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Wrote This Book Thousands Of Jews
1,554 words1. Give a short summary of your book. (characters, conflict, complications, climaxes, resolutions) The story was mainly about Alicia Jurman's life during and after the Holocaust. In her life she had witnessed more trauma that we cant even imagine, such as her mother getting killed right in front of her. Thats not all, her whole family was killed during the holocaust. Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led them to safe hide outs. She was only 13 when...
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Good Versus Evil Versus Evil Book
387 wordsShane is a classic example of western fiction in which Schaefer contrasts the values of the farm with the lawlessness of the cowtown. Shane, the gunfighter protagonist, attempts to the farmers but can only help clear away the violence for the civilization the farmers bring. reveals the difficult struggles of homesteaders who fight to bring justice to an ungoverned to fulfill the hopes and promises of prosperity to their families. The reality in the struggles were supported with an accurate corre...
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George Willard Great Deal
1,302 words"Hands, by Sherwood Anderson, is a story that seems to be stripped of sentimentality, yet conveys emotion. Anderson tells the somber story of a misunderstood and wrongfully accused man. The protagonist, Wing Biddlebaum, failed to communicate his true self. His inner desires were repressed because conventions and tradition distorted and twisted them. As mentioned before, the central character in Hands is Wing Biddlebaum. He is clearly a round character because he has more than one side to his per...
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Made Her Feel Jilting Of Granny Weatherall
1,033 wordsIn "Miss Brill, "The Chrysanthemums" and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" each female protagonists has an insight about them self. They each learn something new about the world they live in. The three women who are discussed in these stories have lived very uneventful lives and are just thriving for something to happen. Miss Brill is a lonely old lady, who is a school teacher and lives in France. In her spare time she likes to get dressed up in her fur wrap and then go to the park. Since littl...
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Beginning Of The Film Taxi Driver
630 words"The Other" is a theme, motif or figure which seems to appear over and over in the movie. It could be nature, women, other races, other cultures, homosexuals, criminals, rulers, Gods, monsters, etc. In the film, the protagonist becomes just like "The Other" in order to resolve the problem. Usually, "The Other" is killed by the protagonist at the end of the movie. "The Other" is always the victim in the movie, it is a scapegoat: it is the focus of the resolution of the problems. In "Taxi Driver",...
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Tim Obrien Vietnam War
967 wordsIt is generally recognized that Tim Obrien's Going After Cacciato (1978) is most likely the best novel of the Vietnam war, albeit an unusual one in that it innovative combines the experiential realism of war with surrealism, primarily through the overactive imagination of the protagonist, Spec Four Paul Berlin. The first chapter of this novel is of more than usual importance. Designed to be a self-sufficient story (Mccaffery 137) and often anthologized as one, this chapter is crucial to the nove...
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Father Son Relationship Son Biff
1,389 wordsIn Death of a Salesman, Miller presents the Loman's a family hindered by their dysfunctional nature. Even though Miller portrays Willy Loan as the main character of the story, Willys lack of praiseworthy traits make him unworthy to be the protagonist. Biff is heroic in that as an adolescent, his father impresses faulty ideals on him, which he later discards in a search for his true identity. Ultimately, Willys son Biff is the character who does not succeed in regards to his fathers dreams, but d...
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World War Ii Succeed In Life
1,421 wordsDEFEATING EVIL WHILE BECOMING ONE Human nature, some say its what elevates us to a higher plain of consciousness, what separates us from animals. Others, however, say that human nature is the exact thing that holds us back, keeps us from evolving. Man is such a complex animal, full of contradictions and inconsistencies; it seems impossible for us to fully understand man s nature. But we all agree that we live our whole lives trying to fulfill our objectives. Someone s objective is being rich and...
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Song Protagonist 038 Antagonist Song Protagonist 038 Dicey
889 wordsDicey's Song: Protagonist &# 038; Antagonist Essay, Research Diceys Song: Protagonist &# 038; Antagonist Dicey's Song takes place in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. The setting helps with the mood of the story. The mood is relaxed and calm. This novels point of view is third person (he, she, they, and them). The protagonist of the story is Dicey Tillerman. Dicey is the hero of this story. Dicey is very caring. Also, Dicey loves her family, and she does everything possible to protect her family. The an...
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Studies In Short Fiction James Joyce
1,376 wordsJohn Updike's A &# 038; P and James Joyce's Araby share many of the same literary traits. The primary focus of the two stories revolves around a young man who is compelled to decipher the different between cruel reality and the fantasies of romance that play in his head. That the man does, indeed, discover the difference is what sets him off into emotional collapse. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the fact that the main character, who is also the protagonist, has built up...
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Abner Snopes Barn Burning
1,018 wordsWilliam Faulkner's Barn Burning William Faulkner's Barn Burning presents a dichotomy of thought. On one hand, it is a heroic tragedy about Sarty Snopes growing into awareness and morality. On the other, it is a story describing a moribund southern aristocracy built on a tainted ante-bellum foundation of slavery and decaying on a post-war economic oppression of white agrarians. Sarty rightfully looks at this old order of life as a symbol of hope. However, to Abner Snopes, this way of life represe...
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Short Period Of Time Falls In Love
2,694 wordsIntroduction to Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in higher Bockhampton near Dorchester. Thomas Hardy wrote many novels including The Mayor of Caster bridge, The Poor Man and the Lady, and Desperate Remedies. He wrote Far From the Madding Crowd and published it in 1874, where it was met with considerable success. This book is about the developing relationships between three men, and one woman. Romantic means someone who expresses love and can easily charm the oppos...
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William Shakespeare Romeo Romeo And Juliet
2,456 wordsWilliam Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, is one of the greatest love stories of all time. The play was written around 1595, but the story has proven to be timeless. The play is a story of forbidden love that is resolved in two tragic deaths. Romeo and Juliet come from feuding families, but they defy the feud and fall in love. Many events take place during the five short days that they share their love. All of the events surround characters from both the Montague and Capulet families. For ex...
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Song Of Solomon Toni Morrison
1,418 wordsLiterature is bound by threads of themes that transcend all barriers of race, religion, epoch, and culture. Archetypal ideas of death, freedom, self-realization, good, and evil are utilized throughout most literary text. It is especially evident in The Song of Solomon and Beloved By Morrison, The Woman Warrior by Kingston, The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne and The Awakening by Chopin, that religion and culture are an imperative part of society. Religious and cultural taboos are viewed as a set of ...
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Plato And Aristotle Oedipus The King
1,158 wordsAn Introspective Look on Fate and Initiation Concerning the Tragedies of Ancient Greece Is man free to mold his own destiny, or is he a mere thread on the spool of life the Fates, the three female deities of Greek Mythology, cut and control? Can, in fact, man determine his life and destiny based on his own free will through successful initiation or is he subject to the web of fate that is woven for him? The force, which controls the path of man, whether from fate or through successful transcendi...
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Tragic Hero Tragic Flaw
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1,712 wordsEssay 1 02 / 08 / 99 Page 01 Two popular writing techniques used by many of the enlightenment's great were irony and humor. Great writers such as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere and Francois-Marie About De Voltaire made excellent use of these techniques. With humor, both writers wrote stories which kept their audience involved in funny situations, while with irony the writers were able to explain their underlying messages. Born seventy-two years apart, they are a superb example of how these techn...
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Act 1 Scene Oedipus Rex
1,602 wordsWider Reading Assignment From your studies of Macbeth show to what extent you think Shakespeare followed and built upon the classical tradition of dramatic tragedy. In this essay I will be comparing the Shakespearian tragedy Macbeth to an example of Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex. The fall of Macbeth is very different from that of Oedipus. Macbeth's downfall is due to his own personal decisions but in Oedipus case his downfall was due to nothing but fate and the will of the gods and so it was unavoi...
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Bernard Malamud Female Characters
1,344 wordsThe Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in Naked Nude Michael Mc Be English 2420 Dr. Chappell May 24, 1994 Thesis and Outline: Thesis: In his picturesque short story, The Naked Nude, Bernard Malamud uses the female characters to develop, enact, and resolve Fidelman's epiphany and to bring about the protagonists final, artistic self-understanding. I. Introductory paragraph statement of thesis. II. The prostitutes A. in contrast to Fidelman's initial idea of the artistic nude B. maybe too m...
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Edgar Allen Poe Man Versus Man
839 wordsPoe's Use of First Person in The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe's tale of murder and revenge, The Cask of Amontillado, offers a unique perspective into the mind of a deranged murderer. The effectiveness of the story is largely due to its first person point of view, which allows the reader a deeper involvement into the thoughts and motivations of the protagonist, Montresor. The first person narration results in an unbalanced viewpoint on the central conflict of the story, man versus man, bec...
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