Category: Study Guides
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Bailey’s Wife (the Mother)
From the name of the title we already know who we are going to talk about – the wife of Bailey. The Mother of the family is a good character as well, and from the very beginning, we see that their family lives in love (except for a very strange Grandmother). She was a completely…
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Fallen Angels Essays
Fallen Angels 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… 1 580 words…
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Julius Caesar Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Let me have men about me that are fat,…Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.” – – Samuel Beckett Julius Caesar 6 Fill till the wine o’erswell the cup Julius Caesar 6 A piece…
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A Streetcar Named Desire Essays
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Blanche Dubois, the protagonist in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire play seeks to reside with Stella Kowalski, her sister, but Stanley Kowalski, Stella’s husband, is against the idea. Blanche used to live at her parent’s home in Mississippi’s Laurel area but the mansion has been… 967 words…
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Robert Ackley
Ackley is a Holden’s neighbor who lives next door. He has problems with teeth, and the protagonist always mentions this. Ackley enters the Caulfield’s room whenever he wants to and by doing this he disturbs the protagonist. The neighbor doesn’t understand hints that Holden gives him about leaving the room. Ackley is included in the…
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To Kill a Mockingbird Essays – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
“To Kill a Mockingbird”: How does Harper Lee use the character of Atticus Finch ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: How does Harper Lee use the character of Attic’s Finch to persuade us of her point of view about prejudice and injustice? Attic’s Finch is one of the major characters in the novel who is held in…
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Florence
Florence is a friend of Antonio. He is a blond-haired boy who, despite his young age, has gone through a lot of difficulties – his mother died when he was only three, his father died because of alcohol dependence and his two sisters were hookers. All these hardships became the root causes of his atheism.…
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Napoleon
In the novel, Napoleon is depicted as a ferocious boar, sweeping away all obstacles in his path. Therefore, his main distinctive feature is the thirst for absolute power. Napoleon acts through a competent combination of political propaganda and bloody terror. This explains his authority among the animals on the farm. The decisions of Napoleon denounce…
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The Handmaid’s Tale Summary
Margaret Atwood’s wrote her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985. This novel offers a strong feminist vision of dystopia. The Handmaid’s Tale Plot In the country of Gilead (formerly the United States), military authorities receive military power, and they begin to revive “true Christian values.” After the victory of the officers of Gilead, the…
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Doctor Faustus Summary
The novel follows a vivid narration of the life of a German composer named Adrian Leverkühn, by his old friend Serenus Zeitblom who happens to be a doctor of philosophy. Adrian, born in 1883, graduated from Kayzersasherna and went on to graduate university, finally becoming a teacher of classical languages and acquiring a family. In…