In the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor, the sentiment of the title is portrayed throughout several times over the unfolding events. Through the characters introduced, the writer has attempted to represent the different kinds of people that live in the world, and the...
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The publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 marks the beginning of what is often called the Golden Age of children's literature, a period when, for the first time, children's works were written for purposes other than moral uplift. Author Lewis Carroll invented a dreamworld where...
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Richard Wright’s novel “Black boy” is a “Coming of age” novel recording the childhood of the narrator Richard Wright in 1945. He tells his story about being an African- American, from his early childhood to his being an adult at 29 years old. Richard Wright tells his story in the first person...
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In the beginning of the play, the central character, Willy Lowman, has just returned home after finding himself incapable to focus on driving. His wife, Linda, suggests that he ask for a job in New York so that he won't have to drive so much. Willy insists, however, that it is crucial to his...
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Twenty years after the book, John views on racism, religion, society, personal relationships, and sex will be different from twenty years before. John gains more experiences and knowledge, so he will have better understanding of these issues. Most organizations and movements are form in the 1950s...
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Jude the Obscure Theme Analysis of Marriage Thomas Hardy, the author of Jude the Obscure, focuses on multiple themes throughout his book including social order and higher learning which is mainly seen in the first part of the book. Jude, a working class boy aiming to educate himself, dreams of a...
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A&H Paper Number 1 Todd MacDowell September 26, 1999 Prof. Waite In ancient Greece women were viewed as many things. They were not viewed as equivalent to males by any means. Women were portrayed usually as submissive domestic, and controlled. They played supporting or secondary roles in life...
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“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Gracia Marquez is an eye-opener for us to stand up on our beliefs and be free from our inner problems. Solitude implies the state of being alone, no one to turn to and detach to others. It is the absence of companionship, withdrawal and retreat from the...
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From the river of life where Siddhartha learns the unity of all things, he takes himself back to the river he once crossed, and falls into a deep sleep that reawakens him to the world. Throughout the novel, Siddhartha travels to find spiritual meanings in his life as he deals with the Samanas...
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?Themes in the novel “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver include the importance of family and the need for community as emotional support systems for individuals facing hardships. As the individuals face their hardships, Kingsolver binds them together with support, forming a community that at...
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True love and immortality in life would be a dream come true to many people. To spend time with a special someone; the person one feels closest to; the so-called soul mate and to never have that high feeling of emotion end mentally and physically would greatly appeal to most people. But when death...
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The Jungle: The Appeal of Socialism During the late 1800's and early 1900's hundreds of thousands of European immigrants migrated to the United States of America. They had aspirations of success, prosperity and their own conception of the American Dream. The majority of the immigrants believed...
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Name ___________________ Date___________________ The Pearl by John Steinbeck Test Questions Multiple Choice 1) Where did the Pearl take place? A. Spain B. Mexico C. Cuba D. United States 2) What stings Coyotito? A. A Porcupine B. A Hornet C. A Scorpion D. A Bee 3) With what does Kino offer to pay...
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The Tempest: Magic The Tempest, written in 1611, was one of William Shakespeare's last plays. It has a combination of superb characters, interesting settings, and a good plot line? all held together by the running theme of magic, and its ever- present importance. A closer examination of the magic...
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Twentieth-century critics claim that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin expresses strong sentimentality and intrusive narrator’s/writer’s voice, which interrupts the story; however, Stowe cleverly uses these two techniques to convey her Abolitionist message. This message is full of Biblical...
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A Catholic writer from the South, Flannery O’Conner used her work to convey the decaying religious sentiment in the people of the 1950s. Her short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” followed the simple plot of a family road trip, comprising of a couple, their three children and the children’s...
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Dream Analysis of Alice in Wonderland Who’s who and what’s real; are we who we claim we are, and is reality really real or is everything just a fragment of what we think is the universe? A dream sequence is a technical term used mostly in film and television to set apart a brief interlude from the...
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Racism in Wright's Black Boy The theme of Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy is racism. Wright grew up in the deep South; the Jim Crow South of the early twentieth century. From an early age Richard Wright was aware of two races, the black and the white. Yet he never understood the relations...
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Justin Bardowski College Credit English December 19, 2001 Death of a Salesman; Movie vs. Book Death of a Salesman was both a great movie to watch and a great book to read. There were small differences, and since they are just about word for word from one another, the differences were usually just...
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Book Report 1 Go Tell It on the Mountain I read Go Tell It on the Mountain. It was wriiten by the brilliant James Baldwin. It is about a boy who has just turned fourteen and is having some hard times. Baldwin’s use of characters, settings, themes, and his techniques of writing make his books all...
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The Codes of a Man In the novel Jude the Obscure there are some controversial issues of that time period are being displayed. The first of which is masculinity and how that applied to certain people of different classes and genders. The masculinity of men in that time period was defined by several...
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Medea Medea is a Greek tragedy which was written in 431 BC by the Greek philosopher Euripides. The story of Medea is one filled with anger, jealousy, and death. The main character, Medea, has to overcome the personal heartache of seeing her husband, Jason, marry another woman. The ensuing struggle...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude Jose Arcadio Buendia is forced to kill a man who insulted his wife Ursula and is forced to move away from his town. The murder will chase him for one hundred years as a curse, though. He's scared of this, nevertheless he goes through fantastic lands and jungles until...
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The novels Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger show many similarities. One of the major themes in both novels consists of the main characters finding their self and journey through life. Their similar experiences consist of the relationships they go through, as...
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? Bean Trees DJ’s Eng. ? PASSAGE: “I have been afraid of putting an air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine’s father over the top of the Standard Oil Sign. ” (pg. 1. Barabara Kingsolver) RESPONSE: This was the first sentence of The Bean Trees. I honestly...
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Gilgamesh vs. Noah By It is said that life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it. It is not the circumstances of life that determine a person's character. Rather, it is the way a character responds to those circumstances that provides a display of who he is. "From the Epic of Gilgamesh"...
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In The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, and The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, the characters are forced with economic, social, and political problems that they must cope with throughout the story. Both books are similar in that they emphasize that in this country, one simply cannot win unless they...
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In John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, rich symbolism is used to convey the message of the parable being told. Symbolism is a useful tool in storytelling because it helps the author add a deeper meaning to the story. In The Pearl, Steinbeck enriches every aspect of the story with symbolism from the setting...
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The Tempest: Comparing The Cultures in The Tempest and Ours "All men are created equal" is one of the declarations that American culture is built on. This declaration means that all men no matter of race, religion, or creed are equals in the eyes of society, as well as the law. This was not always...
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On the surface, “Waiting for Godot” is purely a series of nonsensical conversations and attempts by the principal characters in creating diversions to pass the time. However, there is some evidence that the play is more than just a slapstick routine of two bored, elderly men waiting for another...
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Literary Analysis Further Resources “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor opens with a scene of a grandmother in the kitchen with her son, Bailey, and his family, which consists of a wife who wears slacks and a kerchief around her hair while she feeds a young baby as well as two...
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The famous fairy tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, is an allusion in its entirety to life after childhood innocence is shed, and adulthood is reached. This is shown in the decisions that Alice must make, and the things that she experiences regarding trust, puzzles...
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The Little Black Boy The theme of guardianship, being the act of guarding, protecting, and taking care of another person, is very prominent in William Blake’s “The Little Black Boy”. Three distinct instances of guardianship can be seen in Blake’s poem. These guardianship...
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An overwhelming desire for personal contentment and unprecedented reputation can often result in a sickly twisted distortion of reality. In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, a man well-known for his intellect and wisdom finds himself blind to the truth of h life and his parentage. Arthur Miller's play...
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“There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.” — — “But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least...
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“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.” — Page 16 — “But no one came. Because no one ever does.” — — “At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own...
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The Chorus influences our response to Medea and her actions in both a positive and negative manner. The Chorus, a body of approximately fifteen Corinthian women who associate the audience with the actors, is able to persuade and govern us indirectly through sympathy for what has been done to Medea...
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INCEST IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE “Incest refers to inappropriate sexual activity between individuals who are considered to be too closely related socially or genetically. It is a social and cultural term, in other words, within any culture, any given sexual activity can in principle be...
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Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund Comparative Essay Hermann Hesse was a man that lived from 1877 and 1962 and faced a life of struggle as he coped with the effects of war. During this period of time the theme of finding yourself was quite popular and experiences affect his works. Hesse wrote...
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The Bean Trees “Before that exact moment I don’t believe I had given much thought to the future” (2). ?Throughout the entire novel, Taylor did not think very far into the future. If she would have done this more often her life could have been so much different. For example if she wasn’t so tired...
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Beowulf Vs. Gilgamesh The two cultures I chose to compare heroic values for are the ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Anglo-Saxon cultures. The texts I used in the comparison are Gilgamesh for Mesopotamia and Beowulf for Anglo-Saxon. Although they posses many similar heroic characteristics they also...
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Upton Sinclair had always insisted that The Jungle was misread but did he ever think it could have been miswritten? The style of writing is not effective when addressing issues in a capitalistic society but proves to be very effective when exposing the secrets of the meatpacking industry. The...
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Analysis of the pearl by John Steinbeck (page 40 – 50) THE WORRIEDNESS OF KINO TO LOSE THE PEARL A long page 40- 50, John Steinbeck told about the worriedness of Kino to lose the pearl, in the page 40 I see that there Kino, so anxious to lose the pearl, till he presume that a spot of rain as a...
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The Other in the Tempest In order to understand the characters in a play, we have to be able to distinguish what exactly makes them different. In the case of The Tempest, Caliban, the sub-human slave is governed largely by his senses, making him the animal that he is portrayed to be and Prospero...
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is an absurd play about two men, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) who wait under a withered tree for Godot, who Vladimir says has an important but unknown message. This play is incredibly bizarre, because at times it is difficult to discern if there is a plot...
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Flannery O’Connor is one of the names most closely associated with the southern gothic style of fiction and very often, the American south is one of the main characters in her stories, even if it has no lines and does not play a direct role. Throughout “A Good Man is Hard to Find&rdquo...
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The book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll evokes many intriguing thoughts in the reader’s mind, delving into themes such as the loss of childhood innocence, dreams, death, and discouragement in life. Alice’s journey through a dream world begins when she follows a white rabbit she...
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The conflicts between man and bigotry have caused casualties within man, which caused them to become victims. In the novel Black Boy Richard Wright explores the struggles throughout his life has been the victim of abuse from his coworkers, family, and his classmates, due to this he is able to...
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The Dysfunctional Family In Arthur Miller's drama, "Death of a Salesman" the protagonist is a sixty-year-old salesperson by the name of Willy Loman. Willy suffers from self-delusion and is obsessed with the desire to succeed. Willy's actions strongly influence his family, which contributes to...
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Great Expectations, a novel by Charles Dickens, was first published in England as a serial in the years 1860 and 61 then later as a novel. It runs to 448 pages in modern paperback. The work is considered to be autobiographical and told in first person as a memoir of the orphan boy, Pip. Dickens’...
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