To anyone who has ever felt prideful,
I was assigned to read Great Expectations for a class assignment. I wasn’t too thrilled about it, but eventually, I opened up to it. The story is about Pip is an orphan living with his sister and her husband. SPOIL ALERT, he visits his parents’ grave and a convict comes to him makes him to steal food and file for his leg irons. The convict eventually gets caught, but he claimed he stole the items himself. Pip later met a girl named Estella, who he slowly fell in love with. He even hopes that Miss Havisham intends to make him a gentleman and marry him to Estella Miss Havisham decides to help him become a common laborer in his family’s business. Pip works in the forge unhappily, struggling to better his education with the help of the Biddy. Pip’s...
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In the book The Great Gatsby, Nick is an average middle class citizen, his neighbor and friend Jay Gatsby is one of the richest men in the city of New York during the mid 1920’s. Jay throws these luxurious parties and always has the best quality of stuff you can buy. Everyone who lives in the world automatically gets put into 1 of 3 tiers, Lower Class, Middle Class, and the Upper Class. This gets determined when you are born, you follow whatever your parents are. Everyone has to decide if they want to stay in their economic class range or raise their class range, whether you are trying to become an upper class citizen from lower class or if you want to become an upper class from a middle class. There are many ways of going to economic classes that are above you, most people do a lot of...
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There are many different types of guilt. The first type of guilt is when you feel bad for a short period of time and you forget it ever happened. For example, calling someone ugly and apologizing 10 minutes after. The other type of guilt is the type that eats you alive. An example of this guilt is committing a crime. These guilt have two completely different meanings.
In the novel Crime and Punishment, the main character Raskninikov commits a crime. He murders a land lady and receives the second type of guilt. He gets anxious and is very uneasy with the idea of him committing the crime and getting caught later on. Another example that relates to Raskninlkov is a man named Darin Strauss who committed a crime but by accident. Being a teenager at the time and not paying attention, he hit...
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I was assigned to read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini in my Honors Composition class. I was super excited to read this book and once I dove in I was totally enthralled by the complexity of the book. The Kite Runner is a story about two best friends who are torn apart by a tragic event. Amir is the son of Baba who is a wealthy business man. Ali is Baba’s servant and Hassan is his son. Amir and Hassan did everything together and Hassan’s love for Amir was unmatched. Hassan did everything for Amir. They lived in Afghanistan where the sport of kite running was very popular. Amir and Hassan were a great duo. Amir would cut the kites out of the sky and Hassan would run them down. One time, Hassan was running down the last kite for Amir when he got caught up with three bullies and was...
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Dear Guilty People,
For my English class, I was required to read a classic. I decided to read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Originally, I wasn’t super invested in the book. But soon I really began to enjoy it and appreciate the power it brings. It really opens your eyes to what guilt is truly like.
And you won’t find a greater example of the effects of guilt as you will in Crime and Punishment. The book follows a young man named Raskolnikov, and how his life begins to fall apart after he murders an old pawnbroker and her sister. He begins to go mad in guilt and paranoia, causing him to treat those he loves horribly. His health also declines. It doesn’t take long for him to realize that he wasn’t as superior as he thought (the murder was sparked by his idea that those who...
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Dear Citizens of Our Society,
As a high school student, I have been assigned to read a book, Brave New World. This book was different from most novels that I’ve read and many could consider it disturbing. The more I read this book the more I noticed how closely the characteristics of our societies are related.
In Brave New World the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs where all its members are happy. In both settings the way we reproduce isn’t natural. Brave New World society uses the factories to reproduce. In modern society we use implantation methods to help reproduce. Implantation is the act of implanting and this, in human beings, refers to the act of the fertilized egg attaching...
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We had a couple of books to choose from in class and I picked Gulliver’s Travels because I had seen the movie with Jack Black. This book was nothing like the movie and it was hard to understand because it was so old and had difficult writing in it. I didn’t think I would get much out of this book but I tried digging deeper into the writing and I really understood the fourth part in this book. If you haven’t read this part, it is the story about a man named Gulliver who was stranded on an island full of intellectual horses known as Houyhnhnms. In this society the horses are the ones that control everything and the humans known as “yahoos” are animals with no morals. The Houyhnhnms have no names and all look almost the exact same. They think the same and act the same and have nothing that...
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To anyone who has ever felt like they need to change themselves to fit in with others,
in the beginning of the book Gulliver’s Travels Gulliver ended up on an island that has a very small kingdom. everything is small: the animals, the plants the, houses even the people. Gulliver was held against his will for a little while and had to conform to what the Lilliputans wanted to get his freedom. He fought for them, worked for them and did whatever they wanted him to do. If he did not they would not accept him and let him live (chapter I). Gulliver finds himself on an island with giants, they are 60 feet tall while we are only 5 to 6 feet tall. They all think Gulliver is fragile and not important. But to the others he was hug and almost invincible. They treat him like he is worth nothing and...
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Have you ever been in a shipwreck? Have you ever been surrounded by sharks in the middle of the ocean? Have you ever been stranded in the middle of the ocean on a small lifeboat with a 450 pound Bengal tiger? Probably not! But neither have I and I don’t plan on it. But when it comes to survival, whether it is in the middle of the ocean or in the rain forest or in the Rocky Mountains, it can happen to anyone at any time. In the novel, Life of Pi, Pi probably would have never even imagined that he would be stuck in a boat with a tiger or find himself ashore a cannibalistic island in the middle of nowhere.
In the Life of Pi, Pi struggled to survive with all the obstacles he faced, whether it was fighting sharks or tigers, it is hard to find a personal connection between Pi and...
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Dear rich and poor,
I was given an assignment to read a book and relate it in some way. I chose to the read “The Great expectations” which is about an orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jagger’s that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella (Valerie Hobson), he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker. He was poor and didn’t have no money during his lifetime. People throughout the book judge him for that and his attitude.
I can relate because throughout my life I have been judged because I am not rich or...
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