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- 5091: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... pilgrimage to Greece and upon his return he declared his intentions to become an independiste with the Parti Quebecois and Rene Levesque. Lucien described his trip to Greece as an awakening of sorts. As a child he had always been mesmerized by the ancient Greek heroes and civilizations. As an adult Lucien was filled with awe that the people of such a small country could play such a huge part in ...
- 5092: Bless Me Ultima 2
- ... first attempts to kill Antonio, and then goes to kill Ultima. Antonio arrives just in time to see the killing of the owl Ultmia's spirit that was tied to her when she was a child by the wise man who taught her how to live with the land and plants. Antonio then goes to bury her spirit in his own peaceful burial under a forked juniper tree as she instructed ...
- 5093: Blakes The Chimney Sweeper
- ... harm (555). These children lived with such torment and fear that they did what they were told so they could die and go to heaven, the only place they could live their childhood as a child should. This provokes sympathy and realization in the reader causing them to see the evil that has been accepted for so long. Blake remained a pioneer of his time by realizing the evils within his ...
- 5094: Blakes London
- ... the last two lines of his poem. When he talks of how the curse "blasts the new born infants tear" he is commenting on how the disease is spread from the mother to her newborn child. Perhaps the most haunting line of the whole poem is the last, "And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse". Blake uses the word hearse to describe marriage because in many cases the institution of marriage ...
- 5095: Black Like Me
- ... equal. When Griffen looks at a menu in a restaurant he says he sees "frowns of disapproval." How did the black person pick up on these actions of other people so acutely? After a black child was born did the parents tell them about all they would encounter or did they just learn along the way? Griffen mentions the blacks only salvation from despair is the thought that the whites are ...
- 5096: Billy Budd
- ... to love Billy as his fellows sailors do. He is completely innocent and naive at the same time. The readersees his weakness and comes to feel sorry for Billy the way one might for a child. The reader sympathizes with Billy especially when he is confronted by Claggart and can do nothing, but stutter. The reader is with Billy throughout and witnesses his transformation at the end. In this fashion, Billy ...
- 5097: Beowulf 11
- ... consider to be important is his popularity. We saw his popularity brilliance since the minute he arrived to Hrothgar he was recognized by the guardian of Scyldings which he stated "I knew him as a child" (p 62). Later, after the fight with Grendal, in Hrothgar's congratulations speech to Beowulf he states "Beowulf, my friend, your name shall resound in the nations of the earth that are furthest away". (p ...
- 5098: Beloved - Toni Morrison
- ... post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable of killing her baby and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby ...
- 5099: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- ... a voice, but otherwise has little to do beyond empathizing with Master over an illness that she cannot comprehend. She is also a character dealing with the horror of having an alcoholic father as a child. Valerie Martin is able to best represent a connection between her father and the book in the following excerpt, "Please sir. Don't do this." This excerpt is from when Hyde bites her on the ...
- 5100: Dreams
- ... to forget a good dream rather than a nightmare. According to Ann Faraday, Ph, D., women are more likely to remember their dreams, due to the sex roles that are placed upon one as a child. (21) She means that because much of interpretation is based on feelings, and the nurturing side of people, which is characteristic of females, it is easier for them to explain and recall dreams. It is ...
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