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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
... turning them away when
they arrived at the door. Lastly they turned to the sea to seek their
fortune. When Juana set sight on the "Pearl of The World." she felt as
though all her prayers had been answered, if she could have foreseen the
future what she would have seen would have been a mirror image of her
reality. Juana's husband was caught in a twisted realm of mirrors, and
they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so
soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the
trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began.
The fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his act ...
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The Great Gatsby 2
... became different. When he was alive and well, he was the perfect idea of the American Dream. He had more money than he knew what to do with. He could afford to have oversized parties every weekend. Jay Gatsby was the person to know when it came to the Eggs.
In the beginning, he was only known as Jay Gatz. He was a poor boy in the army. He only had his charm to get him by. This is how he meets Daisy. She was a very rich girl, from a wealthy family. They were in love from the beginning. Unfortunately, Daisy believed that "rich girls don't marry poor boys." From that moment on, Jay Gatz wanted one thing; to get rich so he could show Daisy that a po ...
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Catch 22
... wrong with him, which deeply perturbed him. The war also caused Doc Daneeka to lose his wife after his "death." The war that was imposed on Doc Daneeka ravaged his life and terminated all of his chances to become a normal, practicing doctor. Before the war arrives on Doc Daneeka's doorstep, it appears to have benefited him. Doc Daneeka was making a nice sum of money from various illegal means. He received kickbacks from drug stores in the area that ran an illegal operation. He also utilized beauty parlors to perform two or three abortions a week to bring in more revenue. When the war begins, Doc Daneeka's practice starts to pick up because of the lack of other d ...
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Maus: The Holocaust
... Art, and Art's wife, Francoise are discussing how even though Vladek indeed did physically survive the camps, in some ways he, in fact, did not survive.
Prior to Vladek's experience witht the Holocaust he would never have attempted to return food, but because of the hunger experiences it seemed uncalled for for him not to. Vladek is also depicted as very tight with his money. No doubt this is because of the poverty he lived with for so long. In the book, he was said to have reused tea bags, kept his burner on all day to save matches, make sure to put his storm windows on in early september tp save on the cost of heating his home, and refusing to buy his wife's ...
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Claudius And Hamlet
... of my interpretation, I understand how he developed this interpretation. Hamlet becomes sick and cynical after the death of his father, whom he greatly admired, and the hasty remarriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet thinks his father was an "excellent king," who loved his mother so much "that he may might not beteem the winds of heaven/ Visit her face to roughly" (I, ii, 140-141). However, his mother mourned for "a little month" and then she married a man who was "no more like [his] father/ Than [he] to Hercules" (I, ii, 153-152). These extraordinary events cause him to launch into a state of melancholy and depression in which he desires "that this too t ...
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Siddhartha's Journey
... feeling that he had already learned the best of
what his teachers had to teach but it still wasn't enough. He still wasn't
satisfied. One day he and his friend, Govinda, meditated by a banyan tree.
Siddhartha recited the verse:
"Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul,
Brahman is the arrow's goal
At which one aims unflinchingly."(8)
It was after meditating with Govinda that he realized what he had
to do. In an attempt to reach the arrow's goal, he would leave his father
to join the Samanas who he thought had the secrets to finding the "self".
While with the Samanas Siddhartha learned many ways to escape the
"self ...
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Kafka's The Trial: Guilt
... the internal trial that he must go through to cope with his own anxiety.
K and his trial are used to represent the eternal guilt of human beings in
the eyes of a bureaucracy, and in this sense, K is guilty. However, the
question of K's guilt is not important to Kafka's intention to show his
idea that "the innocent and the guilty [are] both executed without
distinction in the end."
In Kafka's beliefs, the courts treat all men as if they were guilty.
Joseph K is a prime example of this treatment. He is never told about his
crime, nor of how the trial is going. He merely waits until he is summoned,
and if he is not, he is still forced to live his life according ...
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Ragged Dick
... times when Dick’s integrity and honesty are tested, yet being a boy of good trust, he never cheats anyone.
As time goes on, Dick eventually meets a young boy named Frank, who is of a wealthy family, but is not at all familiar with New York City. Dick makes a very intelligent proposal; he offers to show Frank all around the city, and take him to all the famous places. Young Frank accepts the proposal, and in exchange, his uncle buys Dick a new suit, and helps him clean himself up. This was the real turning point in Richard Hunter’s life because Frank’s family was able to help young Dick. They did this by providing shelter and more importantl ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage: Fear Of First Battle
... first battle he feels embarrassed because he didn't have a wound. No one knew he ran so he still had his pride and after that his attitude changed and he began fighting with no fear.
Tom Wilson is another young sodier in the 304th regiment who is called the loud soldier. When he is in the tent talking to Henry and conklin he talks about how he will not run and take on the whole army on by himself. When he is in the first battle he tries to run but is caught by an officer and made to go back and fight. His attitude changed from being confident to being scard of fighting.
Jim conklin is also a soldier in the 304th regiment who talks with Henry and tom. When Conklin ...
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In Contempt By Christopher Darden: A Review
... Most
people would assume that this book was written with the intentions of making a
quick-buck off the misfortune of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. I,
however, do not believe this to be true. The way that he speaks of the victims
in the book, and the way he spoke of them before and after the trial shows that
he really cared about the lives of these people that he didn't even know. He
even went as far as to say in the book that this was the first case that
affected him personally and emotionally. As one may expect the majority of this
book is taken up with the Simpson case but, chapters two through six detail his
life from birth, his childhood ...
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