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Lord Of The Flies: Opportunity
Number of Words: 1561 / Number of Pages: 6
... are given the opportunity, they would rather envelop themselves in pleasure and play than in the stresses of work. The boys show enmity towards building the shelters, even though this work is important, to engage in trivial activities. After one of the shelters collapses while only Simon and Ralph are building it, Ralph clamors, "All day I've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off bathing or eating, or playing." (55). Ralph and Simon, though only children, are more mature and stray to work on the shelters, while the other children aimlessly run off and play. The other boys avidly c ...
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Treasure Island: Teamwork Overcomes Greed
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... must put aside their differences. They know that they need each other to survive and they have to get along and cooperate if they want to live. This shows the high maturity level of both these characters. Although most like to think age shows maturity level, the pirates are perfect examples of grown men who have not learned enough to live a life based on good morals and values.
Secondly, Jim Hawkins played an important part in the novel. Throughout the story, Jim learns from his mistakes and develops a more defined character. When Jim heard about the pirates’ plan to kill them, he was honest and i ...
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Oedipus Rex 2
Number of Words: 488 / Number of Pages: 2
... from Oedipus Rex
When Oedipus pronounces this sentence he has already unwittingly judged himself, and to the excitement of the crowd foreshadowed later events to come. This statement, is a classic example of verbal irony. In it Oedipus thinking that he is directing his pronouncement upon some bandit, or conspirator, in all actuality he is truly condemning himself. Further examples of irony include his speech when he first answers the chorus “…Because of all these things I will fight for him as I would my own murdered father.” The irony inherent in this speech that Oedipus ...
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Barbed Wire By Mary Emeny
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... and alone” ( ) before the horrible effects of war set in on his life causing disruptions. War enters the life of man destroying the bond man shares with his beloved environment ( ).
Although a great deal of physical effects exist in Emeny’s work, the spiritual consequences of war serve as the most devastating ones. The will and spirit of those amidst the harshness of war diminishes because of the seriousness of war. Prior to the complexities of war, the “spirit flees gleefully to the clouds,” ( ) illustrating the freedom one expresses without repression. As soon as the “wire catches,” ( ) or the war ...
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The Sun Rises
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... continent” she speaks of is a unification of her people (5). The narrator is telling her ancestors that they need to unite to make any progress. In the passage: “You did not know the Black continent to be reached was you,” she is telling her people, past and present, that the way to achieve their goals is within them (5-7). The narrator uses the word Afrika instead of
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Africa to distinguish between the continent and the meaning she has placed upon the word. Through this metaphor the word Afrika comes to mean a continent of people, and their goals ...
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Artificial Restraints In Lord
Number of Words: 433 / Number of Pages: 2
... uses the dead pilot conveniently against the boys - the way in which he is caught in the trees just in the right position to be caught by the wind and look like the beast and the way the wind picks up after Simon has let him down from the trees and carries him out to sea, so that the other boys cannot see that it wasn't a beast. The author uses the boy's fear against them, and although this could possibly happen in the situation, Golding uses it as a weapon against them, their morale and their companionship. I think that the boys split up and go to Jack because of the fear - he can kill the beast, he ...
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Farewell To Arms
Number of Words: 427 / Number of Pages: 2
... Hemingway puts the reader through is an invigorating experience but even more stimulating since he can maintain the overtones of depression.
Hemingway’s ability to pull so many tragedies together to stress the themes of depression, despair, a futility in humanity also make this novel very impressive. Just the setting of a love affair during wartime implies a dark reckoning upon the two lovers. Everything about the book drives the idea of fate and futility even when the idea and promise of hope is thrown in.
Although the author drive his point home, we have to look at the psychological effects ...
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The Crucible: Summary
Number of Words: 391 / Number of Pages: 2
... serve God and his fellow man, but he is materialistic and petty.Instead Paris is also a selfcentered and greedy " don't a minister deserve a house to live in"(30)
Lastly, Abigail wants revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. In Act one, for example Betty tells Abigsil " you drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife" (19). Also Abby displanp her revenge on Elizabeth by making a puppet. Marry makes a puppet while in court and she sticks a niddle in the doll. Marry gives the doll to Elizabeth as a gift, and then one evening at dinner Abby sits down to eat ang drops to the floor, and cries of pain in her belly. She s ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities Essay
Number of Words: 1150 / Number of Pages: 5
... was still a monarchy and had awful factories and many slums, like France did. Darnay was acquitted when a lawyer, Carton,
looked much like him and an eye witness faltered to positively distinguish between them.
Carton loved Lucie but he was a drunk. Knowing that their relationship was hopeless,
he stated that he would sacrifice himself for her or anyone she loved in an emotional
conversation. Darnay ended up marrying Lucie. Darnay's uncle, the Marquiuis St.
Evremonde, was assassinated by the father of a child he ran over and Darnay inherited
his Chateau. Darnay would not take it because he di ...
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Gulliver's Travels And The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen: Similarities
Number of Words: 1700 / Number of Pages: 7
... Munchausen set out to look for Berthold. He discovered
many things in his search. While being locked up for trying to romance the
queen, Munchausen accidentally stumbled upon Berthold. He then moved on to
search for the next of his companions. Munchausen fell off of the moon
into a vulcano where Vulcan, who was a Greek God, lived. He then sat down
to drink tea with Vulcan and discovered that Vulcan's servant was none
other then Albrecht. While in the home of Vulcan, Munchausen was
introduced to his wife, and fell in the love with the sight of her. Vulcan
saw this, disliked it very much, and ...
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