In Red Azalea‚ Anchee Min uses the symbol of the Little Red Book to demonstrate the chilling level of control indoctrination imposes onto the Chinese people during Mao’s rule. All throughout Maoist China‚ everyone studied the Little Red Book. It was a book that was filled with Mao’s quotations. The Little Red Book symbolizes the societal worship of Mao in China at the time. The Little Red Book is both a product of this worship and a symbol of it. Everyone was expected to know these quotations‚ as
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THE LITTLE PRINCE: FREE ONLINE STUDY GUIDE / LITERARY ANALYSIS CONFLICT Protagonist The protagonist of the short novel is the Little Prince. He is a simple‚ yet mystical‚ creature from asteroid B-612. One day a seed arrives on his planet and blooms into a beautiful flower. Though the flower is lovely‚ it is vain and irritates the Prince. Finally he leaves his planet‚ to escape the flower. After visiting several asteroids‚ the Little Prince reaches Earth‚ where he meets the narrator in the
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This chapter started out by telling us that Granpa had never held a job in public works‚ which is a job for regular hire. During Little Tree’s childhood‚ corn was very cheap in its regular form‚ but in whiskey form it was worth a profitable amount. Granpa’s trade was making moonshine. This was the only way to make money because they had such a small corn patch that it was impossible to make money selling regular corn. Granpa got his trade from his Scotch side. He thought that it was an honorable
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The puritan era was a time of strife for many early American settlers. They felt the world was at war between the forces of good and the forces of evil. This contention was made evident in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter as the author combines the physical‚ moral and mental state of Roger Chillingworth to highlight the theme of revenge and the evil obsession that takes over Chillingworth’s soul. Hawthorne’s use of figurative language connects Chillingworth’s misshapen form with
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The title for Lillian Hellman’s play The Little Foxes came from the Song of Solomon 2.15. The quote says‚ “Take us the foxes‚ the little foxes that spoil the vines‚ for our vines have tender grapes.” This quote applies very well to the play. One possible reading is the foxes are the Hubbard siblings‚ and the grapes are wealth; the vines could be considered to be anyone that the Hubbards intend to use in order to get the wealth they desire. One way the Hubbard siblings spoil the vine is marrying
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Alexis Byrd 10 September 2015 The Scarlet Letter‚ chapter 14-21 Plot 29 Pgs 196-200- Hester and Pearl are out in the town today. Hester sees Roger Chillingworth and tells Pearl to go play. Roger greets Hester with a very cordial attitude. Hester is taken back by this‚ but she goes along. Roger tells Hester that the Governor has talked about letting Hester take off the scarlet letter. Hester does not like this. She tells Roger that when her punishment time is up‚ her letter will just
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Lions Of Little Rock by Kristin Levine is a story all about rejection versus acceptance. In the mid-1900s the south was a place where you were only accepted if you were white. Little rock‚ where this story is based in was basically like two worlds‚ there was a side of the town for whites and another side of the town for African-Americans. Marlee‚ the main character lives in Little Rock Arkansas with her brother‚ her sister‚ and her two parents. She has always gone to school‚ but she never had any
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Kayla Lang 1/21/14 Sin Victimizes the Innocent In the novel The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the idea of sin and how it affected those in the Puritan era. Hester Prynne‚ with her baby in her arms‚ is ridiculed in front of the entire town. Hester and her daughter are shunned to a house on the outskirts of town‚ isolating them from the Puritan community. Pearl and Hester grow up in the town alone as social outcasts‚ but they do have each other. Pearl is raised by her single mother
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Summary of THE LITTLE PEOPLE By:Maria Aleah G. Taboclaon The elves came to stay w/them he was nine. They were noisy creature. They kept them a wake at night. One night‚his Papa mustered enough courange and he pleased the elves to let this family sleep and resume the banging tomorrow. They didn”t know how the elves would react. They got shock when silence suddenly filled the house. Before six the banging started again and louder this
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A Soundtrack to Suddenly Becoming an Adult The novel A Little Lumpen Novelita begins with a solemn mood starting off with the back story of the main character’s parents’ sudden death. This mellow somber mood continues throughout the novel as they piece their new life together. Bianca searches for the missing love she lost with her parents’ death. She seeks out an older‚ experienced man for the wrong reasons and ends up falling apart even more. This playlist has a dark mood that focuses on the depression
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