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- 13821: The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis of Symbolism
- ... entire atmosphere is gray. The skies and clothing of the people of the town are always dark. This darkness symbolizes concealment and secrets. Darkness usually always represents a world of evil. The brightness of the day, however, is the symbol of exposure, where everything is seen. As color is brought in, happiness is added. The sun is bright with joy and has a life free of guilt. Pearl, as she runs ...
- 13822: "Minister's Black Veil" : Hidden Sins
- ... who says, "I don't like it,
..He has changed himself into something awful only by hiding his face'"(294). Others cry, "Our parson is going mad'"(294)! The sermon in which he speaks that day is "
darker than usual
"(294), and also gives a gloomy feeling. The parson speaks of a secret sin; the audience soon relates the sermon to why he is wearing his black veil. The congregation feels ...
- 13823: True Son
- ... and True son was taken as prisoner. True Son's Indian parents said words that made him an Indian. True Son considered this to be his life, and these people to be his family. One day when he was 15, he was told by his father that a new law was passed and because he was white, he had to go back and live with his real family. Then True Son ...
- 13824: Freedom In The Story Of An Hou
- ... about financial comfort and social status. During this time a woman s most important duty was that of homemaker. Cooking, cleaning and tending the children became a monotonous drudgery through which most women faced each day. Mrs. Mallard even shudder(ed) that life might be long. Women could not own land, hold down a job, or even decide to get married for they were rejected and seen in society as failures ...
- 13825: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Superstitutions
- ... not know better. One morning Huck turned over the salt-cellar at breakfast. He went to throw the salt- cellar over his left shoulder to cancel the bad luck, but Miss Watson stopped him. All day he wondered when something would fall on him and what it would be. This all implies that Huck thinks something is going to fall on him, because of his accident. I have heard about bad ...
- 13826: Siddhartha's Journey
- ... he himself wasn't. He also got the feeling that he had already learned the best of what his teachers had to teach but it still wasn't enough. He still wasn't satisfied. One day he and his friend, Govinda, meditated by a banyan tree. Siddhartha recited the verse: "Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul, Brahman is the arrow's goal At which one aims unflinchingly."(8 ...
- 13827: Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus
- ... will not hold him later in life. Realizing such, Cranly gently tries to push religion back into Stephen's life, stating, "Do you not fear that those words may be spoken to you on the day of judgment?" This question, however, is met by the rebuke, "What is offered me on the other hand?...An eternity of bliss in the company of the dean of studies?" Stephen's bitterly sarcastic denunciation ...
- 13828: Fried Green Tomatoes
- ... the world. So much in fact, that she travels all the way to Georgia once a month just to see her; not talk to her, just to see if she is all right. Then, one day, she finally gets the courage to talk to Ruth and she lets Ruth know how she feels. [Idgie] said, Look, I don t want you to bother you. I know you are probably very happy ...
- 13829: Children of the River
- ... wound of Soka, Sundara was sent to help. Sundara did not want to leave her family, but she had to go. Now she was in Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh was okay to live until the day the Khmer Rouge came. Sundara, the baby, Soka, Naro, Ravy, and Grandmother had to fleet off to a boat. They did not know where the boat was going but they were gone. They were all ...
- 13830: Krutch's "Killing for Sport"
- ... and the evaluation mode, he has demonstrated the rationale behind killing for sport. "Killing for killing's sake is
as strong a proof as we could have of that "reality of evil" with which present day theologians are again concerned."
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