Summer Of My German Soldier
.... the POW camp he hides in the room above Patty's garage. Patty feeds and clothes Anton. Anton is kind and generous to others, but more than anything he wants to protect Patty. He is one of Patty's only supporters. Pearl Bergen is Patty's mom. She is nervous and quick to judge people, but especially Patty. She is rude and does not protect Patty from her father when he decides to beat her. FBI agent Pierce is the man who comes to question Patty before and after the death of Anton. He is a hard man and is .....
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Summertime Blues
.... to the dark lady-and these can be seen as brutally defiant of Petrarchanism, yet the history of criticism is strewn with failed attempts to determine the identity of this mystery woman" (Hadfield). He starts off his sonnet by implanting an image in our head of a summer day. A summer day triggers a scene that flashes in our head of children playing and the sun shining, basically a carefree day where everything is beautiful. He contemplates whether or not to compare his love to this ideal day, "Shall .....
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Supernatural Elements In Macbe
.... witches’ power that persuaded Macbeth to kill Duncan. They enabled him to see a floating dagger that lead him directly into Duncan’s chamber, where he committed the murder. As the play progresses, Macbeth became more dependent on the witches’ and their predictions. He insisted that they tell him more about what his future holds. This request is the witches’ chance to further mislead Macbeth. “Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn / The power of man: for none of .....
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Supernatural Forces In Macbeth
.... will win the battle, but will lose his time of victory for the battle of
his soul.
After the prophecies of the witches' revealed the fate of Macbeth, the
plan in which to gain power of the throne is brought up. The only way to
gain power of the throne was for Macbeth to work his way to the throne, or
to murder King Duncan. Murdering the .....
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Supernatural Forces In Macbeth
.... hold!’Enter Macbeth Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! The letters have transported me beyond The ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant."(Act I, Scene V, 42-57). The three sisters are capable of leading people into danger resulting in death, such as the sailor who never slept (Act I, Scene III, ll.1-37).
Lady Macbeth has convinced her husband Macbeth to murder King Duncan. On the night they planned to kill Duncan, Macbeth is .....
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Superstitions In Huckleberry F
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killed a spider."(Twain 5).
In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So
Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball
that is the size of a fist that he took from an ox's stomach. Jim
asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here? But the hair-ball won't answer.
Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a counterfeit quarter.
Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball talks to Jim
and Jim tells Huck that it says. "Yo'ole .....
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Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451
.... and changed” (3). Burning rouses the “consequences of unharnessed technology and contemporary man’s contented refusal to acknowledge these consequences” (Watt 1). In these first two sentences he creates a sense of curiosity and irony because in the story change is something controlled and unwanted by the government and society, so it is very unlikely that anything in Guy Montag’s society could be changed. The burning described at this point represents the constructive .....
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Symbolism In Patterns By Amy L
.... these flowers are given motion, and they are described as, “…blowing,” (3) and “Flutter[ing] in the breeze,” (23). This creates a sense of freedom and flexibility. The woman in the poem, presumably Amy, wishes to be like the moving flowers, carefree and jaunty. In the second stanza of the poem, the woman begins to describe the water in the marble fountain. The, “…plashing of waterdrops,” (28) and, “…plopping of the waterdrops,” (54) descri .....
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Symbolism In The Call Of The W
.... and Mercedes wouldn’t have died if they weren’t trying to go to the Yukon to look for gold. Thornton and his camp wouldn’t have been killed if they hadn’t gone looking for gold. All of the characters would have been better off if they hadn’t got so greedy and go looking for gold.
When Buck jumps and severs the jugular vein of the chief of the Yeehat Indians, he kills him along with a number of other Indians. The vein is yet another symbol. It symbolizes Buck’s la .....
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Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
.... social outcasts most always headed West. The only strip of land that connects these two so very different social standings is one of very poor social standing itself, known to everyone as the "valley of ashes". The "valley of ashes" in its own also symbolizes the morality that is lost while traveling from the West Egg to the East Egg.
Overlooking the valley of ashes sits a rather large billboard with the sightless eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg. George Wilson, Myrtle's Husband, identifies the eyes to t .....
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Symbolism In The Novellord Of
.... the hell factor of the island with it's primitivism and savagery.
actually the fire blazing all over the island that attracts the passing ship.However the first fire can also be described as a symbol of destruction.when it was lighted at the begininng on the mountain top with the purpose to produce smoke to attract the source of rescue,it gradually spread and pervaded the forest causing the death of the little boy with the birthmark on his cheek.finally in the last chapter the whole island along with it's contains of fruit trees and beautiful nature is destroyed by the .....
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Latte
.... with scornful merriment and herself the object" (54). This implies that Hester's sin of bearing a child without the presence of a husband will always be remembered.
In the middle of the novel there is a transition period where the letter "A" is viewed differently than before. In this section of the novel Hester's appearance is altered to the point where she is no longer seen as a person of sin. The letter changes from a symbol of sin to a more vague symbol. Society now sees Hester as a person wh .....
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
.... suspected that Charles was an Evr*monde, but did not tell anyone because of his daughter*s relationship with Charles. This became a problem later when Charles needed to go to France after the start of the Revolution. Because he had always been careful to hide his identity, he assumed no one knew his true identity so he left for France despite the danger the Revolution was for him. When he arrived, he was immediately imprisoned and sentenced to death. Only through the sacrifice of another man, he escaped h .....
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Symbolism In To Kill A Mocking
.... and whites are, certainly, not the same. Another way of looking at the symbolism of the snowman would be to say that Jem's combination of mud and snow signifies miscegenation, marriage or sexual relations between persons of different races. The fire at Miss Maudie Atkinson's could, once again, be seen as the prejudice of Maycomb County showing that the mixed child is, in fact, no better than a pure black child, and that the two are, actually, one and the same. Jem and Scout's encounters with Mrs. Henry .....
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Tale Of Two Cities 2
.... but most of the action takes place in Paris, France. The wine shop in Paris is the hot spot for the French revolutionists, mostly because the wine shop owner, Ernest Defarge, and his wife, Madame Defarge, are key leaders and officials of the revolution. Action in the book is scattered out in many places; such as the Bastille, Tellson's Bank, the home of the Manettes, and largely, the streets of Paris. These places help to introduce many characters into the plot. One of the main characters, Madame .....
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