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Hesse's Siddhartha: Siddhartha's Character
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1087.... could not contain himself. He was
restless and felt that he had learned all he had to learn amongst his
elders, and he was right. He chose to follow another path in life, a path
that would show him another part of how people in his world lived.
Siddhartha did not allow himself to stick to something that he could not
feel to be right, thus he could not stay and worship the gods his father
worshipped. He, as discontent people long for, set out to search for the
internal happiness that he had not redeemed yet.
As Siddhartha wandered through his multiple phases in .....
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Fahrenheit 451: The Strength Of Beatty
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 422.... folly of a mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn is us, Mr. Valery once said.'" (Pg. 116) This confused Montag to the point that he almost disclosed his passion for reading books.
Beatty has mastered the skill of holding people under his power. Beatty, himself, said, "Knowledge is more than equivalent to force." (Pg. 116) He additionally declared, "I don't think you realize how important we are to our world as it stands now." (Pg. 66) He takes his position to rule the people. By depriving .....
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Summary Of Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 377.... Fu that she was really sick. She
thought that maybe this way his husband was going to react to the problem
and help for the baby to live. When he saw his daughter he said; " Why
didn't you tell me she was this way?" (pg.337). One day Wen Fu went to a
restaurant with some friends. There, he became friends with the waitress
and the relation between them became much stronger than only a simple
friendship. Later on, they had intimate relations and she got pregnant.
When Wen Fu found out that she was going to have a baby, his intentions
were to push her down the stairs so she co .....
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A Lesson Before Dying 2
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1110.... Jefferson's godmother wants disproved. She enlists the help of a plantation school teacher, Grant Wiggins, who at first isn’t too keen on the idea of helping a crook. Wiggins agrees to talk with Jefferson only out of a sense of duty--he is an unhappy, angry man who dreamt of escape from his deprived childhood yet returned to his hometown after a university education to teach in the same one-room parish school he attended. Despite humiliation at the hands of the white sheriff, Jefferson's lack of cooperation, and his own sense of futility and uncertain faith, Wiggins fo .....
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2471.... in northern Great Britain
when it started in Russia). George Orwell¹s writing was affected greatly by his
personal beliefs about Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and
by the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the time
of his writings.
George Orwell was a Socialist2 himself, and he despised Russian
Communism3, and what it stood for. Orwell shows this hatred towards Communist
Russia in a letter he wrote to Victor Gollancz saying, "For quite fifteen years
I have regarded that regime with plain horror."4 Orwell wrote this .....
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Animal Farm
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 792.... in return get near nothing, just enough to keep them away from
starvation. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm animals about hope
and the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even
though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to
Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin
became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their
determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and
Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The
working .....
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Canterbury Tales - A View Of T
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3100.... years of this mission had an ambivalence which shows in the number of people who hedged their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a Christian king died. There is certainly no evidence for a large-scale conversion of the common people to Christianity at this time. Augustine was not the most diplomatic of men, and managed to antagonize many people of power and influence in Britain, not least among them the native British churchmen, who had never been particularly eager to save the souls of .....
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