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- 3071: Cults
- ... goes like this: "Above all, be married, a good parent, a reasonable church goer, buy a house, pay your mortgage, pay your insurance, have a good line of credit, be socially committed, and graciously accept death with the hope that 'through His shed blood,' or some other equally worthless religious precept, you will go to Heaven after your death.4 It is at this point that, through their literature, unbeknown to the reader the cult begins to strip away at everything the individual believes in. The cult starts to present the individual with the ... some point in life. Undoutably, many cults are malicious and violent, but they do send a clear message that something is very wrong when sane, healthy people would rather burn, poison, and shoot themselves to death rather than live another moment in society. Endnotes 1. Lacay, Richard. Macleans: The Lure of the Cult (March 22 1997) 2. Graebrener, William. The American Record. Alfred A. Knoph, Inc. New York. 1982. 3. ...
- 3072: The Call Of The Wild
- ... law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck learned this law after he was beaten half to death by the man who had the club. no matter what he tried, he just couldn't win. Buck was sold off to a man who put him in a harness connected to many other dogs ... downed dog and make quick work of it. All of these unspoken rules had turned Buck into the Best dog to ever roam the Klondike. Buck did eventually fight Spitz and send him to his death. After all of the transformations and cruelty he had been through, you would think that Buck would never be able to trust another human. He was being starved to death by a gold seeking group who had not brought enough food for the dogs. When Buck could finally not move another step, a man from the group started to beat Buck. As the blows ...
- 3073: The Broken Heart
- ... get a visual picture of what love means to him. He uses the imagery because it’s necessary to see a picture of the pain he lives with. Donne uses several aspects of imagery, including death to show his grief and Donne also does uses despair to display his pain. The image of death was used throughout the poem. "…Love so soon decays," meaning that love so quickly dies. If you cut a flower and do not put it in water it will quickly wither and die. Another image of death would be the plague. A plague is a widespread disease that causes thousands of people to die. The plague is also synonymous with suffering. Donne writes that he has "had the plague a year," ...
- 3074: The Saginaw Song
- ... each quatrain. The rhyme scheme is consistent throughout the piece and each line rhymes with every other line. For example, in the first line ‘whiskey on your breath’ rhymes with ‘but I hung on like death’ on the third line. The words breath and death are dominant words that reveal a somber tone, which runs throughout the piece. In the second line, the words ‘dizzy’ and ‘easy’ are paired as sight rhymes. Although the rhyme scheme is entertaining, the late ... first stanza reveals that the father has been drinking and that his breath ‘could make a small boy dizzy.” Imagery is used to describe how the boy interacts with his father. He ‘hangs on like death, ’as the pair romp with such a vengence that the pans almost ‘slid from the kitchen shelf.’ The boy describes his mother’s facial expression as frowning. Its easy to determine that she was ...
- 3075: The Black Cat
- ... the present brief, lead me tosuggest that, in the synoptic and evasive glossary of this tale, witch = wife. Ergo, black cat = wife (235). Yet black cats can symbolize a lot more things such things as death, sorcery, witchcraft, spirits of the dead, and most common a symbol of bad luck (Womack 6). The cat’s name itself can be interpreted as a symbol. Pluto, the name of the cat, can symbolize ... which is that Pluto was the god of the dead and ruler of the underworld. The symbolism of the cats name can be used to show how the cat will somehow cause some type of death. The cat’s eye in the story can also be a symbol in which it represents what some call the "evil eye", that is performed when someone looks at another in a disturbing manner. Maybe ... which precedes out of an inborn sense of fear and blends into the urge of suicide, becomes our own. In capsule form, this utterance describes the whole of the narrator’s life and ironically his death. Poe, I think, is a serious artist who explores all parts of his characters with probing intelligence. He permits the narrator in this story to reveal and flounder into torment, but sees beyond the ...
- 3076: John Keats
- ... a neighbor found him he was already dead. John was only at the age of eight when his father died. John’s mother, Frances Jennings, did not take long to recover from her husband’s death because she later married only two months after. Frances and her new wed husband, William Rawlings, had a terrible marriage from the start. As a result, the children were sent to their grandmother’s and will later be joined by Frances when she left William with the family business. Frances died from tuberculosis when John was fourteen years of age. Frances’s death furthered financial problems for the family, which started when her father died. Now, John and his siblings were left with a guardian to live their lives. John never had any interest in books at his ... were not going away which gave him a negative outlook on life. On February 3, 1820 John saw serious signs of illness when he first coughed blood. John said, “That drop of blood is my death warrant. I must die.” (www.gopher.nypi.org) It is sad to say that John Keats died on February 23, 1821 of tuberculosis. John was twenty-six at the time. Before John died he ...
- 3077: Creon And Achilles
- Both Creon of Sophocles’ Antigone and Achilles of Homer’s The Iliad end up allowing the body of their enemy a proper burial. During the time following the death of Hector, Achilles is in a position very similar to that which Creon deals with in Antigone. Both men show similar flaws, and face similar struggles. The difference between the two men is only subtly ... by both Achilles and Creon. Achilles shows his rage in Book I of The Iliad when he speaks out against Agamemnon and refuses to fight, as well as in Book XXII when he avenges the death of Patroclus by the slaughter of Hector. Book XXIV, however, is the book in which Achilles situation most closely parallels that of Priam. To most objectively compare their characters, it is important that the situations ... the wisdom of his decision to let Polynices rot. Creon’s strongest rage is his rage against Antigone for attempting to bury Polynices. “--she’ll never escape/ she and her blood sister, the most barbaric death (545). This ardent anger is left unparalleled by the actions of Achilles. Achilles shows only one additional spark of anger during the his conversation with Priam. Impatient for the return of his son’s ...
- 3078: A Pregenerative Soul’s Fear of Life
- ... and earth seems to be the cause of a good deal of trepidation; trepidation regarding a purpose in life. The fear of becoming a living being stems both directly and indirectly from a fear of death: “‘Why fade these children of the spring? born but to smile & fall’” (l. 7). In this line, Thel first expresses her lack of understanding of the process of life. She sees it as a futile ... a task in which she might fail. Thel would consider her eminent life a failure if “‘all shall say, “Without a use this shining woman liv’d, / Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms?”’” (ll. 69-70). As a result, she questions others as to how they cope with their mortality. The responses of those she asks ubiquitously stress the importance of service. The Lilly ... of Clay essentially tells her that trepidation and hesitation will do no good. Only action in service and faith will give her life purpose and a means by which she can defeat her fear of death and mortality.
- 3079: Tess - Fatalism
- ... inevitability doctrine applied by him about himself to himself" (7). If Tess didn't start life feeling as though Fate was working against her, there are plenty of incidents which could easily convince her: the death of the family horse because of her negligence, the letter of confession that slipped beneath the carpet and caused her to enter into marriage as a deception, the death of her father, and the return of Angel just too late. Incident after incident seem to point to only one thing: Tess was not meant to have a happy existence. So does Tess believe that ... There were chances throughout the novel for Hardy to give Tess a break and throw her a bone. He chose not to do so. Critic Arnold Kettle see this decision as a necessity: "Tess's death is artistically as inevitable as Juliet's...She is up against a social situation that she can do nothing to resolve except tragically, with drastic human loss" (23). It seems that if Hardy was ...
- 3080: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... country. It also tells of the difficulties of losing friends, killing another man, and going day after day without much, if any, sleep. He died in October of 1918, just before the war ended. His death was described as this, "...his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." Stanislaus Katczinsky Katczinsky, or "Kat" as he is referred to, is the leader of this group ... around his old books. During bombardments it is said that he muttered physics propositions to pass the time. He ended up dying when he was shot at point blank range in the stomach. Before his death he handed over his pocketbook and leather boots (the one's he had been given by Kemmerich before he died) to Paul. Leer Leer was another of the schoolmates to join in the war efforts ... would never enlist. His students would laugh when a letter was received from him because he send them their best wishes. And while he was safe, sitting at home with a pen, they were witnessing death and destruction all around them.
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