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The Outsider: Meursault“Heroic but hardly admirable”, how accurate is this assessment of Meursault
in “The Outsider”
When Meursault is described to us in the early stages of the novel we see
that he does not obey society's codes therefore is it fair for us to assess
him using societies interpretation of “heroic”?
If we ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: AtticusHarper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a story set in the 1930’s set in Maycomb, Alabama about a white man, Atticus Finch, who defends a falsely accused black man. Atticus has two young children, Scout and Jem, Scout being the youngest. In this story Atticus is characterized as a good parent, he ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Coming Of Age Of Jeremy FinchThe coming of age of Jem, Jeremy Finch, is shown in many ways through
out the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. He changes socially. He
changes mentally. His feelings change emotionally. He also changes to become
more of an adult figure. Another way he changes is that he changes ...
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THe Catcher In The Rye: SummaryThe Catcher in the Rye is a book by J. D. Salinger and the story of a boy named Holden Caufield. He is no longer innocent, but exposed to the world. Phoebe, Holden's sister, is the opposite she is quite the innocent, never really being exposed to the world outside her protective bubble. Holden ...
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The Prologue From The Canterbury Tales: Clothing As An InsightCountless people believe in the cliche “do not judge a book by its
cover”: but why not? Clothing often forms another's first impression of one.
It speaks of where a person has been and where they intend to go. Their
appearance also illustrates a person's true self and aspirations. A man
wearing ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: A Bridge From Innocence To AdulthoodAdolescence is a time of existence in two worlds. One world having
the desire to be in the adult world, which is filled with all the unknown
wonders of the world. The other world is the world of childhood which is
comfortable and protected from all the impurities in the world. This sort
of tug ...
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The Fountain Head: IndividualismIndividualism, the only element which makes a person's character unique.
In the Fountain Head, a character binds true to this belief and goes by the name
of Howard Roark. This young architect who had his own viewpoint of the world
and how he envisioned it, was condemned by the media and the ...
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The Lord Of The FliesThe world had witnessed the atrocities of World War II and began to examine the defects of their social ethics. Man's purity and innocence was gone. Man's ability to remain civilized was faltering. This change of attitude was extremely evident in the literature of the age. Writers, who through ...
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Linking Edgar Allan Poe To TheEdgar Allan Poe was an author who wrote dark and sinister stories and poems and whose motives in writing such works were closely related to his life. Edgar Allan Poe has captured the attention of many of his readers, but what is not said is that his life affected his works. His dark and sinister ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage: Fear Of First BattleThe important conflict in The Red Badge of Courage is Henry Flemings fear about how he will perform in his first battle. There are three people who expressed their ideas abou their fears before the first skirmish. They are Henry Fleming, Tom Wilson, and Jim Conklin.
Henry is worried about how he ...
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Northanger Abbey: Reader's Response To HeroineCatherine Morland, with all her enthusiasm and her
mistakes, her modest tenderness and right feeling, is a
most captivating picture of a very young girl.
How Does Jane Austen Direct Her Readers' Response To Her Heroine Throughout Northanger Abbey?
Written by James Durrant
Marilyn Butler, in her ...
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Huck Finn 5Mrs. Williamson describes a hero’s journey as a cycle where the person is a hero from birth. This holds true for the character of Huck Finn because he fits the description of a hero in the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There are many different phases, or episodes that embody Huck and ...
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NightFrom the View of an S.S. Officer
This whole situation started out simple enough. The men and myself first moved into a little town called Sighet. The people there seemed so naive. None of them realized what was about to happen; none of them realized what happened when the Germans move into ...
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The Animal FarmGeorge Orwell’s, , depicts how power can corrupt society. If one person receives too much power, one will most likely lead up to dictatorship. To exemplify this idea, Orwell uses a farm to represent a society and the animals inside to portray the people. Orwell’s use of the pigs and ...
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Anne Bradstreet And Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing StylesWomen in colonial America lived much different lives than those of today’s women. Although gender-specific roles existed and were enforced by society’s watchful eye, many women stepped beyond these rigid guidelines and became writers. Sarah Kemble Knight and Anne Bradstreet, although differing ...
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Great Expectations- MoralsMorals play an important part in everyday life. Morals are lessons taught by exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior. I believe that the purpose for Pip to tell his story of Great Expectations was for it to be used as a moral guide for people to follow. It was a way for Pip ...
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Tom Sawyer And Huck FinnTom Sawyer is a boy who is full of adventures. In his world there is an adventure around every corner. Some of his adventures have lead him into some bad situations but with his good heart and bright mind he has gotten out of them. Tom lives with his aunt Polly, his cousin Mary and his bother ...
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"The Heptameron"The French Renaissance took place in the 16th century. This was modeled after the Italian Renaissance, which took place in the 14th century. The French Renaissance brought new ideals of humanism, which brought back the ideals of Greek and Roman arts and also stressed importance upon the ...
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Huckleberry Finn: On The Surface…I don’t know anything that mars literature so much as too much truth- Mark Twain
An honest and realistic view of southern life was what Mark Twain had in mind when writing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satiric as this view may have been, it was by no means prejudiced (against blacks). By ...
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Jane Eyre: Jane's Love For RochesterYou can't judge a book by it's cover. In Jane Eyre by Charlotte
Bronte, we meet Jane Eyre, who finds her true love to be someone she is not
attracted to. Jane is attracted to people who contain the same intellectual
capacity as her, and has no regard for those who have only beauty and money
to ...
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Melville's "Bartleby The Scrivener": Introduction Of CharacterIn the first three paragraphs of “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Melville
introduces a character who will be played upon and defined throughout his
text. This introduction is crucial to the story and the fact that the
lawyer introduces himself greatly increases its effectiveness. The lawyer
begins ...
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Summary Of Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath"Synopsis:
The Grapes of Wrath is a story about the Joad family and their 1800
mile journey to the supposedly job plentiful California. The family in the
beginning of the book were sharecroppers in Oklahoma and were soon thrown
off their land by the bank. There had been a long drought and the ...
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Frankenstein 3Frankenstein, A Creature of Society.
When Cindy Porter was twenty five, a single mother, and living in the projects of Philadelphia she wrote a novel. Her novel was a story about a teenage boy who had grown up in poverty. The boy's daily confrontations with the hardships of his own life proved ...
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The Study Of Violence In ErnesIn Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway was a nineteenth century author. He is remembered for such work as Fifty Grand, A Way You’ll Never Be, and especially The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of Hemingway’s famous stories, shows how ...
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