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Jane Eyre
<view this essay>.... of Lowood School, who plays an important role in the emotional development of .
Miss Temple is described by Helen as being "good and very clever" and "above the rest, because she knows far more than they do". This description is more significant because it has been said by Helen, and she herself is extremely mature.
One of Miss Temple’s most outstanding qualities is her ability to command (perhaps unconsciously) respect from everyone around her, "considerable organ of veneration, for I yet retain the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps". Even during their first encounter Jane is "impresse .....
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Old Man And The Sea - Santiago Is Hemingway
<view this essay>.... The Angler As Artist." were written on the sole subject of how this obsession influenced Hemingway's writing. Furthermore, he fished off the coast of Cuba so much that he decided to "buy the 'Finca Vigia' in Cuba, a substantial estate located about fifteen miles from downtown Havana . . ." For entertainment Santiago would "read the baseball." Meanhile Hemingway often "relied on baseball analogies" in his writing, suggesting that he also loved the game. These similarities between Santiago's lifestyle and Hemingway's cannot be ignored or passed off as coincidence because they are much too precise. Already, from these prominent identical traits it is e .....
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The Cookie Conspiracy
<view this essay>.... But in the text ahead you will read
why those cookies really got to you, and where they thought they were going.
If you have paid attention to the news lately, you will know that many bad things
have been happening recently in Cookieland. Keebler Elves have been on strike, Oreo's
aren't just fun to twist, and Little Debbie has been on the rise and is taking away a majority
of business from these wonderful people. So, like immigrants back in the 1800's, the
cookies want to get out of their homeland and onto a better place. So, this is where the
Cookieland Government comes into play. They have proposed a "plan" which reads as
follows... .....
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Godlike Odysseus
<view this essay>.... Laertes' son, Who dwells in Ithica.' " In other words "Ha ha, it was me, Odysseus the mortal, that blinded you." This sounds not only like a human or mortal, but a mortal little kid.
The next time I noticed Odysseus acting like a human or mortal, was in the story of "Scylla and Charybdis" when Scylla ate some of his men. Odysseus at that time, lost what he thought, were his best men, he said that it was one of the saddest things he's seen: "As he, if then he takes a fish,/ Flings it aloft out of the sea/ All quivering, even so she swung them/ All quivering up to her high crag./ There she devoured them, one and all,/ Before her doorway, while they shrieked/ .....
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Grapes Of Wrath - Characterization
<view this essay>.... west. An' I got wanderin' aroun'. Jus' walkin' aroun'. Never went far. Slep' where I was... I'd tell myself, 'I'm lookin' after things so when all the folks come back it'll be all right.' But I knowed that wan't true. There ain't nothin' to look after. The folks ain't never comin' back. I'm jus' wanderin' aroun' like a damn ol' graveyard ghos" (54).
Analysis/ Commentary:
At the camp, Ruthie becomes engaged in an argument that leads to serious consequences. In an effort to preserve her Cracker Jacks, she threatens to call upon her brother, who has killed two men and is now in hiding. Ruthie's revelation endangers Tom and forces him to abandon both his hideout .....
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Catcher In The Rye Book Review
<view this essay>.... what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them- all cockeyed, naturally- what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked in the school late at night to take a leak or something and then wrote it on the wall. I kept picturing myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till hew as good and goddam dead and bloody." (201) His deep concern with impeccability caused him to create stereotypes of a hooligan that would try to corrupt the children of an elementary school .....
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Brennaghs Hamlet
<view this essay>.... anxiety and thrill for the viewer. The ghost of Hamlet was very disappointing at first but later developed into and excellent portrayal. The characters who played Marcellus, the first Grave digger and Oris, Jack Lemmon, Billy Crystal, and Robin Williams respectively, were fairly poor selections by the casting director. They lacked a certain Shakespearian character as famous comedians. It could not be forgotten making the choices dispiriting.
“You tremble and look pale” (1.1.53). The first viewing of the ghost causes the guards great fear. They are unsure if what they have seen is “something more than just fantasy” (1.1.54). It .....
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Hesiod And The Ascent Of Zeus
<view this essay>.... Okeanos, Iapetos, Rhea, Tethys, Kronos, the Kyklopes, and the "hundred-handers." Ouranos hated his children at first sight, so he kept them trapped inside the earth and would not let them "rise to the light" (Theog. 157). But this caused Gaia great pain. She created a sickle from a new form of metal, then went and asked her children for help. Kronos, the "clever devisor" (Theog. 168), was the only child who spoke up. Kronos follows his mother's plan, cuts off Ouranos's genitals and throws them into the sea. The blood landing on Gaia forms the three Erinyes or furies, the giants, and the Melian nymphs. Then "foam" (Theog. 191) rising from the sea out of .....
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