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The Scarlet Letter: Sin
... eyes, whose sin was greater?That, I cannot answer.
But in this mere mortal's opinion, the sin of Chillingsworth far outdid the
sin of Dimmesdale or Hester Prynne, for Chillingsworth's sin was one of
revengeand one of secrecy. He was not driven by an anger at his ownsin, but
by the sin of others. He used deception andmanipulation to make the life of
another miserable. He wasnot flung from society's view as if he were a
dirty secretlike Hester was; he was embraced by it. However, his sin
didtake it's toll. He was disfigured horribly and became atwisted man,
scarred by sin. He also was robbed of thepleasure of destroying Dimmesdale
which was his reason forliving. H ...
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Invisible Man: Plot Summary
... is ejected from the school during his junior year when the trustee who ws in
his care while visiting the school fell ill and is taken to a local bar to get
some alchohol. He is given seven letter of what he suposes to be recomendation
to give to people in New York. He moves to Harlem and delivers the letters.
He finds out that these letters were not recomenation but rather advisments
against hiring him. The seventh reciever of a letter gives him a job in a
paint factory. He does not derform well there and evetually causes he own
dismissal by ignoring hes work and getting knoked out by an explosion that is
his fault. He joins a black power group call ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
... to be the Catcher in the Rye, then
realizes it is an unreachable ideal.
Holden begins his story misguided and without direction. After flunking
out of the Pencey School, Holden decides to leave early. Before he leaves,
though, he visits his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and Holden talk about
his direction in life: “‘Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future,
boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I
thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too much, I guess,'” (14). After
leaving Pencey, he checks into a hotel where he invites a prostitute up to his
room. He gets cold feet and decides not to have intercourse with ...
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
... girl was particularly amusing because of the scuffles she and everyone around her seemed to have. Anne’s Mother was a woman who was more traditional than anything else and wanted Anne to be more like a lady. One such person was Margot. As Anne’s sister, she was very nice and didn’t speak out and was very proper. The Frank’s weren’t the only ones in this attic, there were other people such as the Van Daans. Mr. Frank let them stay because they needed a place to hide and since they had helped him out so much in the past by actually teaching Mr. Frank German, he felt it was the least he could do. The Van Daans had a son which Anne later became interested in. Pete ...
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Wuthering Heights: Dark And Evil Themes
... This causes Hindley to hate Heathcliff forever.
Years later, when Hindley’s father dies, Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights and he becomes a tyrant (ruler) over Heathcliff.
“He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour outdoors instead, compelling him to do as hard as any other lad on the farm” (49).
Hindley is also envious of the love that Catherine has for Heathcliff, and he tries to force them to live apart from each other, but Heathcliff and Catherine:
“… they forgot everything the minute they were together again – at least the minute they had contrived ...
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A Rose For Emily: Symbolism
... a prominent neighborhood that has deteriorated. Originally white and decorated in “the heavenly lightsome style” of an earlier time, the house has become “an eyesore among eyesores”(Faulkner 204). Through lack of attention, the house has advanced from a beautiful representative of quality to an ugly holdover from another era. Similarly, Miss Emily has become an “eyesore” for instance; she is described as a “fallen monument”(Faulkner 204) symbolizing her former beauty and later ugliness. Like the house, she has fallen from grace. Once she had been “a slender figure in white”(Faulkner 207) later she is obese and “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless w ...
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Aeneid
... Most likely, it served as a future lesson for Aeneas (especially after being guilty of neglecting his duty for his true love of Italy while indulging with Dido) which is still believed and practiced today: the kind of life that we lead; the way we die, self - inflicted or not; and how we are buried after death are all of great significance - that all good deeds in life deserve the goodness of heaven, and all bad deeds deserve the pain and the punishment of hell. "Philgyas in extreme of misery cries loud through the gloom appeals warning to all mankind: Be warned, learn righteousness; and learn to scorn no god (pg. 165-66)." "All have dared a monstrous sin and achi ...
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Zimbabwe 2
... of
Zimbabwe, calling for "a new spirit that must unite and not divide." Although while Zimbabwe had a fresh name and a fresh leader, it still had its former problems.The racial inequalities induced by white rule continued in the feud between black and white incomes and black Zimbabweans wanted their fair share of the chief farming territory that had been previously owned by the white settlers from the
1890’s till today (TIME).
Zimbabwe went bankrupted after the long war for freedom and the
economy was even weakened by the huge emigration of Europeans and a drought in the early 1980’s (TIME). The slow pace land reform led to tension in Matabeleland i ...
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The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
... 103 finally and
idea gets out about some people being able to communicate through thought-
shapes. When Katherine and Sally got caught and tortured they finally tell
some of the names to the inspector. This forces David, Rosalind and Petra
to runaway to the fringes, and they established some kind of contact with a
woman from Sealant (Zealand, On page 134). The help that the sealant woman
promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot is greatly influenced,
David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the
Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is
like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman re ...
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