... to buy it to see what my opinion was. I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it because I am normally a fantasy reader and don't usually go for this kind of book. But when I got home with it I picked it up and it stayed permanently attached to my hand until I finished it. It was finished in one week. My summer ... go put out fires. However the government has banned all books from the United States. They figure any book can cause disagreement by someone. Even the smallest minority could find a book that they think is prejudice towards them. Hence, Guy's job as a fireman is to burn any and all ...

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... people talk about good books its some 1000 page monstrosity that you can't even get past the first sentence because it hurts your brain. That's what most people see a good book as. The more you can't understand it the better it is. Luckily, I"m shying away from that view and realizing that it doesn't matter what people say or what the "intellects ... about then its not going to say anything to you. This book is small and straightforward but it said a heck of a lot of things to me. I hardly ever get upset when reading a book but when I finished reading this, I actually wept. All the hidd...

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... western farmers, they pack up and move to California. During the long, hard trip many members of the family begin to change. Ma is one of the first who changes. When the book began, she behaved like a traditional housewife, taking care of the children and cooking and keeping quiet while the men talked. However, on the road when ... the family wants to split up, she revolts. She takes a jack handle and threatens Pa. Pa lets her have her way. Now through the rest of the book, Ma is the head of the family. She tells the Joads what is going to be done and where they're going. "Pa sniffled, "...

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... and Men by John Steinbeck, a difficult book to read. The language was very detailed and the speech was lazy as they left out letters, "You can't keep a job and you lose me ever" job I get. Jus" keep me shovin" all over the country all the time. An" that ain't the worst." However, by the end of the book I understood the language used and I actually read ... the book again and picked up a lot of things I first missed. I was curious about the origins ... of the title and discovered it was from a line in a Scottish poem- "The best ... ...

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... moved them to Tenterden, Kent because a plague broke out in Ashford. In 1625 at the age of thirteen John wrote an autobiography called Wallis Comments. In this book he explain that he is ready and capable of attending a university at his age. Later John did go to college. He attended Emmanuel College Cambridge ... fun he would do math problems. To him it was entertainment. In 1640 he graduated from college with his masters Degree. After College he got a job as a person that decoded messages. At this time a Civil war was going on and he decoded messages from the Parliamentarians. He was ve...

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... sized man who is not incredibly brilliant but has good common sense. The two men travel from town to town and job to job to just get by and survive. But they dream of saving up enough money to someday get a place of their own where they "won't have to answer to no one" and "live off the land". CLIMAX AND RESOLUTION FROM THE ... had an extremely great ability to use his strength and become a great worker. However his difficulty to understand his strength lead to his death. GOOD POINT IN THE BOOK The good point in the book is how close George and Lennie really are. They seem to have a gre...

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... on the tumbrils that carried the aristocrats to the guillotine. Yet no one notices them. Both these themes, along with the importance of connections over time, will all come to dominate the book. Book 1, Chapter 2: "The Mail" Summary: On a misty Friday night in November, a mail-coach lumbers up a hill on the ... to life") will become fashionable? By introducing the characters in small pieces, questions like these spring to mind, keeping our interest in the story up. Book 1, Chapter 3: "The Night Shadows" Summary: The narrator begins with some musings on how human hearts have secrets buri...

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... have conflicting ideas as to what the American dream is. Willy believes that working on the road and selling is the greatest job a man could have. Biff feels the most exciting job a man could have is working outdoors. When their two dreams crash, it becomes frustrating to Willy. Willy was attempting to ... . Willy ingrains in Biff's head that a person can do anything as long as they are popular. Because of this belief, Biff develops an addiction to stealing. The reason he lost his job with Oliver was because he stole basketballs from him. He has trouble all his life because his stealing...

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... ." this poem refers to the conditions under which George and lennie live. The book Of mice and men are about to Protagonists ( George Milton, Lennie Small.) that get their dreams become deferred. Cause of a miss understanding that a flirtatious woman cause George, Lennie and candy their dream " to live off the fat of the land." A Friendship between lennie Small and George Milton was like any ... Lennie and George went to their new job ( a other ranch). George said to their new boss "Oh! I ain't saying he's bright. He ain't. but I say he's a God damn good worker." Naturalism between this ...

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... meanings to his sons, Biff and Happy. But in fact, there are two Willy Lomans in the play. There is the Willy Loman, how we met him at the beginning of the Book, as an exhausted man, which life is soon at the end. And on the other side, the young and self-assured Willy Loman, who appears in Willy's flashbacks and ... fantasies. Willy, in real life, is tired and defeated by his bad job-career and difficult family life. Although he has a good wife, but the relationship with his oldest son, Biff, is problematic because of Biff's continual failures. Willy's suicide is the consequence of a s...

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... Lennie is a very large, muscular man whose mind is very slow and is almost childlike. Both characters are traveling ranch hands, going from town to town in search of work. George's and Lennie's characters are round, evolving throughout the story. There are also a few stock characters. Curly, the ranch owner's bully son, has a ... lonely African-American who also works on the ranch. All of these stock characters are flat. This story was written in the 1930's, taking place south of San Francisco. It opens with the two traveling ranch hands, George and Lennie, on their way to a new job at ...

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... West and others acquired their formal film education in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, John Woo learned his craft on the job in the factory like system of the Hong Kong studios. He started his career working as a production assistant at Cathay and then moved to Shaw Brothers ... recognition. The film Hard Boiled (1992) typifies what it is specifically that makes a John Woo film. The film is book ended with two scenes of extreme violence. The opening of the film takes place in a Hong Kong teahouse. When Police Inspector Tequila (Chow Yun-fat) and his partner try ... more bullets". These film...

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... Street...[these songs] had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." (Life of Langston Hughes: I, Too, Sing America) At this same time, Hughes accepted a job with Dr. Carter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black History Week in 1926. He returned ... experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people without personalizing them, so the reader could step in and draw his own conclusions. Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-one years between his first book in 1926 and his death ....

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... flourish, and which eventually consumed him. After working hard for his whole life, Willy wakes up to realize that he is a failure. On top of all of this, both of his sons despise him. His wife is very loving towards him but he does not take time to appreciate it. Because he is a failure, ... Dream." During the whole play there are vivid flashbacks of Willy in his youth. He begins making a salary of $170 per week, he buys a nice home in the suburbs, and has two sons. Life was good at that time. But by the end, Willy dies without a job. Modern buildings have surrounded the neighborhood th...

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... Lost Boy" is the second of three books written by David Pelzer. This book is a follow up of "A Child Called It." "The Lost Boy" chronicles David's life through foster care and his search for a home all the way until he is a legal adult. The book begins with David describing his last experiences with his mother. ... about everything or go into foster care. David goes to foster care. After the trial David is moved to a different foster home. The home of Lillian Catanze. The book describes his troubles of stealing, low self-esteem, and how he didn't fit in anywhere. He lived with Larry, Con...

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... a girlfriend, Rita, who wants a bracelet and he can't afford it. So he plans on selling chocolates and using that money to buy it for her. Leon picks a student for the job of treasurer. But after the treasurer turned in the treasurer's report, Leon sent out one to the student body that was completely false. Figurative Language and Imagery: Page68- "His parents had ... making him very nervous in class. Leon- Each time Jerry refuses the chocolates he becomes more and more livid about the situation. Chapter15: This has been the most confusing aspect of this book for me to date. Back when A...

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... seditious remarks. A jury acquitted him but the event would surface in some of Blake's later works including one of his masterpieces, Jerusalem (1804-20). After 1818 and until his death on August 12, 1827, Blake produced no more poetry but continued his engravings including the twenty-one plates of the Book of Job and illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. Blake continued his creative vision until his ... death having lived in London, with the exception of his time in Felpham, his entire life. He was buried in common grave in relative obscurity. His wife died ... four years later. Th...

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... , the way it was described. The authors did a great job creating the setting. There are many characters in the story, but the main characters are Tim and Sam Meeker. The story focuses on their lives during the Revolutionary War. Tim is the younger of the two brothers. He is fourteen at the beginning of the story, while Sam is attending college at Yale ... . The plot is very believable and is very much like how people would have felt and lived during the war. I think the authors did a great job researching the war to make the plot, and I can't think of a way to make it better or improved. ...

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... population) 3.The Proles (app. 81% of the population) ("1984- 5) The main character of 1984 is Winston Smith, a member of the OuterParty. Working in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, his job is rewriting and altering records, such as newspaper-articles, of the past, and then throwing them down the, "Memory Hole, where they are burnt."" The beginning of the book is mainly just Winston describing the world ... three chapters titled, "War is Peace", "Ignorance is Strength" and "Freedom is Slavery", which were also the main phrases of the party. This book is the cornerstone o...

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... -Semite organization called the Black Hundreds. Putting his doubts behind him, Yakov decides to help the fat Russian. Not aware of Yakov's origins, the Russian offers him a job as a reward. The job, however, requires him to live in a district prohibited to Jews. Out of desperation, Yakov agrees. Only a few months later, honest, hard-working Yakov, is caught. Authorities had found out he is a Jew ... a very literal meaning, however it symbolizes a much more profound thought. Literally, the title only refers to the main character of the novel, who makes a living as a fixer, or handyman. It...

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... and what it has become. In the end John commits suicide due to society. The book starts out in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center. The director (Tomakin) is leading a tour of students and showing them the process of how human beings are created, Lenina is one of the workers. He also shows the students how the children are conditioned by sleep teaching ... the morning he wakes up and is so ashamed he took part in something he despised and hangs himself. I think the theme of this book is that a genuine, free life requires pain and sadness. People can't know the true value...

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... the office opens before seven.". Even though Gregor was never late to work or had never been sick, he hated his job and just as Kafka, he was a frustrated person. An example of Kafka's frustration may be that he became engaged twice and he broke these engagements with the same girl. Gregor Samsa had ... a passive-aggresive relationship with his parents because although he was patient with them and was helping them financially, he was so tired of doing it and he could not wait to finish paying his parents" debts so that he could at last take a long break. Even though he ... really long ...

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... in America after it's first publication. "John Lennon's killer, Mark Chapman, asked the former Beatle singer to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he killed John. Police found the book in his possession upon capturing the psychologically disturbed Chapman." However, the book itself contains nothing that could lead Chapman to act as he did. I could have been any ... . He is every teenager caught between the little games of high school ("you're supposed to kill yourself if the football team loses or something") and the fear of adulthood ("going to get an office ...

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... . For example, early in the chapter, after Obi has had his interview, Joseph tells Obi that he should not have become angry in the interview because he was looking for a job and someone in his position cannot afford to become angry. Obi claims that this is a "colonial" mindset, which is an insult. Achebe is particularly upfront in his social and political ... on Obi's homecoming. However, Obi's father does not believe in such traditional practices because he has converted to another religion, the religion of the colonizer, in fact. One of the most beautiful and humorous episodes in the b...

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... whaling in the first place. Whaling is a very dangerous business, and it was entirely possible for many men to get crippled or killed. The narrator of the story, Ishmael, goes whaling for the first time in this book. He shows courage by facing the unknown, and whaling with a dangerous captain. I agree with Melville's idea that facing great odds can be courageous, but ... that they were looking in a dangerous area for bodies only, and yet they struggles day and night to recover any remains they could. That, to me, is the greatest display of courage I have seen in any book, movie, or news...

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