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Catcher In The Rye: Holden And Reznor
... experiences these feelings.
Throughout the novel Holden undergoes countless suffering from his
peers, strangers, and his own mind. Throughout the song, Reznor suffers
from everything. As said in the song, "I hurt myself today, to see if I
still feel," Reznor is accounting all the suffering that he has experienced.
He tries to explain that all the terrible things that have happened to him,
all the terrible things he has seen, with a nonstop chronic beat, has made
his soul numb. He has lost track of reality and fallen into this deep hole.
Mr. Antolini, Holden's old teacher, said to him that he was headed for a
great fall. Little did he know that throu ...
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
... Jim's freedom and societies influence on Huck.
At one point, Huck convinces himself that the nest opportunity he
receives, he will turn Jim in, and clear his conscience. The opportunity became
available when slave hunters meet them on the river. Huck had an absolutely
perfect chance to turn him over. However, he made up a story that his father
was sick and needed help and asked the slave hunters for help. They immediately
assumed that his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. Huckleberry, with the aid of Tom
Sawye ...
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Grendel
... protection against
the drunken men swinging axes and swords at him. Grendel dose not understand
this as he says "they were doomed, I knew, and I was glad." showing the hope for
destruction of the human race. In Grendel's eyes humans are going to destroy
themselves and he will be glad when it happens.
Grendel is very lonely in the world of man. He has only one person close to
him and that is his mother. She cares for Grendel but just with the natural
motherly instincts which Grendel sees as mechanical. Grendel doesn't understand,
"Why can't I have someone to talk to?" as the world starts to look darker in his
eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his becau ...
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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
... Aztec were considered to be one of the most
civilized group of Indians in the western hemisphere. The Anasazi, commonly
called cave-dwellers, who from birth, used wood and bindings to elongate the
head. Even today in Japan, tradition says that women are supposed to walk ten
feet behind their husbands. This may seem like demeaning women to us but who
are we to judge when the United States has had a long history of racial and
ethnic discrimination and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has simple
changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much have we
changed in the past 600 years. Six- ...
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Of Mice And Men: Four Major Themes
... and becomes a
part of the dream. Candy goes from a depressed sad additude to a cheerful
excited one. He now has hope of doing something and it came from the "dream
farm". A final example of the value of dreams and goals is when Crooks hears
of the farm. Crooks is a lonely black man who has no future, but when he
starts to think of how he can be a part of the dream he also gets happy and
excited, until his dream is crushed.
Many people of good character have to honor certin moral responibilites.
George is bond by his own moral to take care care of Lennie. No one makes him
do it, he just does it because it feel like the right thing to do. Candy felt
like h ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
... symbolizes these two characters because it does not
have its own song. Whereas, the blue jay is loud and obnoxious, the mockingbird
only sings other birds' songs. Because the mockingbird does not sing its own
song, we characterize it only by what the other birds sing. Hence, we see the
mockingbird through the other birds. In the novel, the people of Maycomb only
know Boo Radley and Tom Robinson by what others say about them. Both of these
characters do not really have their own "song" in a sense, and therefore, are
characterized by other people's viewpoints.
Throughout the novel, Scout, Jem, and Dill are curious about the "mysterious"
Boo Radley because h ...
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Uses And Abuses Of Information
... to. Underneath them are the proletariat, the uneducated masses that made up 85% of the population.
The life of a party member involves being constantly subjected to government propaganda by the medium of the telescreen. This is a device similar to a television placed in the home and workplace of Party members, unlike a television it cannot be turned off and it transmits as well as receives. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, one of four government ministries. The Ministry of Love is concerned with law and order, The Ministry of peace concerns itself with war, The Ministry of Plenty which deals with economic affairs and The Ministry of Truth which is respon ...
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The Effects Of Sin On Hester P
... of gray stone, with a poverty stricken aspect, but retaining a half-obliterated sheild of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility." But even without that specific indication of her high birth, the reader would know that Hester is a lady, from her bearing and pride. Especially in Chapter two, when she bravely faces the humiliation of the scaffold: "And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison,"
Hester's daughter, Pearl, is "a blessing and is a reminder of her sin."
As if the scarlet A were not enough punishment there "was a brat of that hellish breed" which would re ...
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Symbolism In Silas Marner
... named. His Christian name suggests that he is free, at peace with God” (103). This statement shows how Eliot refers to religion in her, Eliot’s, novel. Godfrey Cass can not be considered free and at peace with God because Godfrey himself marries Molly, a poor woman, who is not of his social class and does not let anyone know about the marriage. Godfrey likes Nancy, who is of his social class, thus being one of the reasons for him not telling anybody of their (Godfrey and Molly’s) marriage. The other reason Godfrey can not be considered free and at peace with God is because when Molly is found dead, he (Godfrey) would not even admit that he knew her, let alone ...
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Summary Of Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath"
... dies and
the family buries him alongside Route 66. While coming into the last leg
of the trip to California, Grandma dies.
The family reaches California with two family members less than
when it did when they started. They soon discover that the jobs in
California are not plentiful at all and they are not welcome because they
are migrants. They do eventually find work but at wages which are so low
it is hard for them to even pay for food. Because of the current financial
state of the family they have to settle for living in squalid camps which
are called Hoovervilles. Tom gets into a fight at one of the camps with an
abusive deputy. The sheriff soon comes ...
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