Winston finds himself openly discussing his hatred for Big Brother including the readings of Anti-Party manifesto and getting involved with other rebellious groups. ... While reading the novel I started to develop an analogy of fire and gasoline to describe the relationship between Julia and Winston. ... Eventually, the reading of the anti-party literature, openly engaging in sex for enjoyment, and other behaviors lead them to more careless activities. ... Orwell created the illusion of true love between Winston and Julia in his writings, but later destroyed that idea with the eventual betraya...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What I believe Elliot meant by that was the intense feeling one can receive from reading a poem. ... I can be sent into a world of Utopia, or a dungeon of sorrow by reading poetry. ... "Late Air" by Elizabeth Bishop is another poem which has personal touched me. ... Late Air From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns. ... His poem "The Reader" combines the natural beauty and sorrow of entropy: The Reader All night I sat reading a book, Sat reading as if in a book Of sombre pages. ...

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While reading "The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb," I thought that Bibbs commitment and love for his family were drawbacks in his life. ... When I started reading this book my first thought on Henry Bibb with his slave marriage and child, was that he was very happy. ... Then later on in life his wife Malinda becomes pregnant and Henry expresses how excited he was to become a father. ... Later again Bibb was betrayed by the lady he was working for, captured and sent to a slave prison. ... Later Bibb's owner died and he thought that would be the perfect time runaway to Canada. ...

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If you were to answer this question after reading The Blessing by Jude Deveraux, the answer would be yes. ... This plays an important role later on in the story. ... This story takes place around the late 1980's and early 1990's. ... Fifty years from now people will still be reading her books and enjoying her stories. ...

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New York, 1975 Genre: Love Romance Recommended age/grade level: late teens 14-18 roughly. ... Interest Level/Reading level: As stated above, the story is about first loves and first sexual experiences. ... Judy Blume is a great writer and the reading level is fairly straightforward. ...

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The letters were more than just reading material for Jimmy. ... Late at night, he"d stare at her picture wondering who took it, wondering if Martha had a boyfriend because he loved her so much. Reading over her letters and staring at her face in the photographs makes Jimmy regretful. ...

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Dora Phillip Bauer, for treatment for aphonia and depression, brought Dora to Freud in the Fall of 1900 for psychoanalysis which Freud later recounts in "Dora". ... Girls then grow up envying males for having a penis and then later "substituting the wish for a penis with a wish for a baby" (Cambridge Companion to Freud 169). Dora's ambivalent feelings toward her mother and later her hatred for Frau K were so because they were the primary competitors for her father's affection. I found this reading very interesting but a great deal of the analysis was "taken with salt" as...

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Abelard was in his late thirties when he first met Heloise in Paris. ... "Her studies allowed us to withdraw in private, as love desired and then with our books open before us, more words of our love than of our reading passed between us, and more kissing than teaching. ... Later Heloise became pregnant and Abelard could not successfully sidestep the rules of the society because the society of a time just wouldn't accept a premarital sexual affair. ... So later after their entry into religion, Heloise accused Abelard of lust rather than love for her, which I believe, is not true. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But then something happens and kostos most go back to Greece later on in the week she finds out that her grandfather, Bapi, has died so the whole family goes to Greece. ... After reading the first book this book was so much fun to read because you wanted to know what happened to the girls and the pants after summer was over. ...

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By reading the novel, I can say that Ruth is God's gift to Idgie and so as Ninny is to Evelyn. ... After I finished reading the novel, I recall all my unhappy and pleasant memory of a friend. ... But when I came to the place I would rather say "Why didn't you call me earlier, what happened if I were late?" ...

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The first example of Dante using a story to induce emotions is when Francesca is reading a book with Paolo and they are infatuated with each other at the words of the book that they read. ... Paolo also cries while she tells the story, and this goes to show the powerful nature of love and uncontrollable emotions that were invoked by the story that they were reading. ... Not only does Dante use stories to sway the emotions of characters in the Inferno, he also reaches out to the reader with these stories, which have had an enormous impact on our society to the point where people still read his...

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William Shakespeare's "Othello" is filled with jealousy, deceit, heart break, love and a range of emotions that any human being could understand. Othello, the Moor, experiences all of these complicated emotions throughout the play leading not only to his death but the death of his beloved wife, Desd...

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"The Doll House" is a play written by Henrik Ibsen more than a hundred years ago. It is probably one of the first attempts to discuss the need for an equality between men and women. The inclusion of this play in a "World's Classics" book series tells us about how great this play is. But on reading i...

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"The Outsiders" is a very good book with lots of action and emotions. S.E Hinton, the author, does a excellent job in showing Darry's friendship with Pony Boy. Your emotions change a lot in this book from sad, to scared to sad. Three boys living in a home without a mother and a father makes you f...

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The title of a book is always the most significant part for many reasons. In a book the body is always linked back to the title. There are many things that are behind a title. However, a title can also be mysterious. For instance, in A Farewell to Arms is a title that makes the reader think what the...

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Later on in the novel, her mother calls Pecola a "nasty little black bitch", not only is this harsh language for a mother to use with a child but the usage of "black" shows Pauline's hatred of her own skin. ... Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye gives the reader many shocking insights into the Black American family during the Depression, but perhaps the main idea to take away from the reading of this novel is how easy it is to lose one's innocence. ...

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Relating to Anpao I believe that there is a reason for the existence of each one of us. I believe that our fate is already decided. Our duty in life is to go day by day, allowing our destiny to unfold before us. In the book Anpao, we read about the destiny of a young Indian boy and the steps he...

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The Story of Honor After reading The Samurai's Garden I realized how different cultures are aside from America. We live very differently here compared to a country like Japan or Hong Kong. Here we live in a world where money is the most important thing to everyone, where as honor and how you carr...

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This novel is about Tess Durbeyfield, a simple country girl who is used by Alec D"Uberville, a wealthy gentleman as a victim of lamentable purpose, and later finds love with Angel Clare who marries her but abandons her on their wedding night when he finds out about her previous history. ... Tess ends up killing D"Uberville in a fit of despair and she escapes with Angel only to be caught and executed a few days later. ... The reader thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel despite heavily descriptive passages that could have been omitted from the original story. ...

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hhhhhEighty-four years later, after the elderly Rose tells the salvagers the story, the crew understands why Jack Dawson's name does not appear on the passenger lists. She also tells the granddaughter who is her companion that she has never spoken to anyone of Dawson before, not even to the man she later married. ... Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, 4th ed. ...

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A Passion Unbridled Late twentieth century novelist, Cormac McCarthy, was born on July 20, 1933, in Providence, Rhode Island, being the third of six children born to Charles Joseph McCarthy and Gladys Christina McGrail McCarthy. ... Two years later he left the university to join the air force. ... McCarthy put the hard or unfamiliar words in the story to "control the pace of one's reading and therefore the duration and quality of the attention on pays. ...

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In Wuthering Heights, author Emily Bronte cleverly uses the literary technique of foils to highlight the various features of her characters' personalities. Throughout the novel, the minor character of Edgar Linton acts as a foil to the protagonist, Heathcliff. The two men's contrasting appearances,...

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" (WBY 1& 2) The image brought to mind is of a sleepy old woman by a fireplace, reading a book that was given by him. ... This is when it's too late to tell your mother that you appreciated her duty as a mother. ...

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Despite early works about people in desperate situations fighting poverty, alcohol, and divorces, Carver's later works reflect his "second life" after he took his last drink. ... By reading Carver's work and following his example, readers learn the value of perseverance. ...

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In many romantic stories he would have come back a year later, a hero, with a medal complimenting his bravery. ... When one is finished reading the story, it is evident that Howells is criticizing the romantic ways and is showing great enthusiasm in realism. ...

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• Grade Level: High School