskier" (Hawthorne 103). Chillingworth's "dark complexion"
represents his evil, which in time has "grown duskier", meaning his evil
ways have grown. Terence Martin states,
when utter blackness succeeds the vivid light of the meteor, the
smiling and scowling face of the physician seems somehow to remain
"painted on the darkness," (115).
Martin shows how good can shine on the physician, yet his evil still
remains in the darkness. Even Pearl, an innocent child who does not know
Chillingworth, refers to him as a dark person. When speaking to her mother,
she says, "Come away, mother! Come awa .....
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