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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn As The Narrator
... is apparent is
that the humor of the book often depends on Huck's language. In chapter
fourteen, Huck is telling Jim about royalty in general which is an example
of humor through language and incomplete education although sometimes he is
not that far from the truth.
"They [royalty] don't do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around."
"No; is dat so?"
"Of course it is. They just set around, except, maybe, when there's a war;
then they go to war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking—
just hawking…when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if
everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But mostly they
hang round t ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
... of this, he feels has more of a rightful claim to them than a hospital orderly. The men now see problems from this perspective and good boots, like Kemmerich’s, are hard to find. There was a time though when they had different beliefs. Before the war they still believed that education was the most important aspect of life. These youthful thoughts were washed away at the Front, where they came to realize that order is what matters. One of the men responsible for this was their drill sergeant, Corporal Himmelstoss, who was a short, mean man. He would force the men to do unnecessary work and torture them with pointless assignments. Paul, Tjaden, Kropp, and Westhus were ...
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Pearl's Contribution To The Scarlet Letter
... shout and curse at her. Pearl
takes it in stride and defends her mother and fends off the evil children.
The adults of Boston, mostly Puritans, talk behind Hester's back about the
child being one of a sinner. Another common stereotype filled by Pearl is
whenever an adult is occupied with something then the child finds something
to do. When Hester went to the woods to meet with Dimmesdale, Pearl went
off to play in the brook while the two adults talked and then she stopped
when her mother called. A second example is when Pearl accompanied her
mother to the seashore where they met Chillingworth, Pearl wandered off by
herself and occupied her time by playing with s ...
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Holdens Shithole
... corner Holden sees evil. He looks out on a world which appears completely immoral and unscrupulous. The three days we learn of from the novel place a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The city is decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while he was sleeping, Holden jumped ...
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Essay On Eustacia Vie Return O
... comparison between Eustacia and Egdon Heath. Just as the heath seems simple and unappealing but is full of underlying Majesty, such is the character of the heroine only opposite; on the exterior, majestic and beautiful but on the inside a selfish plain teenager searching for an adventure. Eustacia Vie appears doomed almost from the moment she walks onto the stage of Egdon heath and Hardy uses classical allusions of Greek tragedy to force the audience to reflect upon the implications of her suffering. The heroine is labelled a witch by some of the heath dwellers on account of her power over men. Her dark form and figure and allusions to darkness in general support ...
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Catcher In The Rye 2
... a very common and simple tone. Stress on the first syllable of "different," reinforces the tone by demonstrating how typically they speak, just as in reality. He uses dashes for pauses and signaling associative digressions. Instead of signaling pauses, commas are used mostly where mechanically required, for instance: "So all of a sudden, I ran like a madman across the street - I damn near got myself killed doing it, if you want to know the truth - and went in this stationary store and bought a pad and pencil."
Holden Caulfield creates a thought provoking point of view. On the surface many of his thought patterns seem unrelated and often straying from the to ...
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Similarities And Differences Between The Odyssey And Oedipus The King
... During this time, Odysseus' son and wife, whom Odysseus
left behind to fight in the war, have been patiently waiting for Odysseus'
return to his palace in Ithaca in which Odysseus is king. Telemachus,
Odysseus' son, has grown into a young man and he's constantly battling
Suitors from destroying and wasting his father's wealth while looking to
marry Penelope, Odysseus' wife. In Oedipus the King, a wild plague has been
killing a big population of the city-state of Thebes . This was a big
conflict that the people in Thebes turned to King Oedipus to solve. He
helped the city before by solving the riddle of the Sphinx and they needed
help from him once more. During ...
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Alice In Wonderland: Summary
... adventure.
She has landed safely at the bottom of the hole. She hears the rabbit yelling; “Oh my ears and whiskers, im late, im late, im late!” Alice looks around in the hall that is paneled by “strange doors.” How curious she is, she does not open them.
At the end of the hall she finds a glass table. On top of the table she sees a little bottle and a gold key. The bottle is marked “drink me”, being as thirsty as she was she took a sip of it. The room seemed to be getting bigger to her all of the sudden, but that wasn’t the case, she was getting smaller. She tried the little door that the rabbit had gone through but it was locked. She had forgotten the ...
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Janette Turner Hospital: 4 Vivid Female Characters In Her Two Novels
... whether
to stay with her professor husband, David, or move to Montreal to stay with
her former lover Jeremy. Uncertain as usual, all Juliet wants is to "
maintain the balancing act." She could never summon up the courage to
face new circumstances. Her mind is never firm enough to challenge the
present state. So she makes her choice in the order of morality. She
stays with her husband and leaves for India with him. It is more likely
that the fate designated Juliet's future. She is married to Dave on her
own accord. Therefore, she does what a good wife is supposed to do.
1. Reviewed in : Booklist v.79 p.994 Apr 1, 1983
2. " The Ivory Swing " p.18 ...
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Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
... Emma read of parted lovers, excitement, romance, knights in armor, and
ladies in white satin dresses. These novels painted a world where palm trees
and pine trees lived together, where lions and tigers roamed the forest, with
Roman Ruins surrounded by virgin forests and lakes full of swans. "And the
shaded oil-lamp . . . lit up all these pictures of the world, which flowed by on
after another, in the silence of the dormitory, to the distant sound of a late
cab somewhere still rolling along the boulevards." (page 30) In short, Emma
fell in love with a world that never existed anywhere. She embraced the
elegance of the life in the pictures which she had hung in h ...
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