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- 2791: The Scarlet Letter: Background
- ... thatched cottage."3 The small cottage is Hester's home which is isolated from society. This is a characteristic of a heroic character which is Hester. His next step is to choose characters who have lived in real life and to associate them with fictitious characters. The fictitious characters being Hester Prynne, Roger Chllingworth, Reverend Dimmesdale and Pearl. The real life character being Governor Bellingham. "Here, to witness the scene which ...
- 2792: The Scarlet Letter: A Review
- ... were, and perhaps under the influence of a species of somnambulism [what? I don't think my spell checker knows this one!], Mr. Dimmesdale reached the spot where, now so long since, Hester Prynne had lived through her first hours of public ignominy [there's that word again!]." (143) I'm perplexed, but after several minutes of taking apart clauses and looking words up, I'm ready to proceed to the ...
- 2793: A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
- ... with Finny, never expecting what would happen next, but enjoying the sense of freedom. For example, one morning Mason decided to hike to the "500 acres," a large plot of land close to where we lived. We discovered an Indian reservation and a small clearing under the dense forest of oak trees next to a five foot waterfall. Mason told me never to tell anyone about this place and so I ...
- 2794: Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
- ... make him truly alive. (Bradford 69) The pure, unadulterated fantasy of life and joy in Dandelion Wine gives a more than magical feeling to the book and leaves the reader wishing that he or she lived in this world. (Bradford 69) One of the reasons that the fantasy of Dandelion Wine is so appealing is that Bradbury masterfully crafts the expressions of fantasy that everyone takes part in, such as dreams ...
- 2795: Comparison Between Brave New World And Fahrenheit 451
- ... discovers more about himself as well. He is able to see more clearly the things that had always set him on edge: the promiscuity, the domination of the government and the lifelessness in which he lived. (Allen) John, often referred to as "the Savage" because he was able to leave the reservation with Marx to go to London to live with him, also has a hard time adjusting to the drastic ...
- 2796: Pride In The Iliad
- ... noble if he goes down in war…he lies there dead…but whatever death lays bare, all wounds are marks of glory." If Hector had salvaged his pride and retreated to safety, he would have lived to defend Troy. Therefore, the possibility arises that he could have stopped the onslaught of the Acheans altogether, and won the war for the Trojans. The result of Hectors pride was his death and the ...
- 2797: Summary Of Joyce's "A Portrait Of An Artists As A Young Man"
- ... causes him to sin, in the form of a prostitute. Although he longs to escape the filth and poverty of Dublin and pursue truth, beauty, and love, his quest takes a detour in a short-lived moment of physical gratification in the welcoming and seductive arms of a Dublin prostitute. He uses the prostitute as a substitute for the comfort he cannot find in his family. This act of lust continues ...
- 2798: Picking Up The Pieces: An Analytical Look At Why The Village Of Umofia Fell Apart
- ... many of the tribe's younger members to the Christian faith. The tribal system falls apart because younger members are unable to remember persons of the past, unable to relate to violence when they have lived in safety and peace and are uninterested in a faith that does not fulfill their needs for music, joy and love, instead of discipline of a higher being. Okonkwo, the protagonist of the story, could ...
- 2799: Hound Of The Baskervilles
- ... develop, Holmes sends Watson to Devonshire with Sir Henry to gather information on the recent murder. During his inquires he came across many figures, there was a Mr. & Miss Stapleton who were naturalists and also lived on the moor. They portrayed themselves as brother and sister, but as you will find out later, they were more intimate than that. At about this time, a convict escaped who was referred to as ...
- 2800: A Review Of The Old Man And The Sea
- ... t too bad. Second, it is one heck of a short book. I finished this book in 2 days. As the sample book report says, this book is only 27,000 words long. The book lived up to what my friends had said about it. The book was one of the best classic stories I have read, it had a good story and good description. Hemingway could paint the pictures in ...
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