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attitudes and characters which pull from each other and make up the conflict of the story. There is Howard Roark the independently thinking artist, and protagonist of the story, and Henry Cameron, the man who had values like Roark, but sold out on…
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Lived a Thousand Years, by Livia Bitton-Jackson, is a true account of the author's life during the Holocaust. It tells the story of a young girl's adolescence and how she managed to make it through the horrors of World War II as a Jew. It's a story…
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have a great impact on the characters and events that develop in a novel. Setting is what makes up the characters, it is their surroundings that they encounter and interact with. Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes symbolism to express certain points or themes…
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man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.” That quote is one of the many morals stated by the ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius, which we still live by today. The Wisdom of Confucius,…
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story which takes place about twenty years after Jesus ascended into Heaven. It tells of how a young man named Basil was adopted by a rich merchant. But, when the rich merchant died, Basil’s cousin stole Basil’s inheritance; and made him a slave.…
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Johnny Tremain is boy who is proud—too proud. His pride made him overconfident. He pretty much planned all of his life while he was young; he would be a silversmith and marry Cilla. His mother dies when he is fourteen years old. Before his mother…
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abandonment. Because of this motif, the characters of this novel are affected. Karl, the abandonment of his mother left him looking for a motherly figure in his life. Mary, another victim of the abandonment became solid, hard head. And of course…
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the author uses biblical imagery is through numerous people who represent various biblical characters. At times this is an effective device in the novel, and at times it is ineffective. Examples of this biblical imagery can be found throughout the…
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George Eliot the moral themes are relative of the current social issues of the Victorian Era and play a crucial formitive role in the development of individual characters. Eliot's introduction of realism in literature, "an approach that attempts to…
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sun to symbolize the growth and enlightenment of Henry Fleming as well as the hope of the soldiers. The sun along with nature was used to show the hopes and fears of Henry and his regiment. Stephen Crane uses the sun to emphasize the fear and triump…
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