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Traditions In "A Moment Before The Gun Went Off" And "The Lottery"
Number of Words: 785 / Number of Pages: 3
... mother and housewife. She is the one
who eventually gets singled out to win the lottery. So it is Mrs. Hutchinson who
is impacted the most brutally by the lottery. However the other people of the
village are affected differently by the lottery. It is very unlikely that the
people of the village kill people for the sake of killing people. More likely
there is a deeper reason. One possibility is that the people of this village of
this village are looking for a scapegoat. A person to take the blame for
mistakes and sins of others, so one person dies for a community and saves the
community from whate ...
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
Number of Words: 1254 / Number of Pages: 5
... the one in which the protagonist is truly guided and complimented by his best friend.
The protagonist in one book is similar in nature to the one in the other book, i.e. Gene Foster from A Separate Peace and John Wheelwright from . For example, the protagonist is definitely innately good but lacks to know the very self of him. This translates into a very vulnerable and an uncertain character, who must learn from the events that occur around him. Gene is a noble name, and he with no doubt is a gentleman with great determination. He comes from a good family and his goal is to excel in his studies. He ...
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Crucible
Number of Words: 737 / Number of Pages: 3
... Barnett Miller. Many characters in Arther Miller's plays are modeled after his older brother Kermit Miller.
In 1933 after he graduated high school he became interested in literature after reading dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamaou". Then he was refused admission to the University of Michigan because he had too low of grades. Then he went and worked on his families new garment business. That's when he wrote his fist piece of work "In Memoriam" which was never published.
Then in1934 he was admitted into the University of Michigan after he wrote a persuasive letter to the dean. That is where h ...
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The Wife Of Martin Guerre
Number of Words: 465 / Number of Pages: 2
... or not is irrelevant, he still abandoned everything, and that is inexcusable. His left his wife Bertrande, causing her great pain and endless wondering whether he still was alive. In a quote from the narrator, “He had deserted her in the full beauty of her youth, in the height of her great passion, he had shamed her and wounded her…” (34).
Martin also deserted his young son, Sanxi. The child barely knew him when he left, and then grew to love and respect another man whom he thought to be his father, Arnaud du Tilh. To him the real Martin Guerre was a stranger.
Martin’s fa ...
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Internal Conflict Within A Far
Number of Words: 890 / Number of Pages: 4
... a priest because he admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle, which is another indication that desire for order is controlling his actions. Further into the novel, Frederick becomes involved with Catherine Barkley, and is first starting to show sighs of another force coming into play. His desire to be with Catherine is acting contrary to his desire to remain in the war, and achieve discipline and order. He slowly falls in love with her and, in his love for her, he finds commitment. Their relationship brings some order and value to ...
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Characteristics Of The Misfit
Number of Words: 1039 / Number of Pages: 4
... very clean and innocent, according to the grandmother. He would not be mistaken for a criminal. This surprises the grandmother, because he not only is very innocent looking but he is acting very intelligently. He presents himself in a very polite manner, and his facial expressions and his clothing speak very highly of himself. He acts very polite under the circumstances, which is out in the middle of nowhere. The atmosphere shows how calm and collected he can be which shows no sign of a lunatic from prison. So what the grandmother read at the beginning of the story about the misfit had given a fal ...
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The Raven Symbolism
Number of Words: 291 / Number of Pages: 2
... little to no sense, and frustrate us because were a reasoning creature that can answer the question. It is also important that the answers to the questions are already known, I think it helps to illustrate the self-torture the narrator exposes himself to.
Another symbol is the Pallas. In the whole room the raven decides to perch on the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, why? Could he be trying to lead us to believe that the raven speaks from wisdom? Or was Poe just using a word only some could interpret?
Also why does Poe use midnight and December for the time the story takes place? I figure midnight an ...
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King Lear
Number of Words: 1145 / Number of Pages: 5
... towards Gloucester and Edgar. There's
the triangle of Goneril, Regan and Edmund in which the two
sister's fight the battle of love over Edmund and lose it with
their lives. There is also the triangle of Regan, Goneril, and
Cordelia, in which the two sisters hated Cordelia and did not
wish her well. Then there is the triangle of the Goneril,
Regan, and the King, in which the two daughters cared for
nothing more than getting there land and being rid of Lear
Our story begins with the Earl of G ...
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The Virgin And The Gypsy
Number of Words: 1991 / Number of Pages: 8
... and expressions, of what love is. The narrator in the story tells us what the rector thinks of Cynthia, his lost wife. He describes her as “the pure white snow-flower” (p.6) and expresses that her husband thought of her “on inaccessible heights…that she was throned in lone splendor aloft their lives, never to be touched” (p.7) This would have the reader believe that Cynthia is considered in the rector’s eyes to be like god not bodily in his life. At another point in the novel the narrator informs the reader that the rector believes Cynthia to be sacred an ...
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Clarissa Dalloways Double
Number of Words: 2421 / Number of Pages: 9
... of the society, commits suicide the night of Clarissa's party.
Virginia Woolf manages to make use of time and space to join the apparently disconnected journeys of Clarissa and Septimus. Their stories take place in a single June day in 1923, within the city of London. The day culminates with the party to be held in the evening. The party is not only looked forward to as a great event for Clarissa and her guests. More significantly, the party also foreshadows the only direct connection we could find between Clarissa and Septimus, with a doctor who, having treated Septimus, shows up at the party t ...
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