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- 2191: Hester Prynne: Learning And Changing
- ... considers the very fact of her learning and enduring at all, as opposed to succumbing and being defeated, under the weight of adverse circumstance, an evidence of her strength: "...when [a] woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of particular severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die." (163) As her crime is revealed to the community and she is subsequently punished as a direct result of her pregnancy ...
- 2192: Death Of A Salesman : A Social Criticism
- ... Schlueter & Flanagan 59) and he often asks advice from those who are not actually present as opposed to his living, breathing family. Willy must believe that he is a good man, even though "he has lived by a morality that is less than worthy of respect and that nurtured dishonesty in his boys" (Schlueter & Flanagan 60). Certainly Willy cannot be a successful businessman in American society if he slips into the ...
- 2193: The Power And The Glory
- ... acts of rejection. Mr. Fench, Mr. Fellows, and Mrs.Fellows, all show that most of humanity has given up hope. John Atkins said, “Mrs.Fellows knew that death was coming nearer, and that she lived in a cemetery...”(182). These are the people who the priest is trying to save, not himself. This is why we pity him. He is trying to save people who do not want to ...
- 2194: Kafka: The Reality Of Change
- ... better off than they were when Gregor was at the helm.The tragedy of the situation is that the family comes full circle, enduring exactly what Gregor had for years. After observing a family who lived on the fruits of someone else is labor, we are shown a “family exhausted and depressed from laboring at menial jobs - messenger, seamstress, salesgirl. They live much as Gregor did before his metamorphosis” (Eggenschwiler ...
- 2195: The Bluest Eye: Summary
- ... s on account of the boys’ reluctance beat up three girls with Maureen watching. Maureen seems very sincere at first and treats Pecola, and only Pecola, to some ice cream. But the friendship is short-lived, and things start to go wrong when Pecola is asked if she has seen a naked man. Pecola’s underlying emotions bleed out as she twists the conversation to not just any ordinary naked man ...
- 2196: The Harness Conspiracy
- ... event in the plan was Peter's rebuttal of his foolish actions. This was planned to spread word to the others in town and give him a reason to go back to the way he lived before Emma's alleged death. Peter gives us many of the clues himself when he sees Ed Chappell at the Ramona Hotel and in his drunken stupor, almost reveals the entire plan. His reasoning behind ...
- 2197: The Good Earth: Summary
- Pearl Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, takes place in the early twentieth century in China just before the Revolution. Buck lived in China months after she was born until she was 17 and returned to America for college. She soon returned to China to marry John Buck, an American agricultural specialist who taught American farming methods ...
- 2198: A Century Of Dishonor, A Triumph Or Tragedy?
- ... law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked in me because my skin is red; because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my fathers lived; because I would die for my people and my country” (qtd. in Carruth and Ehrlich 56). To write about the author, one must first understand why she felt so strongly for this sensitive issue. ...
- 2199: The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne And Adultery
- ... not exactly of puritan origin. Nature and the wilderness is being portrayed as inherently good. These people were supposed to be a holy mission. They feared nature, and felt the devil existed there physically. They lived somber lives and practiced hard work and self-reliance. The final scene in the marketplace is a renaissance of sorts. Never have we seen Arthur Dimmesdale looking so full of life. It is said that ...
- 2200: The Good Earth: Wang Lung
- ... attitudes, and his diet to suit the whims of Lotus. His land was something that he didn’t need to change for. It didn’t care how he dressed, what he ate, or how he lived his life. All it needed was that which he had a natural ability for. Even in its simplicity, it gave him everything he needed, and made his life complete in a way that nothing else ...
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