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- 1491: The Bean Trees
- ... it is her willingness to help them in their hour of need, and their willingness to do the same, that proves to be Taylor and Turtle's salvation. The moving, cathartic scene in which the crisis peaks paves the way for the satisfying resolution. The Bean Trees is a story about personal journeys of self-discovery, as well as larger themes of commitment and risk-taking. Taylor Greer finds something in ...
- 1492: Song Of Solomon
- ... ghost and with a sixth sense, "feels" situations. Pilate uses her unsophisticated, uncomplicated knowledge of uncharted waters to guide her family through "unknown places, intricate affairs, etc." (Barnhart et al 919). Pilate has no identity crisis. She knows who she is and accepts herself. After all, her identity hangs in a snuffbox, on her ear. Reba has no identity other than Hagar and she wants no other. Her only accomplishments are ...
- 1493: Siddhartha
- ... in 1877. *Herman was the son and grandson of Protestant missionaries who had served in India. *He was expected to follow in their footsteps by preparing for the ministry. *He tried, but experienced a religious crisis, fled the seminary and attempted suicide. *Hesse's first major novels displayed some major themes that were to absorb him throughout his career -1st Theme The dichotomy between the two worlds, the drab mundane external ...
- 1494: Shooting An Elephant
- ... sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives" and so in every crisis he has to do what the "natives" expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it" (683). The officer did not want to commit such a heinous act to a ...
- 1495: Semiotics And Intertextuality
- ... Film differs in many ways from his Weimar writings, the specter of the Holocaust and Nazism, shaped Kracauer's views on film) Kracauer views film as both the perfect medium for the representation of the crisis of modernity and the modern subject as well as holding out the possibility to suggest and encourage new perspectives and constructs in which to change its condition. Now that Theory of Film is once again ...
- 1496: Robert Frost - A Comparisson Of 3 Poems
- ... the boy seems to represent his wistfulness at growing old and his desire to be young again. This was written when he was about 45. About the time that he would have a mid-life crisis. He can see that he is no longer the young man that once he was, not able to climb the trees like he did nor able to play like that. He talks of when he ...
- 1497: Of Mice And Men
- ... duos intrigue. It is easy to identify with the "smart guy" who helplessly tries to cope with and control his irrational, dumb and, yet, spontaneous, child-like partner as they lurch from one self-inflicted crisis to another. Steinbeck uses that classic comic routine so that the reader warmly identifies and recognizes the relationship. Steinbeck's narrator establishes and characterizes George's lording of power and control over Lennie early in ...
- 1498: Of Mice And Men
- ... a skilled workman, and a great friend to all in the bunkhouse. Curley is infuriated at the fact that everyone looks up to Slim instead of cowering at the power of himself. In times of Crisis Slim quietly and gracefully helps to solve whatever problem has arisen. This is why he was loved and endeared by all who knew him. Curley is an arrogant stuck up man with a hatred for ...
- 1499: Joy Luck Club
- Identity Crisis Every person comes to a point in their life when they begin to search for themselves and their identity. Usually it is a long process and takes a long time with many wrong turns along ...
- 1500: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... when Rochester says of Jane: "Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was . . . not buoyant." In fact, it is this buoyancy of Jane's relationship with Rochester that keeps Jane afloat at her time of crisis in the heath: "Why do I struggle to retain a valueless life? Because I know, or believe, Mr. Rochester is living." Another recurrent image is Brontλ's treatment of Birds. We first witness Jane's ...
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