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- 2461: Summary of "The Death of Woman Wang" and "The Classic Slum"
- ... book was first published in America in 1978 by Jonathan D. Spence, who also wrote Emperor of China. This book was compiled from three sources. The first is the Local History of T'a-nch'eng, compiled in 1973, it told of the country's history, location and topography. The second is personal memoir's of a scholar named Huang Lia-hung. It told of his life as an official in the mid 1600's. The ...
- 2462: To Kill A Mockingbird: Lessons Never Learned
- ... case. The strength of the towns prejudice is evidenced in its quick move towards ending the trial and ultimately killing Tom Robinson. True stories exist from the beginning of American history of similar tragedies to that of Tom Robinson's. It is likely that Harper Lee compiled a number of stories, either overheard or read, into the story of Robinson. In ... United States was engulfed in turmoil related to the civil rights movement. As a result, “To Kill a Mockingbird” seemed to speak to a certain point in time. Unfortunately, the history that has unfolded since the novel was published proves that Lee's commentary is as timely today as it was in 1960. An infamous police case in Boston, Massachusetts in ...
- 2463: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... part of the novel is called racism. The opinion formed because of the color if Tom's skin. Racism was very common in the south at this period in American history. African Americans were treated differently than whites. They were not allowed to use the same water fountains, or sit next to each other on the bus or in restaurants. The ... they were, there were ferocious rivalries for these few jobs. The blacks and whites hatred intensified with the competition for jobs. One of the most famous court cases in American history was during this time, it was the Scottsboro trials. The Scottsboro trials were very similar in many ways to the fictional trial of Tom Robinson(Johnson,15). The incident which ...
- 2464: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter by Chapter Review and Analysis
- ... Letter: Chapter by Chapter Review and Analysis Author: Brandon Moeller CHAPTER 1- The Prison-Door- I found this one page introductory chapter to be very dramatic as it explained the history of the colony by telling the history of the prison-door. From the looks of this chapter, this story will probably be dragged out as much as possible. At first I thought the way Nathaniel Hawthorne approached ...
- 2465: Lord of the Flies: The Theme of Religious Persecution
- ... man - as being pure evil without society's boundaries. A further analysis of The Lord of The Flies reveals something else - the novel has many references to religious persecution throughout history. Golding uses many religious elements along with metaphors representing the death of Jesus, the torture of Jews in the Holocaust, and the ascent and reign of Hitler in Nazi Germany ... selves - even in the case of young boys marooned on an island. Golding did not create the story of The Lord of the Flies, it was created for him by history. Golding does not include the religious persecution theme so people feel warned of what is to come, but rather he wants people to be reminded of what has come to ...
- 2466: Summary of 1984
- ... the Ministry of Truth. Winston¹s job was to change recorded events, predictions made by the Party, and documents to make then ³correct². In actuality his job was to falsify history to whatever was in the Party¹s current best interest. Whatever the Party said must always be correct and undisputable, there fore history was constantly being rewritten by people like Winston. One of the Party¹s slogans was ³He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present, controls the ...
- 2467: Prejudice in The Color Purple
- ... power than before, the black woman of America were still looked down on as being servants to their black men. Next, the prejudice in this book was mainly caused by history. In the past, blacks were slaves and the women were used for reproducing and taking care of the family and home and were often uneducated. The history of black woman hadn't changed much in the eyes of many people in the early 1900's so a lot of the prejudice activity was still taking part in ...
- 2468: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... certain myth-like quality, a quality which makes the teaching of a lesson by Cooper all that much more acceptable. "Cooper does not locate his narrative within the flux of history, but evokes a sense of timelessness consistent with the world of myth. For example, the setting is of "the earliest days of colonial history," a "remote and obscure" period, lost in the "mists of time." In setting the backdrop of the story in this way, the events become less important in regards to historical ...
- 2469: A Comparison of Hamlet and McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- ... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, this aspect of McMurphy's character is proven early in the story during his first group meeting. As the doctor outlines McMurphy's history of petty crimes, gambling and fighting, special attention is paid to the statutory rape charge. McMurphy describes it as "overzealous...sexual relations", but it is unavoidable that the girl he ... the underdog prevail, because it instills hope and inspiration. Both of these texts are fabulous works of art, and although they are geared to different audiences at different points in history, this only enhances them as it allows us to examine ourselves. We do this not through the literature itself, but through the people it is targeted at. From this we ...
- 2470: Art as an Insight into Jane Eyre's Life
- ... story is an isolated creature, devoid of loving and nurturing contact and shunned by humanity. Two excerpts from her stay at Gateshead illustrate this fact, her reading of Bewick's “History of British Birds,” and her punishment for striking Master John, the stay in the red room of Gateshead. In the opening scene, Jane is found perusing a copy of Bewick's “History of British Birds,” concentrating on the descriptions of the certain landscapes in which some of the birds live. Her words paint a mental picture, one that represents her childhood, “Of ...
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