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Good Versus Evil: Wars In A Separate PeaceJohn Knowles novel, A Separate Peace, portrays wars on three
distinct levels. These levels could be described as outer, inner, and
world. There is a very good definition of these wars at the closing of the
novel which shows us the levels:
"I could never agree with either of them. It would have ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontFor it is no easy undertaking, I say,
to describe the bottom of the Universe;
nor is it for tongues that only babble child's play.
(The Inferno, XXXII, 7-9.)
Erich Maria Remarque's , a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his ...
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Twelve Angry MenSometimes in life your professions reflect on your personalities. is an example of where this occurs. Twelve men are brought together in a room to decide whether a boy is guilty of killing his father. Whether they brought good or bad qualities from their profession, they all affected the ...
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The CrucibleThe witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the early sixteen hundreds
was a time of uneasiness and suspicion. Anyone could easily turn in his or
her neighbor on the ground of witchcraft. Someone could merely say their
neighbor's spirit had attacked them during the night, which no man can
prove. ...
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Carson McCullers' The Member Of The Wedding: SummaryThe Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is the story of an
adolescent girl who triumphs over loneliness and gains maturity through an
identity that she creates for herself in her mind. It is with this guise that
twelve year old Frankie Addams begins to feel confident about herself and ...
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The Great Gatsby: Jordan BakerJordan Baker has a very important function in the novel The Great
Gatsby as being a pro-golfer with a boyish, cynical, and self-centered
attitude. One of the purposes she serves is that she narrates the story
and also helps the reader to understand the other characters by how she
interacts and ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden And Modern TeenagersThe characteristics of Holden from the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.
Salinger, will be compared to the "modern teenager". The characteristics of
both sets of teenagers are basically similar, but in some parts, they are
different. I chose myself as the modern teenager to be compared to ...
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Enduring, Endearing Nonsense Of Fairy TalesDid you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a
child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps
you discovered them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't
discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking ...
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Night: The HolocaustWiesel's Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but by extension, to humanity. People all over the world were devastated by this atrocious act, and there are still people today who haven't overcome the effects. One example of the heinous acts of the Germans that stands ...
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Of Mice And Men 2The book that I have read that has really stayed with me is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I really enjoyed reading it which is unusual because I usualy don't enjoy reading to much. There was something about George and Lennie's friendship that really made me think. Seeing how they were and how ...
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Theme Of “Richard Cory”The , by Edwin Arlington Robinson, is that
people cannot determine another person’s happiness by their appearance. The
author uses the setting, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate this theme.
The settings that this author uses makes the readers think that
Richard Cory is a happy man who is ...
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A Separate Peace: Gene ForresterGene Forrester's difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world is a main focus of the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Gene's journey begins the moment he pushes Phineas from the tree and The process continues until he visits the tree fifteen years later. Throughout this ...
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Essay On The StrangerIn ˇ°The Strangerˇ±, Albert Camus misleadingly portrays his existentialistic views of life, death, and the world. Camus portrays the world as ˇ°absurdˇ± or without purpose Meaursalt, who, as a reflection of Camus, is foreign and indifferent to his own life and death. Meaursalt eventually senses ...
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Walker's Everyday UseIn the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, Walker presents Mama, Dee and Maggie, the younger daughter, who is ashamed of herself yet proud of her heritage. While Dee is ashamed of her heritage and proud of herself, Walker illustrates the mistake by some of placing the significance of heritage ...
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Social Commentary In Animal FarmSocial commentary is sometimes found at the heart of good art, whether that art form is literature or popular music. The novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and the rock album, Animals written and performed by Pink Floyd share the same characteristic of scathing social commentary. The artworks ...
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Gray's "The Epitaph": An AnalysisIn the Epitaph, Thomas Gray shows his discontent toward the way
that life and death are categorized on this planet. He speaks of earth as
a place which holds people for the time being that they are going through
this grand cycle of what is called life.
When somebody only "rests his head upon ...
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Huckleberry Fin 2In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the river plays many roles and holds a prominent theme throughout much of the story. Huck and Jim seem to be happiest and most at peace when on the river. Although probably not to the point of having its own personality, the river has a deeper ...
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Essay On Romanticism In FrankensteinAll literature is influenced by the time period in which it was
written; whether it be war, poverty, or any other social trends. People
tend to write commentaries of political events, or just describe the time
period. Whether it is intentional or subconscious, an author can not help
to include ...
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Critical Review Of 1984 By George Orwell1984 by George Orwell is a story of a man's strugle against a
totalitarianstic government that controlls the ideas and thoughts of its
citizens. They use advanced mind reading techniques to discover the
thoughts of the people and punish those who show signs of rebellion against
the government. ...
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Animal Farm: Political SatireGeorge Orwell's Animal Farm is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, in all probability an allegory for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals of "Manor Farm" overthrow their human master after a long history of mistreatment. ...
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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Great Morals And Lack Of GlamourThe Great Gatsby is a book of many different interpretations. One cannot begin to examine the conflicts without knowing the positions of each of the characters. This story portrays the American Dream very well, which each person tries to achieve. The dream is to be rich and successful but ...
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You Belong To Me By Mary HiggiYou Belong to Me is Mary Higgins Clark's fifteenth novel. It is about a young clinical psychologist named Dr. Susan Chandler who hosts a radio talk show. One day the topic of the show is lonely women who disappear and who are later discovered dead. She brings up one specific case of a lady ...
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A Mind To MurderOne of the basic assumptions underlying any detective novel is a sense of social order. The novelist assumes that the reader agrees that killing people is wrong; it does not matter if the victims are exemplary citizens or odious individuals, it is the mere act of snuffing out another’s life ...
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Moby DickI. Biographical Insights
A. The culture this great author was a part of was the time in American history
where inspiring works of literature began to emerge. It was also a time when
American writers had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe,
partly because there were ...
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The City Of Gold And Lead: SummaryThis book was the second book of a series of three. It was about
three boys that had escaped from aliens that took over the world and made
them wear caps on their heads to control their thoughts and actions. The
boys traveled to the swiss mountains where they started a colonie of
uncapped ...
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