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Great Expectations Why Does Pi
... a while before taking the pork pie, which was so appreciated by Magwitch.
At Satis House it is almost straight away made clear to him from Estella’s language, both body and spoken, that she considers him to be inferior. It is here that, he is for the first time introduced to a girl whom he is later to fall madly in love with. It is here that he is referred to only as boy. It is here that he forms his “Great Expectations”.
From these experiences Pip finds out about what he considers polite society, but Satis House is a place where society is anything but polite. This is exemplified by Estella ...
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A Rumor Of War
... one statement, and the actions that followed, that had him tried for two counts of premeditated murder.
Caputo was like many of the other soldiers, in that he just wanted to get the war over with and be home alive. He does not seem like the kind of person that would intentionally kill innocent civilians. When Caputo gave the orders to kill Le Du and Le Dung, I don’t think that he knew that were not Viet Cong. During war, innocent people are killed all the time in trying to win the fight. I do not understand how action is only taken on selective occasions. I am sure that many innocent women and children are ...
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Inside The Character’s Of The Scarlet Letter
... not as willing to come forth along with Hester, so they kept his secret between the two of them. Together the conceived a child, Pearl. Everyone specified to her as a demon baby. Roger Chillingworth, a knowledgeable man, was Hester’s prearranged husband. Chillingworth had been unseen by Hester for two years and returned to find his wife in public humiliation. Each one of these characters has a different aspect upon one another.
A brave lion, Hester Prynne stood publicly on the scaffold of sham to face her criticism and punishment alone. Forced to tell who fathers her child, Hester denies the town of the kn ...
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Bram Stokers Dracula
... with the wave of his hand.
Harker escapes but the Count has devised an intricate plan to move to
London and exercise his evil forces on innocent people there. However, a
group of friends, including an open-minded but ingenious professor, a
psychologist, an American, a rich man, as well as Jon an Harker and his
wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him
before he can create an army of un-dead vampires. They systematically
destroy his coffins with holy wafers and chase him out of England back to
Castle Dracula. There they carry out an ultimate plan to destroy Dracula.
Th ...
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The Old Man And The Sea: Isolation
... describes it as:
" went through its open door……..and in it there
was a bed, a table, one chair, and a place on the
dirt floor to cook with charcoal." ( P 15 )
Also Hemingway shows that The old man feels his isolation through:" Once
there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken
it down because it made him too lonely to see it" ( P 16)
Everything in the old man's shack give the reader a feeling of his
loneliness and isolation, such as his one bed, one table, one chair, and
his wife's picture that he did not stand to look at so he took it down. At
the same t ...
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Animal Farm
... hope and the future. He is the main
animal who got the rebellion started even though he died
before it actually began. Old Major’s role compares to
Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist
revolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as well
as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic
Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader and
teacher of the working class in Russia, and their
determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major,
Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the
working class poor. The working class in Russia, as
compared with the barnyard animal ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities 2
... many of the other characters created in the novel.
Madame Defarge is described as a stout woman with a watchful eye that seldomly seemed to look at anything. She had a large heavily ringed hand, a steady face, strong features and was very well composed. She has a look, which informs much self-confidence in herself. She also has an extensive habit of knitting, which will become a significant theme in the novel.
Madame Defarge spends most of her days, weeks, and years before the revolution sitting in her wine shop, knitting a list of names. This list of names is a register of those she's marked for death, come the ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Contradiction
... I took the sack of corn meal
and took it to where the canoe was hid and shoved the vines and branches
apart and put it in. I had wore the ground a good deal, crawling out of
the hole and dragging out so many things. So I fixed that as good as I
could from the outside. Then I fixed the piece of log back into its place.
I took the ax and smashed in the door-I beat it and hacked it considerable,
a-doing it. I fetched the pig.and laid him down on the ground to bleed.
Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and bloodied the ax good, and
stuck it on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner" (24). If Huck
were lazy ...
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
... good person to be with in times of trouble. He helped
Becky and Muff Potter by intelligence. With Becky it was the adventure in
the caves without Tom and Becky would have a harder time to get out. With
Muff it was that he and Huck witnessed the murder and Tom came through and
told the truth. Without Tom, Muff could have been hung or go to prison for
a long time.
Tom uses his head in serious situations. For example when Injun
Joe was upstairs and Tom has to be quiet. It seemed nothing else mattered.
Tom works best under pressure because he thinks more about it.
Somehow, Tom had sensitivity for others, even othe ...
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The Bell Jar
... the best of the best writers had been able to be excepted to this
class and Esther was sure she had made it until her mother had told her she was
not accepted. This was what pushed Esther over the edge. She became more and
more obsessed about how she would kill herself and planed it out carefully.
When the time came she just couldn't do it. So she began to preoccupied herself
by thinking of other ways of death. She couldn't sleep or read this bothered
her because she loved to read. Finally she went to see a doctor who gave her
shock treatments. This made Esther even worse an so she slipped even deeper
into her ...
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