Emily Dickenson
.... frogs and bogs" (Lakoff and Turner 209), as well as the lively energy expressed by the poem through its use of dashes and brief wording. Dickinson seems to be addressing her spinster, hermit-like existence (in the line "I'm Nobody") and her preference to it. The poet seems to relate that her situation has not left her without a sense of humor, but in fact has allowed her to maintain a child-like outlook on life rather than adapting to the boring norms of her society ("How dreary .....
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Emily The Fallen Rose
.... she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous .....
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Emma
.... Highbury for a stay in Bath. Emma breaks the bad news to Harriet Smith. As of this time, Frank Churchill has not yet visited his father and his new wife at Randalls, which has caused some concern. Emma, without having met the young man, decides that he must certainly be a good suitor for her, since he is of appropriate age and breeding. Another character who occupies Emma's thoughts is Jane Fairfax, the granddaughter of Mrs. Bates, an impoverished widow whose husband was the former vicar, and the niece o .....
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Emma
.... died when she was only a child and her sister, Isabelle, had married at an early age. This made her mistress of his house from a very early period. Emma’s self image is very strong and she is doubly pleased with her match-making skills, which turn out to be disastrous for her friend Harriet. Harriet Smith is a young girl of an unknown background, but she was a student at Mrs. Goddard’s School. Emma challenges herself to reform and refine Harriet. She becomes to aspire to see Harriet marry a person in a hi .....
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Emma - Romantic Imagination
.... for the poor woman’s situation. Emotions can also be enhanced by imagined details. "I saw the iron enter into his soul—I burst into tears—I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn," (Laurence Sterne, 1768). Through details, Emma stokes the fires of Harriet’s imagination and turns her emotions for Mr. Martin against him. Smith’s idea of sympathy and Sterne’s idea of details come together to form "that extensive influence which language hath over the heart,…strengthens the bond .....
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Epic Of Gilgamesh
.... that piano into the house...throw a party...have a celebration." Although their points of view are similar to their parents, they are very opposed in their strategies for dealing with racism. At a time when racism is at its peak due to unresolved issues on both sides, the future for blacks in America seems bleak. Although slavery has ended, brutal attacks against blacks still exist and many are worse off financially than they were as slaves. Berniece looks at her lifestyle from a realist’s point of vi .....
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Epic Of Gilgamesh
.... the Bible, one of many themes is the quest for something greater than what the seeker currently has, in terms of stature or wealth. One of many examples is the theft of Esau's birthright by Jacob. In Genesis 25: 27-34, Esau Sells His Rights as the First-Born Son, Jacob wanted more than his proper inheritance, he wanted the rights as the first born son. His brother Esau was hungry and asked for some soup that Jacob was cooking. Jacob answered, "I will give it to you if you give me your rights as th .....
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Ernest Hemingway
.... little culture shock due to the fact that Kansas City was a lot more complex than Oak Hill was. His writing style was first introduced by the Star. His writing was brief, and to the point. His writing had to be like that at the time because he was a news writer, but he would carry that style over to fiction when the time came. In May of 1918, Hemingway wanted to join the Army but could not due to a defective left eye which he inherited from his mother. Instead of joining the Army he joined the Red Cross. L .....
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Ernest Hemmingway
.... The endings left the reader to believe that none of the events that occurred during the story had any effect on the characters. In both books, the characters went on living as they always had.
Even with all the similarities in the two novels, there was plenty of room left for differences. The setting was one noticeable difference. In The Sun Also Rises, the setting changed a lot. It moved from country to country, and from city to city. There were so many different places in the book that it was har .....
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Escape Towards Death
.... vain and spoiled person from her birth, Hagar never knew the problems of racism and poverty as other people in her small, midwestern
town knew and felt. Hagar's life was completely devoted to Milkman, her cousin and lover. "He is my home in this world." (pg. 137) Her
happiness, Milkman, would ultimately be her depression as "Ecclesiasties" finally turned her success into failure, though Hagar exaggerated the
loss and apparently was not aware of the Biblical promise that her life would eventually reg .....
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Ethan Frome
.... Ethan. Just as Ethan’s home was once new but has been torn apart by the many harsh winters in Starkfield, so to was poor old Ethan. Ethan’s home has suffered the loss of it "L": "the long deep-roofed adjunct usually built next to the main home, connecting it, through storerooms and tool-house" (11). Ethan removed this portion of his home in order to make his life easier or better yet as a type of symbolism. Consider, the "L" of ones home "presents of a link with the soil, and enclosing in itself the chie .....
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Ethan Frome
.... time Ethan tries to converse with his wife, all he ever hears are her complaints and demands. Thus, he would rather not communicate with her at all. Also, since Zeena looks down on Ethan, he feels that he also must not be worthy enough for Mattie. He believes Zeena's criticisms and they taunt him when he attempts to court Mattie. Ethan further displays uncertainty and shyness by restraining himself from kissing Mattie. The morning after Ethan escorted Mattie home, Ethan's thoughts turn back to last nigh .....
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Ethan Frome
.... needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate liking to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy, and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had to be loyal to his wife. Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure.
Ethan's second failure was not being able to st .....
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Ethan Frome
.... group of girls, and her boyfriend was the captain of the football team, so no one suspected a thing.
One night though, Amber went too far, and when she came home drunk and passed out on her bed, she scared her parents half to death. It was a rough patch in her life, and hurting her family like that made it even rougher.
Autumn never told anyone, but one of her greatest fears was losing all of her friends by getting too wrapped up in a boy. It seemed like it all just happen .....
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Ethan Frome
.... once a fox barked, and Mattie shrank closer to Ethan . . .’(pg.35) Much the opposite, imagery can be used to make the reader dislike a certain setting in order to further the theme of the novel. The use of the wind and the snow in Starkfield help to place a label of despair on the town. The narrator says, ‘The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in all its plaintive ugliness. The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped from the porch, and the t .....
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