... . Chopping off someone's ear would repulse me and probably make me want to spew my lunch. Tarantinos' characters chop off ears then talk into them as if they were using ma bell. His characters attitudes are totally ruthless. They could give a shit if you were the cousin of the president or a ... nanny. They have a job to do and they do it. No holes barred, no questions asked, no thought given to actions or ... consequences. They are almost like robots, zombies of the underworld that have no emotions or respect for the value of life. You would think these characters are drugged or brainw...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In her story, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", Katherine Anne Porter" talks about many different characters. The story has minor characters that seem flat and undeveloped but one character, Granny Weatherall, has been fleshed out and fully developed. She is a very strong and independent woman, but at eighty years old, is ... herself to ensure that things got done. She always kept a clean and neat house and never ask anyone for help. "She had fenced in a hundred acres once, digging the post holes herself and wires with just a Negro boy to help." Clearly, Granny was a hard working woman and...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... fight to live. Her religion is a blindness; but she needs to be blind in order to survive, to fit into a society that would drive a "seeing" person mad. All of the characters that Bigger says are blind are living in darkness because the light is too painful. Bigger wants to break through that blindness, to discover something of worth in himself, thinking ... him no more than the billboard reading "you can't win" that he sees each day outside his apartment. He has grown up in an environment where enormous rats fester in holes and water is a maybe situation, where meals are precarious and...

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• Grade Level: High School

A very distinctive character found in this novel is Vardaman, mainly because he represents the innocence that the other characters lack. He is the youngest of the four children of Anse and Addie Bundren, and he is quite innocent and nave. These main characteristics make Vardaman react much differently to ... her alive. This act expresses clearly how he rejects the fact that Addie is absent. He cannot bear the fact that she is dead. He demonstrates his denial by putting holes in her coffin which he believed would allow her to breathe. His reaction is quite logical. Vardaman simply associated ...

• Word Count: 564
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School