The Hobbit, By J. R. R Tolkien is definitely one of history’s most important fantasy novels. It was written in the Great Depression, a time of grief and distress, and Tolkien gave the novel’s readers what they lacked, hope, courage and a light at the end of the tunnel. The book alludes mythical...
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The Metamorphosis is a novel written by Frans Kafka. The book basically talks about a transformation from a human into a bug that took over Gregor. The best theme that fits the Metamorphosis is isolation and self-sacrifice. Because first of all Gregor sacrificed his freedom of will by working all...
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“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only...
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ENGL 201 SEA CHANGES: A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Diana Russell FOURTH? EXERCISE He reached Q. Very few people in the whole of England ever reach Q … What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast...
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1). This story takes place in London, England. The time is winter and it starts the day before Christmas, also known as Christmas Eve. The settings of the book include Scrooge’s Counting House, Scrooge’s Home, Bob Cratchit’s home, assorted places throughout Scrooges childhood like the schoolhouse...
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Within the play Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams, the lives and relationship of Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski are plotted out in a scene of events that depicts astute betrayal and out of the ordinary family matters. Based on the time period of this play, that being of the...
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May 10, 2010 013 Child Relations In the book “As I lay Dying” by William Faulkner the character that is dying name is Addie Bundren, the mother of five children. She was also the wife of no good Anse Bundren. Anse is lazy, selfish, no good farmer, who can hardly be called a farmer because he does...
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By the end of Dostoyesky's Crime and Punishment, the reader is no longer under the illusion of the possible existence of 'extraordinary' men. For an open-minded reader, and even perhaps the closed-minded ones too, the book is a journey through Raskolnikov's proposed theory on crime...
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Fallen Angels is the story of coming of age, finding one’s place in the world, and survival. Set in Vietnam, the characters experience the loss of innocence, the reality and morality of war. There would be no winners, just survivors. Their experiences of the outside world would dissipate in the...
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"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is an utmost bona fide, descriptive memoir. This piece has a vast amount of stylistic devices that draw attention to the theme of Angelou's autobiography. When summoned together, these devices add up and make up beautiful life story. Just as a sweetly sung melody...
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Boarding school a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught ragtag disorganized; made up of mixed, often diverse, elements ?? ??? ????? geek a person with an unusual or odd personality ?????? English geek someone who likes a particular subject a lot and is not...
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Iesha Magallanes Annemarie is the bravest girl I’ve ever known of. She is extremely clever for a ten year old. She is compassionate and loving toward others. She is very naive; she needs to prepare herself when she faces the worst. She appeals to me because she reminds me of my niece. All in all...
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Contrast and compare the ways in which the characters of David and Hammer Logan deal with the issue of prejudice in “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” Mildred D. Taylor’s “Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry” is set during the Great Depression, in the rural areas of Mississippi...
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Analysis of Major Characters Tom Sawyer: Tom is a young, mischevious, adventurous boy. He has an active imagination, and gets into trouble a lot. He is a born leader, and very headstrong. Throughout the book he goes through many adventures that change him. When the novel begins, Tom is a...
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Critical Analysis #2 The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas, is an adventure novel about a young man who is betrayed for reasons of jealousy and in the end gets his revenge. The novel addresses relatively evident themes. There are three main themes in The Count of Monte Cristo; they are...
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I will be talking about Gandalf’s role in the story and how he is like a father figure to Bilbo. The Hobbit was wrote by J. R. R. Tolkien. We first see Gandalf at the beginning of the story when he meets Bilbo at his hobbit hole. The first impression the story gives us about Gandalf is he is wise...
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Within the four walls of the Ancient Greece, somewhere around 2,500 years ago, Homer’s exquisite power of words gave birth to one of the largest and most enduring of all time Epic, Odyssey. Odyssey is marked by an immense panorama of wondrous journey of a man through the lands of magic and mystery...
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Symbolism in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Henry Jekyll is a physician in London. He is very well respected and is currently experimenting the dual nature of mankind. Edward Hyde is a manifestation of Dr. Jekyll's personality. He is accused of committing evil acts throughout the...
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In the novel, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf illustrates the character of Mr. Ramsay, a husband and father of eight children. As a husband, he degrades and mentally abuses his wife, Mrs. Ramsay, and as a father, he disparages and psychologically injures his children. Yet, Mr. Ramsay has another...
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Christmas Carol Introduction Main body of essay The impression we get of Scrooge in the opening of the novel is………. Mean and miserly Selfish Dickens describes him as, “tight fisted at the grindstone. ” WE are also told that he is, “hard and sharp as a flint. ” The simile used by Dickens likens...
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STANLEY. Hey, there! Stella, Baby! [Stella comes out on the first floor landing, a gentle young woman about twenty-five, and of a background obviously quite different from her husband’s. ] (13) This is the opening line from A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennesee Williams, one of many differences in...
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Carly Chervanik October 15, 2010 Henley 5th period As I Lay Dying - Vardaman Vardaman Bundren is the youngest of the family, between the ages of ten and thirteen. At first, we think that Vardaman’s character is illiterate just because of his age, however, throughout the novel we learn that it is...
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[trx_quote title=" Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov" top="inherit" bottom="inherit" left="inherit" right="inherit"] "All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. "[/trx_quote] By saying this...
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Losing Innocence: 'Fallen Angels' find the true meaning of war 'Fallen Angels', written by Walter Dean Myers, is a novel that tells about the story of young boys going into battle during the Vietnam War. There are many themes in 'Fallen Angels' but the main theme is the...
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ? Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” ? Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings “Words mean more than what is set down on...
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Colonel: They will regret messing with one of my friends Enter stage left, sit on box Colonel: Takumi, this is Pudge. Pudge is cool Hi. I heard about last night. That sucks man Pudge: The Colonel likes to joke, but I was inspired. The nature of the labyrinth and the way out of it. Exit stage...
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“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.” — Chapter 12, Page 98 — “She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that...
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In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry many characters took risks the two that stick out in my head the most is of papa and TJ. TJ didn’t study for a test so he wondered his eyes about until he saw some answers on a nearby classmates answer sheet. He could of suffered the consequence of...
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The series of adventures happens in a small village of St. Petersburg. In your opinion, how does this contribute to the turn of events of the story? Particularly, what do you think the cave represents? In my opinion, since the story happens in a small town, it would be easier for the author to...
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Our political beliefs are often a driving force behind how we look at one another, make choices, and generally live our lives. In The Count of Monte Cristo, author Alexandre Dumas incorporates the conflict between the followers of Bonapartism and the followers of monarchy, or Royalists, of his time...
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People may perceive that a home and a house is the same, but by reading the novel deeply, readers would come to realize that the interpretation of a home in the novel is different from the interpretation of a house to Esperanza. The protagonist name is Esperanza, she was young hen the novel...
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The Odyssey In The Odyssey, Odysseus had to face many challenges during his travels; a few of these difficulties were a cannibalistic Cyclops, huge whirlpools, determined suitors, along with many hardships. Odysseus fought constantly to return to his homeland of Ithaca, but to accomplish this...
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In the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Steveson used the architecture of Dr. Jekyll’s house very intelligently. The house can be regarded to be parallel to Dr. Jekyll’s double personality. Throughout the book, the house lends itself as a powerful prop, by which it is possible...
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Mr. Ramsay becomes a character that represents change in Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse. With the changes his character experiences, Woolf is able to express the movement away from traditional patriarchal ideals that were in place in Victorian England. In many respects, he is the...
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A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens Many memories run through Scrooge’s head on Christmas Eve. He is always cranky and never appreciates anything. Ever since his partner Jacob Marley past away he turned into a mean bitter old man. He is so mean that if Bob Cratchit wants money he will have...
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Explore how Williams builds up to the inevitable rape of Blanche in Scene 10. Consider his use of setting, character and stage directions in your answer. Old and new, weak and aggressive, intellect and brute force: Blanche and Stanley. The battle between old and new America in the 1940’s was in...
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What does Cash’s list of the 13 reasons for beveling the edges of the coffin tell us about him? In the novel As I Lay Dying, Cash has to build a coffin for his dying mother. He decides to bevel the edges, and he makes a list of thirteen reasons for doing so. This action tells a lot about his...
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Crime and Punishment By: Your Name Date Professor Fyodor Dostoevsky in his fictional novel Crime and Punishment, written in 1866, explores redemption through suffering and the inner thoughts of a "criminal" by providing insight into a young man named Raskolnikov's mind before and after the murder...
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The title of the novel Fallen Angels immediately emphasizes the theme of youth and innocence. As Lieutenant Carrol] explains in Chapter 4, all soldiers are "angel warriors," because the soldiers are still young boys and still as innocent as angels. In calling the novel Fallen Angels, Myers implies...
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Page 74 — “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” — — “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” — —...
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Miles "Pudge" Halter Protagonist of the novel, enjoys learning famous last words of authors, becomes close friends w/ Chip Martin (aka "Colonel"), falls in love w/ Alaska Young Chip "The Colonel" Martin Miles' roommate, 5 ft tall ; "built like Adonis", grew up in trailer w/ only his mom in an...
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Discussion of the play Oedipus the King should be preceded by the notice that the plot for this play was not invented by Sophocles. On the contrary, the story was well-known to Greek audience and probably for this reason it was so popular. The story of king Oedipus served as a starting point for...
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Grace Chen English 6, Period 7 Mrs. Grunley March 22, 2010 Persuasive Essay Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Milred D. Taylor should be required reading for sixth graders. The book contains suspense and tension between the colored and whites during the 1930’s. Even though the book is unique and...
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Title:Tom Sawyer's games of death Author(s):Harold Aspiz The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is constructed on a loose framework whose major elements include games of death and games of resurrection. (Both meanings of resurrection apply here: resurrection as grave robbing and resurrection as return to...
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An eye for and eye is the Count Of Monte Cristo concept for revenge toward Caderousse. Caderousse was a tailor. He was also the Count's father's landlord and neighbor. While Count was at sea, Caderousse demanded the return of his loan the Count from the Count’s father who by complying deprived...
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In the book The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros presents a series of vignettes that involve a young girl, named Esperanza, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza Cordero is searching for a release from the low expectations and restrictions that Latino society often...
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The Odyssey Report In The Odyssey , Homer uses guest-host relationships as an ethical norm against which behavior is measured. When the ritual is preformed correctly by guest-host, good results ensue. In contrast, the violations of this ethical norm results in misfortune. This idea was taken very...
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has evolved into one of the most acclaimed pieces of literature in modern American society. One aspect of a continual spark of interest with the novel is motion pictures. Various directors through the years have interpreted the book through...
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[trx_quote title="Virginia Woolf, Lighthouse Quotes" top="inherit" bottom="inherit" left="inherit" right="inherit"]“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never...
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A Christmas Carol Essay A Christmas Carol is a story of how Ebenezer Scrooge changes from a miserable man who had no one to care for and no one to care for him. Then After his encounter with the three spirits on Christmas eve he turned into a loving, caring, generous man. This story was written by...
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