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- 2621: Jack London
- ... the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, and he wove the elemental ideas into stories of high adventure based on his own writing appealed not to the few, but to millions of people all ... others, was influenced by London's interest in socialism(Philosophy Nietzsche). London’s heroes feel the tingle of life…, that electric thrill with which man goes forth to combat, perchance even to pay life’s penalty. The greatest lovers of life are those who hazard it most freely, who most open-breasted brave its dangers; not those who hoard, to spend it moment by moment like precious grains of gold, but ...
- 2622: Fried Green Tomatoes Human Nat
- ... more than likely is what kept him alive for a good portion of the novel. Nostalgia not only allows us to cope with difficult situations in life but also transcends it and comforts us in death. The man in the hotel lobby walked over and shook the smiling Atris O. Peavey, who was now quiet and still. What s the matter with you? The man jumped back Jesus Christ! This nigger ... think that if they just ignore a problem it might go away. This is a common misconception displayed by a number of characters in the novel. Idgie is a prime model of this. After the death of her favorite brother, Buddy, Idgie takes to running away from home in an attempt to escape her pain. You never saw anyone hurt so much I thought she would die right along side him ... she couldn t bear to be home any longer, she d just take off and stay with Sipsey over in Troutville She never did cry. Young Idgie does not know how to deal with the death of her brother, so in place of opening up to her family and confiding in them, she runs away and keeps everything she feels inside of her. Idgie s nephew, Stump, also displays an ...
- 2623: Puritanism
- ... When she failed to improve, the village doctor, William Griggs, was called in. After much deliberation, Griggs concluded that the problem was witchcraft. This put into motion the forces that would ultimately result in the death of nineteen men and women. In addition to those nineteen people, one man named Giles Corey was crushed to death. Seventeen others died in prison and the lives of many were irrevocably changed. To better understand the events of the Salem witch trials, it is necessary to understand the time period in which the accusations ... from towns surrounding Salem. They were put there because their names had been "cried out" by tormented young girls as the cause of their pain. Everyone waited for a trial of a crime punishable by death in 17th-century New England, the practice of witchcraft. Under the Massachusetts Bay Colony legal structure, those who were accused of consorting with the devil were considered felons. Today, a person must commit a ...
- 2624: Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer
- ... organization, leave his car in the woods, burn the remainder of his money, and hitch-hiked across the United States. The only thing he might do differently is finding a way not to starve to death at the end of the novel. In the beginning of each chapter, Krakauer includes one or two exerts from various authors of nature such as Thoreau, Tolstoy, or London. Once in a while he even ... reader still wants to continue reading to get into the mind of McCandless. What would cause a bright and compassionate child to leave a safe environment and venture into the wild to have brushes with death on an everyday basis? The yearning that some people have to live on the dangerous side and get away from it all is the only answer. Krakauer only introduces Chris as the kid who dies ... escape the restrictions that were put on them by society. Krakauer found his outlet by writing in outdoor magazines and by writing novels. He was able to survive his trips but he was close to death a couple times also. Once he decided to climb a mountain that had never been climbed before called Devils Thumb. Just like Chris he refused to give up and after much adversity he finally ...
- 2625: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... all of this stress took a toll on his family The masculine figure in the family was the uncle, Peter Gansevoort. Not long after Allan Mellville's financial collapse he died. Herman's father's death and his father's dependence on Peter Gansevoort probably had an effect on Herman's early psychological development. Its effects would show up in his later writings. Herman's relatives helped the struggling family in ... out and condemned to wander beyond the pale.” (McSwenny 25) This sense of rejection can be connected Melville's life by his mother's favoritism toward her other son and Herman's father's untimely death. Herman's journeys at sea can also be interpreted as alienation and rejection. Melville's writings show that he was preoccupied throughout his life with figure of Ishmael. In Mardi he writes, “sailors are mostly ... comfort him.” (125) “Melville had what might be called an ‘Ishmael complex.'” It had two sources; personal life experience and identification with an archetypal image.” (Edinger 16) The personal cause would be the insanity and death of his father and the following hardships. Melville was twelve and a half at the time when his father died, close to the Biblical Ishmael who was thirteen. In addition, he was rejected by ...
- 2626: Rise Of Communism
- ... parties eventually banning all non-communist as well as removing an assembly elected shortly after the Bolshevik’s gain of power. Lenin’s strict government, however, was about to get a lot stricter with his death in 1924. After the death of Lenin, his chief lieutenant Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin fought for control of the country. Stalin was able to win out over Trotsky and gain control of the Russian government. He felt that Lenin ... industrial success. The citizens of the post war Russia were forced into economic misery as well as oppression from the government as Stalin tried to build up Russia as a world power. After Stalin’s death the following leaders were not as harsh—some more so than others. However the basic atmosphere was the same. The people of the country had little choices in lifestyle and basically did what the ...
- 2627: Young Goodman Brown
- ... that starts out at dusk, made by a man with a wife named Faith, who meets witches in the woods and witnesses the totally corrupt nature of all humanity and then dies a lonely, tormented death. It's the perfect Christian fairy tale nightmare, and Hawthorne seems to have used it for exactly this reason: the journey itself is never so easy. When Brown returns to his town and sees the ... through his inability to accept what he sees in the forest? Or is he more concerned with the journey itself than with any specific message or description of possible outcomes? Goodman Brown's abrupt, gloomy death seems to reinforce the latter idea. Had Hawthorne been concerned with making a very particular statement about what he considers right and wrong in terms of human behavior, I think he would have spent more ... preaching for a revised, more adaptable human. His tone is ironic: hypocrisy exists; some accept it and some don't. Goodman Brown is the example of one who doesn't, and he dies a gloomy death. Hawthorne's attitude toward goodman Brown seems to fall somewhere between ambivalent and sympathetic, though he retains a certain distance throughout the story. Brown becomes neither the pious, tragic hero nor the dupe who ...
- 2628: A Farewell To Arms Is A Classi
- ... so much that she is willing to be alone just so he can be happy. At the same time, Mr. Henry would probably like to go skiing but would never dream of leaving Catherine alone. Death wins out over love. It is very dangerous. The nurse went into the room and shut the door. I sat outside in the hall. Everything was gone inside of me. I did not think. I ... that they are isolating themselves from the world. Since they were so cut off from the outside world, Mr. Henry has even a more difficult time going back into the reality of life after her death. This theme of man and woman isolated in love and finally their loss to dark death is universal. The most profound aspect of this book would be its ageless symbolism. The free-living, heavy-drinking life that Catherine and Mr. Henery shared could be compared to the heavy investing, speculating ...
- 2629: Combining Individual Stories Into Larger Wholes
- ... other smart and successful people). Anderson might be insinuating that people create delusions of importance in order to give their lives some meaning or even to just ward off the boredom of a drab existence. Death is an elaboration on the story “Mother”. It depicts again the confusion of love and sex and then it deals with death and its effects on the emotionally crippled townspeople. George doesn’t grasp that his mother is dead and is annoyed that she died keeping him from his date with Helen. He even starts having sexual thoughts about Helen while in the room with his dead mother. Then the realisation of death breaks through violently. Sophistication revolves around George Willard, preparing for the closure of the book. In the end George and Helen lose their inhibitions for a brief moment and experience happiness, freedom and love. ...
- 2630: Compare And Contrast Once Upon
- ... Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner." Both works take the reader on an emotional journey that deliver a social message with an impact. The authors' investigate fear, a mother/child relationship as well as the death of a child. The plot, character development, foreshadowing, and repetition are also worthy topics for evaluation. The social message Ms. Gordimer tackles is that you cannot protect yourself from the evils of society. Because of ... 521). Showing her gratitude, she screams "Now there must be more money! - more than ever!" (521). Finally, the mother demands so much from the child that she pushes him to madness and eventually an exhaustive death. The two story's share similarities in plots. If the reader diagrammed the two stories using Fraytag's pyramid as a model, the results would mirror each other. From the exposition to the climax, the ... works. Both artists develop the plot is similar manners, but chose different avenues when it comes to which characters to develop in a story. The authors' use fear, a mother/child relationship as well as death, to drive home their opinions with bone chilling efficiency.
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