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The Sound And The Fury: Summary
<view this essay>.... the issue involving the character Caddy, and each sees a different
solution to the chaos. These opinions give the book its fullness and bind
it together. Each individual section could not succeed in its goal without
the views given in the other sections. They all work together to for m the
complete work.
The first section is narrated from Benjy's mind. Unfortunately for
the reader, Benjy is mentally incapable of clear thought. In other words,
this section of the book appears to be a jumbled mess of sounds and senses
at first glance. However, this section can be "translated" to make some
kind of sense. Once this happens, the story does make sense .....
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"Fighting On Two Fronts": Henry Fleming In Red Badge Of Courage
<view this essay>.... mother's greatest fear was that these heathens would influence Henry to
start drinking and swearing. Despite his mother's concerns, Henry enlisted in
the Army.
But being in the Army wasn't enough, Henry was anxious to go to battle. All
along the way to his station he and his fellow recruits were treated kindly.
Old men patted them on their backs and young boys admired them when they stopped
for rest. This warm feeling faded when they reached the camp. Here life was
boring for Henry. The only thing his company did was drill day in and day out.
All of the experienced soldiers told war stories every night by the campfire.
Henry could only listen because he .....
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The Influences Of Tolkien In T
<view this essay>.... his life from his child hood years till adulthood. When he was a boy he would study Welsh names that would rush by on railway coal cars, and as an older academic scholar he took to discovering the mystery of language in its northern embodiments. Tolkien tells us as a boy that he loved to rewrite and rethink Norse and Greek mythology in his own manifestations. Possibly what Tolkien is most praised for is fantastic mastery of language. He created two languages for his imaginary race of elves, and they both came from one central language that was derived from the fake history of the story. This fact gives the languages an incredible sense of realism.
Tolk .....
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The Infinity Mirror
<view this essay>.... act of
church going becomes true belief as alcohol demons induce him to
halucinate a deformed boy into an outcast from hell. He looks into his
mirror and sees himself, becomes shaken, reforms.
From Pancho's employer, Franklin Gomez, we get a cold hard look into
society. We see a mother, knowing her son is to be hated and feared, and
perhaps possibly killed, cannot face killing her son with her bare hands.
She leaves the killing to exposure to the elements, enying herself a look
into Tularecito.
Franklin adopts Pancho's demon, and Tularecito transforms into a
disadvantaged who has been gifted with talent. Tularecito becomes a man at
the age of six, "The .....
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The Little Prince, Siddhartha, And The Monkey God: Journey
<view this essay>.... the "Self."
And finally the half human, half monkey, from The Monkey God, sets on a
search to learn how to respect and maturity to fully utilize the powers he
held as a god. All three works are totally different in environment,
characters, and time setting, but they all have one similar goal; to find
and complete their quest.
The Little Prince's journey to find out how to love grows from the
missing link between his flower and him. But he learns that love comes
from taming which he has never heard of. Starting from the comfort of his
home on Asteriod-612, he left to travel far and wide to seek the meaning of
love. Having the opportunity to meet many peopl .....
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The Good Earth: Summary
<view this essay>.... of some
things Wang Lung did not know how to do. She was helpful and loyal to Wang
Lung even when he was not satisfied with her. I think the Chinese culture
was too strict on the women.
Wang Lung's father, an elderly man, was bossy and conservative. He
was the oldest of the Wang family alive in the book and in Chinese culture
anyone older than you should be respected and treated nicely. Wang Lung
took care of him at first until he was married and then O-lan took care of
both of them until they could afford servants (toward the end of the book).
I liked the way the Chinese respected and treated their elders. I think we
should try harder to do this h .....
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Emerson's Self-Reliance
<view this essay>.... less of a man. In many ways I agree with him. I don't think that you have to act a certain way to be accepted. Emerson's whole point in Self Reliance was basically that you don't have to be accepted to make it through life, because it is not absolutely necessary to sustain life. If you did have to be accepted to sustain life, there would be a lot of dead people in the world.
Have you ever heard the saying, "if a tree falls in the woods, would it make a sound?" Well if you have, you will notice a lot of similar things in it and Thoreau's saying, "the sky is less grand when it shuts down over less worth in the population." They are both saying that if .....
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Jane Eyre
<view this essay>.... as interesting as its successes. It doesn’t pretend to offer an ultimate truth of personal freedom. It does not present an simplified picture of achieving freedom and personal integrity; in fact, it presents the very dangers inherent in defying social traditions. Jane suffers through the cruel regimen of Lowood because her aunt wants to punish her for her defiance. She suffers heart-break for her attempt to marry her beloved Rochester. When she chooses her own personal beliefs over Rochester's desires, she spends three days wandering around as a beggar and sleeping outdoors. She nearly dies for her choice and is saved at the last moment by the Rivers siblings .....
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