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Moby Dick Captain Ahab
262 wordsIf Captain Ahab Captain Ahab If you ever saw Captain Ahab in a dark alley, youd probably turn and run the other way. His scarred body and wooden leg are just a couple of characteristics that show who he is. Ahab is the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, and their mission is to go on a trip and bring back as many whales as possible. Ahab has a different mission plan set in his mind. The grotesque scars and wooden leg are just horrible reminders of what can go wrong when man goes against nature. ...
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Good Country People Wooden Leg
656 wordsFlannery Oconner and Grotesque Characters One of the most interesting characteristics of Flannery Oconner's writing is her penchant for creating characters with physical or mental disabilities. Though critics sometimes unkindly labeled her a maker of grotesques, this talent for creating flawed characters served her well. In fact, though termed grotesque, Oconner's use of vivid visual imagery when describing people and their shortcomings is the technique that makes her work most realistic. Oconne...
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Rises Must Converge Good Country People
1,453 wordsFlannery O? Connor? s Themes: Alienation, True Country, and the Demonic O? Connor uses many themes throughout all of her works. Her most criticized themes are alienation, true country life, and the demonic. Throughout the short stories of? A Good Man is Hard to Find? , ? Everything That Rises Must Converge? , ? Good Country People? , ? The Life you Save Might be your Own? , ? The Geranium? , ? A Circle in the Fire? , and? The River? O? Connor speaks of her heritage and her religious faults. ? Mi...
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Rises Must Converge Good Country People
1,224 wordsGood Country People: Like Julian in " Everything that Rises Must Converge, " Hulga is a proud intellectual and has little doubt of her belief in " nothingness. " However, by the end, she has fallen prey to the same naive stereotypes as her mother. Do you think her beliefs are based on reason or on the desire to distinguish herself from the ignorance which is all around her? Hulga accentuates her wooden leg by making unnecessary noises when she walks and plays up the deformity...
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Flannery O Connor Good Country People
1,104 wordsSYMBOLISM IN GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE Symbolism plays a major role in Flannery O Connor s story, Good Country People. Multiple objects that are presented in the story appear initially to be merely props, but the reader later discovers these props to actually be extremely important and necessary to the dynamics of the story. These props, or objects, symbolically represent the personalities of the characters who possess and / or use them. One such object in the story is the wooden leg of Hulga. When th...
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