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- 2771: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Unfairness Of Life
- ... to deal with them is to keep on working hard. Boo Radley's troubles are different. Different in the sense that they were linked to his teenage years-and his teenage attitude was bad. He lived a reckless living. "Nobody in Maycomb had the nerve to tell Mr. Radley that Boo was hanging outwith the wrong crowd." (10) This was the sad truth about Arthur Radley. No one really ever spoke ...
- 2772: The Themes In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
- ... background proved to be the perfect combination for writing a story about life in a quiet town in Alabama. The only way to be a good writer is to write from experience, and since she lived most of her life in the setting of the story, her writing proved to be good. The timing for the release of To Kill a Mockingbird could not have been more perfect. "In a time ...
- 2773: The Genji Monogatari
- ... and thinking of him." Here Genji not only shows his mastery of mono no aware, but can be said to have become the moon. This, of course, needs some explanation. The culture in which Genji lived in depended ultimately on the moon. They decided when to plant their rice by it, made their years go by lunar cycles instead of by the seasons as in the west, and basically let their ...
- 2774: Comparison Of Margaret Mead's "Coming In Age" To Russian Youth
- ... the centuries the importance of the extended family, in Russia, has decreased considerably. At one time the family included grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins and it was more important than the society in which it lived. The children were protected and controlled from outer forces by this large family with strong religious, cultural and family ties. Similarly, the Samoan children share this strong value system. The longer the child is kept ...
- 2775: Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
- ... the female tact which is all too often ignored in the ch aracters of women. Joyce's Dante Riordan's words and thoughts are true to those of literate twentieth century women. Although a short-lived character in Portrait, Dante Riordan, in a brief amount of time emits an apparently important and mysterious aura, the aura of a woman. Judging from the studies of twentieth century linguists, Joyce's brief representation ...
- 2776: Hawaii By James Michener
- ... their own lands as the Chinese did, they too were shipped in vast amounts to Hawaii, ("From The Inland Sea"). The final chapter deals with what Michener refers to as "The Golden Men": Those who lived in Haw (not necessarily Hawaiians) who contributed a great deal to the islands and their people. Since Hawaii covers such a huge time span, there are a great many plots and sub-plots, all of ...
- 2777: Great Expectations: Miss Havisham An Eccentric Character?
- ? Miss Havisham is an extremely eccentric character. She is a rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house. One way she was eccentric was the Satis House. Another is the weird birthday party Miss Havisham had with her relatives. She also acts in a weird way that ...
- 2778: The House Of Seven Gables: Hepzibah Pyncheon
- The protagonist in The House of Seven Gables is Hepzibah Pyncheon. She is an aging gentlewoman who in the past had lived in luxury, but she has recently run into troubling economic times. She is an ancestor of a patrician Puritan background that goes all the way back to the colonial days of the United States. One ...
- 2779: The Great Gatsby: Time As A Key Dimension To One's Life's Theme
- ... past. From Gatsby's illusions of the past preoccupying all his thoughts, he forgets about the key dimension he exists in which is the present. Although Gatsby was persistent on reliving the past, Gatsby vaguely lived for the present. This is apparent when he cancels his biology by leaving home, changing his name, and leaving his heritage behind which was not done by following the past. In the past Jay Gatsby ...
- 2780: Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis
- ... hollowness and shallowness of people in the world. Now the person is dead, there is no other help that you could give him. "Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere" was how the man lived, and although his soul was a true one, he was still a marked man, and now he is only marked with a stone that protrudes from the ground known as The Epitaph. God is a ...
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