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Silas Marner: Characters In The Novel
... who was addicted to opium. She was secretly
married to Godfrey. Godfrey would give her money and instead of using it
on their child she would use that money to buy more drugs. Molly died as a
result of her addiction to drugs.
Dunston was another character in this book that was not a class
citizen. Dunstun committed the second robbery. He was also the person
that got wildfire killed. On page 67 Godfrey said of Dunston " He'll
never be hurt, he was made to hurt other people. The robbery occurred
because of the death of the horse.
Godfrey was a man that did not ever want to acknowledge that he was
married. ...
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The Effects Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter
... this "A" unfamilarized and
seperated her from the community, and she stood alone with her child as
she does for the most part of her life following this event. From then on,
she was to live away from the community with her baby, Pearl, and was
shunned by everyone. The sin she has committed has made her think that
death would be an easy way out and that she deserves little, for she says,
"I have thought of death, have wished for it, would have even prayed for
it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything." Throughout the
next years, the sin Hester committed changes her personality and identity.
Once a be ...
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Summary Of Walden Pond
... factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that is finer fruits cannot be plucked by them." This to me means that people care more about the fine things in life and easier work instead of nature's gifts and hard work. Thoreau draws a parallel between others preoccupation with money and his own enjoyment of non-monetary wealth. Thoreau's statement " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone" means that rich refers to having the opportunity for spiritual and intellectual gains and afford refers to the self-actualization rather than to cash in the bank. Those are j ...
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Elie's Wiesel And Night
... until the 1940's, when the city,
and eke himself charged for ever, just as Europe, and for that matter the world.
One day they expelled all the foreigners of the city, and Wiesels master in the
study of cabbala (Jewish mysticism) of a foreigner so he was expelled too.
The deportees were soon forgotten, he writes. However a few lines later he
explains why this is relevant, and gives the reader an idea of what was going on
in the minds of the jews living where he did.
He told his story (referring to the expelled Rabbi) and that of his companions.
The train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on ...
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Gatsbys Dream
... has elicited several qualities in Gatsby. Such dream and qualities make Gatsby appear to be the "knight in the shining armor." However, such dreams and qualities also lead Gatsby to his tragic end.
For one thing, Gatsby is amoral in many ways. First, he is a crook, a bootlegger who has involved himself with swindlers like Meyer Wolfshime, "the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."(78) Secondly, he is dishonest, because he tells lies about himself. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educat ...
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1984
... world
war divides the world into three states. London is the capital of Oceania
which is run by INGSOC(English Socialism). The controllers are called "The
Party." The Party is divided into two sections, The Inner Party, and The
Outer Party which are the "Rich" and the "middle-class." There is a third
group of people called "The Proles," or "The Proletariat" which are the
poor, and considered to be animals by the party. The main leader of this
government is Big Brother. The novel is told in third person and partly
first person, and is also divided into three parts. In the first part the
main character and his con ...
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Silko's "Ceremony": Summary
... with his emotions
and problems that he was faced with because no one, such as his aunt had
made it evident since his youth that he was not part of the family and
therefore must learn by himself how to deal with his problems.
Since Tayo was born he was looked down upon just because of
the mere fact that his mother slept with white men. Ever since he was
young and lived with his mother's family members, his aunt made sure that
he realize that for her as well as the other Indians he will always be
looked at as an outsider even amongst his own family members.
It was a private understanding between the tw ...
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Silko's Ceremony: Gender Roles
... displacement and emptiness. She would give her affection and attention to her real son Rocky, but would let Tayo just sit there alone.
After the war Auntie nursed him because he was all she had left after Rocky got killed. He would wake up crying after dreaming about how much Josiah had loved him and always hugged him when he was a child (32). Now he realized that there was no place left for him and he would never find peace (32). Auntie may have been a mother figure to him, but to Tayo she was just someone who looked after him.
Old Grandma, unlike Auntie, does accept Tayo and wants what is best for him. Whe ...
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John Steinbeck
... a clear picture of one of them, except for Lennie. But still Lennie's mind is as a closed book to us, and only in the final chapter Steinbeck attempts to describe Lennie and his hallucinations, but the result is very poor.
Theme: Without a doubt it is companionship. The friendship between George and Lennie is so close that George takes it up for his feeble-minded friend and protects him above all, even his own interests. It is like a sacred bond, and this makes them different from people who are just on their own. Seeking friendship is also to be seen in Candy, Curley's wife and Crooks.
Characteristics: The story is ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold's Power
... and Roger Chillingworth, Hester's lost husband, arrives, stands below
and questions the proceedings. As Hester endures her suffering, Dimmesdale is
told to beseech the woman to confess. It was said "So powerful seemed the
ministers appeal that the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne would
speak out the guilty name." His powerful speech shows Dimmesdale's need to
confess. This scene sets the stage for the next two scenes.
A few years later the event is again repeated. It is very similar to the
other and helps us understand the torment of Dimmesdale. As before the
tortured Reverend Dimmesdale g ...
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