āWar is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys familiesā (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr). During World War I many people joined the war to have money to provide for their family, not knowing what they were getting themselves into. The āLost Generationā was what people called those who grew up during...
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The senselessness of war affects even the best of people and turns them into people you wouldn't be able to recognize. In the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character Paul Baumer gets sent to fight in the German war where they did not have the best fighting technology. This led to many...
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āOne day they leave Omelas and walk ahead into the darkness, towards a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness and they do not come backā. āThe Ones Who Walk Away from the Omelasā by Ursula Le Guin is a short story about a dystopian society where they sacrifice the freedom of a child...
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Symbolism is a highly important device in literature. It can help writers give their works more richness and depth. Symbolism plays an important role in revealing themes and character traits in Khaled Hosseiniās book, āThe Kite Runnerā. It is shown in the story with Kites, Lambs, and a Slingshot. Each one of these items not only represents a physical object...
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Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, the past and the present are explored throughout the entirety of the book. The Kite Runner is a semi-autobiographical piece of fiction. It refers to real-life events and it can be assumed people too as it deals partially with the writer's own life but also contains fictional characters. All the main characters are seen...
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In the second half of the novel, the readers can see a desire in the main characters to possess and lay claim to Beloved upon her emergence from the river. This desire is not surprising to the readers since learn early on in the novel that Sethe has had and lost Beloved and that being a slave prevented individuals from...
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Setheās youngest child and the only one still with her at the time of Belovedās return is Denver. Denver was not born into slavery, Sethe escaped while pregnant with her. As a result, Denver was born free but she still faced the consequences of slavery, specifically the need to claim something as solely hers. Denverās relationship with Beloved shares some...
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In Toni Morrisonās 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 readerās 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. āIām 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.ā (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 āIron Youthā? The Irony in āIron Youthā Kantorek refers to the men as āIron Youthā because they are willing to do anything for their country. The āIron Youthā 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 āThe Road Not Takenā (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 Frostās āThe Road Not Takenā 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 manās 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, āEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not doā. 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 oneās 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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Frost and Miller depict a struggle for existence through the instability and uncertainty of humanity. Within Frost's collection, both 'The Road Not Taken, and 'The Sound of Trees, depict a desire in humanity to achieve, but are clouded by the accompaniment of great uncertainty. Throughout 'The Road not Taken', Frost uses static verbs such as, 'looked' and 'stood', to emphasize...
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In his famous novel āThe Great Gatsbyā, 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 āThe Great Gatsbyā, 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 Shelleyās '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 āgood cop, bad copā bringing up and complimenting one anotherās 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 āMausā by Art Spiegelman is a rich and epic story. It pursues Artās own parentās 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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