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Billy Pilgrim Kilgore Trout
813 wordsKurt Vonnegut - Plays the role of himself in the first chapter, as he tries to get a grip on the Dresden book he feels the need to write. Appears occasionally in Billy Pilgrim's story as a reminder that he was indeed there. Also appears again at the end, when he returns to Dresden as a tourist. Billy Pilgrim - Pacifistic, wimpy, and passive-natured main character in Vonnegut's Dresden story. Generally seen as a pilgrim in his own haunted past, from which he returns with a message of goodness for...
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Billy Personality Phrase Life Person
429 wordsWhen one says the phrase, life goes on, we can probably assume that they have been faced with some type of tragedy that has affected how they lived. This phrase might create situations where life after the misfortune is more bearable for the person affected and the friends and family of the person. If The Crossing had been written through the eyes of Billy Parham, we probably would have read the phrase life goes on over and over again. Billy was the type of person that would experience something...
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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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Point Of View Billy Budd
1,123 words... t survived both a military and civil tribunal with his honor intact. However public testimony cast doubt on his sanity. Melville read of these proceedings in the Albany newspapers and received eyewitness accounts of the alleged mutiny from his cousin Get Gansevoort, a lieutenant aboard the Somers who guarded prisoners and assisted at their execution. Gansevoort publicly condemned the captains actions, but privately sided with the victims. Critics surmise that Melville, who had a brush with a...
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Mc Murphy Nurse Ratched
1,825 words... to know. A man who has for years pretended to be a deaf-mute, his mind is a jumble of seemingly random, terrifying sights and sounds: people swell and shrink according to their power over others; like machines, they shoot electric beams at those who stand in their way. In moments of greatest stress, the Chief's mind becomes entirely clouded by a dense fog. Only when he recalls his Indian boyhood are his thoughts at all clear, and even these happy memories tend to be shattered by his fear of ...
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Point Of View Rights Of Man
1,119 wordsSetting: The story begins on the merchant ship rights-of-man. Billy is impressed by the British navy ship the H. M. S. Bellipotent, he goes without confrontation. The story takes place in 1797 around July of that year. The ship is the main setting bu many over look the great importance of the sea in the story. The ship is torn between mutiny and is in the middle of a war between the French and British. The ship is on route to meet up with other members of there fleet in the Mediterranean. As the...
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Greater Good One Man
615 wordsThis story contains an almost equal balance of good and evil, though it also raises questions of what is truly good. It blurs the line between good and selfish or thoughtless. Characters actions sometimes appear impure, but in the long run, are good. In this story Billy is faced with a wide range of undeserved punishments, but shows good through all of them with his strong will and determination. He accepts the things that happen to him in a levelheaded manner, which works to keep the story from...
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The Natural World In Red Pony
859 wordsIn The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, the natural world and how man affects or tries to affect it is a big theme. In this novel, the fight between man and nature is clearly shown, yet a winner isnt. In this book, the deaths and births of animals plays a large role in this struggle, nature affects man, and man affects nature. The deaths and births of animals play a large role in the struggle for power between man and nature. This is shown in the book when Steinbeck says, When he arrived, it was all ...
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Where The Red Fern Grows
316 wordsThe book Where the Red Fern Grows is a great story about a boy named Billy and his two dogs. The book is written by Wilson Rawls. He did an outstanding job in describing some of Billy's thoughts and feelings. Mr. Rawls has really outdone himself this time. If it isn't obvious, I really liked this book. I really liked the part when Billy got his two dogs, Little Ann and Old Dan. He saved all of his money for those dogs. He had big plans of the three of them being a hunting team. This goes to show...
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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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Way To Dream Billy Elliot
353 wordsOctober 14, 2003 Way to dream All people are different, but everybody has dreams. Dreams are different and depend on the person. Billy Elliot has his personal dream this is ballet, but most importantly, it is not what kind of dream we have, but most importantly, how persistent we are on the way to our dream. Billy was not afraid to fight all obstacles, which he encountered on his way, and was triumphant. It is very hard to do the opposite of people in a neighborhood, have different customs, and ...
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Billy Pilgrim Slaughterhouse Five
1,296 words... ending quarters. This comes as a shock to the reader, because of the torturous intentions the Nazis invented for the showers, thus creating the reader's surprise to find the victims in a German camp, unharmed. Vonnegut uses the setting to play upon the nerves of the reader by setting up a terrible death that the fatigued Americans are prepared to walk right into. Billy recalls, The Americans halted. They stood there quietly in the cold. The sheds they were among were outwardly like thousands...
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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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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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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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Mc Murphy Nurse Ratched
880 wordsRandle McMurphyCuckoos Nest Transformation: Randle Mc Murphy &# 038; Patients He waltzed into the ward and introduced himself to every patient as a gambling man with a zest for women and cards. Randle P. Mc Murphy, a swaggering, gambling, boisterous redheaded con man, arrived at the ward from the Pendleton Work Farm. He was sentenced to six months at the prison work farm, but pretended to be insane in order to obtain a transfer to the hospital because he thought it would be more comfortable than...
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1,053 wordsJames Mc Calla Section 21 Paper # 1 HEART OF ICEJumping out of his bed, Billy ran to his mothers room to see if she had overslept. As he walked in he found his mother awake by the side of her bed, listening to the radio. Billy knew something was wrong. He went up to his mother to ask her why she had not awakened him in time for school. Before he could even start, his mother raised her arm up signaling him to wait until the reporter on the radio was done. Billy waited for about 10 minutes when mo...
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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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Billy Pilgrim Talk Show
567 wordsNovel Summary Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time, and so is Slaughterhouse Five. Novel follows Billy's unhinged life. If I write every hop, skip, and jump, the summary would be as complicated as the book. These are the basic facts of Pilgrims life; they are shown in chronological order (but are definitely not in the book): Billy Pilgrim is born in 1922 and grows up in Ilium, New York. He is a funny-looking youth, he does reasonably well in high school, enrolls in night classes at the Ilium School ...
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Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest One Flew Over The Cuckoos
1,436 wordsIn, " One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" , the main character is Randle P Mc Murphy. He sort of comes off as a New York tuff guy. In my opinion Mc Murphy is a hustler, considering his gambling and how hes always trying to manipulate other patients to his benefit. Chief Broken is a six foot eight, half bread Indian. For years, Chief, " as Mc Murphy calls him" , has fooled the staff and patients in the ward into thinking that hes deaf and dumb. Though it was by accident, Mc Murphy...
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