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- 751: Mother Nature Strikes Fear and Excitement
- ... fills my brain" (315). Dillard switches from the past tense to the present tense to show that she has become involved in the excitement of the flood. At first she says, "All it did was rain. It rained, and the creek started to rise (314). Then when she becomes excited she switches to the present tense. "Everything looks different; The water is over the bridge; Everything imaginable is zipping by (314 ...
- 752: Image of Child Heros
- ... stick, but in the story I'm going to relate to you, Sungura and the Leopard, the trickster comes out on top. In the African jungle there lived a leopard. One day it started to rain, and fearing that he may lose his spots, the leopard decided to build a house. A short distance away, a rabbit (Sungura) had the same idea. Both chose the same spot to build a house ...
- 753: Van Gennep's "Rites of Passage", Durkheim and Turner's Theory of Communitas
- ... the Mescaleros also consider the east to be the primary direction, they associate the east with the First Grandfather, the moon and stars. The west is associated with animals. The sky-as well as wind, rain and mountains-lies in the south. Man is in the north, held up by the other three directions. This can be viewed as a difference or similarity between the Chamulas and the Mescaleros, depending on ...
- 754: Oedipus: The Mysteries of Fate
- ... or faith, in powers greater than themselves, and their desire to understand what causes these powers to act. People everywhere wonder about the marvelous things in the sky and on the earth. What makes the rain? How do the plants and animals live and grow and die? Why are some people lucky and others unlucky? Some believe in free will while others believe in fate or destiny. In the play Oedipus ...
- 755: Hills Like White Elephants: The Symbolism of the Setting
- ... With an abortion, they could continue their party- and fun-filled, although meaningless existence. The other side of the station is dry and barren of plantlife. The ground looks as if there has been no rain for quite some time. There are hills in the distance that have a whitish color as the sun radiates on them. The woman said, "They look like white elephants."(343) White elephants are known to ...
- 756: Comparison and Contrast of The Lottery and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- ... who believe that farming is a way of life that is handed down from generation to generation, it is very much a tradition to them. The men in "The Lottery" are "speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes"(para 3) and in "...Omelas," the farmer's market is described as nothing less than "magnificent"(para 3). The most obvious reason for these references is that the rituals performed in both ...
- 757: The Story of An Hour: Irony
- ... newly widowed women is looking out of the window and sees spring and all the new life it brings. The descriptions used now are as far away from death as possible. "The delicios breath of rain...the notes of a distant song...countless sparrows were twittering...patches of blue sky...." All these are beautiful images of life , the reader is quite confused by this most unusual foreshadowing until Louise's reaction ...
- 758: Image of Child Heros
- ... stick, but in the story I'm going to relate to you, Sungura and the Leopard, the trickster comes out on top. In the African jungle there lived a leopard. One day it started to rain, and fearing that he may lose his spots, the leopard decided to build a house. A short distance away, a rabbit (Sungura) had the same idea. Both chose the same spot to build a house ...
- 759: Orwell's Politics and the English Language
- ... to change "at least one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase-some jackbot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse- into the dustbin where it belongs. Orwell's essay, as ponted out earlier is valuable because it is a reference guide and educational tool for the ...
- 760: Joyce's "The Dead"
- ... about her life when she was an adolescent and had a seventeen year old boy who was madly in love with her. Despite the fact that he was suffering from tuberculosis, he waited in the rain just to have a glimpse of her. This aggravated his condition and eventually he died. "
I think he died for me
." "A vague terror seized Gabriel at this answer as if, at that hour when ...
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