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Term Papers on English
Hands
Number of words: 1037 - Number of pages: 4.... descriptions of Biddlebaum, the narrator states that Biddlebaum "did not understand what had happened" when he was disoriented by fear, but felt "that his were to blame" after he was driven from Pennsylvania." Biddlebaum's confusion and isolates him from his environment, to his detriment. Anderson also explores Biddlebaum's fear of his . "For a moment he stood thus rubbing his together and looking up and down the road, and then fear overcoming him, ran back to walk again upon the porch of his house." Biddlebaum "wanted to keep [his ] hidden away" for reaso .....
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The Glass Menagerie 2
Number of words: 1194 - Number of pages: 5.... At the end of the play, Tom realizes that he will never be able to forget the sister he left behind.
Character Sketches:
Tom Wingfield-
The son of Amanda Wingfield. He is the sole economic supporter of the Wingfield family. Tom is a poet who is employed at a shoe factory and spends his nights drinking in order to escape.
Amanda Wingfield-
Mother of Tom and Laura. She is a middle-aged southern belle whose husband had abandoned her. She spends her time reminiscing about the past and nagging her children. She is completely dependent on Tom for financi .....
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Careful, He Might Hear You 2
Number of words: 1291 - Number of pages: 5.... over. PS was settled in life until Vanessa entered and shattered it into disharmony. The arrival and presence of PS's invidious aunt creates a lot of stress for the small boy. He must endure changes in his home, school, and lifestyle. All of this was done against the will of PS, who strongly resented the proposition of these changes.
This incident displays the lack of importance the opinion of a child holds in society. PS disliked Vanessa, but his opinion was held irreverent. This was made apparent by his experiences of acute nostalgia.
Lila, his pseudo- .....
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Jane Eyre - Nature
Number of words: 1912 - Number of pages: 7.... union with Rochester. Later, Brontë, whether it be intentional or not, conjures up the image of a buoyant sea when Rochester says of Jane: "Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was . . . not buoyant." In fact, it is this buoyancy of Jane's relationship with Rochester that keeps Jane afloat at her time of crisis in the heath: "Why do I struggle to retain a valueless life? Because I know, or believe, Mr. Rochester is living." Another recurrent image is Brontë's treatment of Birds. We first witness Jane's fascination when she reads Bewick's Histor .....
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Samson Agonistes
Number of words: 2092 - Number of pages: 8.... and blinded by them, deceived by his own wife. After a life of such heroic activity Samson begins to question why him. His thoughts swarm upon him like a deadly swarm of hornets armed, no sooner found alone, but rush upon him thronging, and present times past, what he once was, and what he is now. He is really struggling with his current life wanting to know why his breeding was ordered as a person separate to God. Samson lays all the blame on himself saying how impotent his mind was in a body so strong. God gave him the strength to show everyone but the .....
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Olenka In The Darling
Number of words: 671 - Number of pages: 3.... she mourned, she said, “ my precious, my darling! Why did I ever know you and love you! You poor heart-broken Olenka is all alone without you,”(174).
Then Pustovalov came along, the timber merchant, and she once again fell in love. This changed her life from the theater into a new life of business. Her husbands ideas were hers. If he thought the room was too hot, she thought the same.
At one point, she tried so hard to act like the one she loved and it drove her third husband away. Her third affair was a veterinarian who was there for her after .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God -
Number of words: 911 - Number of pages: 4.... She hopes that her forced marriage with Logan would end her loneliness and desire for love. Right from the beginning, the loneliness in the marriage shows up when Janie sees that his house feels like a "lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been" (Hurston 20). This description of Logan's house seems symbolic of the relationship they have. Janie eventually admits to Nanny that she still does not love Logan and cannot find anything to love about him. "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dea .....
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