The Diviners: How Does Morag's Past Influence Pique's Life
.... to go away? You aren't my mother. I haven't got a mother." (P.111)
Furthermore, Morag does not get married with Jules. When her husband is
Brooke Skelton, she has a sexual relationship with Jules and gets pregnant.
Later, Pique is aware that Jules is her father. Pique has an idea about why she
is different from the others because a typical family should have a mother and a
father, but she comes from a single parent family. When Pique first meets her
father she is at about five years old. Jules .....
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The Fear Of Science
.... The Origin of Species, which became the scientific basis for
the study of the evolution of humans. Many people in the nineteenth century
detested Darwin's theory of the evolution of man because it went against their
religion, which believed that God created the world. Science, soon, developed
the big bang theory, which states that earth was created by the attraction of
atoms. The nineteenth century society was afraid of science because it
contradicted their beliefs, and was afraid that the results of sc .....
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The Monkey's Paw
.... wish is the main
reason he uses a second and third wish.
Mr. White did not want to use a second wish but his wife insisted that
they wish their son back to life. Mr. White wishes his son back to life, but
nothing happens so they go to sleep. They are sleeping when they hear a
knocking sound at their front door. Mrs. White goes downstairs to answer the
door even though Mr. White told her not to answer the door. Mrs. White
approached the door while Mr. White looked for the monkey's paw.
At the ver .....
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The Odyssey And The Pearl: Loyalty
.... Penelope knew that only Odysseus could accomplish this task. By doing
this, she avoided having to marry one of the suitors. Staying loyal to Odysseus
brought about positive consequences to Penelope. She was reunited with her
beloved husband Odysseus.
Kino's wife Juana stayed by her husband through his time of distress.
Although it was her belief that the pearl was an omen of evil, she loyally
stayed at her husband's side. Juana remained loyal to Kino even after he had
savagely beaten her. She kn .....
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Hills Like White Elephants: The Symbolism Of The Setting
.... is dry and barren of plantlife. The ground looks
as if there has been no rain for quite some time. There are hills in the
distance that have a whitish color as the sun radiates on them. The woman said,
"They look like white elephants."(343) White elephants are known to symbolize
unexpected gifts, which is certainly what the baby would be should they choose
not to have the abortion. The barrenness of the land refers the tame life--
settling down and having the responsibilities of parenthood--that .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs And Ourang-Outangs
.... character in Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop-Frog," is able
to transcend the limitations of his physical body. Biologically Hop-Frog is
nothing more than a freak of nature. Hop-Frog is a dwarf. His means of
locomotion was that of an "interjectional gait---- something between a leap and
a wiggle,"(482) and this motion was only afforded to him through "great pain
and difficulty." Hop-frog's teeth are "large, powerful, and repulsive."(484)
His arms, not in balance with his body, have a "prodigious power."(48 .....
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The Writing Styles Of 2 Prominent British Science Fiction Authors
.... from a plausible concept to a ludicrous one.
Science fiction is a relatively new term. Novels were first categorized this
way towards the close of the 1920's. This word was first utilized in short
stories that appeared in the pulp magazines, of the era. The phrase "science
fiction" was considered an enhancement of the term scientifiction. However
several British novels were categorized as scientific romances before the 1920's.
(Aldiss Trillion 27) Before Frankenstein the only forms of science fict .....
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To Build A Fire: Significance Of Words "Dying" And "Death"
.... "he had just heard his own sentence of death." Jack London introduces
death to the reader in this scene. The man realizes "a second fire must be
built without fail." The man's mind begins to run wild with thoughts of
insecurity and death when the second fire fails. He recollects the story of a
man who kills a steer to stay warm and envisions himself killing his dog and
crawling into the carcass to warm up so he can build a fire to save himself.
London writes, "a certain fear of death, .....
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To Build A Fire: Man's Intelligence Is Foolish
.... feeling the effects of the cold more and more as
he goes along, but more than ever he pushes on. Several times he comments that
the cold is making his hands and feet numbed, and frostbite is killing his
cheeks. He thinks "What were frosted cheek? A bit painful, that was all. . ."
(120). Again he chose to ignore an instinct that would have saved him.
The dog, on the other hand, although guided by his learned behavior
still retains his instincts. The dog follows the man throughout his ill faded
journ .....
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Beowulf: Unferth, The Same Martyr
.... Grendel
gives him fate worse than death. Grendel leaves him alive and impotent.
Unferth knows that he cannot kill Grendel yet he cannot be a martyr to Herot
either.
All during the first year of Grendel's siege, the smell of apples fresh
in the air, Unferth tries to be the Grendel's martyr. Oh the heroic Unferth who
died trying to save the people of Herot. Unfortunately he never got to die, not
even dressed up as a goat, a pig or an elderly women. This continuing life of
impotence lead Unferth to a .....
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Unintentional Findings
.... questions about the simplest of matters and constantly thought
about what was wrong and right and how it lead to double-standards. This is seen
when he is asked if he kisses his mother at night. No matter what his answer is
he still gets laughed at and this remains in thoughts for a while. His artistic
vision can probably reflect his incessant habit of always having an opposing
opinion to his schoolmates even if it was something small such as who he thought
the greatest writer was.
In his school Step .....
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Vision Out Of The Corner Of One Eye: Literary Analysis
.... how it felt to molested. It turns out, she got more than
the satisfaction of revenge, but also his wallet.
The main character has lots of moral and emotional choices to make. Though
in the beginning she wants nothing more than to put the incident behind her, by
the end she ironically throws all of her morals out the window and steals the
man's wallet.
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The Black Cat: What Goes Around Comes Around
.... “we
had birds, goldfish, a fine dog, a rabbit, a small monkey, and a cat”(80). The
use of italics hints to the reader of upcoming events about the cat that peaks
interest and anticipation. Poe also describes a touch foreshadowing and
suspension of disbelief when he illustrates his wives response to the cat when
he writes "all black cats are witches in disguise, not that she was ever serious
upon this point-and I mention the matter at all for no better reason than it
happened, just now, to be reme .....
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Hawthornes's Young Goodman Brown And Rappacini's Daughter: Solicited By The Devil
.... until
morning to embark on his journey, "My journey needst be done twixt now and
sunrise" (611). Goodman Brown knows exactly what he is going to look for, he is
searching for evil. He goes to the forest to do his deed and "he had taken a
dreary road darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest" to get there(611).
Goodman Brown is willingly seeking the devil, and Hawthorne is throwing in all
the stereotypes. This entire search for the devil is portrayed as being very
ugly. What then is pretty? In Y .....
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Analysis Of "Scared To Death Of Dying", Article By Herbert Hendin
.... and be closer to his family in his final days. If this
had happened under the Oregon Law, he would have asked a doctor to assist him in
suicide and the doctor would have assisted him without any problem since he had
no mental illness.
Doctors can cause or hastened death without the patient's request. This
can be seen in the Netherlands were a 30 year-old man who was H.I.V.-positive,
but had no symptoms and may not develop them for years, was helped to die.
Probably the doctors didn't explain that even i .....
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