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The House On Mango Street: Esperanza
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 829.... records, shoes. Out the window and the door locked.
But that night he comes back and sends a big rock through the window.
Then he is sorry and she opens the door again. Same story ” ( pg. 85 ).
Minerva finds herself forgiving without truly seeing that her husband is
sorry. She used marriage as a way out from her undesirable life, yet her
married life still carries the same characteristics. And so, without
fighting for a satisfactory life she settles with the hand she is dealt.
Furthermore, Sally, an innocent friend of Esperanza, tries to escape her
father’s cruel b .....
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 599.... your nose as you inhaled. The simplicity and the sensory richness flow directly from Hemingway's and his characters'--beliefs. The punchy, vivid language has the immediacy of a news bulletin: these are facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored. And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seeks the concrete, the tangible: "hot red wine with spices, cold air that numbs your nose." A simple "good" becomes higher praise than another writer's string of decorative adjectives. Though Hemingway .....
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Summary Of The Canterbury Tales
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1364.... of Chaucer's work, however, lies in the dramatic
interaction between the tales and the framing story. After the Knight's
courtly and philosophical romance about noble love, the Miller interrupts
with a deliciously bawdy story of seduction aimed at the Reeve (an
officer or steward of a manor); the Reeve takes revenge with a tale about
the seduction of a miller's wife and daughter. Thus, the tales develop the
personalities, quarrels, and diverse opinions of their tellers.
After the Knight's tale, the Miller, who was so drunk that he could
barely sit on his horse, bega .....
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1170.... your face," exemplify the type of attitude Stephen begins to associate with his Catholic teachers. By the end of Chapter One, Stephen's individualism and lack of tolerance for disrespect become evident when he complains to the rector about the actions of Father Dolan. His confused attitude is clearly displayed by the end of the chapter when he says, "He was happy and free: but he would not be anyway proud with Father Dolan. He would be very kind and obedient: and he wished that he could do something kind for him to show him that he was not proud." Stephen still has respect for .....
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Frankenstein
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 857.... One way Shelley shows nature as an inspiration is through the geography of the settings. In the beginning of the novel when Victor lives in Geneva it is described, as isolated and dwarfed by massive snow capped mountain ranged and hunted be the emptiness of the lake. Later on in the novel and in the letters in the beginning Shelly puts the characters in the wildest, most isolated areas in Europe: The Swiss and French Alps, the Rhine Valley, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Russia and the Arctic. When the reader reads about these various places they get a feeli .....
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Scarlet Letter Essay
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 975.... is used again when Arthur stands up on the platform of the scaffold giving false penance, which drives him further into isolation. Then at the end of the story it is used again to reunite Arthur with himself, the community and God before dies. It is also used in this scene to reunite Pearl with herself making her normal. He also used the cottage where Hester lived has a place of isolation for her. The cottage was just out side the sphere of the community. It was also on a sterile piece of land where nothing would grow. The forest was also a major setting that instigated s .....
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1984 Big Brother Is Watching Y
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1160.... is unimaginable.
The people of Oceania are divided into two classes, the members of the Party and the proletariat. The Party members are like machines that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place in society. Due to this authority that attempts to control the human train of thought, paranoia among the people became common. Nobody would talk to each other. Bonds between one another were broken, and it was never thought to be any different than before. To hold on to what makes you human - emotions and the abil .....
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Girl, Interrupted
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 571.... for it consists of "uncertainty about several life issues, such as self-image, sexual orientation, long-term goals or career choice, types of friends or lovers to have" - what one of Caisson's therapists called "people whose lifestyles bother them." Certainly, Caisson suggests , such uncertainty is the normal state of teen-agers. Especially the smart ones, such as Caisson herself, who, like clever prisoners, learn to work the hospital's system of rules and restrictions to their own advantage. Patients are checked on by nurses at five-, 15- or 30-minute intervals, day an .....
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