Literature

CONTENTS The main characters of the book are: Atticus Finch - Atticus works as a local lawyer in Maycomb and is the single father of Scout and Jem. He strives to raise the children with pride, honor, and integrity to believe in their ability to see and make decision on things appropriately. He makes a good model of what he...

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Author of Leaves of Grass and, quite coincidentally along with another great poet Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman was born on May 31st, 1819. He is considered one of the pioneers of American poetry. In this poem, Whitman questions the constraints of life, and leaves out the answers to the readers. To You BY WALT WHITMAN LET us twain walk aside...

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Summary Le Morte d’Arthur is the tale of King Arthur. It begins with the formation of the Knights of the Round Table and follows the rise of King Arthur and his tragic fall. The story begins with Uther Pendragon, the King of England who lusts after Igraine, who happens to be the wife of the Duke of Tintagil. They conceive a...

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CONTENTS Quotes and Analysis Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. The most popular quote in the book, these are the words that Johnny utters as he lays dying. Stay Gold is a reference to the poem by Robert Frost that Ponyboy read to Johnny while the pair hid out in the abandoned church. As the poem says, “Nothing gold can stay,”...

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Quotes and Analysis The reward of sin is death? That’s hard. Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas. If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die in everlasting death. What doctrine call you this?...

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Major Themes The Inevitable Loss of Childhood Innocence Everything from Alice’s physical changes to the discomfort she feels in the presence of the Duchess represent the inevitable movement from childhood to the lost innocence of adulthood. Alice begins as a cool and rational girl, but all of her sense of order is shaken as she encounters characters and situations which...

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Important Themes Imagination and Intellect Anne is an extremely imaginative young girl. In many ways she is completely driven by her imagination to the exclusion of all else. She makes up imaginary friends and idealizes notions of romance and love. Yet, just beneath this world of imagination and wonder is the budding intellect which will propel her through her young...

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CONTENTS Delillo’s White Noise follows narrator Jack Gladney, a professor at a small Liberal Arts college and describes an academic year. Though the novel digresses frequently into small episodes and speculation, the bulk of the novel covers some large events which come to define the narrator and his life. Jack is a professor at The College-on-the Hill where is the...

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Quotes and Analysis They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die...

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General Introduction George Orwell’s 1984 is considered a masterpiece of dystopian fiction. Made into numerous movie versions and coopted even for television commercials, Orwell’s novel is considered to be the high point of nightmare futuristic visions of state oppression and thought control. The novel has experienced continued re-birth and relevance as the 20th and 21st centuries ushered in unprecedented forms...

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