Beach Burial
.... awareness of national identity. Now I found this hard to believe at first – For me to be able to use this poem, (as it has been my one of my favourites for years) I though that for it to have ANYTHING to do with national identity I would have had to use my creative ability to dissect and warp aspects of the poem that COULD have something to do with national identity if the poet had actually CHOSEN to write about national identity. Basically a lot of windbagging- and as much I was looking forward to see .....
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Beautiful Blueberries (About Into The Wild)
.... that after writing a magazine article on McCandless he remained "haunted by the particulars of the boy's starvation and by vague, unsettling parallels between events in his life and those in my own." Unwilling to let McCandless go, Krakauer spent more than a year retracing the convoluted path that led to his death in the Alaska bush, chasing down the details "with an interest that bordered on obsession" until he finished writing the book. In this fierce passion, Krakauer is not only telling of McCand .....
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
.... be observed in fact to attend even upon desperate human occasions "(Sewall 90). Examining Emily Dickinson's poem which begins " I heard a fly buzz when I died" in the light of the theological tradition the author was nurtured in, the reader finds a new symbolic value such as the fly. The fly symbolizes putrefaction and decay " I see the fly as an agent or emissary of Satan," one author wrote, "the Satan puritans would expect to be present at death of and individual possibly or certainly damned to hell" ( .....
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
.... The poem has a certain calm and tranquil feeling to it that makes the reader think of death in a different way than one usually would. Death is usually linked with thoughts of violence and rage not with a tranquil ride in a carriage. In stanza two Dickinson writes, "We slowly drove, he knew no haste, and I had put away my labor, and my leisure too, for his civility." The speaker respects Death throughout the journey and for the fact that he is not hurrying to arrive at their destination. It s .....
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Behind The Urals
.... equals. However, when the Russian Revolution came to a head, and the Red Communists or Bolsheviks defeated the White Czarists, Russia was left with an entirely new system of thought in its government. This ideology viewed the working class and peasantry as the main citizens in their society, while the rich landowners were not nearly as powerful as they once were. Thus the workers of Magnitogorsk held a very important position as they had the responsibility to help the Soviet Union take flight as a country .....
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Bella
.... mother never could get rid of obsess ional memories and phobia, that something similar can happen to somebody from her family. And on the first place in the candidate list was always I.
As soon as I was taken off from mother’s chest, I have started having conversations with the teacher – an aged rat with a nickname Mavr. He told me about the world in which we live, about the people who become a ruling race on the ground, about our antagonism with human civilization and at the same time - our .....
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Beloved
.... in her act of murder. She is indignant and frustrated with Paul D. confronting her: Sethe knew that the circle she was making around the room, him, the subject, would remain one. That she could never close in, pin it down for anybody who had to ask. If they didn't get it right off-- she could never explain. Because the truth was simple, not a long-drawn-out record of flowered shifts, tree cages, selfishness, ankle ropes and wells. Simple: she was squatting in the garden and when she saw them coming and .....
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Beloved
.... Sethe decided to share the pies they would make from the berries with Ella and her husband John, and from this their generosity escalated into a full-fledged feast for all the colored people in the area. The area folks accepted the generosity, but resented the bounty of Baby Suggs and her kin. They disapproved of the uncalled-for pride displayed at 124, and were offended by Baby Suggs's excess. Because of this they failed to warn Baby Suggs and Sethe that four white men on horses who were approaching.
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Beloved
.... grandchildren and daughter-in-law were finally together, she no longer felt the support (137). As if the weakness Baby was suffering from their disapproval was not enough, the family was hit with another blow, when Sethe was imprisoned. As Sethe is being taken away by the sheriff, the community who was already looking unfavorably upon the family's pride, asked the questions: "Was her head a bit too high? Her back a little too straight?" (152). These questions foreshadowed how, as long as 124 continu .....
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Beloved
.... what her mother had done. Only when her mother's conscience manifests itself as the ghost of the baby does Denver's hearing return.
Denver, having as a child suckled her sister's blood with her mother's milk, attaches herself to this ghost, the manifestation of her mother's guilt. She makes friends with it, because due to her mother's heinous deed, she will have no other friends in the community. Denver must make peace with what her mother did in order for her to survive, and she accompl .....
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Beloved
.... she wants to own Sethe, a relation not unlike that of a master and slave. "I am Beloved and she is mine," (Morrison 211) is one of the more eerie statements in the book. How Beloved traps Sethe is simple, for Sethe "the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay" (Morrison 42) and when her past, Beloved, catches up with her the future is gone and she is enslaved. What's more, Beloved does not intend to allow her slave to go free, "I will not lose her again." (Morrison 214)
When Beloved re .....
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Beloved - Internal Conflicts
.... a lonely life, brightened only when Beloved finally appeared. And when Beloved eventually became a detrimental force in Denver and Sethe's life, Denver was forced to enter the world and society. And her meek and gracious nature gained her immediate acceptance. "It didn't stop them from caring whether she ate and it didn't stop the pleasure they took in her soft 'Thank you.'" Although it was a necessity, Denver was able to break through the fear she had of society and of leaving 124. Her biggest pers .....
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Beloved By Toni Morisson
.... jumbled chronologically, reflecting the survivor's inability to dwell in one area for too long and his or her own difficulty in articulating the story. Oftentimes, this regression stems from the pain of the memories.
In Beloved, these digressions and regressions take the form of "re-memory". The concept of re-memory is central in the author’s telling of Sethe's story. Sethe explains what a re-memory is to her remaining daughter Denver in the following passage:
" . . . Some things go. P .....
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Beloved: The Human Condition
.... other hand, was a sad and angry spirit who fought death in order to return to life so that she could assuage her vengeful, obsessive love for Sethe. Never quite sure what had happened, the two year-old spirit believed that Sethe had left her behind and came back "to the one [she had] to have" (76). In the beginning, Beloved longed to receive Sethe's attention. She seemed tranquil sitting near Sethe, as the older woman prepared breakfast in the morning. It wasn't until the day in the Clearing, when Belov .....
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Beloved-Water Motif
.... flooding the boat when Denver was born" (p.50). When Sethe looked at Beloved’s face, her bladder filled up. When she was relieving herself, the amount of urine reminded her of flooding the boat when her water broke at the time Denver was born. Denver’s birth is associated many times with water. Throughout her novel, Toni Morrison also uses the motif of water to signify re-birth. When we first meet Beloved, Morrison writes, "A fully dressed woman walked out of the water" (p. 50). In this p .....
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