The Plague Summary and Analysis In the year of 1940, rats start dying at an alarming, unsettling rate in the ordinary, excluded town of Oran. The horrifying number of rats are dying on the streets, causing consternation in the city.The author's interest peaks within a single character, the town's doctor who goes by the name Dr. Rieux, whose wife has left the city for a short time. After the rats begin to emerge, people start falling ill, their throats swelling up and their fevers blistering
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The settings in The Scarlet Letter are more localized, in contrast to the widespread geography of The Great Gatsby. The areas are more familiar; they are places in Boston or other areas that Hester has a connection with. The relationship the characters have with the settings help to signify the proximity in which the characters are to their sins and their punishments. The scaffold in the marketplace serves the same purpose as New York City in The Great Gatsby. The locations are both areas where moral
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Although Bless Me Ultima is widely celebrated for its authentic description of Latino culture and folklore, it is also a fine example of bildungsroman, or a coming of age story. The main character, Antonio, experiences trials, descents into darkness, heroic feats, and achievement of knew knowledge. By the end of the story he has begun to encounter the real world and grow in maturity which will one day help him grow into a man. He has also learned that not everything has to be as it was in the past
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My favorite Washington Irving story is the Devil and Tom Walker. In this story, the Devil makes a deal with Tom Walker and Tom ends up losing his valuable belongings, his wife, and his soul. Tom encounters the Devil in the woods. The devil offers him a sum of money, but Tom declines it because it means his wife will get some too. When his wife dies and his belongings are taken, he decides to accept the offer and become an usurer. He attempts to escape the devil, but when he makes an unjust decision
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morality tale about Hester Prynne's public shaming at the hands of the Puritan community in 1640's Massachusetts Bay. One of the big topics in this book is guilt. In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the scarlet letter, the scaffold, and Dimmesdale. Hawthorne shows us that the scarlet 'A', (which Hester wears to single her out as an adulteress and sinner), is really just a token of her humanity. Because the truth is that we all have our secret sins. It is just
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It’s in one's human nature to want to help a fellow person in distress right? According to Loudon Wainright's editorial “The Dying Girl that No One Helped” which tells the story of the murder of Kitty Genovese a young pretty woman who was stalked on her way home. Later she was brutally slaughtered. There had been 38 onlookers to this heinous crime. However, none of them granted assistance to their dying neighbor. Society has become a place where people are so concerned with their own well being that
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In American the American novels of The Color Purple and The Scarlet Letter, the protagonists in each book face harsh conditions in their life. These difficulties arise from their community and their marital life. In times of trouble, these characters sought refuge from the cruel treatment of both their communities and their husbands. But both characters had different forms of refuge. Hester shut herself off from the community of Boston, while Celie confided in her close female companions to help
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Is Roger Chillingworth the embodiment of evil or is he misunderstood, was he always like this? Today I will talk about why he is mistaken for an evil man, leach and or the devil. In the book it is shown that Roger was an older, studious man who was ok despite that he ignored her when he married to Hester in Europe. When he arrives to Ssalem he sees his wife has cheated on him and has a child while he was on his way to salem. Then later in the story he is called a physician for Hester showing he
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Foster presents five elements of a quest in his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor: a “quester,” a destination, a specified reason for the quest, obstacles, and the true reason for the quest. He writes, “The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.” Certainly not every story has the same events or the same personalities. Even so, the fact remains that protagonists typically go on a quest not to find their Holy Grails (Foster), but to find more about or in themselves. In The Poisonwood
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Parallels of The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter share common themes that create interesting parallels between the two texts. Although they were written in different time periods by means of two different authors, they both show striking similarities in many categories, including overlapping themes and settings. Interesting parallels among both texts include, but aren’t limited to, public confession, public humiliation, adultery, and setting. First, public confession
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