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- 1741: Battle Royal
- ... tending the children, these men at this club were killing all the dignity and respect that the narrator had at that time. Generally around the 1950s men would sit around old barbershops and tell their "big tales" about how they caught the biggest one yet. Women had their bridge club and also their garden club that kept them busy throughout the day. This was a way for many men to relax ...
- 1742: Bartelby The Scrivener
- ... to do this in the past. Aylmer’s attempt to control nature leads to the death of his wife which is unnecessary, she is quite content with the minor facial blemish until he makes a big deal about it. Maybe this too is a parallel between the mass majority being content with the state of the world and a certain few who would like to make it better, and, in turn ...
- 1743: Barbie Doll
- ... Woman vs. Barbie Doll: Battle of the Millennia Let's face it. Society is chock full of subtle, and not-so-subtle, demands to conform to the "norm", and going with the flow is a big part of life. Ideas of conformity are beaten into us as soon as we're able to comprehend the world we live in. A large piece of the conformity pie deals with the role of ...
- 1744: Balthazar
- ... of money when making beautiful cage. In the story, he was accustomed to making and creating cage since childhood. So when Pepe ordered a cage, he could make small cage just quickly rather than create big and beautiful cage for two weeks; ( p 381, ll 45~50). Also, if he was interested in earning the money, he would not even start to work on the cage only by commission of the ...
- 1745: A Separate Peace And A Real War
- ... and Finny tries to establish them again after being away so long. The beginning of Finny’s attempt to revitalize his separate peace takes place when he tells Gene, "You’re going to be the big star now." Gene is hesitant to take this on and goes on to explain that sports didn’t seem as important to him with the war on. Finny responds to this, "Have you swallowed all ...
- 1746: A Separate Peace - The War
- ... and Finny tries to establish them again after being away so long. The beginning of Finny’s attempt to revitalize his separate peace takes place when he tells Gene, "You’re going to be the big star now." Gene is hesitant to take this on and goes on to explain that sports didn’t seem as important to him with the war on. Finny responds to this, "Have you swallowed all ...
- 1747: A Separate Peace - The Role Of Minor Characters
- ... of guy. Leper is a quiet, non athletic guy, making him not a very ideal war person. Brinker would have been expected to be the first to enlist in the war because he is so big and athletic. This is one part of the minor characters adding plot to the story. Another part is Leper’s very graphic description of the war to Gene. This makes the war seem very real ...
- 1748: A Rose For Emily -- Symbol Of The Past
- ... what, at that time, was one of the most prestigious neighborhoods of Jefferson. The street they lived was recognized by the community as prominent and seemingly royal and the houses were grand and picturesque. The "big, squarish frame...had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies." However, even the "stubborn" Grierson house had been weathered and worn by the ...
- 1749: A Rose For Emily - In Memory Of Emily Grierson
- ... Miss Emily¡¦s father and homer Barron to affect miss Emily in her environment, Faulkner also old lady Wyatt to suggest the possible inheritance of this unexplainable behavior from her family. Descriptive words are another big part of the story since Faulkner uses them to describe the themes of old age and isolation. While ¡§coquettish decay¡¨ and ¡§tarnished gold head¡¨ is used to compare old to new, ¡§noblesse oblique¡¨ is used ...
- 1750: A Rose For Emily
- ... to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant - a combined gardener and cook - had seen in at least ten years (Faulkner 55). The house was described as being a big squarish house that was slowly decaying. It reminded the town of the seventies and was said to be "an eyesore among eyesores" (55). The voice of the town identifies Emily as a "tradition a duty ...
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