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- 12181: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... Hearted River." In high school, Ernest edited the school newspaper, excelled in football and boxing, and ran away from home twice. Upon his graduation, seventeen year old Hemingway headed to Kansas City to enlist in World War I, in outright defiance of his parents objections. However the army rejected Hemingway, despite his repeated efforts, due to permanent eye damage incurred from his years of boxing. Yielding finally to the army's ... two Italian Decorations. After a long period of painful recuperation in Milan, Ernest Hemingway joined the Italian infantry to fight again. These vivid experiences provided the base for Hemingway's lifelong fascination with war. Surviving World War I, he later covered the Greek-Turkish War in 1920, World War II and the Spanish Civil War in 1937, the setting for For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1928, Hemingway's father committed suicide. He did not reflect on this event in his writing ...
- 12182: Flowers For Algernon
- ... made a rude comment, but a CO-worker who used to make fun of him and set him up to fail stuck up for him. But later Charlie said that he wishes to go to New York to get away from everyone. That is where Daniel Keyes states that he wouldn’t want the operation to be done. This is the statement Charlie made: "…Im going someplace where nobody knows that ... rat", Charlie, did feel bad and cheated at the fact that his intelligence was but a mere tease and that it was only temporary. "Anyway I bet I’m the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something but I dont remember what. So I guess it’s like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me." In the end I think that through the whole ...
- 12183: Flappers
- ... trying to get people to come to Gatsby's funeral. During this flashback Nick finally meets Gatsby's father, Mr. Gatz, who came to his son's funeral. "Next morning I sent the butler to New York with a letter to Wolfshiem which asked for information and urged him to come out on the next train. [for Gatsby's funeral]...When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to ... of the American dream. These two elements of the novel were weaved into a great book that was read and adored by millions of readers and school students. Works Cited Eble, Kenneth. F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1963 Magill, Frank N. "Fitzgerald, F. Scott." Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983. 953-967. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1925
- 12184: Fifth Business
- ... uses to relate the theme of magic and religion is Dunstable Ramsay. Dunny was brought up in a Scottish Presbyterian family in Deptford, Ontario. While in the war, he kept himself busy by reading the New Testament and states "Arabian Nights and the Bible were getting pretty close", referring to both magic and religion. After servicing in the war, Dunstable is renamed Dunstan by Diana after Saint Dunstan. Dunstan’s study of saints becomes his passion and he later travels around the world in search of information about several living saints. During his search for saints, Dunstan coincidentally comes across Le grande Cirque forain de St. Vile and Illusions, a circus where Paul Dempster preformed magic. This clearly ...
- 12185: Explication Of Dulce Et Decoru
- ... Est Wilfred Owen explores the harsh conditions and realities of war. The burdens of war and the overwhelming weariness faced by soldiers are described in the first ten lines of the poem. Many soldiers in World War I did not have the proper training and equipment to fight a war. The long marches to battle through bad conditions wore the soldiers down and caused their reaction times to be down. The author is expressing the weariness of the soldiers and the hardships the soldiers are undergoing during World War One. In line eleven the poem changes mood to one of urgency. He begins to talk about bombs, in this case nuclear warfare. When the bomb is dropped the soldiers begin to fumble with ... poem explores these aspects of the cruelty of war. The poet describes the agonizing deaths soldiers undergo during wartime. The slow pain suffered by many for the good of the country. The pain suffered in world terms by a few for the many. The poet is describing the value of giving ones life for ones country. The quote in the poem is from the Roman poet Horace means "It is ...
- 12186: Fahrenheit 451 - Similarities To Our Society
- Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction book that still reflects to our current world. Bradbury does a nice job predicting what the world would be like in the future; the future for his time period and for ours as well. The society he describes is, in many ways, like the one we are living in right now. We ... technological machines, they also have much larger speed limits, so people could get where they want a lot faster. Clarisse and Montag make it obvious to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet each other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' ...
- 12187: Ezra Pound
- ... Ezra Pound’s statement. "Preludes," by T.S. Eliot, is a literary work depicting city life. Although it was written some time ago, it contains a universal theme and is applicable even in today’s world. Eliot expresses the lonely, isolationist environment of the city. The people of the city seem dull, dreary, fatigued, and lifeless. The city dwellers repeat their daily mechanical routines; there is no change or break in ... claims that "Introspection ("the obscure reveries/of the inward gaze") in this age is unthinkable," there is a loss of identity and the depletion of moral values in the city. As a result of the world’s harshness, innocent children are forced to suffer as Eliot expresses, "The notion of some infinitely gentle/Infinitely suffering thing." The monotonous tone contributes to the dreary, lifelessness of Eliot’s city. The city dwellers ... life consists of the same daily mechanical actions. In "The Hollow Men," Eliot expresses that "We are the hollow men." He conveys the emptiness of people due to their lack of souls in today’s world. The hollow men are superficial and have no depth. When the hollow men say, "We whisper together/Are quiet and meaningless," it shows how they are afraid to show how they feel. Like the ...
- 12188: Exotica - Character Analysis
- ... with separate desires, and unifies them via the complex and tangled narrative in such a manner that by the end, these people are so tightly wound up together that if you took one away, their world would collapse. After the first few scenes of the film, we are taken to club Exotica where we are introduced to Francis (Bruce Greenwood), the tax auditor. At first, we assume he is a typical ... we find that Francis has a more honorable reason for attending this club. The narrative slowly reveals a man torn by the murder of his daughter and the loss of his wife. He faces every new day with feelings of abandonment and pain. Francis fills this void in his life by using the other principle characters in the film as an outlet for his emotions. Be it through voluntary or involuntary ...
- 12189: Ethan Frome - Contrast Between Film And Novel
- ... also evident as the Frome house is shown to be old and worn. Just as it is described in the novel, viewers are treated to a sight of Frome’s house as "one of those New England farm-houses that make the landscape lonelier". The movie shows how Zeena took care of Ethan’s mother. It portrays the young Zeena as a capable young lady who is full of life and ... brought a hint of life back into the dreary Frome household. The role of Zeena was well acted out in the film. The actress seemed overbearing, and looked almost like something out of the supernatural world when she opened the door for Ethan and Mattie after the dancing scene. Her oppressive presence is often described in the novel, and it is emulated in the film through the use of lighting and ...
- 12190: Fahrenheit 451
- In the 1950 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presents the now familiar images of mind controlled worlds. People now live in a world where they are blinded from the truth of the present and the past. The novel is set in the, perhaps near, future where the world is in war, and firemen set fires instead of putting them out. Books and written knowledge is banned from the people, and it is the firemen s job to burn books. Firemen are now the policemen of this time. Some people have rebelled by hiding books, but have not been very successful. Most people have conformed to this world. Guy Montag, a fireman, is a part of the majority who have conformed. Throughout the novel Montag goes through a transformation, where he changes from a Conformist to a Revolutionary. Guy Montag has never ...
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