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It’s basically saying that you’re numb if you think you can get by with reading and that’s not right. A second reason is when Guy Montage says “Monday burn Malay, Wednesday Whitely, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘me to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our slogan”. That saying that the firemen are basically going to burn…

Kate Chopin, an American author of short stories and novels, depicts the life of Armand and Desiree’s baby in a racial community that focuses on the color of an individual in the standards of superiority ideals. It is clearly emphasized that in Kate Chopin’s, literary works she explores the notion of gender roles, attitudes towards…

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ” Gandhi is trying to express that the true brawn a person has is not the physical ability, but the mental stability and strength is contains. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the main characters, Scout…

Anne Bradstreet, an England-born poet, was a pioneering female poet of her time. In around 1630, she and her family were among the first puritans to immigrate to America. Despite coming from a prominent family, Anne possessed a rare quality for a woman in her era – a good education. She married Simon Bradstreet at…

Reflective Statement-Hedda Gabler In Henrik Ibsen’s psychological drama “Hedda Gabler”, the society and social distribution plays a significant role. Ibsen portrays how society and social issues greatly affect Hedda, the protagonist of the play and how she finalizes everything with a suicide. Suicide is the most strongest and powerful arrangement of her self-destruction. Henrik Ibsen…

? Vision is the act of seeing things unseeable? ( Jonathan Swift ) . In every society there is an implicit in darkness that is disaffection. Those who fall victim to alienation go the unseeable and unvoiced members of society. In Society there are few that see disaffection. There are even fewer that know it…

The moans of the little patient subsided; Its convulsive tossing gradually ceased; and In a few moments, as Is the custom of young children after relief from pain, It sank into a profound and dewy slumber. The physician, as he had a fair right to be termed, next bestowed his attention on the mother. With…

Emily Dickinson was an amazing writer that wasn’t acknowledged until after her death. She wrote many poems that all related to two subjects; death and nature. Both poem J. 816 and J. 1078 are both examples of poems that have the subject of death. These 2 poems have many similarities but differ in the form…

In book one of the Iliad, we learn of Achilleus ‘menis’, meaning his rage or wrath. He begs his mother, the goddess Thetis to ask Zeus to bring death and dishonour upon the Achians for Agamemnon’s great insult to him, namely taking his prize the girl ‘Briseis’. In this extract we see Aiax, Phoinix and…

Comparison Essay Leadership is key in the two novels King Oedipus by Sophicles and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In both novels the main characters show their true leadership skills when they are faced with what life throws at them. In King Oedipus by Sophicles, Oedipus shows a great example of leadership with…