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- 3981: My Antonia: A Review
- ... assuredness as well as her love for the land, Jim suddenly confesses his feelings for her; he thinks of her more than anyone else from his youth. Her personality continues to influence h im. "I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind ... four years older, they're from different social classes, and Jim is now far more educated than she is. Nearing the end of the book, the past is further explored as Jim spends a disappointing day in Black Hawk, where very few of the people from his youth remain. Walking out to the edge of town, he finds a half-mile stretch of the old wagon-road "which used to run ...
- 3982: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- ... In this same episode we see an example of the confinement that was so customary at Lowood, for Mr. Brocklehurst orders that Jane must stay standing on a small stool for the remainder of the day. (Bronte 69) Again we see Jane's unwillingness to deny herself, because she knows that she does have value. Jane is does not remain excluded, but finds genuine friendship in the respectable Miss Temple and ... she and Mr. Rochester were created equally in the sight of God. She acknowledges that this is not the tradition of the time and it is not conventionally the place of a lady of this day to speak in this way, yet she must say it, because she feels it with every part of her. Jane goes further to imply that one's character, their inner beauty, is what determines equality ... joint heir with Mr. Rochester and to be his companion is his obvious admission of equality to Jane. This proposal is Jane's first "gradation of glory." Soon after Jane ascends another gradation. On the day of her wedding it is revealed that there is an "insuperable impediment" to the wedding (Bronte 292). Jane learns that Mr. Rochester has been deceiving her for the duration of their relationship- he already ...
- 3983: Hesse's Siddhartha as it Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- ... by them. He loses his ability to meditate and forgets his old ways. This point is illustrated perfectly when Hesse writes: Like a veil, like a thin mist, a weariness settled on Siddhartha, slowly, every day a little thicker, every month a little darker, every year a little heavier. As a new dress grows old with time, loses its bright color, becomes stained and creased, the hems frayed, and here and ... stage) when the narrator says: He had finished with that. That also died in him. He rose, said farewell to the mango tree and the pleasure garden. As he had not had any food that day he felt extremely hungry, and thought of his house in the town, of his room and bed, of the table with food. He smiled wearily, shook his head and said goodbye to these things. (86 ... fulfillment and realize one's potential. He learns the secret of self-actualization from his most important teacher, the river. Siddhartha has become partners with a ferry boatman. As the two are sitting together one day, he asks Vausdeva, the boatman, "Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" And Vasudeva replies: Yes, Siddhartha. Is this what you mean? That the ...
- 3984: Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea": An Analysis
- ... a woman that gave or withheld favors. She was unpredictable beacuse "The moon affects her as it does a woman." (p.30) The sea was like a second home for the man, who fished every day. La mar provided the man with food, a living, an enemy, and a friend. When he was out on the sea fishing, he was at home. The sea, la mar, was like his mother. The ... just eaten a fish to get his strength back when he said, "How do you feel, fish? I feel good and my left hand is better and I have food for a night and a day" (p.74) Seeing a bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating near him, he said, "Agua mala, you whore" (p.35) The bladder was keeping the fish away from the boat. As well as ... life, the sea, along with the fish. This idea can be summarized with one more quote from the story. "Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you before this day ends."(p.54)
- 3985: Catcher in the Rye: Corruption of Holden
- ... There are a few main instances in which Holden encounters corruption directly. One type is Stradlater, the "secret slob"or Ernie, who "performs for the people". Two that affect Holden very much is his brother D.B. "selling out" to the movies and Pheobe eventually having to grow up. This corruption is very evident in Holden's life and situation. Corruption is what Holden wants to avoid but can not because ... Holden's mind a little boy not affected by the dirty hands of society. Pheobe, on the other hand, will have to enter the world sooner or later and then she too will become corrupt. D.B., though, has already submitted to that corruption by "selling out" to the movies. Holden realizes that D.B. has given his story to the movie business and does not like it because he wanted his brother to continue writing the little stories he loved so much. Pheobe, diametrically, has not yet ...
- 3986: The Pelican Brief: A Review
- ... experience as a small-town lawyer but it wasn't a hit (it is today). John Grisham continued to practice law and he also started writing his second book, "The Firm,." His luck changed one day in 1990 when Paramount Pictures paid him $600,000 for th e rights to his new book and this happened even before a publisher accepted it. The Firm was published in 1991 and stayed on ... Passage on Tone and "The President glanced at him. Perfect black suit, white shirt, red silk tie, a bit too much grease on the hair above the ears. He was sick of him, but he'd get over it when the crisis passed and he could get back to golf and Coal could sweat the details. He told himself he had that kind of energy and stamina when he was only ...
- 3987: Summary of Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... medical knowledge to treat the minister's physical condition, but suspects some wound or trouble in Dimmesdale's soul is contributing to his declining health. Intent on discovering the truth about Arthur Dimmesdale, Chillingworth one day comes upon the minister in his sleep, pushes aside his shirt, and reads the secret of the minister's heartΡthe Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is Hester Prynne's partner in adultery and the father of little ... which she immediately washes off in the brook. Upon returning to the village, Hester makes arrangements with the ship's captain for the passage. Arthur is secretly pleased they will not leave until after Election Day when he will have the honor of delivering the Election Sermon. When Election Day arrives, the ship's captain tells Hester that Chillingworth will be traveling with them. Hester cannot warn Dimmesdale of this new development because the Election Procession, of which he is part, is beginning. Reverend ...
- 3988: 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 ...
- 3989: Elie Wiesel's Night
- ... tied her up. In a way, Madame Shacter was prophesying about the crematories at the death camps, the huge flames and the furnaces that turn the Jewish nation into ashes. "I believe profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple." (p. 13) Elie Wiesel was a child of such high religious values, who at the age of just twelve, before even Bar-Mitzvah, wanted to delve into Jewish mysticism. As he states, he was studying Talmud during the day , and praying during the night. You would think that a man like this would never, ever loose faith in his God, let alone a young child. In his novel it clearly states in many places ... own eyes, his father was killed. On the tenth of April the resistance movement in Buchenwald decided to act. They rose with weapons and started to fire. The SS fled and later on in that day, the American tanks liberated the camp.
- 3990: Summary of Willie Morris' "Good Old Boy"
- ... Her body was retrieved from the quicksand and buried with a giant chain around her grave. On May 25, 1904 the whole town was engulfed in flames. Everything was destroyed in this blaze. The next day, some citizens went to her grave and to their horror the chain had been broken. Another legend was one about Casey Jones, a famous train engineer who was killed while saving his passengers lives. The ... was built on. Next, the book told about the childhood life of the author, Willie Morris. Willie, his dog Skip, and friends had many exciting adventures together in that small town. They ranged from school day pranks to having saved the town from a band of thieves. They usually spent a lot of their time in Bubba's Model A Ford. Bubba was about eleven or twelve and had a car ... little way out of town that was said to have secret passages all under it. Billy decided that they needed to go see, but no one else wanted to go. Billy went alone the next day. Everyone noticed that he was not at school or at home so they headed to the only place he could have gone. When they got to the mansion, they went to the house and ...
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