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- 811: Who Has Seen the Wind: Brian O' Connals' Understanding of Birth and Death
- ... learns about death. Brian endures many happenings that enable him to know what death is exactly and why it occurs. After the baby pigeons are born, Brian decides to take one home in the pouring rain. The pigeon is still way too young and cannot resist the drastic weather, by the time Brian reaches home with the pigeon, it is dead. "'It's dead, Spalpeen,' Brian's father said gently."(56 ...
- 812: Summary of The Grapes of Wrath
- ... discovers that Casy is leading a protest. A cop kills Casy, and Tom kills the cop then goes into hiding. Ma gives him money to live on his own. Soon after, there is a heavy rain and the Joads can’t leave because Rosasharn goes into labor. The baby is stillborn. The boxcars the families are staying in are flooded, and the Joads end up being stuck because the car is ...
- 813: Houdini: Master of Escape
- ... family to New York. That is when he acquires his name, Harry Houdini. He dubs himself Houdini after the famous French magician Robert Houdin. In one of his small shows in New York he spills acid on the audience member's dress. Little did he know how much that would change his life. He offer to have his mother make a new dress for Miss Beatrice "Bess" Rahner. It was love ...
- 814: A Farewell to Arms: Summary
- ... saying goodbye as, “like saying goodbye to a statue”. He has nothing to do, no one to talk to, and nowhere to go. Finally Tenente walks, in the dark, back to his hotel in the rain.
- 815: Alienation in "The Minister’s Black Veil"
- ... 256). He would no longer look in a mirror at himself because "his antipathy to the veil was known to be so great" (Hawthorne 258). The veil which isolated his face from the sun and rain also kept him from his deepest fears and regrets. Reverend Hooper could no longer face himself and decided no one else alive would be allowed to face him either. The only people who seemed to ...
- 816: Paradise Lost
- ... and the swarming bees (lines 768+). Linda Gregerson points out that "the Miltonic similes portray knowledge as problematic; they do not suggest we throw away the tools we have and wait for grace as for rain" (137). She continues, saying that the similes do a number of tasks: they "convey real information about the tenor, or locate it in an experiential realm"; they do this by "stimulating the sensual memory," perhaps ...
- 817: 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 ...
- 818: Imagery Words And Their Role In Literature
- ... her sister’s arms”. She feels she should have this reaction, finding herself sad and frightened. After staying cool in front of the open window, she started to discover it is spring and breadth of rain is so delicious. Her first reaction hearing the husband makes a contrast to her discovery of the nature, which is actually how she feels. Chopin’s work shows the images of nature which act as ...
- 819: Death, Rebirth
- ... all the dinner guests, it is by far Gretta who is the closest with death itself. She is linked to the dead by her lost love, Michael Furey. Michael Furey sacrificed himself spiritually by the rain the night he went to see Gretta when he was sick. When he died for her, she carried within her his death, becoming “one of the living-dead” (Fitzgerald 242). “When Gretta flings herself on ...
- 820: All Quiet on the Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
- ... grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life” (55). Then as the disillusionment set in and the Germans suffered more losses the earth became ugly, gray, and beat up. The author used the rain to symbolize the unrelentless attack by the opposition. Paul and his friends were being crushed and seeing things get destroyed, but because they had detached themselves so much they felt they were able to handle ...
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