and Aunt Alexandra are three influential people in the novel that shape who Jem and Scout will become. Atticus teaches Jem and Scout accepted behavior in society. Similarly‚ he educates them about tolerance. Also‚ the children learn to respect their elders through their father’s interactions with Maycomb and others. .Although Boo did not speak to the children in the beginning of the novel‚ he has
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urges Hester to say the name of her accomplice‚ he offers her to tell him Pearl’s father in exchange for taking off the scarlet letter and Hester responds‚ “ Never! It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony‚ as well as mine!”(55). This shows that although‚ the letter was meant to inflict shame upon Hester‚ it was not meant to be so deeply branded in Hester that she refuses to say her partner in crime and stands up to the pressures of society. c. I added
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An essay on The Chieftest Mourner by Aida Rivera-Ford The short story focuses on Filipino conventions during the wake of loved ones. It’s also a twist of Filipino stereotypes regarding social conventions such as the ‘kabit’ or the second wife/mistress‚ as compared to the first wife. The story is narrated in a somewhat unbiased‚ childlike tone but it’s actually flavored with insight and implicit descriptions that shows the protagonist’s maturity. There is a good balance of insight‚ as if to give
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with pancreatic cancer”. (Pain Control in Pancreatic Cancer section‚ para. 1) This type of cancer can cause immense pain. Many people who have this type of cancer or any other different terminal disease can lead to having the choice of ending their agony by choosing suicide. Another excruciating type of cancer would be leukemia. In the life story of Holly Berg‚ a Death with Dignity supporter‚ shares the life straining event she went through with her mother‚ who had leukemia. According to Holly Berg
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I sit and look out” by Walt Whitman echoes all miseries and atrocities of life that rose to the surface in the wake of capitalism. 19th century witnessed a sea change in the lives of people as rat race for materialistic possession became more prominent and principles were relegated‚ concerns and emotions were sidelined from inside of human beings. The poet pen pictures such a sad tale of human life by attempting to pose as onlooker who watches everything but does nothing to alter situations. In
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is a theater production written by Mike Daisey‚ an American monologist‚ and directed by Andrew Gallant. The play was produced by Triton College and involved actors from Triton College. I attended the play on Sunday‚ February 26th. The playwright and the director attempted to show the adversity of the workers that worked in a factory that manufactures Apple products‚ and displaying the unsafe conditions
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family members. In both passages‚ food is carried out as a representation of one ’s social status in the hierarchy present in Vietnam during the times of the revolution. In the first passage‚ Aunt Tam hosts a huge banquet celebrating Hang ’s entry into university. With regard to guests attending the feast‚ Aunt Tam claims that "[t]here are going to be a lot of guests" (146)‚ many of which are "important people in [the] village" (147) such as Duong‚ the vice president. From this passage‚ her high and
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narrator give some bitter advice to readers about the nature of warfare and the outcome of blind patriotism. Owen describes his experience of walking behind the wagon in which the dead man has been placed‚ seeing the corpse frozen in the twisted agony of its death. That sight‚ he says‚ would prevent any man from adopting convincingly the notion that dying for one’s country is somehow righteous. When I read “Dulce et Decorum Est” I noticed the intensity of Owen’s images. Owen is able to make
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spectres is the most malevolent‚ and curses the soldier. He perhaps has some grudge against the soldier‚ that he is still alive. “He’ll stay untouched…then live one hour of agony”: this ghost predicts many soldiers common dreaded fear: that he will be forced to live through the hell of the war in its entirety‚ only to be killed in “agony” at its very end. “at sloping arms by one- two- three”: the soldier is drilling. “Sloping arms” was one way of ‘presenting arms’ or holding his rifle. “By one- two- three”
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during his childhood‚ with his elder brother and sister‚ by a grandmother and two aunts. It seems probable that their stem and unsympathetic methods account for Munro’s strong dislike of anything that smacks of the conventional and the self-righteous. He satirized things that he hated. Munro was killed on the French front during the first world war. In her Biography of Saki Munro’s sister writes: “One of Munro’s aunts‚ Augusta‚ was a woman of ungovernable temper‚ of fierce likes and dislikes‚ imperious
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