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Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
<view this essay>.... that he will believe anything.
Also, when he first sees the Yahoos and they throw excrement on him, he
responds by doing the same in return until they run away. He says, "I must
needs discover some more rational being," (203) even though as a human he
is already the most rational being there is. This is why Swift refers to
Erasmus Darwins discovery of the origin of the species and the voyage of
the Beagle_to show how Gulliver knows that people are at the top of the
food chain. But if Lemule Gulliver is satirized, so are the Houyhnhnms,
whose voices sound like the call of castrati. They walk on two legs instead
of four, and seem to be much like people. As Gul .....
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The Advantures Of Huck. Fin
<view this essay>.... he remains a loyal, loving, father-like figure, and most importantly, he remains a great friend to Huckleberry.
Society, even today, often puts children down by saying that they do not contain values. Well, Huck closes the door to this statement. Whenever Huck is challenged to make a decision on impact concerning the safety of Jim, such as the incident when the men are looking for blacks, his heart always seems to pilot him to the direction of Jim’s benefit, even though almost all of the rest of society would object to his decisions during this period of time. You can also see Huck’s distress and sorrow for the fact that Jim has to buy his family back in .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
<view this essay>.... having dreams
which are destroyed by the harsh realities of the world.
Symbols are a major part of this play, as Tom, the narrator, is a poet, and
admits he has a weakness for symbols. One major symbol presented in the
story is that of the fire escape, a symbol that has a different meaning and
function for each character. For Tom, it is a means of escape from fire,
not the type of fire that was considered in its building, but “the slow and
implacable fires of human desperation.” This is especially true of Tom's
apartment. His mother, devastated after her daughter Laura's failure to
cope in business college, becomes obsessed with finding her a gentleman
caller .....
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Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo's Life
<view this essay>.... man dominated by the fear of showing emotion, and of being thought weak. From his early days, this had been his one obsession. When he was young, he saw his lazy father waste away, barely supplying enough food for his family. Okonkwo suffered numerous untold terrors; fears of being labeled agbala like his father before him. He was ashamed of his father and everything that his father had loved. Supporting his family at a very young age, Okonkwo made up his mind. He would not, could not be weak like his father Unoka. He would become everything that Unoka was not.
Unoka was a peace loving man, who hated the sight of blood. Unoka never stood for any unnecessary k .....
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Preface To Short Story Selection - The Matisse Stories
<view this essay>.... and she basically lost it. Susannah threw a fit in the salon smashing mirrors and throwing hair pins. The staff in the salon were very supportive and Susannah calmed down. When she got home, her husband commented on how nice her hair looked and paid her some attention; which was something that he hadn’t done in a very long time and this cheered Susannah up and restored her mood to a good one.
The second story was about an artistic family and their housekeeper. The mother, Debbie, works for and art magazine and the father, Robin is an artist with his studio upstairs in the house. There was a lot of tension between Robin and Mrs Brown, the housekeeper .....
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Religion In Jane Eyre
<view this essay>.... As Bessie and Miss Abbot drag Jane to the
"red room" a most scary room for a child, she is told by Miss Abbot: "No; you
are less than a servant for you do nothing for your keep"(14).She must stay in
the red room after she retaliates to the attack John Reed makes upon her, her
obnoxious cousin. John tells Jane "mamma says; you have no money; your father
left you none; you ought to beg, and not live here with gentlemen's children
like us and eat the same meals that we do, and wear clothes at our mama's
expense"(12).
She receives no love or approval from her family. The only form of love
that she does have is the doll she clings to at night when she sleep .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
<view this essay>.... knows she
can get away with it, since the people in those days had the utmost respect
for white women, and black men were looked down upon as still being slaves,
even if they weren't in shackles. The main character, Atticus Finch,
defends Tom in the whole case. He comes under fire and is commonly known
in the neighborhood as a "Nigger lover" for defending Tom, and his
children's friends make fun of them at school since their father is
defending Tom. Atticus tries his best to be a fair lawyer like he always
was, and knows that Tom didn't commit the rape. The trial comes around,
and Mayella Ewell is very confident she will win the case because if her
standi .....
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Themes Of Unity In The Grapes
<view this essay>.... human labor and life are cheap. Tom Joad, the eldest son in the family, starts the book freshly out of jail and slowly evolves from selfish goals to a sense of an ideal worldly purpose in uniting people against injustice. Jim Casy, an errant preacher who is accepted into the Joad family early into the story, changes his beliefs to include all people in a sort of oversoul, as he helps to organize the workers to battle the extreme injustice done onto them by the farm owners and discriminating locals. Whereas the Joads start out as one family, by the end of the story their family becomes one with other families who are weathering the same plight of starvation a .....
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