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- 3381: Grapes Of Wrath And Jim Casy
- ... come somepin outa all these folks goin' wes'...They's gonna come a thing that's gonna change the whole country." Later in the book Casy stops predicting "a thing" and takes part of this revolution by striking outside a peach-picking plant. He had spent a lot of time pondering the environment at hand, but he finally turns his anti- authority feelings into physical actions when he kicks a cop ...
- 3382: Les Miserables
- ... erection of a barricade in front of the Corinth wine shop. Javert is found as an unmasked spy and the rebel's tie him up to await his execution. Marius decides to join in the revolution to seek his death. He joins the fighting at the barricade since he lost his love again fights valiantly to the end. Valjean gets out his old National Guard suit but like Maruis joins the ...
- 3383: Touch Wood: Rene
- ... parents have given permission for Renée and her sisters to be baptized and to take their first communion. They decide to pray to the Catholic god to make the war end soon, to help the French and their Allies win the war, and to protect the Jews. Renée becomes worried when she hears about the bombing of Paris, but she was relieved to hear that her parents were not affected. Then ...
- 3384: Joseph Conrad
- ... world others have not found to say without ever capturing or understanding it (Dintenfass 7). Most of Conrad’s opinionated interest towards the world came through his mind politically and viewed on the issue of revolution (MBL 95). Conrad’s thoughts also included to move further from his experiences of travel and more into creating a fictional novel, while lacking personal adventures or feelings (MBL 97). In doing this, Conrad’s ...
- 3385: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... old foundations before she could build anew. It is necessary to examine these scenes of nature in the context of the early to mid nineteenth-century. This was of course the time of the Industrial Revolution, when as Robert Ferneaux Jordan put it, there was "a shift from the oolite, the lias and the sand to the coal measures. What had been the wooded hills of Yorkshire or Wales became, almost ...
- 3386: J.D. Salinger
- ... he wrote a column, "Skipped Diploma," which featured movie reviews for his college newspaper. Salinger made his writing debut when he published his first short story, "The Young Folks," in Whit Burnett’s Story magazine (French, xiii). He was paid only twenty-five dollars. In 1939, at the age of 20, Salinger had not acquired any readers. He later enrolled in a creative writing class at Columbia University. Salinger was very ...
- 3387: Array
- ... and fell in love with Jacqueline Bouvier. "Jackie", as she was known, came from a wealthy Catholic background as prestigious as the Kennedys. She attended Vassar College and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She spoke French, Italian, and Spanish fluently. They were wed on September 12,1953, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. All seemed well, yet after three two-year terms as a Congressman, Kennedy became ...
- 3388: Invisable Man - Black Leaders
- ... third leader was a man who borrowed a little from both Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was a descendant of African American, French, and Dutch ancestors. He was extremely gifted even at an early age and graduated from high school at the age of sixteen. He was the valedictorian and the only black in his graduating class of ...
- 3389: In Flanders Fields
- ... Canadian contribution to one of the most distinctive literary forms of the twentieth century, the literature of war. His poem unified Canada when Canada needed a thread to string the young country together. Even the French Canadians who regarded the war in Europe as something foreign and that did not affect Canada were proud of John McCrae and his famous poem. When the need for volunteer troops was overshadowing the supply ...
- 3390: Huckleberry Finn - Critical Essay
- ... apathy, but not quite thoroughly to rebel against societal prejudices. Huckleberry still believes Jim to be irrelevant and pig-headed at times, as in their exchange over the Biblical story of King Solomon and the French language. Huck does not tell Jim but to the reader," If he got a notion in his head once, there warn’t no getting it out again…I see it warn’t no use wasting ...
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