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Cold Mountain: The Civil War
<view this essay>.... and some Southerners were in the Union army, each fighting for what he thought was right. The most obvious causes of the Civil War were the issues of states’ rights and slavery. Hundreds of books, movies, and documentaries have been published on the Civil War. One of them was written by Charles Frazier called Cold Mountain. The novel focuses on the life during the Civil War.
Cold Mountain captures some of the spirit and reality of the Civil War. Many people contributed their time, effort and lives in the Civil War. The main character, Inman, walks away from a hospital for Confederate wounded at the start of the book and is constantly on the move, meeting o .....
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The Outsider: Meursault
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will result from his actions but seems unemotional and views the letter as
being a favour for a friend and not a vicious conspiracy. This lack of
emotion is reinforced when the prostitute is beaten up by Raymond and
Meursault remains impartial whilst his girlfriend, Marie, thought it was “
terrible” and is sickened by the beating. Another display of his apathetic
views is in the opening lines "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I
don't know" This indicates that either he does not care or he had no
comprehension of what had happened. An additional illustration of his
detached attitude is after his mothers funeral when he goes to see a
humorous "Fe .....
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Accounts Settled: A Review
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rising action started when Gordon had a sense of fear as he went into the
valley. The, the porcupine stole his food and Gordon was going to kill it
but remembered an old woodsman tale that it's bad luck to ill a porcupine.
Gordon then goes to bed, hungry and it took him awhile to fall asleep. He
later wakes up to find a cougar ready to pounce on him. The cougar dose
not strike yet because it is waiting for Gordon to move. Gordon knows
better and stayed in the same position for what seemed like hours.
Suddenly, the porcupine returns to look for more food and this disrupts the
cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and shoots
th .....
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The Handmaids Tale
<view this essay>.... out of danger, but they were not enforced.
"I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman
knew; dont open your door to a stranger, even if he is the police. Make him
slide his ID under the door. Dont stop on the road to help a motorist
pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone
whistles, dont turn to look. Dont go into a laundromat, by yourself, at night .
.. Women were not protected then."(p. 24)
Nobody believed it could happen to them. When the Sons of Jacob took over and
began to take away their freedom, they accepted it. They were afraid and the
Sons gave them some security. Because they .....
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Animal Farm: The Animals' Bad Memories
<view this essay>.... they were wrong. So even though some
animals knew how to read they would not have remembered very clearly what the
commandments really said.
The pigs where also very convinceing. They were alway able to get out
of any situation. The best talker of all the pigs was Squaler. He was always
able to convince that animals that what every they had done the do for the good
of all the animals and not just for themselves. Just like when the pigs had
taken the milk and apples for themselves, they said that they only took it was
because they needed it and that if they did not have it they would not be able
to help operate the farm, he also added that the pigs did not .....
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Billy Bathegate By E.L. Doctor
<view this essay>.... young fifteen year old boy quickly develops into a man. Author Overview The novel was written in 1989 by a contemporaneous author named E. L. Doctorow. Doctorow was born in 1931 and fantasized about the 1930’s crime life as a child. He is an American novelist, short story writer, editor, essayist, as well as a dramatist. His works include Big as Life, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, , Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella, a play entitled Drinks Before Dinner and of course his most recent work Billy Bathgate. Billy Bathgate is Doctorow’s most famous piece of literature. In fact, the book grasped so much attention that it was later .....
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The Old Man And The Sea
<view this essay>.... the water fishing. The weather was beautiful, the currents were perfect, and he saw all birds flying over the water. He knew he had to catch a nice fish today. He saw one of his poles have a jerk so he pulled it in and it was a bonita fish, which he was goin to use for a nice piece of bait later in the day. The day progressed and he saw a real big jerk on the pole. He jumped up and held it, but the fish was not hooked yet. A couple more jerks he felt, but the fish was not taking it. Finally the fish did and he could feel that it had to be a fish of enormous size. He could not pull it up because it was so strong. He had to hold onto it until the fish w .....
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Comparing "The Adventures Of Huck Finn" And "The Catcher In The Rye"
<view this essay>.... These two novels can be compared using the
Cosmogonic Cycle with both literal and symbolic interpretations.
The Cosmogonic Cycle is a name for a universal and archetypal situation.
There are six parts that make up the cycle: the call to adventure, the
threshold crossing, the road of trials, the supreme test, a flight or a flee,
and finally a return. There are more parts they do not necessarily fall into
the same order, examples of these are symbolic death and motifs. The Cosmogonic
Cycle is an interesting way to interpret literature because is Universal or
correlates with any time period and any situation.
The Call to Adventure is the first of the .....
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