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- 10581: Malamud’s The Assistant: Frank Alpine's Metamorphosis From Bad To Good
- ... could change. He realized that if he put an effort and really desired change he could learn discipline. He began working at the store again while Morris was in the hospital recovering from his near death experience. Frank realized that what he was making in the store would not support Ida and Helen. So every night he would go to the bank and withdraw twenty-five dollars from his savings account ...
- 10582: The Joy Luck Club: Relationship Between Mother and Daughter
- ... the differences in the way the mothers and children were raised. The daughters, who grew up with American and Chinese culture intertwined, were very rebellious and gave their mothers many problems. This story incorporates birth, death, unwilling marriage, divorce, friendship, war, jealousy, and love. Amy Tan writes about each character's tragic yet significant experiences with The Joy Luck Club. The mothers' love and frustrations with their daughters is well illustrated ...
- 10583: Catcher In the Rye: Holden's Love FOr Children
- ... he doesn’t have to. He often thinks of his deceased brother Allie who will always be remember as a child, and he realizes the price one has to pay to remain a child is death. Holden’s fear of growing up and his love for children is an important aspect of this personality and cause of some of the problems he has to deal with
- 10584: Mama Lola: An Analysis
- ... sickness. He is the one who is out-right vulgar and at the same time, humorous. He also keeps the family together, but is the balance that presides over many in the realms of sex, death and humor. With Karen floating over the boundary and marrying one of the spirits, comes a question of faith on her part. Karen may very well be doing what Alourdes recommends solely based on research ...
- 10585: Homesteading by Percy Wollaston
- ... periods." There is irony in this book. "If the main thrust of his story is about the brave resourcefulness of that makeshift society on the Montana prairie, its margins are darkly shadowed: disappointment, loneliness, sudden death, foolish incompetence are continually in evidence, and the book come to be haunted by a horribly memorable suicide--all the more effectively rendered for being done in Percy Wollaston’s habitual manner of laconic detachment ...
- 10586: The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger
- ... he intones, and these three he draws: a card showing a man with a baboon whipping his back: The Prisoner. A card showing a woman with two faces: The Lady of Shadows. And one showing Death: "But not for you, gunslinger." After that Roland wakes up by water. This is how the book ends. I don’t know what happens after Roland wakes up. The man in black did give the ...
- 10587: Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
- ... theory. Gauss considered modern number theory as the most important part of mathematics. Although Gauss was an important mathematician, he also was devoted to studying astronomy, which disappointed many of his colleagues. After Gauss's death, his diary was found filled with brilliant mathematical ideas that were essential in the development of modern mathematics. Evariste Galois was born in Bourg-la-reine, near Paris, on October 25, 1811. His first published ...
- 10588: Catch-22 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View of the Institution
- ... in the style of black humor, the reader as well as the main characters discovers the disturbing nature of the absurdities. In both of these novels the newly realized disturbing element communicates themes dealing with death, materialism, tyranny and the effects that the institution has on the individual. The contrast between humor and the seriousness of these themes causes the reader to feel a sense of guilt and catharsis. As Catch ...
- 10589: Camus's The Stranger: The Sun
- ... might think of it as another character. In self-defense, Meursault kills the Arab. The murder triggered by a spark of sunlight from the blade of a knife that the Arab had drawn. The Arabs death took place in the presence of that blazing Algerian sun. Camus could have been using the sun as a resemblance of Meursault hanging over the dead body.
- 10590: To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism In The Title, Names and Objects
- ... is when Mr. Underwood said that killing Tom Robinson was like killing a mockingbird. “Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting or escaping. He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children.” Also when sheriff talked about it being a sin to tell the town about Boo Radly. “‘I never heard tell that it’s against the ...
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