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- 1201: Robert Frost
- ... about nature. In "The Road Not Taken" he talks of the woods and paths to follow (line1). Also, in "Birches", he talks of the birch tree, and winter mornings (line 7). He also talks about rain and snow (line 8-11). In "Desert Places" he talks of woods and snow covering the ground (line 1-5). He shows the relationship between nature and humans. As in "Tree at My Window", the ...
- 1202: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... and doubts. Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage summarizes this gradual and significant process with this vivid sentence: "Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds." This sentence, the last sentence in the novel, hits the reader the hardest. It points out that becoming what we want to become, like it did Henry, takes time and continuous effort.
- 1203: Lord Of The Flies - Summary And Background Information
- ... to be boys playing a game and have become a dangerous mob. They attack Simon, calling him the beast and killing him with their hunting sticks. Only then does the storm finally break and the rain begin to fall. During the night the tide carries the dead boy out to sea. The next night Jack and two hunters attack Ralph and Piggy and steal Piggy's glasses. Nearly blind without his ...
- 1204: Life Of Ma Parker
- ... be herself, not at home and not even outside on a public bench. "Ma Parker stood, looking up and down. The icy wind blew out her apron into a balloon. And now it began to rain. There was nowhere" (150). As the sky is an analogy to Ma Parker (like Miss Brills fur is an analogy to Miss Brill), the story ends with the sad-looking sky crying in the ...
- 1205: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... that she fears are also part of nature. The hard strength of a rock is the very thing that makes it inflexible. Similarly, the precipitation that makes Jane happy as she leaves Thornfield, and the rain that is the life-force of everything in the heath, is the same precipitation that led her to narrate this passage: "But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp . . . towards morning ...
- 1206: Jane Eyre
- ... notice of "the solitary rocks and promontories." (Bronte 2) The reader comprehended Miss Eyre's feelings of desolation and loneliness. After spending a sleepless night in the room, Jane looked out upon daylight to find "rain still beating continuously on the staircase window." Her "habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, and forlorn depression" were deepened by such gloomy weather. (Bronte 9-10) Much like the beast's castle in "Beauty and ...
- 1207: Jamestown
- ... the residual party was in Croatoan with Mantoe, but what if they were attacked before they left? White proceeded to uncover the remains of his own possessions, his pictures and maps had been spoiled by rain and his armor was rusted because scavenging Indians had dug the storage chest from the ditch in which they were buried and then had left them. White made it clear in his narrative that they ...
- 1208: Jack Kerouac
- ... to be famous, dont have to be perfect, Dont have to work, dont have to marry, Dont have to carry burdens, dont have to gnaw and kneel, the taste of rain Why kneel? Dont even have to sit, Hozomeen, Like an endless rock camp go ahead & blow, Explode & go, I wont say nothin, neither this rock, And my outhouse doesnt care, And I got no ...
- 1209: Iliad By Homer
- ... the invasion of the Trojans. These two imposing characters "stood before the gateslike two high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide-spreading roots, and year after year battle with wind and rain." This simile lends to the characters of the two, Polypoetes and Leonteus, along with the resolve of the Greeks atthat time. The defenses are brought out to be as long-standingand strong as one of ...
- 1210: Heart Of Darkness
- ... horror of Kurtz's words: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the cannibalism and the human skulls on the fence posts. Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen hands beaten with rifle butts until they fell off. Chained slaves were forced to drink the white man's defecation, hands and feet were chopped off for ...
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