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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Fall From Innocence
... his own. I
can relate to this because although I do not view people inferior to myself,
I do judge others unequally, but not on purpose. Holden and I in some few
ways both have similar judgements of people from the way they act and
behave. We also share feelings about motivation as well as lack of it.
After reading this book, I came to the conclusion that Holden and I are a
little more similar than I initially believed.
The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, interacts with many people
throughout J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye, but probably none
have as much impact on him as certain members of his immediate family. The
ways Holden acts around or reacts ...
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A Farewell To Arms: Summary
... Tenente and Catherine Barkley fall in love. The conflict is that while Tenente is in war and Catherine is with her group of nurses, they are separated for some lengths of time. Tenente is always trying to get to her during the war.
Main Events:
The story starts with Tenente being attached to an Italian ambulance unit on the Italian front. His friend, Lieutenant Rinaldi, told him that a group of British nurses had arrived to set up a British hospital unit. Tenente started to call on Catherine Barkley, but not yet had he fallen in love with her. At the front, he was injured badly in the leg and was transferred to a hospital in Milan. He had his leg oper ...
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An Analysis On "Araby"
... and with a sense that this
eagerly anticipated trip had been in vain.
Many other situations caused him to feel driven and derided by
vanity. His reflections of the “charitable” life of the priest who
occupied the narrator's house before the narrator make us wonder if the
priest led a life of vanity. His early obsession with Mangan's sister now
seems in vain. “I had never spoken to her ... and yet her name was like a
summons to my foolish blood. (4)” He feels ashamed and ridiculed by his
earlier inability to communicate with Mangan's sister. He sees how
distracted he was by his anticipation of the bazaar. He recalls that he “
had hardly any patience wit ...
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"The Anniversary" And "To His Coy Mistress": The Synchronicity Of Pen And Life
... immersed in before the pivotal
"But" in the second stanza, Marvell presents an idyllic view of lovers
engaged in a slow waltz that stretches on for centuries. In this snail-
paced ritual Marvell feels he can do justice to his mistress, who "deserve
this state." Things become a little more complex in the next line, "nor
would I love at lower rate." This is where we begin a question what has up
till now progressed so smoothly, as all good fantasies must if they are to
be successful. We begin to question this world of Marvell's creation and
see the enigma that lies within the term "lower rate." We have been
hearing of an agonizingly slow mating ritual, Marvell has ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Going Crazy
... of the house she is trapped in and her husband, while trying to protect her, is actually destroying her. The narrator of the story goes with her doctor/husband to stay in a colonial mansion for the summer. The house is supposed to be a place where she can recover from severe postpartum depression. She loves her baby, but knows she is not able to take care of him. “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous”(Gilman 293). The symbolism utilized by Gilman is somewhat askew from the conventional. A house usually symbolizes security but in this story the opposite is true. The protagoni ...
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A Man For All Seasons
... At the end of the play Sir Thomas was beheaded for committing crime of high treason against his King. This claim, contributed from Thomas Cromwell, was completely based on silence. More repented from speaking and in doing so, stopped Cromwell and King Henry VIII to obtain permission they so badly needed in order to convict Thomas of treason. Cromwell desperately needed evidence that More actually said something to someone, so he could prove that More would commit an act against England. To do this Cromwell created a story that said Thomas More and Richard Rich had said words about the King and in doing so, More would be sentenced to death. This was establish ...
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The Romantically Impaired Pruf
... no real passions and they have no real thoughts; they are machines without the gas or oil that keeps a machine going. Prufrock himself is something of an exception, but not much of one(Fryxell 110).
Eliot's dramatic monologue is built around three major themes. The first of these is the time theme. Drenched with anxiety, Prufrock says: "And indeed there will be time." Prufrock uses time as an excuse to remain comfortable in his undisturbed universe. By opening the fourth stanza with: "And indeed there will be time," Eliot echoes the memorable line: "Had we but world enough and time' from Andrew Marvell's seductive poem, "To His Coy Mistress." Ironically, ...
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The Old Man In TheSea
... even act as a young boy; he is mature and sensitive to Santiago's feelings. He even offers to disobey his parents and accompany Santiago on his fishing trips. Santiago is viewed as an outcast in his village because he has not caught any fish for more than eighty-four days and is therefore "unlucky". Nonetheless Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him he wants to help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of two friends who have known each other for a long time. When they speak it is usually about baseball or fishing, the two things they have most in common. Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses ...
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Crime And Punishment: Characterization
... the mare would most probably represent Alyona Ivanovna.
The senseless beating of the mare by Mikolka is similar to the brutal
attack on Alyona by Rodion. (It should be noted that both Alyona and the
mare were female.) These heartless attacks foreshadow the crime that
Raskolnikov is contemplating. Dostoevsky unveils Raskolnikov's cruel side
during this dream, if it is to be interpreted in this way.
On the same token, Raskolnikov's compassionate side could be
represented by the little boy. The child, watching the beating, realizes
the absurdity of it. He even rushes to Mikolka, ready to punish him for
killing the mare. This illustrates Rodion's internal s ...
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The Old Man And The Sea
... even act as a young boy; he is mature and sensitive to Santiago's feelings. He even offers to disobey his parents and accompany Santiago on his fishing trips. Santiago is viewed as an outcast in his village because he has not caught any fish for more than eighty-four days and is therefore "unlucky". Nonetheless Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him he wants to help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of two friends who have known each other for a long time. When they speak it is usually about baseball or fishing, the two things they have most in common. Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses ...
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