Fork Of A Road
.... ahead, but can’t see far, due to “where it bent in the undergrowth”. Alistair MacLeod does it differently; the narrator has come to a fork in the road, but without hesitation he takes the more traveled by. This is the first contrast between the two literatures. "And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black." the leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one had yet to pass by on this road. Perhaps Frost does this because each time .....
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A Birthday
.... The symbol of the tree is used to convey a different attitude towards love. It shows the excitement of the character for her rebirth and freedom obtained by the loss of her love.
A character is a fugue who takes part in the action of a literary work. In the two selections the authors use two very different characters in conveying there different attitudes on love. In the poem the character is a young woman who by finding her love dreams of being like a queen at a banquet in a lavish .....
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A Brave New World And 1984 - A Comparisson
.... All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." The drug is at the forefront of their daily lives providing freedom from life's every ill. "The word comes from the Sanskrit language of ancient India. It means both an intoxicating drink used in the old Vedic religious rituals there and the plant from whose juice the drink was made- a plant whose true identity we don't know." (Astrachan) The drug is used as a form of recreation, like sex, and its use is encouraged at any opportunit .....
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A Certain Hunger
.... to thin, but she has starved her body for so long that her brain is telling her that she does not want to eat and that food isn't good for her.
In this day and age when no one in Canada should go hungry, let alone purposely starve herself, society is totally to blame. Models and celebrities are put on pedestals because of their looks. That is where mixed up conceptions about oneself are formed. Almost every magazine cover and fashion page presents skinny women showing off their b .....
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A Child Called It
.... crafty enough to stall his mother’s efforts of physical and emotional cruelty just long enough for his dad to arrive, and he would not receive the most severe option of the abuse. When his mother attempted to make him eat his brother’s stool, he held his head away just long enough to get it taken away at the last second as his father drove up from work.
The games that his mother would make him play would turn deadly. He had to fortunately thank God that she was a former nurse. For example, she t .....
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A Christmas Memory
.... the land in front of them and back over time and understanding, in a very mature manner, the profoundness of the world. With a few words, an elderly lady who has not ventured outside her hometown reveals a secret of life few ever realize. The kites that they give each other each year represent a life of simple pleasures, when things were easier in Capote’s world. This is why, in the end, Capote walks across the campus of his school remembering days gone by, longing for the past, and searching for, again, .....
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A Clean Well-Lighted Place
.... as if he is slowing down his life.
The second waiter introduced is a middle-aged man. He does not say much, but it seems as though that this is because he does not want to get in a fight with the younger waiter. All he does is ask the young waiter questions, as if the middle-aged waiter was sort of stuck in a catch twenty-two. The middle aged man felt for the old man but could not express his feelings to the younger waiter.
Lastly, there is the old waiter. He is some where around the age .....
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A Clean, Well Lighted Place - In Despair About Nothing
.... in, then life is nothing. The older waiter in the story recognizes the existence of nothing: "Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y pues nada y pues nada" (202). As existentialists, men are forced to make all decisions in their lives for themselves, with nothing to believe in except for the positive result of their choices. Existentialists are plagued with dread over their potential confrontation with nothingness, an anxiety that comes with the impossib .....
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A Clean, Well-lighted Place
.... he is alone in the world. He realizes that it is important to keep a clean, well-lit café open for people like the old man who can not sleep. The older waiter recognizes the difference in his café and that of a dark bar or bodega. He knows that "Light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order." He is "reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the café." The reader finds out at the end of the story that the waiter is like the old man .....
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
.... if he is slowing down his life.
The second waiter introduced is a middle-aged man. He does not say much, but it seems as though that this is because he does not want to get in a fight with the younger waiter. All he does is ask the young waiter questions, as if the middle-aged waiter was sort of stuck in a catch twenty-two. The middle aged man felt for the old man but could not express his feelings to the younger waiter.
Lastly, there is the old waiter. He is some where around the age of .....
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
.... author also states that the young waiter is married: "He's lonely. I'm not lonely. I have a wife waiting for me" (143).
There is also an older waiter who is more patient than the younger one. These waiter understands the old man because he does not have a partner waiting for him at home. In addition, he loves staying late in the cafe because it is a peaceful unlike the bar. The older waiter believes he has insomnia, but it is probably an excuse because he does not want to go home .....
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
.... still understands that the money doesn’t matter. Also, the Gentleman can relate to the old waiter because he doesn’t believe money is significant either. So, the more the old man drinks the more these images of his inner self come out. Every night the Gentleman thinks what it would be like to be able to go home to his wife he had once been with and how the clean and pleasant café is a waste of his time. The younger waiter shows this when he says, "I want to go home to bed" and "He .....
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A Clockwork Orange
.... In exchange for his freedom, Alex would partake in this experiment that was to cure him of all the evil inside of him and all that was bad. Alex is given injections and made to watch films of rape, violence, and war and the mixture of these images and the drugs cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. He is released after two weeks of the treatment and after a few encounters with past victims finds himself at the home of a radical writer who is strongly opposed to th .....
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A Clockwork Orange
.... organism lovely with color and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State." Burgess goes on to say, "It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate." This hypothetical type of clockwork orange nowhere appears in the novel because Alex is neither totally good nor totally evil but a .....
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A Clockwork Orange - Calculated Captivity
.... this treatment is morally acceptable or not. In the end however it is obvious that Alex has become a true "Clockwork Orange’ and despite the previous opinion of the reader, Burgess reveals the outcome in a way that causes a sense of relief and is pleased to see Alex back to ‘normal’.
It is fascinating to consider that Burgess may have written A Clockwork Orange as a prophetic view of warning to future societies. He was a peaceful person who didn’t want the stark consequences of the fiction .....
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