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Mo.iMP ÜÛÛÜ ßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝÛ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÝ ßÛß
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ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÞÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛß
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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on What Makes a ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Work of Literature with ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [some Examples too. ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 06/94 # of Words:757 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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A work of literature may be defined as a classic because it
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promotes deep insight into human behavior. Both The Scarlet Letter, by
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey give
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a reader a complete understanding of what is going on inside of the heads
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of the characters. This insight into the characters can be used as a
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general insight into human behavior. One insight is that a person's
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physical abilities can be controlled by their mental awareness and stat e
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of being. Another is that they see themselves in relation to those around
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them.
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In The Scarlet Letter, a reader is presented with the feelings of
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Chillingworth, Hester's (the main character) husband, and Dimmesdale
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(Hester's partner in adultry), as they are destroyed mentally as well as
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physically. Chillingworth is afraid of being dishonored by being known as
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the husband of a whore. He also wants revenge on Dimmesdale for corrupting
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Hester. His thoughts are read by the reader, and his actions represent the
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fiendish ways that have overcome him. The way he torment s Dimmesdale is
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seen when he acts as his physician. Chillingworth knows that Dimmesdale
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was the father of Pearl, Hester's daughter. But he wants to torment and
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take revenge on the Reverend Dimmesdale, who suddenly became sick.
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Chillingworth uses his knowledge of the human mind and of medicine to
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deduce that Dimmesdale's sickness lay not in his body, but in his mind: He
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was holding a secret, a deep, dark, secret, that was destroying him. By
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asking Dimmesdale if he were hiding something, Chillingworth angered
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Dimmesdale and tried to torment him. This insight into human behavior,
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that one's physical attributes can be determined by a mental condition,
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makes The Scarlet Letter a classic.
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Ken Kesey gives an excellent insight into human behavior in One
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Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in a similar way to that in The Scarlet
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Letter. Through Chief Bromden, a patient at the mental ward, Kesey shows
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how one sees him/herself in relatio n to others and how the way that he/she
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sees him/herself can affect his/her physical abilities. The Chief had
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thought that he was "small," despite the fact that he was six feet seven
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inches tall. He felt that because he was controlled by the "combin e," or
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the society around him, and because he could not do anything about it that
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he was inferior to those who did and/or tried to. When a new patient,
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McMurphy, was admitted, the Chief saw him as a big man because he stood up
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to the authorities. H owever, McMurphy was much shorter than the Chief and
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had a much smaller build. As the book progressed, McMurphy tried to
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convince the patients that he could lift a huge control panel and throw it
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out a window to escape. He tried, and failed. He al so tried to convince
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the Chief to try to lift it; McMurphy knew that the Chief could, but
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because the Chief saw himself as inferior, he could not. Nearer to the end
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of the novel, the Chief realized that he was growing "bigger" again - he
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was regain ing his previous size from the courage that McMurphy had given
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him. However, McMurphy had been "shrinking," falling under the control of
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the Combine. The final blow was when Nurse Ratched ordered a lobotomy on
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McMurphy. From then on he was as smal l as ever to the Chief. The Chief,
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however, now realized that he himself was bigger than ever; he put
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McMurphy out of his misery by smothering him, and lifted the huge control
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panel that he was previously convinced he could not. He threw it throug h
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the window and escaped. Ken Kesey may have realized that people sometimes
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seem different because of the power or freedom that they hold. He may have
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known that they saw themselves only relative to others around them. It is
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possible that he expre ssed these ideas in his book, using the Chief and
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McMurphy as his subjects in the situations previously described.
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If a work of literature shows deep insight into human behavior, as
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do The Scarlet Letter and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, then that work
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can be considered a classic, as Hawthorne's and Kesey's are. The major
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insight in common is that bot h authors realized that mental and physical
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conditions are interrelated and depend upon each other. Also, Kesey showed
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how a person sees things in perspective to things around him or her.
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