As readers, we try to relate to the characters we read about. We are always more intrigued with a book when we have something in common with one or more characters. When Bronte created the main character of the book, Heathcliff, she had no interest in creating a character we could relate to. Yet we ...
Turner i The Loyalty of Love Thesis Statement: Catherine Sloper chooses to love her father and her lover who both misjudge her loyalty of love, out of their own vanity. I. Plot Summary of Washington Square A. Austin Sloper, the domineering father B. Catherine Sloper, a simple minded daughter...
The book starts out by describing Oceania under a dictator. Winston Smith is the main character in the novel and he lives in Oceania formerly London. It becomes clear that he against the government. He tries to write in his journal about an event that had happened earlier in the day, but it is hard because there is a camera in his room watching him. Earlier that day he looked into the eyes of a top ranked official and saw that he too was against the government. ...
Ezra Pounds poem "The Jewel Stairs' grievance" was a little confusing to me to be honest. "The jeweled steps" "gauze stockings" "crystal curtain" and "watch the moon" to me symbolizes a queen in a palace where the grounds are covered in snow and she opens the curtain while watching the moon thinking about her Ex (boyfriend, husband) or her future partner. The quote "gauze stockings" symbolizes her as a royal queen or someone among high ranking. While the quote tends to describe her as a royal queen, she lives inside a palace or s...
1 An Absent Father The impact of a fatherless home has consequences that sometimes cannot be realized until much later in life. In addition, when a father who is in the ministry, commits a grievous sin, it affects not only his family's views but the views of his congregation as well. The impacts of sins of the clergy are as consistent today as they were in time period this was written. Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister, is the main character. While holding the high office of a minister he commits a grievous sin, the act of adultery....
In a summary of Blanche's life, she was somewhat wealthy and then after the death of her husband, the loss of Belle Reve, and her leave of absence from her high school teaching job, she now has no money or way of making money, which is why she is living with her sister Stella. ...
The ways in which Tibetan Buddhists practice their religion have always been intriguing to me. Many people choose Potala Palace as their pilgrimage destination because it is said to be the closest place to the Paradise. Most of them go on their journeys on foot and crawl on their hands and knees for...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers The story takes place in a small sorrowful town, where in fact usually nothing happens. One of main characters is Amelia Evans, a strong, almost masculine woman who ran a liquor store in the town. She was rich, nineteen years old girl considered handsome, although she was too big and too muscular, when surprisingly she decided to marry Marvin Macy, a town's villain and evil man. But love, because Marvin was deeply in love with Amelia, changed him completely. He started to go to church, he learned good manners etc. and then he pro...
All things change with time. Whether it's fashion styles, workout fads, or the hottest new diet plan, our way of living is constantly evolving at a speed faster than some of us are even able to keep up with! One of the factors of our ever-changing society that has made the biggest impact on our lives is technology, and more importantly the way we use them in our every day relationships. In "Her," a film by Spike Jonez, the main character, Theodore, finds himself in a tough situation when he falls in love with his new operating system (OS), Samantha. This film as well as the book W...
"Tar Baby," by Toni Morrison, manages numerous issues and subjects. However the focal point of the novel is the contention between its fundamental characters Jadine and Son. Really, the author has figured out how to portray an incomprehensible circumstance when two persons adore one another, or they say they do, however they cannot generally be together as one due to the emotional contrast in their perspectives and impression of the world. Truth be told the distinction in their philosophies turns into the principle issue that isolates them and make their affection essentially unimaginable and ...
