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- 10641: Great Expectations
- ... During the escape attempt, Pip and Herbert try to sneak Magwitch down the river on a rowboat, but they are discovered by the police, who have received a tip from Compeyson. Magwitch is sentenced to death and Pip loses his fortune, but he is reconciled with Joe and his loved ones from home. He goes abroad with Herbert to work in the mercantile trade. Returning many years later, he encounters Estella ...
- 10642: Beloved: We All Look the Same In the Dark
- ... kill your child today. And Sethe did not receive any, not even from those she desired to be accepted by: the black community and Beloved. She has to take personal responsibility for her baby’s death. Sethe does show her love by keeping Beloved from a horrific life, yet Sethe still needs to realize that her show of mercy is still murder. Once she does, she can live as “the dream ...
- 10643: Wuthering Heights: Dark and Evil Themes
- ... with all his feelings, having felt them myself. I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly; it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though” (195-196). Heathcliff's rules ends with death, seeing that there are no more people to be avenged and he has no more reason to live. He starves himself and leaves Wuthering Heights to its true inheritors, Hareton Earnshaw and Catherine Linton, who ...
- 10644: Holding the Dream
- ... why she was never told when she was younger. Kate went into a depression and shut everyone out in her life, she couldn’t believe that something like this was hidden behind her parents terrible death. She didn’t know why her father was such a cheat and a selfish man to kill himself and her mother, but yet have the guts to leave her orphaned. Her depression lasted a long ...
- 10645: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... of the novel is one of Huck's adventures after another, and it can be appreciated just for that. The first half of the book he continues his adventures with Tom Sawyer, until faking his death to get away from his alcoholic father. After this, his adventures continue separate from Tom, and begin with Jim. Although subtle, the story has important morals. Huck himself is somewhat of a social outcast. He ...
- 10646: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
- ... went to the cave to investigate. They made the gruesome discovery of Injun Joe's body. He had made his way to the gate but he could not get it unlocked, he had starved to death. Tom was finally at ease, and now he was ready to go treasure hunting again. A few days later Tom was allowed to see Huck once again and he brought him up to date on ...
- 10647: "The Loons"
- ... married in the fall; her boyfriend was an English fella, who works in the stockyard in the city, Alvin Geald Gummings. At Diamond's Lake the MacLead cottage had been sold after Vanessa father's death. The small pier which her father had built was gone. Instead there was a large and solid pier built by the government. Galloping Mountain was how a National Park was named, and Diamond Lake had ...
- 10648: Coming of Age in Mississippi
- ... s pride and courage kept her strong, even though so much was happening around her. As the movement pushed forward. Anne began to question the non- – violent approach to the struggle. Watching the beatings and death of helpless blacks eventually turned Anne toward militancy. She could no longer watch in silence. Senator, Edward Kennedy writes, “ Anne Moody’s powerful and moving book is a timely reminder that we can not now ...
- 10649: The Sun Also Rises: A Hero
- ... art of sports and does not experience life in person. He takes life for granted and only because he doesn't take the time to appreciate it. He has varying implied views on life and death and this contrasts with the Hemingway "Nada Concept." Also Cohn does not have the quality to be self-critical.
- 10650: She’s Worth More Than a Diamond
- ... constant reminder of her mother’s violation of the Seventh Commandment: Thou shalt not commit adultery. Hester herself felt that Pearl was given to her not only as a blessing but a punishment worse than death or ignominy. She is tormented by her daughter’s childish teasing and endless questioning about the scarlet letter and it’s relation to Minister Dimmesdale. After Pearl has created a letter “A” on her own ...
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