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- 13111: Alice Walkers Everyday Use
- ... a part of only the popular tribes in African history, majority of them do not have any idea about where they came from. Alice Walker s, Everyday Use shows the bitterness Alice has for the great number of black people, and any other race, who just joins on the bandwagon because it sounds good and will probably get them some kind of benefit. Only those people who take the time to ...
- 13112: A Separate Peace
- ... but following a catastrophe struggles to walk again. Leper is a rather flat and one-dimensional. Brinker Hadley, the class politician, is a static character with fixed attitudes and ideas. A Separate Peace is a great read. The stories of Phineas and Gene can be a lesson to today’s teenagers as they move into the increasingly complex world about them. The timeless lessons from this fifty-year-old story are ...
- 13113: Emily Dickinson
- ... where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to question the old ways. What used to be the focal point of all lives was now under speculation and often doubted. People began to ...
- 13114: Aeneus Emotional Rollercoaster
- ... to follow his false hopes. He may have gone to the underworld and became a born again Roman, but he still doesn't think that he has the strength and courage to build an empire great as Rome. This lack of self-confidence proves that all the tribulations Aeneus conquered, he has not progressed to the status that readers may have expected. Through all his hardships and heartbreaks, readers pity him ...
- 13115: Antigone By David Greene
- ... for the city and the citizens. Creon expects and demands loyalty from everyone even if he is a bad ruler. Creon thinks very highly of himself. He is under the impression that he is a great ruler and will improve Thebes although he ends up doing the opposite. In addition, Creon believes he is always correct even if he isn’t. Another characteristic of Creon is that he wants to be ...
- 13116: A Look Into The Human Mind. Sl
- ... consciousness, but the music went on. He dimly sensed that someone was rescuing him. Billy resented that. (43-4) Billy is also traumatized by the extreme loss in his life. Everywhere he looks, he experiences great loss. First his father dies in a hunting accident, then he gets in a plane crash and everyone aboard dies but him, and while he is in the hospital recuperating, his wife dies of carbon ...
- 13117: A Midsummer Nights Dream For T
- ... she must love Demetrius even though he uncontrollably spurns her advances. "Love can transpose to form and dignity," she eloquently remarks. These characteristics of love are demonstrated by the characters throughout the play. Shakespeare uses great symbolism in portraying the blindness of love. When Puck and Oberon apply the juice of the pansy to the eyes of the Athenians and to the eyes of Titania, the fairy queen, they are quickly ...
- 13118: A Separate Peace - A Journey T
- ... mature individual. As the story progresses, Gene learns to listen to himself rather than others. His maturing process also includes the fact that he has to face reality and acknowledge that he is not as great as Finny. Gene is his own individual person and Finny is not as perfect as Gene thought. Gene considered enlisting because that was what all the other boys seemed to be doing, but instead he ...
- 13119: A Crime In The Neighborhood
- ... ankle, spends the summer witnessing her mother’s desperate attempts to cope, the neighborhood’s paranoid response to the murder and even the country’s disorientation over the unfolding Watergate scandal. The tension proves too great when the Eberhardts’ shy bachelor neighbor, Mr. Green, takes interest in Marsha’s mother. Though murder is the most visible crime in Marsha’s neighborhood, it is by no means the only one, Marsha’s ...
- 13120: Athol Fugards Master Harold...
- ... oppression, but it is also symbolic of the ongoing racial and political oppression that has taken place throughout history. Willie and Hilda's relationship can be seen as an element that would truly cause a great deal of shame and embarrassment in the middle of a political, racial, or interpersonal ballroom floor. Another element that stands in the way of the idealized scenario of peace among dancers on the ballroom floor ...
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