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Soul Mate Young Boy
645 words
The first sign of the boy's true desire and love
for this girl occurs when he is sitting in his
room almost day dreaming of the girl. With the
boy's quote "But my body was like a harp and her
words and gestures were like fingers running upon
the wires, " it is obvious that this girl has
intense control over the young boy even before
they interact in any direct form. His life and
emotions are completely tied up with this girl and
he finds it hard to live his everyday life because
of that. Once he...
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Main Character Is Andy Character Is Andy Lucas
460 words
Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror By: Avi This book
took place in the present time. It was mostly in
Madison in Andy's high school and Madison
Community College. The main character is Andy, a
fifteen-year old boy. The other main character is
Andy's dad, Mr. Zadinski. Hes a professor at
Madison College. Paul was Andy's best friend who
tried to help him with his problem. Mr. Lucas is
also a professor who makes prank calls to Andy
about killing someone. Nina Klemmer was a college
student who was being s...
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World Of 1984 Winston Smith
2,013 words
The fictional world of 1984 is best described as
bleak. In the aftermath of the fall of capitalism
and nuclear war, the world has been divided among
three practically identical totalitarian
nation-states. The novel takes place in London,
which has become a part of Oceania, the nation
state comprising the Americas and western Europe.
A state of perpetual war and poverty is the rule
in Oceania. However, this is merely a backdrop,
far from the most terrifying aspect of life in
1984. Oceania is gove...
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Sense Of Smell Enables The Reader
1,855 words
How does the author enable the reader to share the
experience of the main character? Patrick
Suskind's use of visual imagery captures the
audiences's else of smell by dragging the reader
into this world of hideous stench. Perfume is
unique as it creates a reality by 'painting a
picture' in the mind of the reader through the
olfactory senses. Suskind does, on many occasions,
manipulate the readers' basic instincts through
the novel's protagonist, Jean Baptiste Grenouille.
Suskind is successful in...
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Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway
568 words
The novel A Farewell to Arms, (1929) by Ernest
Hemingway, takes place on the Italian front of
World War I. Fredrick Henry is an American
Lieutenant who drives an ambulance for the Italian
army. On his leave time he often visits
whorehouses and gets drunk. While fighting in the
war, his knee gets injured and he has to go to the
hospital in Milan where he meets a British nurse
named Catherine Barkley and falls in love with
her. During one of their many sexual affairs,
Catherine gets pregnant. Fred...
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Main Character Matilda Makes Them A Better Person People
317 words
Luxury in life is treated more as a necessity that
a want. When in life luxuries should be wants.
People think that having exotic and expensive
things makes them a better person. People also
like to say that they need that thing when they
really don't. This is like the mentality of a
child. When a child tells his parent I need that
toy, when in reality the child just wants. Adults
do that same but in a more mature manner. Like in
the story "The Necklace" our main character
Matilda want a dress. ...
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Ambition To Be King Born Of A Woman
1,320 words
In the play of Macbeth, Shakespeare introduces the
main character, through the eyes of the one who
knows him best, his wife. Lady Macbeth displays to
the audience all of Macbeth's weaknesses; her
ambition to have power becomes her husband's and
this will bring out Macbeth's ambition to be king.
She also proves that the strong may become the
weak and the weak may become the strong. Lady
Macbeth is a main character in this play because
she introduces Macbeth and helps the reader to
understand his ...
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Lone Ranger Indian Society
613 words
Leandro The dos Santos Sophomore Seminar September
14 th, 2000 Analysis on "The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfight in Heaven" and "Smoke Signals" Sherman
Alexie based on some short stories included in his
book, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in
Heaven, " wrote the screenplay for the movie
"Smoke Signals. " Both the movie and the book
portray problems that Indians had to deal with,
and how they dealt with it. The book is far more
complex than the movie, showing a wider variation
of characters ...
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The Call Of Jack London
1,107 words
During a time when man had gold fever, and
philosophical views plagued the minds of many, one
man took these views and turned them into great
outdoor adventures. John "Jack" Griffith London, a
twentieth century author, wrote The Call of the
Wild, other novels, and short stories that depict
the philosophical views of the time and added
adventure to them by using his own life
experiences that carried thousands of men
including himself to the Klondike in search of
gold. In Winter 1876 San Francisco...
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Punishment Without Revenge By Lope De Vega
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Punishment without Revenge by Lope de Vega Lope de
Vega (1562 - 1635) is a Spanish dramatist. His
play El casino sin ventana (Punishment without
revenge) was written during his last years of
life. This play is dedicated to problem of
absolute despotism. It was written in 1631 and was
put on stage only once in 1632 in Madrid theatre.
The concept of this play was dedicated to
social-political problems and was slightly veiled
because it takes place outside Spain. The source
of this play was one of ...
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George Orwell 1984 Winston And Julia
2,728 words
Analyzing 1984 as a Reflection of Orwell's
Philosophy George Orwell's 1984 is a book about
Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of The Party
which rules the nation of Oceania. The province of
Oceania in London is the place where our first and
main character Winston Smith lives. There are
signs reminding citizens that Big Brother is
always watching. Big Brother is the leader of the
party in which Winston is a part of as well as all
the people of Oceania. The Party watches him
everywhere through de...
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Main Character Holden Catcher In The Rye
636 words
Catcher in the Rye is a fiction book written by J.
D. Salinger in 1945. In the book the main
character, Holden Caulfield, narrates to us the
1950 s memory of his final day at the school Peace
Prep and the mental breakdown he suffered in his
expedition on the streets of New York. In Catcher
in the Rye there were certain important characters
that need to be mentioned. The was the main
character Holden Caulfield. In the flashback he
was 16 years old and on the verge of mental break
down. He sees th...
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Edgar Allan Poe House Of Usher
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born near
London on the 19 th of January 1809. His mother
was an actor and his father was a doctor. When Poe
was 2 years old his father disappeared. His
mother, who was seriously ill in tuberculosis,
took Poe and his sister to Richmond, Virginia.
Poe's mother died soon after this. The two
siblings became then separated and Poe was taken
care of by the wealthy family of the Allan's. Due
to Mr. Allan's work the family had to move to
England, where they spent fiv...
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Mistaken Identity Star Wars
1,206 words
Characteristics of Comedy There are many
characteristics that make up a comedy.
Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle
of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what
set the comedic story apart from the tragedy.
Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and
dismay may appear within the story, there always
seems to be the classic ending of and they all
lived happily ever after Comedies capture the
viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the
characters in the story. Each char...
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Dreams Come True Miss Havisham
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Diane Boissonneau March 26 th 199 Great
Expectations: The Book Verses the Movi Charles
Dickens wrote many famous works, including Great
Expectations. Recently, a movie loosely based upon
this book was directed by Alfonso Cuaron and
starred Gweynth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke. Great
Expectations is a sensual tale of a young mans
unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three
individuals who will undeniably change his life
forever. Through the surprising interactions of
these vivid characters, this...
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Jane Eyre Helen Burns
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Jane Eyre: Role of Male Dominance Somewhere, The
Dark Sheds Light Never, never, never quit -Winston
Churchill If women on this Earth had given up,
they would be where they were in the time of
Charlotte Bront&eur; . Jane Eyre, by Charlotte
Bront&eur; , tells the story of a woman on a
lifetime journey, progressing on the path of
acceptance, in searching of sympathy. Throughout
her journey, Jane encounters many obstacles to her
intelligence. Jane lives in a world and in a time
where society thought...
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F Scott Fitzgerald T J Eckleburg
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Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby Brian Olson
OLSON 1 Professor John Hughes ENC 1102 December 3,
1996 Imagine that you live in the nineteen
twenties, and that you are a very wealthy man that
lives by himself in a machine, on a lake and who
throws parties every weekend. This is just the
beginning of how to explain the way Jay Gatsby
lived his life. This novel, by F. Scott,
Fitzgerald is one that is very deep in thought.
Fitzgerald releases little clues along the way of
the novel that will be cry...
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Male Role Role Model
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In the film Cinema Paradiso, Toto, the main
character, is a lost child without a father to
provide a male role model. The story begins after
Toto is informed of the death of his dearest
friend, Alfredo. At this point, Toto is a mature
man and a successful film director, having long
ago left his home town, Giancaldo. Throughout the
movie, however, Toto is a young boy with little
parental support and direction. The young Toto
develops a friendship with Alfredo, the film
projectionist at Giancaldo'...
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Main Character One Human
399 words
Notes to Myself Sometimes mankind has to ask the
question what is it that makes up the actions and
determines the type of interaction that we display
when around other people? Notes to Myself is the
contemporary world s way of questioning the value
of putting on facades. The novel also questions
things we know as trivial such as watching a cat
sleep on our belly or staring at clouds in the
sky. The author used an interesting form for
writing his collection, omitting page numbers and
leaving no i...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Brave New World
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Compare And Contrast Dystopian Futures In Brave
Compare And Contrast Dystopian Futures In Brave
New World And 1984 Dystopian Futures in Brave New
World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The existence
created by Brave New World is very efficient
however it lacks any meaning, humans have no real
extremes in feelings, no love, hate, pain and
suffering. They are conditioned by technology to
accept these things as normal. People are
mass-produced to serve the means of the sociality
and have no individuality ...
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