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- 12901: Great Expectatons
- ... by adults. The period in which this is written, assumes that one must become old before one has an opinion. I feel that "children should be seen and not heard," could be relevant to modern day society if it were changed to "people who are ignorant to the situation at hand should be see and not heard". If a person of any age is not well informed of a situation which ...
- 12902: Song Of Solomon
- ... Pilate exudes an irresistible pull, as everyone gravitates to her for some sense of normalcy. Even Macon succumbs to her charms as, "Near the window, hidden by the dark, he felt the irritability of the day drain from him and relished the effortless beauty of the women singing in the candlelight" (28). Pilate's character bears a striking resemblance to Zora Neale Hurston. According to Hurston's autobiography, Dust Tracks on ...
- 12903: Song Of Solomon
- ... he was saying? He just couldn’t, and his sorrow turned to depression, which led to an alcohol problem. Jack’s life was out of control and the downward spiral kept getting worse, until one day when he met a homeless man named Perry. Perry was the complete opposite of what Jack used to be, so unconcerned about luxuries or material possessions. He was happy and content with his life, except ...
- 12904: Something Wicked This Way Comes
- ... extremely close in age, and living next door to each other being the two main parallels. Will is born only minutes before his counterpart, but he is born in the closing minutes of All Saints Day, October 30, and Jim in the initial minutes of Halloween. As for these two days that the boys are born, the former seems to represent righteousness and innocence, while the connotations that belong to Halloween ...
- 12905: Solo
- ... of what really happens in a war and this is evident when she says "I know the temptations you must have been exposed to. I know how weak men are. I pray for you all day long." She prays for Harold so that he will be strong and fight off the temptations of women. This is sickening to Harold, because the desire of a woman is a minor fault compared to ...
- 12906: Snow Falling On Cedars
- ... cognizant than most youths about racism, due to my father’s work with Cesar Chavez. The media has been good about publicizing events about the struggle for equality, especially the struggle that continues to this day in the south. One area of racism in our history that I had never heard of before, was the rounding up of oriental people during WWII. My mind immediately flashed back to scenes during Steven ...
- 12907: Complete Car Stereo
- ... that’s out on the market that has more features and works better. That is probably the reason why that most car enthusiasts are males, though women are becoming more involved in the sport every day. Most stereo owners consider their own stereo the best. This is only because they cannot admit failure to another person. Should chance come that he or she does admit failure, it seems only proper to ...
- 12908: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Stanza 74
- ... way the author puts "Outright" on a line of it’s own, emphasizing Gawain’s quick decision. He is then ecstatic about the thought that he will survive his meeting with the knight the next day, shown by "often thanks gave he/ With all his heart and might." Later, Sir Gawain finds three faults in his actions, the first being his cowardice – in direct contrast to the main principles of knighthood ...
- 12909: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
- ... morning, for example, instead of finding comfort in the spiritual meaning of Christmas, Gawain finds comfort being seated with the lady. The bedroom scenes, however, depict the true moral battles of Gawain. During the three-day period, there is a spiraling trend. The events keep happening in the same way on a higher and higher level until Gawain is forced to give in to her desires. While he is able to ...
- 12910: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
- ... Gawain there are two lines in which the concepts of trauthe and sothe are juxtaposed and contrasted. The first occurs when Gawain makes his oath to join the Green Knight in a year and a day after the initial beheading: And I schal ware all my wyt to wynne me thider; And that I swere the for sothe and by my siker trauthe. (402-03) Later Gawain again expresses this semantic ...
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