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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1451.... rumor within the regiment. This natural setting proves an ironic place for killing, just as these fresh men seem the wrong ones to be fighting in the Civil War. Crane remarks on this later in the narrative: "He was aware that these battalions with their commotions were woven red and startling into the gentle fabric of the softened greens and browns. It looked to be a wrong place for a battlefield" (69). Green is an image of the natural world and of the regiment's fresh youth, while red, in the previous quote, is clearly an image of battle. At the start, however, Crane .....
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A Separate Peace
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 761.... Gene was anxiously waiting for Finny to get yelled at, but because of his openness he was able to talk his way out of getting into trouble. Finny claimed that he wore the tie as a belt because it represented “Devon in the War.” Again, Gene was envious of Finny’s openness to make up a story and “get away with everything.”
Another one of Gene’s enemies is his anger. Alone, his anger is mild, but when mixed with his jealousy, prove to be a deadly combination. Gene was angry at such things as Finny’s ability go get out of trouble, and his own unwillingness to say “no” to Fin .....
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Great Gatsby
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1066.... in experience, not how much material he has. He kind of shrugged it off like it was a cheap psychiatrist line. The more he told me about Gastby, it seemed the more he felt he needed to emulate him. He then began to talk of a Mr. Tom Buchannan. Tom was not to Carraway’s liking. He seemed harsh and too masculine to have any relation in Nick’s life. Nick is simple, innocent, and he is just starting out. From what he has told me about him, Tom seems to be a bigot of sorts, not to fond of Nick’s existence in this side of town at all. How does tom fit in to all this, I aske .....
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Slaughter House Five
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 923.... has an interesting idea of what to do, as is shown in his novel, . Vonnegut's prescription for dealing with the tragic absurdity of the twentieth century is to simply not deal with it.
In his novel, Vonnegut shows that he is more inclined to sit back and watch than to let things effect him. Being an anti-war novel, his book is filled with shocking events and gruesome deaths. But Vonnegut portrays death as something trivial. Every time someone dies or something bad happens where the reader might think "oh my gosh, that's awful!" Vonnegut says, "so it goes." It's as if .....
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Utopia
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1930.... obscurity of his meaning enhances the merit of his work. The one point of unanimous agreement about is it is a work of social comment. Since is a work of many ideas, it is impossible of course to expand the book unless one has some notion of the hierarchy of conception in it. A caretul reading of does seem to me to reveal clearly the hierarchy of it author's ideas at the time he composed the book. Although the interpretation of which follows has no pretension to substantial novelty, but rather disavows it, my approach to the problem may seem singular and eccentric. The ac .....
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Independent Study Project
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 769.... on the other hand, died a quiet and unexplainable death. Miss. Gedge was a young woman in the prime of her life loved by everyone, while Mrs. Boynton was a grouchy old shrew whom even her family couldn’t stand. It was because of the differences between the victims that the police inspector’s investigations were completely different. In the case of Miss. Gedge inspectors Tait and Quantrill could not find any substantial evidence pointing towards a motive. Tait compared the fate of the
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young woman to that of Shakespeares’s Ophelia. Ophelia committed suicide in .....
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Watership Down 2
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 357.... a while, they start to doubt if they can make it much farther. Most of the rabbits think it was a bad idea and want to quit. Soon they start fighting with each other. In the midst of all this they are in a strange place of which they know nothing. They have no shelter from the weather or from their enemies and they unsure about some of the plants to eat. Soon they find a suitable place to live, but they have no female rabbits to reproduce. They lure does away from a neighboring warren, but the chief rabbit does not want them to leave. He sends his guards to fetch the d .....
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Seabrook's Family Values: Home Sweet Home
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 734.... “ is. In my culture, we do certain things differently. We have different values and morals, but are still somewhat similar to the American culture. My family tends to be more conservative for situations, for example boys. Also, in my house, the language typically spoken is Tagolog. Although, English is most often heard. When friends come and visit, they notice a difference in the environment. If one were to enter into a Filipino house, one section of the home might have an altar for religious beliefs. Even though I come from what I consider a unique background, my pe .....
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