In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, Morrison writes about the horrific events that take place for a former slave, Sethe, the protagonist, and her family. Morrison utilizes Biblical symbolism, allusions, and direct quotes to alleviate the reader’s understanding of the novel. These Biblical references implicate the spiritual faith of Sethe and her family. Morrison incorporates these literary devices to strengthen the...
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Stanislaus Katczinsky He is resourceful (can scrounge up sustenance in remote places), efficient, smart, and reliable, the boys listen/look up to him and trust his judgment. “I’m sure that if he were planted down in the middle of the desert, in half an hour he would have gathered together a supper of roast meat, dates, and wine.” (Remarque, {33}) [His...
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War is an experience that has physical and psychological damage on its victims. Many soldiers who have fought in war often become disconnected from their past lives and their loved ones. They may act in ways that may not seem appropriate or normal to people who have not experienced war but these actions are just the ramifications of the horrors...
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Chapter 1: Why is it Ironic that Kantorek refers to the men as the “Iron Youth”? The Irony in “Iron Youth” Kantorek refers to the men as “Iron Youth” because they are willing to do anything for their country. The “Iron Youth” describes a strong German man, who will fight to protect his country. When the men have read what...
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In Animal Farm, George Orwell attempts to lay bare the hypocrisy, brutality, and moral corruption at the heart of the Soviet Union under Stalin. At the time when Orwell wrote the book, a disturbingly high proportion of leftist intellectuals in Western Europe and the United States genuinely believed that the USSR was some kind of socialist utopia which provided an...
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The books read in class: All Quiet on the Western Front (by Erich Maria Remarque), and Things Fall Apart (by Chinua Achebe), are books that both demonstrate the different reasons why people engage in wars. People engage in wars for reasons such as their want to display patriotism, many others believe it is the right thing to do, and the...
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Being considered one of the most recognizable poets within American poetry Robert Frost offers the rhetorical question in his work “The Road Not Taken” (Poets.org). If I were asked about what the poem is about, I would reply in several words it is about life, choice, and regret. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” speaks both about the inevitability of...
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Introduction 'All Quiet on the Western Front' is a poignant adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's seminal novel, offering a stark portrayal of the futility and devastation wrought by World War I. The film, directed by Lewis Milestone, captures the visceral horrors faced by soldiers on the front lines, while simultaneously providing a scathing critique of the romanticized view of war....
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Outline of the Story Kite Runner(2003) by Khaled Hosseini often reads like a fable, a parable of love, friendship, and above all redemption. Though it would be naive to limit the novel and its themes to just these three facets, Kite Runner is a lot more. The history of a troubled and savaged nation is told in miniature. The rise...
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An unnamed man’s journey through the Yukon forest is an example of the ultimate test of determination and having the will to live. While traveling by himself with only a dog for company, the man thinks back to when an old man advised him against ever going out on the trail in temperatures below -50 degrees. The temperature now is...
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Voltaire once said, “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do”. Every decision made in life is followed by a consequence. Guilt is one of the most frequent consequences in the novel, The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini depicts the cataclysmic ability of guilt to consume one’s life through the several relationships between Ali and Baba, Hassan...
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In the novel, 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' by Erich Maria Remarque, the author uses the character, Paul Baumer, to convey critiques of the military structure, and decisions. 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' is a novel about a young soldier named Paul who was enlisted at a young age to fight for his country, and later on, turned...
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Fiction is a powerful tool with which to express a truth or make a point. A juxtaposition of interconnected external and internal conflicts which affect the characters can be used to emphasize the importance of such a truth. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the author, Erich Maria Remarque, creates such a duality to great effect. Paul, the protagonist...
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At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is portrayed as a hardhearted man and very unsociable. He struggles to connect with others but out of his own choice. Scrooge is shown as selfish and as someone who doesn't care for others at the start of the novel with Marley's funeral. He shows little sympathy and only cares about the money...
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In the novella A Christmas Carol, Dickens uses each of the ghosts to guide Scrooge to change his attitudes and behavior differently. Marley instills fear in Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Past makes him remorseful, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the wider consequences of greed and the Ghost of Christmas Future shows Scrooge the individual and personal consequences....
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In this essay, I will be discussing how Dickens presents Scrooge as a reformed man. This is influenced by a clear combination of Scrooge's willingness to make the most of his transient life, as well as his desire for warmth in his once cold heart. Therefore it can be argued that Dickens uses the caricature of Scrooge as a manner...
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In his famous novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, F. Scott Fitzgerald used various literary devices to present the main themes of the work and the personalities of his characters. In my essay, I want to find out what the weather and colors in the novel symbolize. First of all, in ‘The Great Gatsby’, Fitzgerald uses colors mainly to represent status and...
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Ever wonder what it feels like to be the outcast of the group? Or have the feeling of being different from everyone else? For the creature in Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein', Victor Frankenstein did not even give his creation a chance. The way the language of the text is written seems to be related to someone, or something, being evil or...
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Although published in 1967, Outsiders by S.E Hinton an easy-to-read narrative is still relevant to many teenagers today. Darry and Sodapop host a ‘good cop, bad cop’ bringing up and complimenting one another’s stern affection for Ponyboy. However, Pony also feels Darry is pushing and expects too much of him which is collateral to teenagers today. Hinton also shows one's...
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First of all, one of the main themes of Brave New World is personal identity. Personal identity is a set of characteristics that make a person unique. However, in this world, people have lost their identity. Thus, the lower class is cloned by the Bokanovsky process. 'One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate,...
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We live in an Anglo-male-dominated society. The marginalization of women of color has resulted in a skewed understanding of history, as seen specifically in the Chicano Movement. El Movimiento was a realization and reclamation of culture, but it catered to what it meant to be Chicano, not Chicana. All Chicanas have been largely underrepresented and are only recently being examined...
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The realistic novel “Maus” by Art Spiegelman is a rich and epic story. It pursues Art’s own parent’s story in Poland and depicts their experience of the Nazi's attack on the Jewish populace during the 1930s. Spiegelman tells his own story in a realistic structure, describing himself as a creature. Maus happens during two distinct periods in time. The present...
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The feeling of loneliness is an inevitable part of life, one of which many people struggle with. “People who are lonely often crave human contact, but their state of mind makes it more difficult to form connections with other people” (Cherry). The feeling of loneliness is hard to overcome, those who have the willpower will eventually make it out of...
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The American Dream is spoken about in the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. In the novel Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the American Dream is shown as dead and unreachable. One of the characters in the novel is Crooks’ and his dream is to have full rights and to be equal to anyone who...
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Many of the characters in Of Mice and Men appear to be “lonely” to an extent, although, the theme of loneliness is extremely noticeable in Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife. These three characters all can be related together because they are all similar in that they are the same type of lonely, a physical lonely. Objective loneliness refers to the...
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Introduction The graphic novel Maus, by Art Spiegelman, is a seminal work in both the comic book and historical narrative genres. It offers a poignant exploration of the Holocaust through the lens of a father-son relationship, using anthropomorphic animals to depict different races and nationalities. This unconventional medium allows Spiegelman to tackle complex themes of memory, trauma, and survival. The...
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Piggy In William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies, Golding utilizes Piggy to portray how rationalization and order can be underspoken by savagery. Throughout the novel, Piggy is the only character who consistently exhibits thoughtfulness and logic even though the other boys gradually lose their civility. In a group meeting in which the boys discuss the organization of the...
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, presents a world that is completely superficial and wholly controlled by the World State right from the point of human conception. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, published in 1949, portrays a society whereby the people are also entirely controlled by the government. However, in Orwell’s alternative reality, the government controls the...
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The dystopian book Brave New World interprets the idea of freedom and social control in a society where the government shows freedom to people but when in reality controls their rights without their acknowledgment. Bernard Marx, who is an Alpha male, fails to fit in with his society because of his test-tube mistake which causes him to be short in...
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Many works of literature include a character with unusual origins to provide contrast to societal norms and to introduce complex relationships involving clashing morals and values. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicts John the Savage as an outsider because of his unusual upbringing and his headstrong morals in both the Savage Reservation and the World State society....
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