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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,698 wordsIn The Catcher In The Rye Salinger portrays the main character Holden Caulfield as a protector of innocence which is shown through his protection of children, giving up his own innocence to help others, and his disgust of the graffiti on the walls. Holden is a very strong minded individual and is very open about the way he feels about things. Although it does not seem that he is the protector of innocence at first, as the story progresses he begins to shed more of his own innocence to affect tho...
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Shows That Women Raisin In The Sun
1,012 wordsMama: Illustration of What Women Can Be In the 1950 s through the 1960 s women were not respected in there everyday lives, in the job field or in general. They did not have the rights they deserved, so during this time the womens movement began. Women fought for their rights and fought for the self-respect that they thought they deserved. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the character Mama, expresses her feelings of pushing or extracting a new side for a woman. Her role exp...
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Edgar Allan Poe Literary Elements
401 wordsEdgar Allan Poe Throughout literature, an author s works almost always reflect their mood and character. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer whose short stories and poems reflected his pessimistic moods. One of Poe s poems, The Raven, is about a raven that flies into the home of a sad and lonely man. This poem best expresses Poe s sense of despair and gloominess because the literary elements used in the poem are a constant reference to them. An example that portrays The Raven as a reflection ...
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Ellen Foster Drunken Father
759 wordsEllen Foster, the character in Kaye Gibbons novel Ellen Foster, is a young girl that is struggling to survive and find her way in the world. Ellen is deprived of a normal childhood. Her life as a child is extremely hard, physically and emotionally. She never had a mother or father to take care of her throughout her youth. Ellen is able to accept her difficult childhood as normal by blocking out her problems since she is not accustomed to anything else. Any normal child would suffer mentally, but...
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Heart Of Darkness Tells The Reader
1,187 wordsJoseph Conrad was a very talented author. He started writing at the age of thirty-two, and began telling many tales of his life on the sea. In his youth he was a sailor and traveled to many places such as the Orient, and the Congo. It are his experiences on the Congo that serves as his primary source for his story The Heart of Darkness. This book was actually a story of a man, Charles Marlow, telling the story of his experience in Africa. While in Africa, Marlow's attitude towards life changes a...
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Thoreau Walden Pond
907 wordsSounds Personification? Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous and unwearied. ? (84) Through the personification of commerce Thoreau is able to show that commerce fluctuates in the same manner as humanity. The adjectives he uses to describe commerce show that commerce has some of the same tendencies as humans, and Thoreau believes that it is these tendencies that make commerce so successful. Chapter 5: Solitude Allusion? who keeps himself more secret than ever did Goff...
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Mother Daughter Relationship Stand Here Ironing
863 wordsI Stand Here Ironing I stand here ironing, a unique phrase uttered by a woman in her conquest of life. It may seem like an unwanted phrase to many, but it has deep meaning behind it. This phrase is almost whispered by the narrator of I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen, and also by many other mothers going through an important stage in their lives. The stage in life that the mother in the story is going through is called child development, and within this complicated stage arise many new worlds o...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Hermia And Lysander
1,016 wordsWhat is True Love? The overriding theme of the play " A Midsummer Nights Dream" by William Shakespeare deals with the nature of love. Though true love seems to be held up as an ideal, false love is mostly what we are shown. Underneath his frantic comedy, Shakespeare seems to be asking the questions all lovers ask in the midst of their confusion: How do we know when love is real? How can we trust ourselves that love is real when we are so easily swayed by passion and romantic convention...
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Dewey Dell And Vardaman Buried In Jefferson Mother
1,411 wordsAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a story about a family s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie Bundren, their wife and mother. Addie is a hidden character throughout most of the book. We read and see the views of her family while they take her to get buried in Jefferson, and gain different perspectives of this character upon which the story is based. All we know about her in the beginning is that she is lying in her bed dying while people surround her in complete silence...
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Side Of Human King Lear
1,671 wordsShakespeare's tragedy King Lear is comprised of many distinct themes. His contrasts of light and dark, good and evil, and his brilliant illustration of parallels between the foolishness of the plays characters and society allowed him to craft a masterpiece. Just as well, Shakespeare's dynamic use of linguistic techniques such as pun and irony aid this illustration of the perfect microcosm, not only of 16 th century Britain, but of all times and places. By far the theme that best allowed the furt...
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Outlook On Life View Of Women
940 wordsHamlet Essay Soliloquy A soliloquy occurs when a character shares his feelings and thoughts on a subject with the audience alone. No other character hears what that initial character is saying. Hamlet has six major soliloquy s throughout the course of the play. Through them he expresses many of his own opinions and views, such as his feelings about his own free will, his job as an avenger and his views of women. Hamlet expresses his view of women through at least three major soliloquies. In his ...
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Tragic Flaw Tragic Hero
786 wordsPlaying the Part of the Hero The tragic story of Hamlet is based on one of the oldest stories in the world. The character of Hamlet is cursed with the characteristics that create a tragic hero. These characteristics include his one tragic flaw and how he suffers from it, his nobility in life and in admitting his flaw, and finally his salvation and how he realizes why he must keep a good soul. All tragic heroes possess one characteristic, or flaw, that causes suffering in their personal lives. Ha...
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William Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 4
1,513 wordsEnglish 30 Shakespeare Hamlet For centuries, scholars have been debating the issue on whether Hamlet the prince of William Shakespeare? s tragedy Hamlet was mad. This question is not as easy as it sounds to answer; this is due to the fact that there are numerous arguments to support both sides of the issue. For many reasons, it is easy to believe that Hamlet was indeed mad. After all, Hamlet? s behavior throughout most of the play is extremely erratic and violent. However, there is another way t...
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Late At Night Younger Waiter
1,588 wordsExplicate one of the stories we have read. Break the story down by analyzing it part by part. Look at how the plot and symbols express the central theme or themes of the story. " A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" This story was written by Hemingway in 1933. It details an evenings interaction between two waiters, and their differing perspectives of life. Hemingway uses an old man as a patron to demonstrate the waiters philosophies. Hemingway is also visible in the story as the old man, someo...
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Son Will Be Let Free Range Of Emotions Poem
676 wordsPerhaps one Hope 2 Hope/Imagery Perhaps one of the most important parts of poetry is the ability to expand the perception of readers. When writing, poets try to appeal to the readers senses. A poet uses the sense of imagery, a language that evokes a physical sensation produced by one of the five senses. Although the effects of imagery can be quite complex, the way that images work is simple. The author has many ways to do this throughout the poem, which is obvious in Ariel Dorfman s image in the...
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Played A Major Role Characters In The Book
1,301 wordsHuck Finn Ben Goo In the novel Huck Finn, the 3 subjects of slavery, racism, and superstition all play an important role in the personality traits, expectations and actions of almost all of the characters in the book. The book relied on these subjects as not only as a base for satire in the book but also as a great source of conflict within the entire text. The guilt that Huck felt, as expressed here says I I wont let no run away niggers get by me if I can help it. I got aboard the raft feeling ...
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Mark Twain Civil War
462 wordsDuring the 1800 s, slavery was a very controversial issue in the United States. The northern states were free of slavery, and had many abolitionists, while the south continued support of slavery until a few decades after the civil war. The authors of the time, like Mark Twain, often included slavery into their works, and in fact, one of the causes of the civil war was a book about slavery called Uncle Toms Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In Mark Twain's story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
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Feel Guilty Ordinary People
1,299 wordsOrdinary People Ordinary People by Judith Guest is the story of a dysfunctional family who relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i. e. an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or prevent anxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and Calvin Jarrett, home after eight months in a psychiatric hospital, there because he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists. His mother is a meticulously orderly ...
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Sonny Blues Sonny Brother
817 wordsBeing a writer isn? t a complicated task, but being a message ful writer requires lot of experience and inner self-presentation. James Baldwin was a very great writer. He expresses his inner feeling into his writing, which makes him true writer. When ever he wrote something always contain some kind of message. Most of his writing about African American culture where he raised. His writing tells the story of pain. He painted cruel history of black community into his writing. His writing contains ...
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Donne John Donne
835 words? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? John Donne? s poem, ? The Legacy? , displays the conflicting themes of love and death. He uses imagery and there associations to convey many of his personal thoughts and feelings, as well as, creating a theme. John Donne? s intentions of writing this poem was to leave a legacy for his love, though he realizes that you cannot achieve this without giving all of your heart. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? One of the major themes in the poems is death associated with death imager...
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