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  • To be free, a man must be Anthem

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    To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else. (Chapter 12, paragraph 11) Quote Analysis This statement is one of several contradictory ones in the Anthem by Ayn Rand. The author doesn’t deny the society completely, as a union of human being. What Ayn Rand condemns is…

  • Black Elk Speaks Summary

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    Black Elk Speaks is a personal narrative about the Oglala physician who witnessed both the zenith and plummet of the Sioux Nation. It tells the story of Black Elk’s life and spiritual journey. At the same time, it’s also more than that. It also reveals the tales of the Sioux and the price they had…

  • Jim Upton

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    This character is a slave. For most people living in the pre-Civil War south, that’s about all there is to know. Who cares about a slave, his motivations, character, background, or feelings? It would be like trying to psychoanalyze your family pet (yes, they contrasted animals and Afro-Americans. Period of total racism). But Twain is…

  • Adelmo of Otranto

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    Adelmo of Otranto, a monk who is the library’s manuscript scholar, is the first victim to be found dead in this story. He died very, and it was quite strange for that situation. By the way, Adelmo was a gifted and attractive young illuminator. Without any doubt, the mystery grows more complicated with more monks’…

  • The Fall of the House of Usher Study Guide

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    The Fall of the House of Usher Study Guide Author: Edgar Allan Poe Original title: The Fall of the House of Usher Characters: Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher, Narrator Published: February 2nd 2004 by BookSurge Classics (first published September 1839) ISBN 1594561796 (ISBN13: 9781594561795) The father of a detective genre and a great English writer created…

  • Mitchell Sanders

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    Mitchell Sanders was one of the most likable soldiers in the war. Sanders strongly influences the narrator, O’Brien. He is kind and devoted, and he has a strong sense of justice. Because of these qualities, he is a type of father figure. Though his ideas of storytelling may or may not agree with O’Brien’s in…

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Essays

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876. The story tells of Tom, a young and excitable boy who lives on the Mississippi with his Aunt Polly and his half brother Sid. Whilst the book predominantly tells of Tom’s adventures and the mischief in which he involves himself,…

  • Remigio of Varagine

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    Remigio of Varagine is a former Franciscan who joined the Benedictines to escape religious persecution. Remigio (the abbey’s cellarer) is described as a joyful but rude person, with blonde hair and small but strong stature. Remigio admits that he was the first to find Venantius’s dead body in the abbey’s kitchen, but wasn’t sure what…

  • The Shopkeeper

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    Of course not everything in a book can be good and kind. Santiago was robbed someday, and he needs money and sources to live. Here is where the Shopkeeper comes. He gives Santiago a job in Tangiers. Santiago takes the job at the crystal shop and gets a lot of useful information about the shopkeeper’s…

  • Tjaden

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    When we first meet him, he’s in ecstasy over the excess food rations made available by the death of so many soldiers. This scene underlines a couple of key facets of Tjaden’s character: he’s a pragmatist and a hedonist, someone whose huge appetites allow him to get through the psychological horrors of war. He’s the…