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- 3941: Old Man and the Sea: Themes of Santiago Against Nature, Figures of Christ and Relationships Between Characters
- ... that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal ... painful experience with his hand which is in great pain and won't move. This is useful in the place where Christ loses his physical self and has less to deal with. On the third day, he recovers himself and returns to his home even though his only remaining treasure was a broken skiff, experience, and a torn up marlin. And in the final conclusion, you can see him dragging ...
- 3942: David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- ... like the characters in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the Lilliputians. And when we transpose ideas, we almost inverse them, like a person walking on their hands or the crescent moon coming out in the day and the noon sun in a dark sky, and so on. Hume believes that all notions, complex as they may be, can be deconstructed into these specific distinctions. This argument Hume has here is pretty ... way, enough to equate it with flying. And, what about reading? When we read of being in ancient Egypt or Rome, we can picture what it was like, how things went on from things we'd study, but how could we do that without original thought? Our representations of these ancient lands are more than just superimposing a Roman war helmet or an Egyptian headdress onto our own society, as in ...
- 3943: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man
- ... from Friday nights to Monday mornings. His house and garden is decorated with thousands of colored lights, “enough to make a Christmas tree of his enormous garden.” (39) “ Buffet tables are garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.” (40) He has famous singers that entertain his guests whom are the most well known ... so prestigious. Gatsby is also compared to Hoppalong Cassidy. Both Hoppalong and Gatsby were trying to improve their selves. Gatsby evens has a schedule and “general resolves” that he followed. Hoppalong is remembered to this day because he was a fantasy character like Gatsby. Because of the portrayal of Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby he is seen as a larger-than-life Romantic figure.
- 3944: Abortion in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- ... body, being whipped by a chokecherry tree to the point of leaving permanent scars. Other cruelties for Sethe are to know that her friends were hurt. Sixo was roasted alive and Paul A hung. Paul D is locked onto a chain for eighty-three days in a prison camp in Georgia. These pains for her friends can be just as painful for Sethe. All in all the life of a slave is dehumanizing. Constant hiding and being on the run plays tricks on the mind of slaves. Shown by Paul D in his most discouraging conflict comes in contact with a rooster, Mister. Humiliated by the fact that an animal was walking around with more power, he doesn't understand how an animal can have a ... kill your children creates a spirit of steel. Sethe's decision has effects not only on herself but all others surrounding her. We see people scared of and off by her decision; people like Paul D, Howard and Buglar, and the whole community. A decision like this does not only have negative effects. Denver is portrayed as weak throughout most of the novel. Nearing the end and finding out more ...
- 3945: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal ... painful experience with his hand which is in great pain and won't move. This is useful in the place where Christ loses his physical self and has less to deal with. On the third day, he recovers himself and returns to his home even though his only remaining treasure was a broken skiff, experience, and a torn up marlin. And in the final conclusion, you can see him dragging ...
- 3946: Summary of Terkel's My American Century
- ... without holding anything back. The blacks, of course, had extremely different views. Though he was starting to get some positive feed back from councilman and some others. Mr. Ellis thought this was good until one day he saw one of these men one the street and the man crossed the street so that he wouldn't run into Ellis. He thought this to be very insulting. This type of thing continued ... it a try. It wasn't working. Atwater couldn't get the blacks to attend meetings with a Klansmen, and Ellis couldn't get his people to attend the meetings with black people. Then one day Ellis and Atwater sat down to try and find a solution, when Atwater started telling him a story about her daughter coming home crying because the teacher was making fun of her. Ellis says ”Boy ... you see many wonderful things begin to happen to him, and what he is trying to do for others. The most powerful part of this reading comes in the last paragraph. Ellis talks about the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, and how he and the Klan were celebrating. He then goes on to say, “They say the older you get, the harder it is for you to change. That' ...
- 3947: The Scarlet Letter: Platform Of Sin
- ... by announcing his sin. Finally, a meteor in the second scaffold scene foreshadows the third scene. The shooting star appears while Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl are standing together on the scaffold. "At the great judgment day,' whispered the minister, . . . ‘Then, and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together'. . . before Mr. Dimmesdale had done speaking a light gleamed far and wide over all the muffled ... The third scaffold scene is where the story comes to an end. It is here that the story climaxes when Dimmesdale's sin is revealed and Hester's pain is resolved. This scene represents judgment day for Dimmesdale because he realizes that he is near death and that now is his last opportunity for salvation. He calls to Hester following his Election Day sermon: “Come, Hester , come! Support me up yonder scaffold! . . . I am a dying man. So let me make haste to take my shame upon me” (235-236)! Dimmesdale's confession to the public shatters ...
- 3948: The Life of Edward Albee
- ... Trinity at the time that they didn't catch up with me until the middle of the sophomore year," he recalls. "That ended my formal education, and I suppose it didn't matter much. I'd figured out how to educate myself, and keep on doing it. To be fair to Trinity, I would have been unhappy at any college or university." Albee was even more unhappy when his adoptive mother ... himself, he quit the $38-a-week job — but not before "liberating" a beat-up typewriter and curling yellow copy paper from his employer. After two and one-half weeks at his kitchen table, he'd finished The Zoo Story — a play about a middle-class man in the publishing business hounded into killing an alienated man who happened to confront him in Central Park. Foreshadowing the future, New York producers ... write their lines, make a few corrections, revise quickly on a manual typewriter and go into rehearsal. That next play will be like the others — an attempt to shake people up, to ask questions they'd rather not think about. He warns that his is a "tough racket. We probably have five or six absolutely first-rate playwrights in America whose work we know nothing about. Making an income has ...
- 3949: Similarities in Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and "Heart of Darkness"
- ... being held for Kurtz which awaits him as he crawls on the ground, one last desperate attempt to die as a god. The Captain becomes very stressed that he will be discovered and it builds day by day. The Captain grows to hate the Steward. He is sure that the Steward will be the one to discover Leggatt in his quarters. The Captain gets so close to discovery that his "voice died in ... by giving him Stein's ring. He becomes very well known by ridding the natives of their oppression by other tribal leaders. During this time, Jim becomes friends with Doramin's son, Dain Waris. One day, white men come down the river and attack the town. They people drive them back and have them cornered. They plead to be given safe passage. Jim says that they should let them through ...
- 3950: Man's Evil Nature in Lord of the Flies
- ... down. We'll close in and beat and beat and beat-‘"(83), he demonstrates his carnal desire to hint and kill. Next, Jack also strove to control others. He would even resort to torture, "'What d' you mean by it, eh?' said the chief (Jack) forcefully ‘What d' you mean coming with spears? What d' you mean by not joining my tribe?' The prodding became rhythmic. Sam yelled."(166). The desire to kill is what proves that Jack has an evil nature, and the fact that he came from ...
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