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Intensity : What An UnderstatementWhat can make a book so intense that you are nervously anxious to see what will happen next? This is what Dean Koontz does with extreme sensibility. Very rarely is a psycho-thriller like this done without moments of stupidness and predictability. Koontz’ attention to detail makes the novel a ...
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The Mending WallHumans have an uncanny ability to place themselves at a comfortable distance from each other and call it a “mutual understanding,” a “friendship,” or even “true love,” but it is all lies. The essence of man’s mystery is somewhat of a paradox. He yearns to become more familiar with those around ...
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Prophecy In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451In many ways, the future can be referred to as a dark abyss of mystery that awaits us at every turn of our lives. Human nature regularly advises us to plan and prepare for the unknown. However, during the last fifty years, humankind has made some seemingly wise presumptions pertaining to the ...
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Antov Chekhov's "Misery": All GrayIn the story "Misery" by Antov Chekhov, I identified despair and misery
as a theme. The surroundings amplify the sentiment of the main character, Iona
Potapov. Cold and gray surrounds' Iona Potapov and he is extremely miserable.
Iona Potapov wants to speak to another human about his son's death ...
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Kahlil GibranInformation on the Author
(1883-1931), a poet, philosopher, and an artist was born in
Lebanon, a land which has produced many prophets. The millions of Arabic
speaking people, familiar with his writing consider him a genius of his age.
However, his fame and influence was not limited to the Near ...
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Parallels Between Beowulf AndThe Hobbit “Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? Or bore his jaw through with a thorn . . . his scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal . . .. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.” (Job ...
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The Old Man And The SeaThe Old Man In The Sea The "Old Man and the Sea" is a heroic tale of man's strength pitted against forces he cannot control. It is a story about an old Cuban fisherman and his three-day battle with a giant Marlin. Through the use of three prominent themes; friendship, bravery, and Christianity; ...
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Critiscisms Of My AntoniaIn the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel, ...
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Comparison Of Margaret Mead's "Coming In Age" To Russian YouthIn an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form
of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These
dissident actions against the structure of existing society promotes the
beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules, structures,
class, ...
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The Truth Is Out There, Do WeThe Heart of Darkness The search for truth and knowledge consumes us all at some point in our lives, but we don’t always find what we are looking for in Truth. We wish it to be definitive, but more than that, we search for it with the strong belief that we will find it and be pleased, pleasantly ...
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Analysis Of The Red Scare"The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart."
Mr. Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with the last cry on the battlefield. World War I certainly did not. After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. ...
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Jay Gatsby: A Confused ManJay Gatsby was a wealthy businessman who lived in the east side of
New York City, a well-established section of the city often referred to as
the East Egg. He was the owner of an extensive stone mansion where he held
many parties for dignitaries and other established persons throughout the
New ...
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Summary Of Joyce's "A Portrait Of An Artists As A Young Man"In Joyce's novel, "A portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", he weaves
the stories of his youth and his growth as a young man to tell us about
who he was as an individual and the sort of life he lead. Joyce uses many
techniques such as stream of consciousness to help us picture his mindset
and ...
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A Separate PeaceIn the fascinating story about two best friends who struggle together with a situation called a conflict occurs. One day they go to jump off the branch over into a river for fun when Gene did something to make Finny (actually Phineas) fall and hurt himself badly and in the end, it ended up ...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson: SummaryPudd'nhead Wilson takes place on the banks of the Mississippi
around the first half of the 1800s in a city called Dawson's Landing.
Dawson's landing is a half days journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.
Dawson's Landing is on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. Every house
in this city ...
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King Lear - Good Vs. EvilIn the King Lear play, Shakespeare creates many conditions in
which humans live in the world. The main characters in the play are
used to portray Shakespeare's ideas. One of these ideas which
Shakespeare is trying to portray is evil between the characters and in
the world which are emphasized ...
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Daddy By Danielle Steele And AThe two books River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean are both stories where the main characters are male. The books deal with how a man reacts when he is presented with different situations. Oliver, the main character from Daddy, and Norman the main character from A River Runs Through It, are ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's EscapeNo one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of ...
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Summer Of The Monkeys: SummarySummer of the monkeys is about a boy named Jay Berry, his dog rowdy,
his sister Daisy, mama and papa.
Mama's milk cow jumped the fence and went down in the bottoms. Jay
Berry went to find her. When found her her milk bag was so full of milk
that she could berly move, so he decided to go on the ...
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Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" In Fitzgerald's This Side Of ParadiseIn F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine
searches for his identity by "mirroring" people he admires. However, these
"mirrors" actually block him from finding his true self. He falls in love with
women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he ...
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The Awakening: Triumph Over TragedyWhen we think of a tragedy, instantaneously the classic
Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet springs into our mind. Thoughts of
lost love and torments abound. The most human of emotions, sorrow,
overwhelms us. We shudder, a chill creeps up our spine. We agonize over the
tragedy, and the tragic ...
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An Analysis Of "Heart Of Darkness"Joseph Conrad, in his long-short story, "Heart of Darkness," tells the
tale of two mens' realization of the hidden, dark, evil side of themselves.
Marlow, the "second" narrator of the framed narrative, embarked upon a
spiritual adventure on which he witnessed firsthand the wicked potential ...
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Cry, The Beloved Country: Stimulating A ChangeThe purpose of Cry, the Beloved Country, is to awaken the population
of South Africa to the racism that is slowly disintegrating the society and
its people. Alan Paton designs his work to express his views on the
injustices and racial hatred that plague South Africa, in an attempt to
bring about ...
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Lord Of The Flies; A ReviewLord of the Flies is an intuitive look into the thoughts and
actions of a group of boys stranded on a deserted island. The novel deals
with tragic and provocative scenes of terror and an ongoing timeline of
events to follow a pack of boys on an incredible journey while a nuclear
war continues on ...
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