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- 5871: The Go Between
- ... take off their coats and play in their normal clothes. Meanwhile the members of the Hall team are respectably attired, in their cricket whites and with appropriate equipment. Leo likens this difference to the Boer War, The village team were like the Boers, who did not have much in the ways of equipment by our standards, but could give a good account of themselves, (page 117) (The Boers were an army ...
- 5872: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... of such creative irony protested through this event. The reader feels compassion to the young girl as he knows the families will have more conflicts. This is a devastating occasion in the novel, because the war rage on, and has been shown to the reader by irony. Another sad ironic moment is seen in the novel when Huck gets mad at Jim for saying he is trying to get his family ...
- 5873: The Great Gatsby 9
- ... He feels that lying about the past just won t do this time. He feels that Daisy is too special and a wall of social classes stands between them. Gatsby leaves Daisy and goes to War. While away he feels that he may still be able to get her back, but Daisy marries another man named Tom Buchanon. Gatsby returns and discovers that his love has married another man. He feels ...
- 5874: Symbolism In Patterns By Amy L
- ... live her life the way others have patterned it out for her. Through his love for her, she will be allowed to break the mold and be her own person. Unfortunately, her lover dies at war and she is back to where she began, wearing a stiff dress, following the paths already made, and waiting for another man to come along to rescue her from this prison cell. I wonder what ...
- 5875: Summary Of The Great Gatsby
- ... actually. Nick s grandfather came here in 1851 and started a business, which his father carries on today. Nick graduated from Yale University in 1915, and just a little later he was in the Great War. When he came back he decided to go East and learn the bond business. He came East permanently in the spring of 1922. He found a house on the island which extends due East of ...
- 5876: Streetcar Desire
- ... civilian background. How did he take it when you said I was coming? Stella: Oh, he's on the road a good deal. Blanche: Oh, he travels? Stella: Umm, mmm. Blanche: Good. A returning World War II veteran, Stanley was decorated for his service but now his job takes him on the road a good deal. Judging everything by the standards of Old Southern gentility, Blanche finds Stella's love for ...
- 5877: Social Criticism In Literature
- ... of the animals. Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. In real life, this represents the Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact during World War II which Germany eventually broke. Eventually, towards the end of the story, the term, "absolute power corrupts absolutely," is proven, as the pigs, who retained all the privileges for themselves, have evolved into a different ...
- 5878: Sin And Virtue Used In Stephen
- ... religious dogmas. However, fear of retribution soon turned to cynicism and criticism of his idealistic parents God, "the wrathful Jehovah of the Old Testament" (Stallman 16), as he was confronted with the harsh realities of war as a journalistic correspondent. Making extensive use of religious metaphors and allusions in The Blue Hotel (1898), Crane thus explores the interlaced themes of the sin and virtue. Ironically, although "he disbelieved it and hated ...
- 5879: Silkworms
- ... T'ung Pao hated the foreigners. Since they brought in foreign goods in, in other words, they brough in competitions. The global power seemed to have shifted irrevocably from East to West since the Opium War in 1842, in a clash of cultures amid an atmosphere of ignorance and arrogance on both sides. Of course the Chinese believed themselves as the "good guys" and the British as "the bad guys. T ...
- 5880: Shropshire
- ... and the achievement, in words, of fulfillment by other means (Bayley 32). In both the conversation with the dead man and the chance encounter with the soldier, who in context seems to be marching to war, Housman personifies Shropshire as a place in which he is constantly reminded of the limitations of mortality (Scott-Kilvert 27). The fact that Housman knew that obtaining what one longed for was not in fact ...
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