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  • Story Of Willie Stark
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    The title of the book is All The King's Men and the Publication date for this book is 1996. The author Robert Penn Warren was a very famous author. His life was full of many achievements that helped him become recognized. He even won the Pulitzer Prize for this book All The King's Men. Warren was inspired to write this book because when he was younger he lived in the state of Louisiana and around this time Huey P. Long was already an established politician. Warren started out writing poetry but ...
  • Jack Burden And Judge Montague Irwin
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    Trapped in the Web In the novel, All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters live out the consequences of decisions made in their pasts. Each character deals with the past in a different way. It costs some relationships. It costs some their careers. It even costs some their lives. I believe that Cass Mastern says it best when he says '... the world is like an enormous spider web and if you and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point the vibration ripples to the remotest perime...
  • Knowledge For Stark
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    1 Dave Goff de Calonne / Schmidt Alpha Eng. 10/AP US Hist. All the Kings Men Essay Man As a Slave to Knowledge In Robert Penn Warrens novel, All the Kings Men, Jack Burden states, The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing a man cant know. He cant know whether knowledge will save him or kill him (9). Jacks statement reveals that man is enslaved by knowledge. Familiar sayings such as, Ignorance is bliss, and, what you dont know cant hurt you also state this point. Examples of knowledge e...
  • Stark And Burden Use History
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    Throughout All the King's Men, history plays an important role in the motivations and lives of all the characters. History's importance is most noticeable, not surprisingly, in the story main characters - Willie Stark and Jack Burden - whose lives focus on and, in some cases, depend upon history and how they relate themselves to it. While Willie Stark views history as a tool with which to manipulate people for his own ends, an attitude resulting in his own destruction, Jack Burden's view of hist...
  • Willie Stark Views History As A Tool
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    In the novel All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, the author uses the conflicts, both those of society and the characters, the setting and the attitudes of the community to reflect the period of the 1930's and its similar conflicts, social attitudes and values of the time. All the King's Men is the story of the rise and fall of a political titan in the Deep South during the 1930's. Willie Stark rises from hardscrabble poverty to become governor of his state and its most powerful political ...

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