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Summary Of The Great GatsbyThe novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, made it's smashing debut during the raging twenties of America. Fitzgerald's creation critiqued the culture of America's East, and naturally people have responded with nothing but praise for the novel.
Fitzgerald's use of creative ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: PrejudiceThe Main theme in this book is prejudice. You will learn about
segregation and how unfair it was.
To Kill A Mocking Bird deals with many primal and basic lessons in human
nature. The book exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their
lives. Scout, the main character was one of the ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Minor Characters And Their Affect On The PlotIn the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, three minor characters affect the plot. These characters are Ben, Charley and Howard. The minor characters help the story's protagonist, Willy, develop extensively throughout the course of the play; therefore, they are key elements in the ...
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What We Talk About When We TalThe short story k About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy, and the characters make some comments which could either be meaningless because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream, or ...
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Joshua (the Novel)Herm’s question, “Josh, what do you think of Religion?” becomes the beginning of a period of both joy and conflict for Joshua as he is then often encountered with many related questions and, later, contradiction from the Church. These questions all lead to similar answers, in ...
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A Separate PeaceThe theme suggested in the closing paragraph of the novel is that people create their own enemy and then they defend themselves laboriously and obsessively against their imaginary enemy. They develop a particular frame of mind in
order to allay the fear that arises while facing their nonexistent ...
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Ray Bradbury's Dandelion WineDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, a collection of poignant vignettes
about one summer in the life of 12-year old Douglas Spaulding, is a
powerful mirror into childhood, growing up, and life in general. Bradbury,
generally considered one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, did not
in fact write ...
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Gathering Of Old MenIn A , by Ernest J. Gaines, racism plays a huge part of life in the south. When a white man is found dead; his family and friends start to gather to find the man who did this. After time these men start to drink and make a plan to kill the man; who just happened to be black. This just shows how ...
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Zoroastrianismis the ancient pre-Islamic religion of Iran that survives there in isolated areas and, more prosperously, in India, where the descendants of Zoroastrian Iranian (Persian) immigrants are known as Parses, or Pareses. In India the religion is call Parsiism. Founded by the Iranian prophet and ...
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London's To Build A Fire: Naturalism In Modern LifeWhen Jack London wrote "To Build a Fire" he embraced the idea of naturalism because it mirrored the events of daily life. Naturalism showed how humans had to be wary at every corner because at anytime death could be there, waiting for them to make a mistake and forfeit their lives. He used ...
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Clock Work Orange With RegardsThe freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a ...
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Catch-22The Lack of Comprehensive Speech in Catch 22
Most of what we really say has no meaning. This concept is perfectly supported in Catch 22, by Joseph Heller. Almost every character and scene in the novel contain dialogues where the people speak aimlessly and have no explanation for why they are ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding Reduces The Power Of His MessageI think that, while the boys experience immense bad luck due to the author, the story still proves its point. It is still possible though, that the bad luck of the boys could have been experienced in real life. I think that without this bad luck, the point of the story wouldn't be as great, ...
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Great Expectations. The Character of Estella
One of our first thoughts, like readers, when we finish the novel is to establish two lists; one of good characters and other of bad characters. Since this paper is devoted to the character of Estella the question would be: is she a good character or a bad character? But, before ...
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The Effect Of Major Symbolic Elements In The Yellow WallpaperWomen in literature are often portrayed in a position that is dominated by men, especially in the nineteenth century, women were repressed and controlled by their husbands as well as other male influences. In "The Yellow Wall-Paper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator is oppressed and ...
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Johnny Got His Gun Book ReportDalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is a controversial anti-war story of a soldier who lost his arms, his legs, and most of his face in a World War I from a shell. Trumbo's soldier is Joe Bonham who comes from a patriotic background. The boy works in a bakery, supports his mother and sisters after ...
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Living, Loving, And Learning: Buscaglia ReflectionWhile reading Leo Buscaglia's book, Living, Loving & Learning, I was
able to reflect back on some of the experiences I have had in my life that have
helped to make me the person I am today, and I was able to look into the future
at what I would like to become. I was able to see how well I know ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's FatherAnother person who tries to get Huckleberry Finn to change is Pap,
Huck's father. Pap is one of the most astonishing figures in all of
American literature as he is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all
of the civilizing effects that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to
instill in ...
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The Autobiography Of Miss Jane PittmanIn the novel , there were many different stories about Jane Pittman’s life. In the movie there were not as many stories as the novel, but they were still quite interesting. The novel and the movie had many similarities and differences.
Some of the similarities were very noticeable. Just from ...
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"The Miller's Tale" And "The Reve's Tale": Similarities"The Miller's Tale" and "The Reve's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales
are very closely related. They both deal with the relationship between a
jealous man, his wife, and a young scholar(s), and they both are immoral
stories that contain sex and violence. This proves that the Miller and the
Reeve ...
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White FangJack London, a skilled writer, is seen as the best of his time. Many of London's works are considered to be world classics. In, , London cleverly transforms the main character, and uses the characters background as the catlyst in this transformation.
London wrote as a contradictory story to his ...
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The Scarlet Letter - Puritan SocietyIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around
a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her
innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to
express how he or she truly feels, otherwise the emotions are bottled up
until they ...
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Fried Green TomatoesMy first impression of at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a “woman’s” novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a “chick flick”. To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people ...
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