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- 4721: The Cat In The Rain: Self Control and Communication
- The Cat In The Rain: Self Control and Communication It was a windy spring day in Chicago. I stood on the bridge of Michigan Avenue looking down the Chicago river. The river was choppy and crashed against the concrete walls. The water was powerful and swayed in a massive motion ... John Updike pushes the realms of self control in his short story ‘A & P’. A young man one of thousands across America slaving there summer away in a grocery store, is interrupted form the usual day at work when a group of girls walk in wearing nothing but bathing suits. Updike makes certain connotations leading the reader to believe that the young man has a chemical heat wave running threw his ... boat if his daughter was so blatantly miserable. Ernest Hemingway also deals with self control and communication in his short story ‘The Cat In The Rain’. Hemingway opens up the story during a dismal rainy day. It is a common fact that people tend to become more grouchy during rainy days. The wife Hemingway introduces seems to be extremely bored. She insists upon having this cat that she sees outside. ...
- 4722: Stephen King's The Stand
- ... portrays the forces of good against evil. In the year 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are "immune" to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve G-d instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the "Dark Man" are drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada. The two groups separately re-build society, until one must destroy the other. Franni Goldsmith comes very ... destroy the "Dark Man". Meanwhile Harold secretly leaves with the "Dark Man's" bride-to-be, Nadine, to Las Vegas. Harold is ready to kill Stuart, but is killed instead by "the will of G-d". Nadine makes it safely to Las Vegas before Stuart and his two companions are about to be hanged. Out of the sky "the hand of G-d" comes and destroys the "Dark Man" sparing the three men. After much hardship, Stuart returns to Fran and her newborn son and together they plant the seeds of a new society. The Stand is ...
- 4723: The Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrims
- ... to understand what was truly at the heart of these characters and make the characters real and believable. Chaucer portrays the Wife of Bath in the General Prologue as a stereotypical ordinary woman for that day in age. He only gives a brief description of physical appearance and a possible glimmer of a strong minded female. "In making cloth she showed so great a bent / She bettered those of Ypres and ... very neat and tidy. By these small details of his appearance, we are told much about the squire's way of living and ease-on-the-eyes. He obviously has no trouble with women. "He'd seen some service with the cavalry / In Flanders and Artois and Picardy / And had done valiantly in little space / Of time, in hope to win his lady's grace. (21)" These lines show the personality ...
- 4724: There Are No Children Here
- ... them. The same personality trate applies to my friend Lauren. Me and Lauren decided that we wanted to try out for a play. We both took private lessons and worked very hard for the big day, tryouts. We liked to sing and dance for each other so we could critique each other. When the day arrived we were driven by my mother. We could hardly open the car door we were so nervous. We learned the dance and sung for the director. Three days later me and Lauren got a ... feeling of prejudice. In There Are No Children Here, Lafeyette actually felt more threatened by the police then by his neighborhood members. There was one event that made him feel even stronger about it. One day, he decided to try to make some money by waving in some care. Even though Laffyette didn't commit any crime, the policeman threw him in a puddle of water. After that he proceeded ...
- 4725: The Necklace: Madame Loisel
- ... lines also seemed to indicate that Madame Loisel had a lot of free time on her hands. I got the impression that she was a lazy person. Madame Loisel’s life was transformed from the day she lost the necklace. The Loisel’s dismissed their servant. They had to move from their current house and rent a garret under the roof. For the first time in her life, Madame Loisel came ... she must have learned that “all that glitters, isn’t gold.” Madame Loisel’s dream was to be rich, “to be envied and sought after.” She got her chance to live that dream on the day of the ball. “She was prettier than them all, elegant, gracious, smiling, and crazy with joy. All the men looked at her, asked her name, endeavored to be introduced.” It is ironic, how the enactment ... the necklace. She had to start washing the dishes and clothes after losing the necklace. She started to go grocery shopping after she lost the necklace. So what did she do around the house all day other than daydream? Her experience taught her to take responsibility for her actions. Another change that occurred in her was that she stopped complaining about her situation in the second half of the story. ...
- 4726: The Yellow Wallpaper: The View from the Inside
- ... how easily and effectively, the man 'seemingly' wields his 'maleness' to control the woman. But, with further interpretation and insight I believe Gilman succeeds in nothing more than showing the weakness of women, of the day, as active persons in their own as well as society's decision making processes instead of the strength of men as women dominating machines. From the beginning of the story forward the narrator speaks of ... is an astute revelation considering that at that time men were still the magistrates and governors of women's lives and for the author to make such an observation was in itself unorthodox for the day. This passage serves a two-fold purpose. The ability to lock the door restores the narrator's power over her environment at the very least, and possibly her inner domains as well. The husband having ... her and try to understand her. "The Yellow Wallpaper" presents a very interesting perspective of how a man can influence a woman's life from a very feminist point of view, but with a present day interpretation can be given a whole new depth because the many conflicts flow from being woman vs. man to a much more complex struggle of woman vs. herself so that she may successfully win ...
- 4727: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Love Life
- ... fetch me dem old black gaiters. Dese tan shoes sets mah feet on fire...She got up without a word and got the shoes.” (Hurston 53). Jody mentally and physically drained Janie until his dying day. “She got nothing from Jody except what money could buy, and she was giving away what she didn’t value.” (Hurston 72). When Jody passed away, Janie was set free like a bird from a ... learnt how...She found herself glowing inside.” (Hurston 92). Tea Cake was not perfect in the relationship though. On the first night of their marriage, he left and didn’t come back until the next day. His apology was sincere and accepted by Janie. He then pledged allegiance to her. “From now on you’se mah wife and mah woman and everything else in de world Ah needs.” (Hurston 119). Later ... Cake was working down in the muck, he asked Janie to get a job; not because he needed money but because he wanted to spend time with her. “Janie, Ah gits lonesome out dere all day ‘thout yuh...you betta come git uh job uh work out dere lak de rest uh de women.” (Hurston 126). Everything Tea Cake did revolved around Janie. The love between the two of them ...
- 4728: The Old Man and The Sea
- ... 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 ...
- 4729: The Time Machine by H.G Wells
- ... for the magazines that were of that time. In 1894 he began to write science-fiction stories. -James Gunn Wells vision of the future, with its troglodytic Morlocks descended from the working class of his day and the pretty but helpless Eloi devolved from the leisure class, may seem antiquated political theory. It emerged out of the concern for social justice that drew Wells to the Fabian Society and inspired much ... carvings and how primitive the people were he had doubts that he was in the future. This proved by when the time traveler is remembering the date on his dials that read 802, 701 A.D. He noticed the Eli diet as been composed of mainly fruit and vegetables. He noticed there was no signs of economic or cultural struggle in the surroundings so the time traveler has some knowledge of ...
- 4730: Summary of Beloved
- ... The story begins in the year 1873, but there are many flashbacks to the year Sethe attempted to run away, which is in 1856, four years before the start of the Civil War. Sethe, Paul D., and Baby Suggs were all slaves on the same farm in Kentucky, which was ironically named Sweet Home, though for them, it was neither home nor sweet. Plot The plot of the novel is loosely ... succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arrives, he chases away the ghost, but soon a young woman named Beloved comes to Sethe's home. This woman is strangely similar to Sethe's dead daughter, which is ironic because the word "Beloved ... the pain and her fear. Her husband, Halle, only witnesses the rape and this is enough to drive him to smearing butter on his face from the insanity, never again capable of facing Sethe. Paul D. runs for more than eighteen years from his memories. Even Sethe's sons run when they can stand no more of their fears. Baby Suggs withstood the agony of a lifetime of slavery and ...
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