Daniel Yu Ms. Sheehan ELA-Period F October 16‚ 2013 Captain Tory “Wake up everyone! It’s time to start another great day!” Ben woke up with a start. “Can I sleep a little longer? I still feel worn-out from yesterday‚” yelled another child. Ben peered out the small window that was installed in the attic and wondered if he would ever meet his parents? He had been dreaming of them even more lately. He put on a small worn old shirt and jeans and stepped cautiously down the squeaky old stairs
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Roger Chillingworth is a physician in The Scarlet Letter‚ by NathanielHawthorne. Captain Ahab is the experienced captain of a ship called The Pequod inMoby Dick‚ by Herman Melville. Although there are some differences between them‚Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab have evident similarities in the way evilmanifests itself in each of them.First of all‚ Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both want revenge on someone orsomething that has wronged them. Chillingworth’s wife‚ Hester Prynne‚ committedadultery
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"O Captain! my Captain!" Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! my Captain!" after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman describes Lincoln as the captain of the ship‚ as the leader of the country; he also refers to him as a father: "Here Captain! dear father!"(13)‚ "My father doesn’t feel my arm‚"(18). Clearly‚ a captain is not a father. Why‚ then‚ does Whitman connect the two together? Are there certain similarities between them that can’t be avoided? A captain is
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“O Captain! My Captain!” Literary Analysis Every great nation’s past contains a great leader who sacrificed everything for his or her country. Abraham Lincoln gave his life after striving to abolish slavery. Soon after Lincoln’s murder‚ Walt Whitman wrote an apostrophe poem to Lincoln. In this eulogy‚ Whitman praised Lincoln’s accomplishments and mourned his death. In “O Captain! My Captain!”‚ Walt Whitman uses repetition‚ symbolism‚ assonance‚ and metaphors to portray the theme that every great
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Captain Ahab and Moby Dick: Literary critics point to a variety of themes and juxtapositions when analyzing Herman Melville’s "Moby Dick". Some see the land opposed to the sea or Fate opposed to free will. Most mention man versus nature or good versus evil. A perspective that seems overlooked though is the perspective of the self and the other. The self and other is when one discovers the other (something not us) within oneself‚ when one realizes that one is not a single being alien to anything
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Superhero essay: Captain America As a child he stood out from the rest‚ something was different about him and no one could figure it out. Who knew that Steve Rogers would one day be saving the world from the evil Nazi’s and the Axis powers. Steve Rogers was born during the Great Depression into a poor family and was always seen as being very week (Wikipedia). Tragically he loses both of his parents very young‚ his father when he is just a child‚ and his mother when he is in his teens. He decides
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Captain Ahab is a mysterious‚ revenge-seeking commander who utilizes his crew’s fear of him to get his revenge. Captain Ahab has a mysterious aura of mystery surrounding his character. He is described as looking like a man “cut away from the stake‚ when the fire was overrunningly waste all the limbs without consuming them‚” (283). This description of his appearance is used to show the effect his pent up anger for Moby Dick has had on him with time. However‚ he hopes to relieve this burden by getting
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the Speaker’s Attitude In the given passage‚ Captain MacWhirr‚ a simple yet mysterious sailor‚ recollects his past choices and relationship with his now deceased parents. Although the achievement of becoming a captain would normally be praised‚ the disapproval of his parents reduces the accomplishment in the eyes of the reader‚ which reveals the attitude of the speaker and defines the captain’s character. The speaker’s diction juxtaposes Captain MacWhirr’s peaceful simplicity with his father’s
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the public with products that were in high demand for reasonable prices‚ and opened their markets to countries overseas. Although many people believe the early industrialists were Robber Barons who exploited the poor‚ these great men were truly Captains of Industry who created new ways of doing business‚ and provided products and services to the public; moreover‚ they were generous philanthropists who contributed much to society. Many people believe that these "Robber Barons" were evil‚ heartless
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story is Captain Ahab. Captain Ahab is a man who is obsessed with finding the Great White Whale. I believe that the most interesting thing about Captain Ahab is how he is so obsessed with trying to find the great white whale that in my head I think that his obsession will make him insane. The reason for his obsession for finding the Great White Whale came from When Moby Dick Bit off one of his legs which left him with a prosthetic leg made out of whalebones. This is the reason for Captain Ahab’s obsession
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