In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights‚ the romance between Heathcliff and Catherine drives the story and causes untold pain and suffering for everyone in the story. Heathcliff’s motivations as a character are often unclear and left up for interpretation‚ especially after his beloved Catherine’s death. Towards the end of the novel there is a scene that is used to great success to showcase Heathcliff’s mental state before his death. However‚ it does much more than that. Through closely examining Bronte’s
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In The Alchemist‚ Santiago is a young shepherd from a small town and has a dream about a treasure. He sells all his sheep and went in search of the treasure. Santiago is determined‚ courageous and curious to learn new things. As he follows his dream‚ he experiences a lot of difficulties‚ but also he learns a lot. If Santiago doesn’t possess these traits‚ he would never be able to fulfill his dream. Determination is one of the strongest traits that Santiago possesses. As a result‚ his parents
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Charlemagne was a Frankish king‚ later emperor‚ whose rule lasted from 742 CE until 814 CE. Charles the Great was revered as one of the greatest kings of the Early Middle Ages‚ an attitude that was perpetuated by the early authors’ writings about him and his reign. One such author is an eighth-century scholar named Einhard who born in 770 CE in the eastern part of Frankland. After receiving an education from a local monastery‚ Einhard went on to become not only a member of Charlemagne’s court but
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In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ the main character Ponyboy undergoes several changes over the course of the story. At the beginning of the story Ponyboy has a very negative view of the rival gang the Socs. However by the end of the novel he comes to the realization that the gang he belongs to‚ the Greasers‚ is not much different than the Socs. At the beginning of the novel Ponyboy believes that the Greasers and the Socs are completely different. When Ponyboy was talking to Cherry he
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a silly thing like driving‚ and being underage while doing it? Cap Anderson is a flower child‚ who lives in Garland Farms with his sixty-seven year old grandmother‚ Rain‚ who educates him until she has an accident. Cap is different from other characters because Cap comes from Garland which is a whole different world. In Garland‚ there is no money‚ no television and different hobbies from the “real” world. Cap would have never thought he would interact with the world outside of Garland and enjoy
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tells how the narrator’s emotions and feelings change throughout the story‚ emotions and feelings have a big effect on the theme because the narrators change is basically the main themes of the story. It shows the narrators development as a character by describing him being a guard and witness to a man’s death‚ without explaining what that man had done wrong. First he starts off by describing the environment in which the prisoners live‚ but stays away from describing any of them directly
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izabeth Bennet The second daughter in the Bennet family‚ and the most intelligent and quick-witted‚ Elizabeth is the protagonist of Pride and Prejudice and one of the most well-known female characters in English literature. Her admirable qualities are numerous—she is lovely‚ clever‚ and‚ in a novel defined by dialogue‚ she converses as brilliantly as anyone. Her honesty‚ virtue‚ and lively wit enable her to rise above the nonsense and bad behavior that pervade her class-bound and often spiteful society
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In Richmond Lattimore’s The Iliad of Homer‚ substance in one’s identity seems only attainable through seeking glory. Rather than substance‚ the name that they are given serves more as a title than a true summary of their character. Despite the myriad of “heroes”‚ The Iliad displays the worst traits of man in all including the heroes themselves as well as the venerable gods of Olympos. Even with these horrible traits‚ can their extraordinary accomplishments truly compensate and catapult them to hero
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The Need for Friendship Everyone needs a best friend as readers will see in Chaim Potok’s The Chosen. A friend is someone who has your back no matter what happens‚ and not having one by your side will be hard. Reuven‚ the main character in Chaim Potok’s The Chosen‚ starts the book without a true friend. As the story progresses he meets Danny Saunders‚ the son of the Hasidic Rabbi Reb Saunders. Reuven is an Apikorosim Jew. As readers might have guessed Reuven and Danny’s Different Jewish Sects
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a whole. “I‚ like the archfiend‚ bore a hell within me; finding myself unsympathized with‚ wished to tear up the trees‚ spread havoc and destruction around me‚ and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin” (page 124). This example of a dynamic character ties into the scientific evidence that has discovered that children are born unbiased and unprejudiced until influenced otherwise by their
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