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Billy The Kid William H
1,039 wordsKid Antrim, aka Henry McCarty, aka William H. Bonney. Also know as Billy the Kid. Cold blooded killer, Outlaw, Robin Hood of the west, and Legend. Billy the Kid has been known as many things, but no matter what you believe about the others William H. Bonney is definable one of the most predominate legends of the wild wild west. When Billy the kid was a very young lad In old Silver City he went to the bad; Way out in the West with a gun in his hand At the age of twelve years he killed his first m...
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Growth And Development Billy Buck
1,065 wordsThe Red Pony, by John Steinbeck, tells the story of young Jody's growth and development. The novel, The Red Pony, is divided into four chapters that which constitute four short stories depicting a portion of Jody's growth and development. The first story, The Gift, illustrates the changes and experiences young Jody faces and he reacts to them. In the beginning of The Gift, Jody living in a state of innocence in which he is blind to the evil that surrounds him. Ironically, all the brutality and h...
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Good And Evil Billy Budd
1,429 wordsIdeologies. They are systems of ideas and ways of thinking. Systems of beliefs, thus relating to politics, society, or to the conduct of a class or group. These systems are used to justify actions. A way to explain the world to individuals, especially, one that is held as a whole and maintained regardless of the course of events. They can be used to interpret the social world. In Herman Melville's, Billy Budd, the sailor, social ideologies are shown when the main character, William Budd, is kill...
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Slaughterhouse Five Of Time
1,091 wordsMany writers in history have written science fiction novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut's experiences as a scout in World War Two, his capture and becoming a prisoner of war, and his witnessing of the fire bombing of Dresden in February of 1945 (the greatest man-caused massacre in history). The novel is about the life and times of a World W...
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Herman Melville Similarities In Claggart And Captain Ahab
1,183 wordsHerman Melville was a struggling writer in the mid- 1800 s, who spent a few years of his life as a sailor and crew member of whaling ships in the south seas. These experiences greatly influenced his writing, causing there to be many similarities among his novels. In two of his works, Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd, Melville seems to have created two characters, Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick, and John Claggart from Billy Budd, who both share some very comparable qualities and experiences. The most preva...
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Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim
1,362 words"Fate: 'what has been spoken, ' a power beyond men's control that is held to determine what happens" (Webster's Intermediate Dictionary 270). Everywhere in the world, people attribute events to fate because of the belief that one has no control over one's own life. People freely donate their lives to destiny because they believe life will happen according to a master plan, and they cannot help what happens to them. Therefore they do not try to change their life's path. In literature, authors hav...
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Analysis Of Herman Melville Billy Budd
1,955 wordsIn Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, readers are introduced to the conflict of good and evil between Billy Budd and Claggart. However, there is another conflict, which, in ways is more significant than the epic clash of good and evil. Vere's struggle between duty and conscience is more significant because it occurs in the mind. Whereas Billy Budd was clearly the noble sacrificed hero and Claggart was the vindictive villain, duty is just as noble as conscience and conscience is just as noble ...
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Miss Drew Train Tracks Billy
987 wordsBilly Bathgate, is a book of a young boys transition into manhood. It is an amazingly well-written book that intrigued me the entire way through. It starts out in Billy's hometown, the Bronx of New York in the twenties; a time of social unrest and prohibition. The apartment building Billy lives in is not the epitome of cleanliness. The streets are littered with papers and loud noises of the trains that go by every hour. Rundown little bungalows and an occasional three-story fake brick building s...
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Mountain Lion Red Fern
1,209 wordsBilly Colman The protagonist of Where the Red Fern Grows. At the start of the novel he is ten years old. He has three younger sisters. He is filled with "puppy love" -- he wants a dog badly. He is a brave boy, full of determination and grit. Papa Billy's papa is a good, honest farmer. He is poor, but is working hard so his family can move to the city. Once Billy buys his hounds, he starts to treat Billy like a man Grandfather Billy's grandfather runs a general store and a small mill. His store i...
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Concept Of Time Bombing Of Dresden
1,078 wordsBilly Pilgrim has been through many cruelties in his life. As a child his own father was cruel to him. They had gone to the Y. M. C. A. to teach Billy how to swim. A horrible, traumatic, event that would stay with Billy for the rest of his life. "Little Billy was terrified, because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or -swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim" (43). Roland Wear was a very cruel man...
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Captain Vere Billy Budd
1,628 wordsCaptain Vere, despite having paternal feelings towards Billy Budd, soon realizes the decision facing him. After Claggart's last breathe, " 'Fated boy, ' breathed Captain Vere in tone so low as to be almost a whisper, 'what have you done!' " (350). Vere's paternal feelings can be seen when he says "Fated boy." The fact Captain Vere whispers this implies the emotions he is feeling. He realizes the severity of Billy's actions and reproaches him as a father would a child exclaiming, "what have you d...
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Good And Evil Standards Of Beauty
2,387 wordsComparison of "Evil" The definition of evil, though very broad, is said to be morally reprehensible or the bringing of suffering and misfortune: for example, the opposite of good. Evil serves as everything that a person fears and hates. It serves as a foil to the qualities of good. Where good brings love, evil spawns hate; where good brings hope, evil creates despair. The conflict between Good and Evil can be traced back to Biblical times and can be characterized by the conflict between God and ...
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Prisoners Of War Billy Pilgrim
672 wordsSlaughterhouse-Five By: Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. He came unstuck while he was in World War II and has been traveling throughout different moments of his life ever since. He has seen his birth, death, and everything in between several times. Slaughterhouse Five is the story of Billy s life, but not in order, from birth to death, because that is not how he lived it. Billy was born and grew up in Illium, New York. After high school, he went to Illium School of Optometry...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Contemporary Literary Criticism
2,265 wordsFrom Ancient Greek playwright, Euripides, (" To die is a debt we must all of us discharge" (Fitzhenry 122) ) to renowned Nineteenth Century poet, Emily Dickinson, (" Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped for me -/ The carriage held but just ourselves/ And Immortality" (Fitzhenry 126) ) the concept of death, reincarnation, rebirth, and mourning have been brooded over time and time again. And with no definite answers to lifes most puzzling question of death bein...
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Captain Vere Billy Budd
628 wordsBilly Budd: Was Captain Vere Right? Captain Vere makes the right decision by executing Billy Budd. If Captain Vere lets Billy live the rest of the crew might get the impression that they will not be held accountable for their crimes. If the crew feels that they can get away with what ever they want then there is a chance that they might form a rebellion and have a mutiny. A mutiny would destroy the stability and good name of the ship and the crew. Captain Vere does not want to see this happen. T...
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Spilled The Soup Captain Vere Billy
565 wordsToo much innocence is not always a good thing, but a little helps from doing wrong. In the case of Billy Budd, innocence was not an important factor, therefor it did not save Billy's life. His ignorance partly reflects his lack of experience. Billy cant read or write so he knows little about the world except what he has seen out at sea. He is so trusting that he cant imagine the presence of evil in anyone. This gullibility made him an easy target for Claggart, who secretly was out to destroy him...
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Kilgore Trout Billy Pilgrim
701 wordsKurt Vonnegut? s character Billy Pilgrim, in Slaughterhouse-Five, is an American soldier in Europe in the last year of World War II. What he sees and does during his six months on the battlefield and as a prisoner of war have dominated his life. He comes to terms with the feelings of horror, guilt, and despair that are the result of his war experiences by putting the events of his life in perspective. He reorganizes his life by using the device of time travel. Unlike everyone else, he does not l...
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Bombing Of Dresden Feelings Of Guilt
2,172 wordsVonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five When one begins to analyze a military novel it is important to first look at the historical context in which the book was written. On the nights of February 13 - 14 in 1944 the city of Dresden, Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135, 000 to 250, 000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Dresden was different then Berlin or many of the other milit...
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Home From School Life And Death
1,948 wordsLiterary Analysis: The Red Pony The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck, consists of four separate but intertwined stories about a boy named Jody. These stories show how Jody began as a selfish, immature young child, and became a caring, responsible young man. Steinbeck used characters and events to teach Jody about life and death. He also used much imagery and foreshadowing to set the mood for the stories. In the first story, ? The Gift, ? Jody Tiflin was a typical ten-year-old boy who liked to sleep a...
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Good And Evil Billy
505 wordsIn the play Billy Budd, the author, Hermann Melvinne, creates two conflicting character personalities which are portrayed as good and evil. John Claggart (Master-At-Arms) tries to destroy Billy Budd because he is jealous of Billy? s reputation and acceptance among the crew. There is also a conflict involving Captain Vere when he is forced to decide on the fate of Billy Budd after he kills Claggart. Billy is a handsome, young sailor, new to the ship and eager to impress. Billy becomes very popula...
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