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Jose Donoso's Paso: Summary

... style of this story and the motives that lie behind it. Jose Donoso is generally a traditional writer as pointed out by Alexander Coleman in his essay “Some thoughts on Jose Donoso’s Traditionalism.” This thought is exemplified by the story Paso, from the theme to the setting. So since it is known that traditionalism is a favored style by Donoso it will make following the plot that much easier. The plot of Paso is slow at first introducing the characters and situation, but quickens towards the end. As the end draws to a close the read ...

Number of words: 1192 | Number of pages: 5

Samuel Beckett's In Waiting For Godot

... (...) used to create a break in speech) to express a feeling of waiting and unsureness. There is a twofold purpose behind this technique. For one, it shows that Vladimir and Estragon, the two main characters who are waiting for Godot, are unsure of why they are waiting for him. This also foreshadows that they will be waiting a very long time. In some cases in literature, an idea can only be conveyed properly if those on the receiving end of the idea are able to experience the feelings that a character is experiencing in the work. Fo ...

Number of words: 575 | Number of pages: 3

Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation"

... The Code Hero always exhibits some form of a physical wound that serves as his tragic flaw and the weakness of his character. In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes is the character who maintains the typical Code Hero qualities; while Robert Cohn provides the antithesis of a Code Hero. Jake Barnes, the narrator and main character of The Sun Also Rises, is left impotent by an ambiguous accident during World War I. Jake's wound is the first of many code hero traits that he features. This physical wound, however, transcends ...

Number of words: 765 | Number of pages: 3

Of Mice And Men: Crooks

... Buck on the ranch, he usually keeps to himself out in the barn. Being black makes life for Crooks extremely strenuous. He lived in California as a kid and has felt the pains of racism his entire life. Although he did play with other white boys as a child, society soon casted him aside. In the novel, Crooks lives as a southern Negro lives, oppressed and outspoken. He is a very intellectual man who has "got lots of books." He "had his bunk in the harness room." His room is full of "a number of personal possessions" that had accumulated ...

Number of words: 528 | Number of pages: 2

The Scarlet Letter: Pearl - The Living Symbol

... for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will die first!'"(109) "'There is truth in what she says,' began the minister, with a voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful, insomuch that the hall reechoed, and the hollow armor rang with it - 'truth in what Hester says, and in the feeling which inspires her!'"(110)… "'I must be even so,' resumed the minister.'" " 'This child of its father's guilt and its mother's shame hath come from the hand of God, to work in many ways upon her heart, who pleads so earnestly, and with such ...

Number of words: 694 | Number of pages: 3

Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels

... his name sounds much like gullible, which suggests that he will believe anything. Also, when he first sees the Yahoos and they throw excrement on him, he responds by doing the same in return until they run away. He says, "I must needs discover some more rational being," (203) even though as a human he is already the most rational being there is. This is why Swift refers to Erasmus Darwins discovery of the origin of the species and the voyage of the Beagle_to show how Gulliver knows that people are at the top of the food chain. But if Lemule ...

Number of words: 839 | Number of pages: 4

The Great Gatsby: Symbolism In Colors

... decay decadence and death. Then he uses the color white to symbolize innocence. He also uses the color green to express hope. Fitzgerald's use of the color green the strongest. Although these are not the only colors that Fitzgerald uses for symbolism, they are the ones that he expresses the most. This book is a very colorful book in the sense that it uses colors to cover so many different aspects of peoples lives. Fitzgerald uses the color yellow to symbolize moral decay. On (Page 18) he writes " The lamp-light, bright on his boots and d ...

Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Hester And Her Daughter Are Isolated From Society

... new home is the biggest factor in saying that they are isolated from the world. Hester finds an abandoned cottage on the outskirts of town, within verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation (Hawthorne 77). Hester must ask the magistrates if she can live in the abandoned cottage (Hawthorne 78). Hester tells the magistrates that she is going to stay in town, since it reminds her of her sin and in that way punishes her(Hawthorne 78). This house was far enough from civilization that Hester and Pearl did not ...

Number of words: 457 | Number of pages: 2

Frankenstein: Good And Bad Choices

... and the rest of the generations are still punished today for a choice that Adam and Eve made. Prometheus and Frankenstein had similar choices to Adam and Eve. Prometheus was a semi-god and his job or task was to create man. After creating the man, Prometheus felt it his job to protect his creation. In doing so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being, he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to becom ...

Number of words: 540 | Number of pages: 2

The Scarlet Letter: Secrets. We Have Them, We Hide Them, But Can We Live With Them?

... to control her desire to tell the truth and practices the art of deception to hide these secrets. When she will not reveal the father of Pearl, Reverend Dimmesdale says, "She will not speak." It is ironic that the person who committed the sin with Hester is the one who announces publicly that she will not reveal the name of the other sinner. Later, Chilling worth wants to know who it is and he says, "Thou wilt not reveal his name?" Hester refuses and continues to hold her silence. Then Chillingworth, still trying to find out th ...

Number of words: 945 | Number of pages: 4

The Crucible

... to walk straight, arms by their sides, eyes slightly downcast, and their mouths were to be shut unless otherwise asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on i ...

Number of words: 2507 | Number of pages: 10

Canterbury Tales - The Wife Of

... to live. The knight only has one year to get to answer this question and then he has to return to King Arthur’s court and await his sentence. The setting is in King Arthur’s court when a young man saw a pretty maiden and raped her. The King was going to sentence him to death but the Queen decided to give him one year to answer the question . The story is told from the Wife of Bath’s point of view for she is narrating the story. So the conflict, being that he has to find the answer, is established. The knight’s journey does not g ...

Number of words: 678 | Number of pages: 3

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