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    “Breakfast” “A merry heart goes on all day The sad tires in a mile” (William Shakespeare) John Steinbeck‚ an American author and winner of the Nobel Prize‚ was a leading writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression. Steinbeck is widely known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath  and the novella Of Mice and Men. In the following short story‚ the author tells us about a poor‚ yet united family

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    Accordingly‚ I agree with what Heffernan said that the elimination of the monster’s ability to speak is providing the opportunity for people to have sympathy toward the monster. The first person that the monster had killed in the novel in William Frankenstein‚ who is one of the brother of Victor Frankenstein. He wants to kill William because he wants to take a revenge on Victor. However‚ the first person that the monster killed in Whale’s film is Henry Frankenstein’s servant—Fritz. Fritz tied the

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    David had always heard the stories his parents would tell him about the golden safe.His Grandma would always bore him with banal stories of how his grandpa would spend hours each day trying to open the safe. His house had always been in his family‚ and since his great-great grandpa moved in‚ there had always been a golden safe in the closet of the basement. For years‚ they were adamant about opening it and cracking the code‚ but eventually around the time that david was born‚ they family gave up

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    disapproval for the revolution’s more brutal side would tarnish his reputation among progressives‚ he slyly managed to disguise the disapproval he wanted to audience to feel in sympathy for characters and remains an avid supporter of the people’s right to revolt against tyrannical

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    After reading the end of Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart‚ I had sympathy for the main character of the story; Okonkwo‚ who represents the vulnerability of a tribe by the coming of the Europeans and their Christianity rules‚ and the abuse of power and violence that the officials in the jail used to dehumanize the leaders of Umofia in the last chapters on the novel. An unexpected ending of the novel took me by surprise‚ I believe Okonkwo is a victim from his own destiny and the circumstances

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    Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife as the only women in the ranch and because she doesn’t have a name it shows that she is not important and she is someone’s belonging. The first time you hear about Curley’s wife is when candy describes her to George. Candy uses expression such as “she got the eye” and goes on to describe her as looking at other man because of this they call her a “tart”. Through Candy’s words‚ we could develop an initial perception of Curley’s wife as Flirty and even promiscuous.

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    In The Pearl‚ John Steinbeck describes pearl diving consisting of two ropes tied one to a stone and the other to a basket. The basket remained in the canoe while the rock went down under and lead him to the bottom of the water. "Kino had two ropes‚ one tied to a heavy stone and one to a basket. He stripped off his shirt and trousers and laid his hat in the bottom of the canoe. The water was oily smooth. He took his rock in one hand and his basket in the other‚ and he slipped feet first over the

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    In the story “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck‚ the author develops the theme that materialism and greed left unchecked can lead to immoral behavior. In this story the protagonist Kino has found the pearl of the world‚ that ends up taking over his life and tearing his family apart. The pearl evokes greed in not only Kino but in everyone else. Other than Kino himself several attackers and the doctor continue to hurt his family‚ too. Steinbeck shows that materialism and greed left unchecked can lead to

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    Write about the ways in which Steinbeck presents either Crooks or Curley’s wife. To what extent does he create sympathy for either of these characters? Of Mice and Men is set in 1930’s America in the middle of the economic depression. It is geared towards the pursuit of the American dream‚ promoting the ideas of equality‚ life‚ liberty and happiness. Steinbeck uses Crooks‚ and to some extent Curley’s wife to challenge the perception of equality and sometimes the language used is‚ by modern

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    are lured onto an island and mysteriously murdered. Of the characters in the book‚ some can be considered purely evil. This is seen through their lack of empathy and sympathy‚ even after doing awful things. Firstly‚ lack of sympathy is often tied to psychopaths or sociopaths‚ which is a common trait in people that are evil. Sympathy is the act of feeling pity for someone or something. Vera Claythorne‚ the new secretary of “U.N. Owen”‚ has a pretty bad past as she had murdered a child for the chance

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