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Great Gatsby Party Comparison
<view this essay>.... bedroom, and a bath."(p. 33) The entire place gives the feel of being closed in and too small for its contents: "The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it...”(p. 33) Even the photograph on the wall is labeled as being "over-enlarged."(p. 33) Gatsby's party, however, spares no expense; much like his house. Fruit is sent in every Friday, caterers bring enough lights to "...make a Christmas tree of Gastby's enormous garden"(p. 44), and elegant dinner is served: "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry p .....
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George Orwell - 1984
<view this essay>.... who he dislikes. He feels it is only a matter of time before his
though crimes are detected. A knock at the door he thinks is police. Mrs.
Parsons, his neighbor is at the door and asked him to unclog a sink. He
does it but smells sweat all over the apartment. Mrs. Parsons is a
follower of party doctrine and a fellow employee at the ministry. The
children are members of Spies, a youth that encourages spying and telling
on traitors, including parents. Winston is revolted. He returns home and
writes a couple more minutes before going back to work. He remenbers a
dream where O'Brien tole him he would meet him in a place wher there is no
darkness. .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Symbolism Of The Conch
<view this essay>.... that through out the book the conch is the only
tool that can call a meeting and wherever the Conch is thats where the meeting
is. No other symbol in Lord of the Flies holds so much power. This is one of
the reasons that Jack Merridew disrespects the Conch. He wants to break the
spell the symbol has on everybody. He wants to prove that he is the rightful
leader.
The Conch also displays order through the rule that you must have the Conch
to Speak in an assembly or meeting. "And another thing. We can't have everybody
talking at once. We'll have to have 'hands up' like at school." At first
everyone thinks that this is the best method to maintain order b .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Critica
<view this essay>.... of revenge bring out one's bad side. Although it occurs many times in A Tale, Madame Defarge is the main character representing this theme. Her sister and mother were assaulted by the brothers Evrémonde. After this, she vows to herself that all members of the Evrémonde family will die. She turns into a ruthless killer because she must get revenge. When her husband tells her to stop, she replies, "tell the wind and fire to stop, not me" (pg 338). We now see that she is a person teeming with hatred. Revenge is so powerful. When she found out Charles Darnay is an Evrémonde and is planning to marry Lucie Manette, she began to knit his name into the shroud sh .....
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Black Elk Speaks
<view this essay>.... period.
The priest or holy man calling himself Black Elk was born in the
December of 1863, to a family in the Ogalala band of the Sioux. Black Elk's
family was well known, and he counted the famed Crazy Horse as a friend and
cousin. Black Elk's family was likewise acknowledged as a family of wise men,
with both his father and grandfather themselves being holy men bearing the name
Black Elk. The youngest Black Elk soon experienced a vision as a young boy, a
vision of the wisdom inherent in the earth that would direct him toward his true
calling of being a wichasha wakon or holy man like his predecessors. Black
Elk's childhood vision stayed with him thro .....
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Phoolan Devi: Perceptions Of Power
<view this essay>.... I would like to stress the word
"believes" in the previous sentence because I think it is one of the key
ingredients in understanding relationships of power. I realize that in many
instances the power of the first party may not be undone merely by the second
party ceasing to accept it, and that the power of one individual over another
may sometimes be physically or otherwise inescapable. Often, the belief follows
the direct experience of power, but regardless of the order in which it is
conceptualized, I feel the nature of power is inextricably founded in belief and
perception.
One of the most striking characteristics of Phoolan Devi is her refus .....
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The English Patient: Caravaggio
<view this essay>.... searches for the truth, he becomes a father figure to Hana, guiding her away from the English patient and hopes that she will not suffer from pain and depression again. Caravaggio also helps the English patient to identify himself as Almasy. His impact to the characters and their relationships can be depicted through the discussion and analysis of Hana and Almasy.
The loss of the dearest people to Hana has triggered her yearnings for someone who would love her and take care of her. Hana's father has died of burning during the war and consequently, she connects her father's death to the suffering of the English patient: "She [has] come across the English pa .....
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Keeping The Reader In Suspense
<view this essay>.... using different techniques in capturing the reader’s attention and creating suspense. Both Grafton and Cornwell are using the introduction and the development of characters, the setting and the plot in writing a good suspense novel.
Characters introduced in the novel have a great influence on the outcome of the novel, and by getting to know about the characters the reader is kept in suspense. He wants to continue reading and finding more about those strange and different people introduced in the book. In “K is for Killer” the victim is Lorna Kepler. She was a beautiful young lady who was really strange and mysterious. Grafton introduces weirdness as one of .....
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