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- 1901: Sluaghterhouse-Five
- ... a hunting accident, then he gets in a plane crash and everyone aboard dies but him, and while he is in the hospital recuperating, his wife dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. There is so much death surrounding his life, that it is no wonder Billy has not tried to kill himself yet. Billy proves throughout the book that he is not mentally stable, yet somehow, he is persuasive in his interpretation ... novels, which, coincidentally, have many similarities with the "alien" encounter and the "time traveling" Billy often experiences. The encounters are barricades Billy puts around himself so he does not have to face the reality of death and war. They are a way of shielding him so he can pretend everything is all right and there really is no death. Many times throughout the book, Vonnegut indicates that the "encounters" are merely figments of Billy’s imagination brought on by the novels of Kilgore Trout: "It was The Gospel from Outer Space, by Kilgore ...
- 1902: Sickle Cell Anemia
- ... occurred many thousands of years ago in people in part of Africa, the Mediterranean basin the Middle East, and India. A deadly form of Malaria was very common at the time. Malaria empidemics caused the death of people. Studies show that in the areas where Malaria was a problem, children who inherited one sickle hemoglobin gene, carried the sickle cell trait. There are several forms of sickles cell disease. One of ... being an unaffected carrier like the parents. Babies and young children with sickle cell disease have special problems. Infants and young children who are affected have sever bacterial infections. Infections are the leading cause of death in children whit sickle cell. Pneumococcal infections used to be the pricipl cause of death of young children with sickle cell. When children with sickle cell anemia are infected the have a hard time fighting them off once they get started. The infections may result in damage to the ...
- 1903: Indira Gandhfemalei
- ... and Indira was devastated(Sahgal 106). When Indira was in England, she was often seen with another young foreign student, Feroze Gandhi. Feroze had been a frequent visitor to the Nehru household. After Kamala’s death, Indira had found herself drawn towards Feroze. Indira’s family, however, did not welcome the news that Indira planned to marry Feroze. Jawaharal Nehru, in fact strongly opposed the match, in spite of the fact ... post, and it was reported that Indira would have preferred to be foreign minister. Nevertheless, she accepted the position(Currimbhoy 92). People who predicted chaos and an end to democracy in India after Jawarhal’s death were even more convinced of it now, when Shastri died. Jawarhal’s illness had been long and death had been foreseen for months, whereas Shastri’s and was sudden, and the young democracy had no time to prepare a successor. To fill the void, the ruling Congress party promptly chose Indira Gandhi ...
- 1904: Creon As Antigones Tragic Figu
- ... consequences of his actions. Creon s decision to outlaw Polyneices s burial sets the stage for the tragedy that ensues. He regards Polyneices as an enemy of Thebes and sees no reason to honor his death. He remains dedicated to the decree in opposition to convincing arguments from Antigone, Haemon, and Teiresias. The first and most passionate challenge brought against Creaon s edict comes from Antigone. Her blatant disregard of his ... reverse the prohibition of Polyneices s burial. However, he asserts his freedom to let the process follow its chosen direction. He does so to the point of ignoring his sons threat of suicide upon the death of Antignoe: Haemon: So, she must die and will not die alone. Creon: What? Threaten me? Are you so insolent? Haemon: It is no threat, if I reply to folly. Creon: The fool would teach ... forces Creon to change his mind about the burial: Teiresias: You will not live / Through many circuits of the racing sun / Before you give a child of your own body / To make amends for murder, death for death. (ll. 1064-1067) After forecasting the world of terror which will soon envelope Creon, Teiresias leaves. The King is suddenly unsure of himself. The seer s words are terrifying enough to force ...
- 1905: Foreshadowing and Flashback: Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
- ... fact that he must be rich and powerful to do that. Overall, it shows that he destroys himself trying to get Daisy back from Tom Buchanan. In the beginning of chapter eight Fitzgerald foreshadows the death of Gatsby. "I couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half sick between grotesque reality and savage frightening dreams. I heard a taxi go up ... out of bed and began to dress- I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too late." (Fitzgerald, pg.154) This quote definitely foreshadows the death of Gatsby. Fitzgerald also foreshadows Wilson's involvement when his wife died. " 'He murdered her.' 'It was an accident, George.' Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost ... clearly see, Jordan begins to narrate about the first and last time that she saw Gatsby with Daisy which was four years ago. In chapter eight, Nick flashes back to the night of Myrtle's death and begins to tell the story of what went on after her death. "Now I want to go back a little and tell what happened at the garage after we left there the night ...
- 1906: Two Sides Of Humanity
- ... his journey through life the same as Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the main character Dr. Faustus takes us along his expedition in life. These individuals represent the two sides of humanity. They each face death and their souls must pay for their past life. Each chose a different direction and now must pay the consequences for those choices. Hence, both men are driven by hubris except for each man travels ... Here tire my brains to gain a deity!" (2675). Dr. Faustus believes he has reached the pinnacle of his search for knowledge. In comparison, Everyman is driven by wealth. This quest soon becomes his demise. Death, by Gods request, searches out Everyman and tells him he has erred because of his greed. God states, "Every man liveth so after his own pleasure " (2036). He continues by saying, "They be so cumbered with worldly riches That needs on them I must do justice - On every man living without fear" (2036). Everyman refuses to see he has chosen the wrong path. Even though Death is at his door he states, "In thy power it lieth me to save: Yet of my food will I give thee, if thou will be kind, Yea, a thousand pound shall thou have - ...
- 1907: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... all the several times Dr. Manette had save him, but it wasn't enough. Barsad would always seem to find a way to get him back to prison and was able to give him the death sentence. Although the final day of his life came and it turned out a happy one on his part. "The door was quickly opened and closed, and there stood before him face toface, quiet, intent ... satisfied with himself, he is no longer a drunken fool, but a hero that now can live or die withhimself. By dying and saving Darnay for Lucie, Sydney Carton is "Recalled to Life." Carton's death is an example of spiritual resurrection and it related to the Christian Sacrifice and love. When Carton makes his decision to die for Lucie, the New Testament verse "I am the Resurrection and the Life ... and believeth in me, shall never die" (p.342), nearly became Carton's theme song. The words were repeated a last time at the moment Carton dies. This may be a metaphor to Christ's death, because although Christ died to wash away a clean man's accumulated sins, Carton died to wipe away his own sins that he had caused. Dickens used Carton as an example of a turnaround ...
- 1908: Night 2
- ... 3 people who would die that day, was a young child. Wiesel wondered what that poor innocent boy had done to deserve to die in this manner. Wiesel watched the boy struggling between life and death. The death was a slow agony. At this point Wiesel lost all faith in the existence of God. "Where is God now? Where is He? Here is - He is hanging here on this gallows..."(62) After this ... Jews, they were innocent victims. These people had done nothing and yet were tortured, degraded and liquidated for no reason other than they were Jews. Wiesel is a witness to all the horrible things. The death of his family, the death of his childhood and the death of his God.
- 1909: Sadomasochism
- ... the Will-to-Power. Such Power does excite; but is violent, excoriating; of a volatile, often uncontrollable Force, it can and will subvert the love that two people share. For this is a Power of Death, very strictly conjoined to Sex. "From the very first we recognized the presence of the sadistic component in the sexual instinct. As we know, it can make itself independent [author's emphasis] and can ... dominate ... precondition to submitting. Lord Byron once wearily remarked he cared very little any more for Love; though he would never tire of Obedience. Both Freud and Stekel believe there is an instinct for, or towards Death; and that it is the first, most primordial of the instincts. That is to say, there is in all existant matter, from the stone to the human, a tendency to return to an original state of being - or Non-being, as it may be. The will to preserve oneself they view as a further development, even an acculturated trait. This instinct to Death, this entropy, this seductive falling-back towards an earlier, assuredly more pleasurable time, we notice easily in the masochist. They would strive no longer to be anything, but to regress, become infantile, more helpless ...
- 1910: Isolation And The Individual I
- ... has a main protagonist that is a precocious boy named Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn’s initiation into society and society’s values is at Miss Watson and the widow’s home after his father’s death presents the civilized part of the society that Huck has not been exposed to before. It aggregates Huck’s education both as an individual and as a part of society up to the time when ... ability of Huck to take on another personality is astonishing, as is his ability to lie on when put on the spot. Curiously enough, each time he creates a new role, it adds up that “death, illness, or destruction of the family are involved in seven of the ten roles” throughout the novel (Strickland 50). Twain’s Huck Finn is so isolated from society and a family that he can, through ... catapults him forward to the human destruction and horror in Rome after its bombing, his eventual desertion to Sweden and ultimately shapes his final view on the senselessness of war. The occurrence of Snowden’s death is the event that Yossarian faces that makes his knowledge of the brutality of war complete. His education is concluded “on the hideous first mission to Avignon the moment he realized the fantastic pickle ...
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