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- 1491: Keeping Things Whole
- ... in well with the New Orleans culture. She enjoyed the Louisiana atmosphere so well that most of her writings were based here. Chopin continued living in Louisiana raising her six young children until the sudden death of her husband brought her back to St., Louis (Skaggs 3). Oscar Chopin died while their youngest child, Lelia was only three. Soon after Chopin moved her family to St. Louis to be with her ... beliefs, Kolbemheyer was a philosopher and encouraged Chopin to read Darwin, Haxley, and Spencer. Their beliefs were very similar and he must have supported her when she denounced the Catholic religion after her mother's death. The beloved friends wrote to each other often while Chopin was in Louisiana. Seeing the talent in her writing, Kolbemheyer encouraged Chopin to publish her letters. She admired him greatly and even named her son ... revels in his own sensuality; who trusts in nature and distrusts human relationships, especially love; who experiences a sense of liberation through solitary walks and confidences in his writing... and who is strongly drawn to death as a solution to the repetitive meaninglessness of life's pleasures. (Taylor 160) This was the basic outline for the plot of The Awakening . The book starts with Edna, a New Orleans high society ...
- 1492: Johnny Got His Gun
- ... the capturing of the inconceivable. Edward P. Vargo stated that John Updike uses ritual "to fulfill the great desire of capturing the past, to make the present meaningful through connection with the past, to overcome death, and to grasp immortality" (Contemporary Vol. 7 487). He combines the aspects and meaning of seemingly unimportant ritual along with mankind’s desire for a relationship with God to form truth and value for the ... of the transcendent" (Contemporary Vol. 7 487). Celebration allows one to become part of the greater picture of truth and existence. The celebration of joy and triumph is also part of that of the universe. Death is the last path taken in life. It is the final step as one moves from his present world to the next one. Death can be seen as a ritual of sacrifice or passage from the mundane and overwhelming details of life (Broadening 285). For example, in The Centaur the father George Caldwell sacrifices himself for his son ...
- 1493: The Great Gatsby
- Death of American Dream In The Great Gatsby Francis Key Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest revolutions in American literary history. It depth-ness still fascinates the literary experts and readers alike. The book examines several contemporary themes during the turn of the century one of them is the death of American dream, which plays a central role in the book. It serves as the glue to toast the event in the book and bring it to a memorable ending. In the novel The Great ... the car of Gatsby, driven by Daisy. After doing some investigating, and after being misled by Tom, Wilson believes that it is Gatsby that is having the affair with his wife. Before his wife s death, Wilson was simply content to move his wife away; however, after her death, he is out to make her lover pay. With pistol in hand, Wilson sets out to find Gatsby and kill him. ...
- 1494: Nazism
- ... and property. Violence and brutality became a part of their everyday lives. Their places of worship were defiled, their windows smashed, their stores ransacked. Old men and young were pummeled and clubbed and stomped to death by Nazi jack boots. Jewish women were accosted and ravaged, in broad daylight, on main thoroughfares. Some Jews fled Germany. But most, with a kind of stubborn belief in God and Fatherland, sought to weather ... other conquered peoples. Month by month the horrors escalated. First tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands of people were led off to remote fields and forest to be slaughtered by SS guns. Assembly-line death camps were established in Poland and train loads of Jews were collected from all over occupied Europe and sent to their doom. At some of the camps, the Nazis took pains to disguise their intentions ... toward us. They fell right down in front of our eyes and lay there gasping out their last breath.” What had begun as a mean little edict against Jewish civil servants was now ending the death six million Jews, Poles, gypsies, Russians, and other “sub-humans” Uncounted thousands of Jews and other hapless concentration-camp inmates were used as guinea pigs in a wide range of medical and scientific experiments, ...
- 1495: Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven: An Analysis
- ... that the student is intrigued with the bird even if it is evil. The third instance “nevermore is used the student speaks of the bird flying away just as his hopes have. The raven represents death so in saying “nevermore” he means that no matter what disappointments have befallen you, one can always rely on death. It is the one thing that will always be there. In the fourth instance “nevermore” is used the student wants to believe that the raven escaped from a crazy, old sick man that used to ... misery. In the ninth instance “nevermore” is used Poe asks the raven if Lenore is in heaven. In other words the student is asking the raven if there is such a thing as life after death. “Nevermore, spoken by the raven, tells the student that there is no such thing as an afterlife. In the tenth instance “nevermore” is used the student tells the bird to physically leave. He also ...
- 1496: Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June and Her Mother
- ... care. This is in strong opposition to Suyuan's high hopes that originate from the stron g love she has for her daughter. It is not until much later in her life, after Suyuan's death, that June realizes just how much her mother loved her and how proud she was of her. After Suyuan's death, and after June learns more of the details about her mother's past, June's eyes open to the good intentions her mother always had for her in all of the ways that she acted ... symbolized her life's importance. She wanted June to know that her life had value and that she just needed to develop and use her talents in order to discover this. After her mother's death, June begins wearing this necklace every day. She also thi nks back to her job and decides, "I was very good at what I did, succeeding at something small like that." (p. 233) Because ...
- 1497: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... poetry. His poetry covered a large range of subjects such as moral and religious problems in his time. His poems also discuss the events of his day - "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "The Death of the Duke of Wellington" are two poems of this type that show the emotion of the nation. Tennyson's work is appreciated perhaps for the sheer beauty of his writing, his descriptions of the ... destroys the ideal world as in "The Lady of Shalott". Frequently, Tennyson's personal worries were the same as those of the time. For example, the way he describes Sir Bedivere's reaction to the death of King Arthur in "Morte D'Arthur". Tennyson expresses Sir Bedivere's problem, caught in a changing world and with stable traditions disappearing fast. "For now I see the true old times are dead..."(Culler ... new men, strange faces, other minds. (Culler, A. Dwight, pg. 48) Probably his greatest poem is "In Memoriam", published in 1850, though written over the previous seventeen years. He started writing it after the youthful death of his best friend, Arthur Hallam. His death led Tennyson to question the purpose of life and the importance of death. "In Memoriam" is almost like a poetic diary since all events are linked ...
- 1498: A Separate Peace, Symbolism Wi
- ... is rooted in Gene's spitefulness towards him. Gene's feelings and their effects are linked together by the Assembly Hall. Finny's anger toward the events of the trial eventually leads to his own death as he storms out into the corridor. As Finny runs down the corridor, the marble staircase that he approaches is symbolic. Finny storms out of the Assembly Hall in which Gene's trial is being ... Gene's spiteful feelings can be directly connected to the events that took place during and after the Assembly Hall trial. Consequently, the marble staircase symbolizes how Gene's spiteful feelings ultimately cause Finny's death. At the end of the school session after Finny's death, Gene's cleaning out his locker is another symbolic act. Gene says, "Brinker went upstairs to continue his packing, and I walked over to the gym to clean out my locker" (193). As school ...
- 1499: A Report On: Laurence's The Stone Angel
- ... someone who shares her view on religion. While Mr. Lees was a person that Hagar could identify with for religion, during their discussion she also came to terms with the blame for a son's death. When Mr. Lees tells the story of his son burning to death in a fire, he says that he "can't figure out whose fault it could have been". As he goes through a long list of people who were not actually to blame, Hagar tells him that "no one's to blame.". This shows that Hagar finally realizes that there can be no one to blame for an incident that randomly happens. Later, when she discusses John's death, and the anger she feels about it, she says that the direction of her anger is "not at anyone, just that it happened that way". With this new knowledge, gained through Mr. Lees own ...
- 1500: Dulce Et Decorum Est 2
- ... reaction to the notion of actively engaging in battle. The idea of cancer represents the 'terminal' results and finality of war. Owen suggests that men who are sent to fight are being sent to their death; something as inevitable as death from cancer. The slow and painful death associated with cancer is likened to dying on the battlefield where those who aren't killed instantly are left to suffer horribly. Just like Owen s gassed soldier. The futility of war is shown ...
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