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The Relationship Between Billy Budd And Claggart
... yourself!” (802). This appeal makes Billy act strange and begin to make gurgling noises. Billy is determined to perform his duties well, and not to ever get yelled at again. Even after trying to stay out of trouble, Billy continues to slip up. These small threats and incidents establish the tension between Claggart and Billy, and set the stage for a later confrontation. They also force Billy to search for help. The person he goes to is the old Dansker. Billy recognizes Dansker as a figure of experience, and after showing respect and courtesy which Billy believes due to his elder, finally seeks his advice. But what Billy is told thoroughly astonishes him. Dansker ...
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: Summary
... transport the hacksaw-blade that Ivan found back at the camp,
Shukhov removes both mittens, one with the blade. He then unbuttons his
coat and let the guards search him. They search him side and back and his
pocket, and one guard also crushes the mitten that Ivan holds out which is
the empty one. This was in the book as,
He was about to pass him through when,
for safety's sake, he crushed the mitten
that Shukhov held out to him - the empty one. (Solzhenitsyn, Pg.
107)
The smart move that he does is to place the empty mitten on top and take
the risk that the guard will only search the empty one. Shukhov was lucky.
Another example of having ...
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Kim Kim
... called the Mavericks, died eventually from doing drugs and having too much to drink, and left his son in care of a half-caste woman. So young Kimball O'hara became Kim, and under the hot Indian sun his skin grew so dark that one good not tell that he was of the Caucasian race. One day a Tibetan lama, in search of the Holy River of the Arrow that would wash away all sin, came to Lahore. Struck by all possibility for an exciting adventure, Kim attached himself to the lama as his chela. His adventures began almost at once. That night, at the edge of Lahore, Mahubub Ali, a horse trader, gave Kim a cryptic message to deliver to a British author in Umballa. What K ...
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Nature And Its Elements In Jane Eyre
... be said to form one tree - a ruin; but an entire ruin.
'You did right to hold fast to each other,' I said: as if the monster-splinters were living things, and could hear me. 'I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be little sense of life in you yet; rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more - never more see birds making nests and singing idylls in your boughs; the time of love and pleasure is over with you; but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathize with him in his decay.'"
As reflected in the passage above, nature plays an integral part as a thematic element ...
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Lord Of The Flies
... by animalistically rapacious gratification needs. In
discovering the thrill of the hunt, his pleasure drive is emphasized,
purported by Freud to be the basic human need to be gratified. In much the
same way, Golding's portrayal of a hunt as a rape, with the boys ravenously
jumping atop the pig and brutalizing it, alludes to Freud's basis of the
pleasure drive in the libido, the term serving a double Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality on
the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the portrayal
of his particular self-importance. Freud also ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: A Hero Among Them
... all.
Atticus Finch is an unquestionable community role model. He is well respected by all. The townspeople of Maycomb, Alabama hold Atticus Finch in high regards because he is always the same. For example, Miss Maudie tells Scout that he is the same in his house as he is on the street. He treats all people with respect and decency. During the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus speaks to Mayella Ewell with a respect that she is not accustomed to receiving. This respect is shown to Mayella simply because it was the right thing to do. Additionally, Walter Cunningham is treated as a guest, while in the Finch home for lunch, not as a poor person in the community A ...
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Comparison: Treatment Of War In "The Rank Stench Of Those Bodies Haunts Me Still" And "The Soldier"
... tents are described as "hives", which draws a comparison between the soldiers and insects, as though they too are part of a collective.
In the next stanza, the lines "Gun-thunder leaps and thuds along the ridge; / The spouting shells dig pits in fields of death," seem to recreate the sounds of the weapons. The shells dig pits in the fields as though ready for the wounded men to fill. The poet expresses the hope that anyone he cares for could be spared this experience, and that they get back home wounded, but alive.
The lines "It's sundown in the camp; some youngster laughs, / Lifting his mug and drinking health to all / Who came unscathed from that unpitying waste:- ...
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Native Son And Black Boy
... the end.
2. Bigger is shown to us at the beginning of the book as a young black boy wanting so badly to be able to everything a white person could do. It is shown to us that bigger keeps all his fear and hate and emotions bottled up inside of himself, especially with whites because of the way that they make him feel. I believe it to be though that Bigger does the most significant change in his character when he kills the young white girl Mary and gets sent to jail. With Mary he was able to let his feelings out after he had seen what happened, what he'd done. All the hate he could see that in a way he was like the white people, they're both full of hate and venge ...
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Victor Frankenstein: An Unpredictable Character
... brother, William. Victor had the most fulfilled childhood, which is why it was so peculiar that he went of the deep end.
After Victor’s mother died, his father thought it best that Victor attend school in Ingolstadt, where he would study natural philosophy and chemistry. Victor is an obsessive compulsive person. When he gets involved in something, he engrosses himself in it. He began to study all the time and was, for the most part, unsociable.
He became intrigued by the human frame and what gives it life. He began to read books on the human body. Once again, he could not just simply study the human body, he engrossed himself. It was not enough to lea ...
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The Grapes Of Wrath
... resulting from materialism (money) and his
abiding faith in the common people to overcome the hostile environment.
The novel opens with a retaining picture of nature on rampage. The novel
shows the men and women that are unbroken by nature. The theme is one of
man verses a hostile environment. His body destroyed but his spirit is not
broken. The method used to develop the theme of the novel is through the
use of symbolism. There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the
turtle at the beginning to the rain at the end. As each symbol is
presented through the novel they show examples of the good and the bad
things that exist within the novel. ...
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