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- 1261: Images from The Dhammapada
- ... Buddha's teachings; that one should seek wisdom and purity of character, instead of simple pleasures. The third quotation that I selected, deals with the search for pleasure and also uses a water metaphor. "As rain pours through badly thatched houses, So does desire penetrate the undeveloped mind." I found this proverb on page three, number 13 in section one titled "Twins". In the quotation above The Dhammapada speaks about how ...
- 1262: Summary of Lord Of The Flies
- ... 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 ...
- 1263: Comparing "Witness for the Prosecution" and "Wine": The Keys to a Great Story
- ... boots shinned. She also said the most striking characteristic of Mr. Mayherne is his shrewd and piercing gray eyes. From his brief encounter with Mrs. Mogson, we found out that she was scared with sulfuric acid by Romaine's boyfriend and has been bent on getting revenge on Romaine. Plausible characters and vivid description make this story more interesting and add to the plot of the story. The author of "Wine ...
- 1264: Odysseus: Summary
- ... behind a dumpster. After Odysseus waited there for a hour he realized he was safe, and he came out from behind the dumpster. After he left the dumpster Odysseus walked on until he reached the rain forest (Curtis). The dense, dim forest was full of all kinds of animals and frightened Odysseus ( Haverstock 11). Tediously he went through the thick forest where came upon grapefruit and orange trees which he ate ...
- 1265: A Review of Lord of the Flies
- ... 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 ...
- 1266: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... represents all of man kind: good and bad. The monster loves nature and its beauty, but when he is transformed into an anti-romantic, nature mocks him. Nature decayed around me, The sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter. (pg. 133) Shelly creates an excellent contrast between a Romantic ...
- 1267: The Good Earth: Success in Wang Lung's Life
- ... undermined the whole experience, and these are the things that went wrong. The first major thing to go wrong was not long after the birth of his third child. This event was the lack of rain and the famine that ensued from that. He was forced to move to the north until the drought was over and he could accumulate enough wealth to return back to his house in the south ...
- 1268: Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
- ... the lack of trees on the Martian plains. He decides that his job should be to plant trees. He works for weeks planting trees of all kinds across the Martian countryside but the lack of rain leads him to believe that all of his efforts are in vain. That night the rains come, and when Driscoll awakens the next morning, he finds a Mars covered with trees over six feet tall ...
- 1269: Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
- ... off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain" (Hemingway, 314). The statue is a metaphorical creation, which attempts to grasp the nothingness Frederick feels after Catherine's death. Perhaps the path Henry takes towards the hotel symbolizes a new chapter in his life ...
- 1270: Summer of the Monkeys: Summary
- ... hundred. His grandpa got so rapped up in this he almost shut down the store. they tried all kinds of contraptions but the monkeys would always outsmart him. Then one night there was a big rain storm. The next morning he went out in surch of the monkeys and found them under the bank of the bottoms. Jay Berry led them home and fed them. He went to his grandpas store ...
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