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- 3231: The Rime Of The Christo-marine
- ... Coleridge begins his biblical allusions and, through the Mariner's eyes, paints a vivid picture wrought with the Christian god and angelic hordes as recurring foci. Coleridge begins his parallels with the setting, a wedding day. One of Christ's most famous miracles, that of turning water to wine, took place at the wedding at Cana, in Galilee. The Ancient Mariner is the quiet guest who performs a miracle of his ... pronounced in the same way. Coleridge then makes use of "holy" numbers, such as three and seven, on several occasions. Three is represented in the Holy Trinity: Father Son and Holy Spirit, while the seventh day is the Sabbatical. At the poem's opening, the weeding guest is picked out of three men in the second line, and is shortly mesmerized by the Mariner into "a three years' child." [ln 15 ... is the similarities between the masts of a ship and the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. Describing the Sun's and thus God's ascent as they near the equator, "Higher and higher every day,/Till over the mast at noon." [ln 30] This imagery paints a vivid picture: from the Mariner's point-of-view on the deck, the sun is a brilliant halo over the mast and ...
- 3232: The Old Man And The Sea
- The book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, is about an old man, Santiago, and his genuine fondness of the sea. Every day he travels out to sea to go fishing which is his occupation. For the past eighty-four days the old man has not caught a single fish. On the eighty-fifth day he sails out to sea as usual, and this is the day that changes Santiago s life forever. He hooks an unusually immense marlin, and they have an agonizing battle for several days. Hemingway often compares Santiago with the younger fisherman and describes various particular parts ...
- 3233: The Not So Great Gatsby
- ... of a good leader. He was very charismatic, and thought things out carefully before jumping into them. We know he could have been a good leader because of his experience in the army. If he d lived on he d have been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He d of helped build up the country (176). But when he really thought that he could get at Daisy, he went after her and in the process changed some lives but not necessarily for the ...
- 3234: The Neurosis Of Passion
- ... course, or girl, Mr. Hubble," assented Mr. Wopsle rather irritably, but there is no girl present." "Besides," said Mr. Pumblechook, turning sharp on me, "think what you ve got to be grateful for. If you d been born a squeaker --" "He was, if ever a child was," said my sister most emphatically. (Dickens, 27) This conversation not only records Mr. Wopsle and Mr. Hubble s judgements that Pip is an ungrateful ... Miss Havisham, the love-mad woman is incapable of progressive motion, neither can she leave the Statis house nor can she allow her clocks to pass the minute that she was abandoned on her wedding day. This is the first effective instance of this paralysis of engendered women. In another case of this later in the novel, Mrs. Joe, struck down by Orlick becomes a passive, incapable, sympathetic female character. She ...
- 3235: The Lottery 2
- ... the conflict of the story can be seen in the contrast between Old Man Warner and Tessie Hutchinson. The lottery is an annual event which takes place in the village. It takes place on the day of June 27. Everybody gathers on this date in the middle of the square for the drawing of the lottery. To the townspeople this event is like any other event happening in their town, such ... as a dance, club, or even a holiday program. Mr. Summers, the head of the lottery, has to gather the information of all the households the night before to make the list for the following day. He has to mix the papers up with the one with the black dot on it in the box. The head of the household picks the paper from the box to seen if their family ... young woman but is a parent and has not gone through as many as Old Man Warner; therefore, she is not used to all the pressure and stress of the lottery. It is just another day to Old Man Warner, but it is a dramatic experience for Tessie. If they were both of the same generation there would be no controversy. This would not have made the short story as ...
- 3236: The Cruicible
- ... penalties. The church influenced the community to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might challenge the church s institutional values. In The Scarlet Letter, Boston even held special Election Day sermons. These were then followed by a special procession given by the town for the minister whom they so loved. However, these beloved church leaders were not the perfect devout workers of God that they ... Hester, the adulteress, and Abigail, the adulteress witch , were both persecuted for their actions. In conclusion, it is very clear that the common theocratic theme of societal values based on puritanical religious beliefs controlled the day-to-day lives of the communities in The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible. The effect that religious conformity had on the lives of the community and persecution for nonconformity can not be overlooked in these works ...
- 3237: The Chamber
- ... went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990. One day at the Dessoto County courthouse, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A TIME TO KILL and finished it in 1987. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually ... to Grisham's hobby. However, he had already begun his next book, and it would quickly turn that hobby into a new full-time career -- and spark one of publishing's greatest success stories. The day after Grisham completed A TIME TO KILL, he began work on another novel, the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. When ...
- 3238: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the bluest and blackest fst! It was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of treetops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rumbling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down-stairs where it's long ... how thunder sounded. The first is fst, "...when it was just about the bluest and blackest - fst! It was as bright as glory..." (44). The other three are: rumbling, grumbling, and tumbling. "...and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rumbling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world..." (44). Huck then uses one simile in paricular to ...
- 3239: The Role Of Women In The Odyss
- ... placed her loom, her big loom, out for weaving in the hall and she said to us: Young men, my suitors, how my is dead, let me finish my weaving before I marry So every day she wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight she unwove it, and so for three year s she deceived the Akhaians. Despite the fact that Penelope s home was being invaded by ... even Penelope s faithful and loyal son Telemachus talks down to his mother. On pg. 379 Telemachus criticizes Penelope about her sometimes poor judgement, my mother is like that, perverse for all her cleverness; she d entertain some riff-raff, and turn out a solid man. These examples demonstrate how it is accepted that men commonly speak disrespectfully to women and nothing will be done. However, if a woman speaks insolently ...
- 3240: The Theme Of Lonliness In Etha
- ... and give him a "careless powerful look". Speech also renders some importance in this novel. A few examples of abbreviated words are: "Wurst kind", and "More'n enough", and lastly "Oh, I ain't afr'd". All of these slang words and also many more were used throughout the novel. This misuse of words shows that Frome and the other characters were not well educated. The work was more important than ... with his true love, Mattie. The words uttered by Zeena that night that she and Frome were in the bedroom were the last hope for Frome to have a life of his own. That one day that Zeena went to Bettsbridge, Frome discovered that there was hope for him, that he could have a life, and he was tempted to try it. This experience led to the sledding accident and the ...
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