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- 3851: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- ... referring to not taking death lying down. The reader is given a sense of growing old. In the first stanza of the poem describe old age, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" As you get old there is a daily struggle against death; you should fight for your life and take it day by day. In the second stanza the poet says "Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lighting they don not go gentile into that good night" I ...
- 3852: Devil And Daniel Webster
- ... that I didn’t like as much was that the Devil didn’t seem as intimidated by Daniel Webster as he did in the short story. He just laughed at Daniel and told him he’d get him in the presidency race. There are even more differences between the scripts then there are similarities. The first of these is the way the characters are depicted. I already pointed out that Jabez ... dead. That is why I do like the one scene where the Devil after Making the contract with Jabez writes the termination date in the trunk of the tree so as to remind Jabez every day. Also the scene with Jabez trying to cut down the tree as to break the contract was very effective. Overall the way the director decided to interpret the short story was not the same as ...
- 3853: Damsels In Address
- ... strong behavioral codes, thus providing opportunity for the young female reader to relate to the damsel, or to model herself to behave in a similar fashion. In accordance with Marcia R. Lieberman’s essay, " ‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale," I agree with the assertion that positive traits in fairy tale indicate reward, while the negative characteristics bring misfortune. A heroine in a fairy tale ... happiness. Assertion equates not only with beauty, but ugliness and misfortune as well. Boys in turn develop a sense of responsibility and see themselves in the dominant role. In other words, they must save the day by getting the girl and then of course spreading wealth. For the young girls of the fairy tale audience to acknowledge that they must act out roles similar to the behavior of the heroines in ... failure. Bibliography Works Cited Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Trans. and with an introduction by Jack Zipes. 2 vols. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988. Lieberman, Marcia R. " ‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale." College English 34 (1972/73): 383-395.
- 3854: Damsels In Address
- ... strong behavioral codes, thus providing opportunity for the young female reader to relate to the damsel, or to model herself to behave in a similar fashion. In accordance with Marcia R. Lieberman’s essay, " ‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale," I agree with the assertion that positive traits in fairy tale indicate reward, while the negative characteristics bring misfortune. A heroine in a fairy tale ... happiness. Assertion equates not only with beauty, but ugliness and misfortune as well. Boys in turn develop a sense of responsibility and see themselves in the dominant role. In other words, they must save the day by getting the girl and then of course spreading wealth. For the young girls of the fairy tale audience to acknowledge that they must act out roles similar to the behavior of the heroines in ... and failure. Works Cited Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Trans. and with an introduction by Jack Zipes. 2 vols. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988. Lieberman, Marcia R. " ‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale." College English 34 (1972/73): 383-395.
- 3855: Chaucer
- ... each Tale is noted in parentheses): Fragment I (A) Â Â Â General Prologue (GP), Knight (KnT), Miller (MilT), Reeve (RvT), Cook (CkT). Fragment II (B1) Â Â Â Man of Law (MLT) Fragment III (D) Â Â Â Wife of Bath (WBT), Friar (FrT), Summoner (SumT). Fragment IV (E) Â Â Â Clerk (ClT), Merchant (MerT). Fragment V (F) Â Â Â Squire (SqT), Franklin (FranT). Fragment VI (C) Â ... the which I revoke in my retractions: as is the book of Troilus; the book also of Fame; the book of the xxv ladies; the book of the Duchess; the book of St Valentine's Day of the Parliament of Birds; the tales of Canterbury, thilke that sowen into sin...". Yet this Retraction serves to publicize Chaucer's works and had no effect on their later publication and distribution. The Canterbury ...
- 3856: Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caulfield
- ... end of the book when he is watching Phoebe on the carousel. "All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it ... to stop both evil and maturation. As a matter of fact, it is "bad" to do so. Works Cited Coles, Robert. " Secular Days, Sacred Moments." America, Vol. 181, Issue 3, pp.8. French, Warren, "J.D. Salinger," Reference Guide to American Literature. St. James Press: 1994. P. 749-50. Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye. New York, New York: Bantam Books
- 3857: Catcher In The Rye
- ... Rye Recent studies show that depression is common among teenagers. Although the research may be new, it is not a new disease that has occupied teenagers. In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character Holden Caufield is a depressed young man searching for good in the world; scenes in this story push Holden over the edge until he has an epiphany that eventually causes him ... taxi cab driver responds by relating the ducks to the fish in the lake. The taxi cab driver irritably responds to Holden's barrage of questions by replying, "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she?" (109) The answer is satisfactory to Holden because he knows that wherever the ducks may be, they are taken care of. Holden's motive for wanting to know ... of the adult world because she will no longer be innocent. The world is more knowledgeable today about depression in adolescents. However, depression was just as common long ago as it is today. In J.D. Salinger's book Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield is a troubled, depressed teen looking for a world that is not phony; eventually four scenes in the novel finally lead him to a breakdown. ...
- 3858: Canterbury Tales
- In Chaucer’s day women were thought of in lesser regard than men. Their positions in the community were less noble and often displeasing. The Canterbury Tales, written by Chaucer, is about a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Along with the ... tower. Not only has Emelye’s beauty made Arcite and Palamon love her, but it has made them become hostile towards each other. "We strive as did the houndes for the boon: - they fought all day, and yet, hir part was noon; there came a kite, while that they were so wrothe that bare away the bone bitwix hem bothe. And therefore, at the kings court, my brother, ech man for ... The Franklin’s Tale seems to be about chivalry and doing what is right, there is an underlying theme. Dorigen is without her husband for so long that she becomes grief stricken and lonely. One day she decides to attend a picnic where Aurelius, a man who is secretly in love with her, confesses to her his undying love. She rejects his attempts and he becomes very depressed. In order ...
- 3859: Blind As A Bat!
- ... husband are smoking a joint. She is completely confused about Robert smoking marijuana. "My wife came back downstairs wearing her pink robe and her pink slippers. 'What do I smell?' she said. 'We thought we'd have us some cannabis,' I said. My wife gave me a savage look. Then she looked at the blind man and said, 'Robert, I didn't know you smoked.' He said, ' I do now my ... during the fright of death the only thing Reginald could think of was being with the girl of his dreams. He had realized what she had known he was the one for her since the day she meet him. When two caucasian Red Cross people show up at a party, they are not able to see with their eyes because they were intoxicated. However, they are still not able to see ...
- 3860: A Separate Peace - Symbols
- ... instead of taking it seriously and preparing for it. Finny organizes the Winter Carnival, invents the game of Blitz Ball, and encourages his friends to have a snowball fight. When Gene looks back on that day of the Winter Carnival, he says, "---it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace" (Knowles, 832 ... a film shown by a recruiter from the U.S. ski troops. "The ski movie had decided him. 'I always thought the war would come for me when it wanted me...I never thought I'd be going to it. I'm really glad I saw that movie in time, you bet I am'" (826) Leper is amazed by these men and how they, with their recognizable and friendly faces, give ...
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