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Beloved-water Motif
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1447.... A few days later, while coming home from a carnival, Sethe, Paul D., and Denver found a young woman of about twenty on their porch. She claimed her name is Beloved. They took her in and she lived with them. Throughout the novel, Morrison uses many symbols and imagery to express her thoughts and to help us better understand the characters. Morrison uses the motif of water throughout the novel to represent birth, re-birth, and escape to freedom.
In Beloved, one of the things that water represents is birth. When Sethe was running away form Sweet Home, she was pregnant. In .....
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Night
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 657.... what is happening to his father. This spectacle causes Elie to think of what he would do if his father ever became as weak as the Rabbi. He decides that he would never leave his father, even if staying with him would be the cause of his death. The German forces are so adept at breaking the spirits of the Jews that we can see the effects throughout Elie's novel. Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at the onset of the novel, but grows weaker as it goes on. We see this when Elie's father politely asks the gypsy where the lavoratories are. Not only does the gy .....
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Native Son...what Does The Nov
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 895.... of what they have created and contribute to everyday. The mere fact that they do not see a problem is evidencing enough of this fear. As bigger thinks, they are fearful of losing control. I cannot help but think about a zookeeper putting himself in danger to imprison an animal of the wild. It is basically the same thing. The zookeeper has captured some wild animal and tried to tame it but in the back of his mind he knows that he cannot. The whites in this time, in this novel, have tried to keep the blacks in a certain area and maintain control over that area, but they reali .....
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Summary Of The Call Of The Wild
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 643.... snow everywhere and masses of
Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was thrown into a pen with a man who had a club
and learned one of the two most important laws that a dog could know in the
Klondike. The law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a
dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck learned this law
after he was beaten half to death by the man who had the club. No matter
what he tried, he just couldn't win.
Buck was sold off to a man who put him in a harness connected to
many other dogs and eventually, he learned the way of trace and trail .....
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Alice Walker's Everyday Use
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1034.... in Everyday Use. I
understood why some characters were unsure of themselves. I was puzzled by
why some did not feel surer of themselves and their heritage. I was also
surprised that some had the pride that could carry them through any
situation.
Maggie is a classic example of poor self-esteem. She has little
pride in herself. She is not as pretty or smart as her sister is. She was
also scared in a fire. She has spent her entire life playing second fiddle
or at least feeling like it. Dee wants the quilts that rightfully belong
to her but instead of fighting she only says .....
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Crime And Punishment: Characterization
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 606.... the crime that
Raskolnikov is contemplating. Dostoevsky unveils Raskolnikov's cruel side
during this dream, if it is to be interpreted in this way.
On the same token, Raskolnikov's compassionate side could be
represented by the little boy. The child, watching the beating, realizes
the absurdity of it. He even rushes to Mikolka, ready to punish him for
killing the mare. This illustrates Rodion's internal struggle while
contemplating the murder of Alyona. His humane side, the child, tells him
to live and let live. And his "extraordinary" side, according to his
de .....
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1984
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1421.... bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a
crime punishable by death. By employing literary devices such as diction,
foreshadowing, and symbolism, Orwell composes a novel "1984" which proves
to be a gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism.
Orwell wrote 1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism.
Orwell's word choice drives the plot of the story in that they introduce a
new dimension, a world where everything takes place in a modern controlled
society. The phrase "Newspeak" was created by Orwell to describe a
derivation of the English lang .....
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Savage Inequalities By Jonathan Kozol
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1342.... more money is allocated, than in a poor communities with lower property values.
The poorer communities tend to tax themselves higher than wealthy communities, yet they are still not able to reach the same quality of education. Most of these poor communities spend their limited tax money on other costs those wealthy communities do not, at least not on the same scale. Such expenditures include the police and fire department and public health. Federal and state governments dispense funds to the poor communities in order to try and balance this financial gap. The funds aren' .....
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