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Boo Radley Heck Tate
2,063 words
... away from fishing to accompany him to Helen
Robinson's house, and how Helen collapsed at the
news. Meanwhile, the news occupies Maycomb's
attention for about two days, and everyone agrees
that it is typical for a black man to do something
irrational like trying to escape. Mr. Underwood
writes a long editorial condemning Tom's death as
the murder of an innocent man, and the only other
important reaction comes when Bob Ewell is
overheard saying that the death makes "one down
and about two more...
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Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots
1,094 words
Falling Leaves The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese
Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah, is a story of a
young Chinese girl growing up in an environment
that most people would crack under. Under the
reign of a evil stepmother, Mah's life was worst
than most young unwanted Chinese daughters during
the early 1900 s. However, due to her strong will
and the influence of a special Aunt she is able to
over come such a horrid childhood. Today she is a
medical doctor in America. However, if she did not
have the s...
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Jem And Scout Scout And Jem
483 words
To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel of many lessons,
by Harper Lee. Scout and Jem are the main
characters about six and ten at the beginning. One
of the lessons they learned was about judging
people before you really know them. 42 A lesson
Scout learned from Boo was about judging people.
All the kids in the area thought Boo was very mean
and hurt people. Boo was a really nice person but
Scout didnt think this. He saved their life
risking his own. He put gifts in a tree so Scout
and Jem could find t...
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Frozen In Time Trench Coat
3,095 words
... penetrate through most materials I know of,
clothes have no chance!"So, you said a lead. I
mean, I could have said it was a girl who led it,
but, who?" Coleby feels Derek is leading no-where
usefull. "Ah, the lead. " Derek grins. "There was
a finger print on the material. The person it
leads to could have in no way been the suspect,
but it could very well become obvious who is.
"Samantha, " commands from behind coleby, a voice
very well recognized. Coleby turns to see a man
about 6 ' 2 " wit...
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Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
1,922 words
Today, the majority of American women earn a wage
outside the home, regardless of marital status,
age, or race. Career Girls and Working Moms have
become an accepted part of the American culture
and economy. Behind our cultures acceptance of
women at work outside the home is a long and
complex history. Opinions about the kind of work
women should do, and the meaning of that work to
individual women and American society as a whole
have fluctuated throughout the centuries. Harriet
Beecher Stowe's ...
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Tom And Huck Aunt Polly
1,219 words
This is a story about a young boy named Tom Sawyer
who is very mischievous and likes to go on
adventures. He lives with his Aunt Polly and his
half-brother Sid. Tom also had two friends named
Joe Harper and Huck Finn. Becky Thatcher is Toms
girlfriend and Injun Joe is the towns thief and
murderer. This story took place in the mid- 1800 s
in a small village in Missouri along the
Mississippi River. The story begins when Aunt
Polly has to punish Tom Sawyer for playing hooky
from school. She orders ...
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Aunt Harriet And Sophie Harriet And Sophie David
637 words
John Wyrndham the author of The Chrysalids is an
extraordinary writer who has created this book in
the state of two totally different worlds.
Wyrndham has based this book on the different
views toward blasphemies and how the characters
all have a different approach on the subject. The
three greatest ranges in different reactions to
Blasphemes would come from the characters: Joseph
Strorm, Aunt Harriet, and Sophie Wender. Joseph
Strorm is the character in the novel that has the
greatest disliking...
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Heart Of Darkness Marlow Aunt
8,644 words
JOSEPH CONRAD: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES Joseph
Conrad didnt set out to become one of the great
English novelists. He didnt set out to be a
novelist at all, but a sailor, and besides, he
wasnt English. English was his third language and
he didnt begin learning it until after he was 20
years old! He was born Jozef Terror Konrad
Korzeniowski in 1857, in an area of Poland that
was part of Russia and is now part of the Soviet
Union. The Poles were fighting for independence
from Russia, and both paren...
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Jane Eyre Loving Relationship
825 words
Jane Eyre essay know what love is, as I understand
it; and if a man and woman should be ashamed of
feeling such love, then there is nothing right,
noble, faithful, truthful, unselfish in this earth
-Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre is a complicated novel
with many themes placed inside it. One of the most
prominent themes in the novel is love. A lot of
the time Jane displays love in this novel but is
often rejected by her companions. The fact that
relationships that have the possibility of love or
have...
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Aunt Miranda Rebecca Randall Lot
387 words
Text: Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm. 1903. New York: Puffin Books, 1994. Setting:
A farm in the small town of Riverboro in York
County, in the late 1800 s or early 1900 s. Major
Characters: Rebecca Randall ~ a girl who grows up
with a vivid imagination, and a lot of troubles.
In the beginning she is ten years old, and by the
end she is 17. Aunt Miranda ~ Rebecca's aunt who
she lives with and is very strict, harsh, and
demanding. Aunt Jane ~ Rebecca's other aunt whom
she also l...
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Years Of Her Life Nancy
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This book is a diary that goes through the last
two years of a young teenage girl? s life, who got
infected with the HIV virus after being date
raped. The girl in the book is named Nancy and she
is important enough to have her diary published
because her life went from being a normal teenage
girl with normal problems, to an abnormal girl
with AIDS and abnormal problems. She agreed to
have her diary published so that other people who
think that AIDS and rape can? t ever happen to
them can have a ...
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Back In Time Falling Leaf
1,134 words
Returning To One? s Roots Falling Leaves? The
Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline
Yen Mah, is a story of a young Chinese girl
growing up in an environment that most people
would crack under. Under the reign of a? evil
stepmother, ? Mah? s life was worst than most
young unwanted Chinese daughters during the early
1900? s. However, due to her strong will and the
influence of a special Aunt she is able to over
come such a horrid childhood. Today she is a
medical doctor in America. Ho...
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Wizard Of Oz Primal Scene
1,712 words
Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz The
film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the
concept of returning home. This is made clear
throughout the film. Dorothy's entire time in Oz
is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then
when she gets back home she tells Aunt Em that all
I kept saying to everybody was? I want to go home.
' This fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that
The Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason was that
due to the depression, many people were forced
away from t...
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Martin Luther King Type Of Music
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By 1945, nearly everyone in the African American
community had heard gospel music (2). At this
time, gospel music was a sacred folk music with
origins in field hollers, work songs, slave songs,
Baptist lining hymns, and Negro spirituals. These
songs that influenced gospel music were adapted
and reworked into expressions of praise and thanks
of the community. Although the harmonies were
similar to those of the blues or hymns in that
they shared the same simplicity, the rhythm was
much different. ...
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Handmaid Tale Quot Quot
1,695 words
Early in? The Handmaid? s Tale? , Offred says,
after having seen a group of Japanese women
wearing short skirts, rather than the typical,
compulsory dress of Gilead: " We are
fascinated, but also repelled. They seem
undressed. It has taken so little time to change
our minds about things like this" This
illustrates how the minds of the population have
been manipulated to make them comply with the
Government? s views. Like in most totalitarian
societies, the Gilead Government uses propag...
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Aunt Reed Jane Eyre
931 words
The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront&eur;
consists of the continuous journey through Janes
life towards her final happiness and freedom. This
is effectively supported by five significant
physical journeys she makes, which mirror the four
emotional journeys she makes 10 -year-old Jane
lives under the custody of her Aunt Reed, who
hates her. Jane resents her harsh treatment by her
aunt and cousins so much that she has a severe
temper outburst, which results in her aunt sending
her to Lowood boar...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Fa Mu Lan
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Maxine Hong Kingston (27 October 1940 -) Pin-chia
Feng National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan See
also the Kingston entry in DLB Yearbook: 1980.
BOOKS: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood
Among Ghosts (New York: Knopf, 1976; London: John
Lane, 1977); China Men (New York: Knopf, 1980);
Hawaii One Summer: 1978 (San Francisco: Meadow
Press, 1987); Through the Black Curtain (Berkeley:
Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of
California, 1987); Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake
Book (New York: K...
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Muriel Rukeyser Poem Quot
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Ruth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Ruth
Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Mary Ann
Wehler Mary Ann Wehler Ruth Stone was forty-four
when she published her first book, In an
Iridescent Time, in 1959. In fact, Norman Friedman
states in his essay, " The Poetry of Ruth
Stone" (46) that Stone had mastered the
elegant formal conventions of that era. Soon
after, Harvey Gross deems in his article, "
On the Poetry of Ruth Stone, " that Stone was
versed in " balanc...
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Kill A Mockingbird Jem And Scout
507 words
A common question asked today is what causes
prejudice? Prejudiced people cause much pain and
social injustice throughout the world. In the poem
Prejudiced Man, by William Debolt, the poet
clearly describes a prejudiced man and his
behavior. The poem reads, Like a quarter moon/He
looks in one direction/Among the shadows. Although
this poem is short it accurately describes a
prejudiced man. The beginning line Like a quarter
moon describes a prejudiced person who only shows
a portion of him. The p...
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Scout And Jem Jem And Scout
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A Untitled The Mortal Mockingbird A songbirds
melody can evoke happiness in anyone, as can the
smiling face of a child. The mockingbird sings for
the sake of singing, and an innocent child
possesses an innate joyfulness, as natural as
instinct. Yet a mockingbirds song dies as easily
as innocence. In the beginning of the novel, To
Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as
innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice
and racism. Their world is simple, sensible, a
childs world. However...
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