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- 5391: A Child Called It
- ... see and the courage to intervene the problems by Dave’s father. Dave considered the abuse he endured by his mother, ‘games’. But he always tried to be one small step ahead of her. Like Death From Child Abuse . . . And No One Heard, the outside world does nothing to help out a small child suffering from various forms of abuse. The few people who took notice were David’s teachers and ... case brought out the violence and was his mother’s way of release, her savior. All in all I felt the book was very compelling. I did not feel it had the same impact as Death From Child Abuse . . . And No One Heard, because of the style that it was written; I enjoyed hearing Ursula’s thoughts. Still, the torture that Dave tolerated was more than any child should endure or ...
- 5392: A Rose For Emily 6
- ... absent love. It symbolizes the roses and flowers that Emily never received, the lovers that overlooked her. The domineering attitude of Emily's father keeps her to himself, inside the house, and alone until his death. In his own way, Emily's father shows her how to love. Through a forced obligation to love only him, as he drives off young male callers, he teaches his daughter lessons of love. It ... the only way she knows how, by killing him. In her own way, she forces Homer to love her and to stay with her. In doing so, Emily's rose wilts forever. Following Emily's death, the townspeople enter her bedroom to find a shocking sight. The room appears "decked and furnished as for a bridal". A rose color drapes over the room, "upon the valance curtains of faded rose color ...
- 5393: Character Symbolization In Lord of the Flies
- ... see how the symbolic society on this uninhabited tropical island in the Pacific Ocean makes the transition from carefully organized democratic reasoning to feeling-driven madness. The climax of this transition is marked by the death of Piggy and the destruction of the conch shell, which has very similar symbolism to Piggy. The gradual shift is also measured by various incidents that obstruct Piggy's mental reasoning, such as the breaking ... people, when his 'gang' kills Piggy and when he gives orders to his followers to track down Ralph and to kill him. Jack transforms from good to evil simultaneously as Piggy changes from power to death. Simon is the most mature of the boys because he does not fear the imaginary beast and he realizes that it is only in the boys' minds. His symbol is that of a Christ-like ...
- 5394: The Themes in Of Mice and Men
- ... George get through the day. He gave him reason to get up in the morning and give a hard day’s work. If Lennie was not present, there would be no dream, and with his death the dream died. Of Mice and Men depicts the truth that all men, no matter how inadequate, do have a purpose in life. Lennie and George are a team. They travel together, work together, and ... after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.” Although George would sometimes talk of the easy life of independence, it can be thought that his life after Lennie’s death will never be the same and never be better. Steinbeck’s naturalistic style of writing is helpful because of its ability to connect with his readers. The three strong themes in the novel are important ...
- 5395: A Separate Peace: Gene and Finny's Relationship
- ... puts away his suspicious doubts of Finny's loyalty, the relationship grows stronger and the boys become more dependent upon one another. The true bond shared by the boys is revealed upon Finny's tragic death. In the beginning, Gene and Finny showed a strong bond of the beginnings of their friendship. "We were the best of friends at that moment." This passage comes right after Gene and Phineas have made ... limb on which Finny stood show his loyalty and concern. He showed feelings of personal debt toward Phineas, and wanted Finny to know what he did. The true bond is showed upon Finny's sudden death. "I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's straight-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not ...
- 5396: The Moral Life and Leviathan: Ideas of Hobbes and Pojman
- ... organism analogous to a large person (p.42). He advises that people should look into themselves to see the nature of humanity. In his quote, " The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them," Hobbes view of the motivations for moral behavior becomes valid because of his use of examples ... of perpetual war of all against all, where no morality exists, and everyone lives in constant fear (p.45). He believes that humans have three motivations for ending this state of war: the fear of death, the desire to have an adequate living and the hope to attain this through one's labor (p.47). These beliefs become valid because of the use of his examples. One example suggests that people ...
- 5397: Comparison Essay of A Tale of Two Cities and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- ... one horror of the time was that of "long years of oppression by a brutal and capricious aristocracy" (Great Writers). This is shown as dickens writes about Monseigneur and Kings and Queens sentencing people to death because the crowd is bloodthirsty. People are told what to do, and how to act. There is no free will because their placement on the social scale is low because of their family which they ... control his own destiny. In Tess of the D'Urbervilles, if Tess would not have met Angle, she would not be dead. Everyone's life is set and for Tess, her fate is set to death like Sydney. One can conclude that both writers, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, have used irony, fate and social pressures in each of their books. Irony is used to describe a character, who really isn ...
- 5398: The Evolution of Ellen Foster
- ... her parents. She also gains the role of caregiver while taking care of herself and of her mother. She protects her mother from her father. She becomes an adult over night after her mother’s death, shopping for herself and practically being her own parent. Fear and loneliness are emotions felt by Ellen after her mother dies. No child should be afraid in its own home, yet Ellen always takes this ... control (such as not crying). Hard work and humility are lessons learned due to cotton picking. The families of hired hands, however, give her hope that some families do care for each other. After the death of her grandmother, Nadine and Dora pick up where she (the grandmother) left off. During this short stay Ellen learns about ignorance, shallowness, and self-absorption. Ellen finds her voice and tells the two how ...
- 5399: A Summary Of Martin Luther, Lectures On Galatians
- ... comfort of conscience is the righteousness of faith. (p. 5) Luther delineates a series of dichotomies: morality/faith, works/grace, secular society/religion (p. 7), conscience/joy, works/faith, earthly/heavenly, Adam/Jesus, sin/righteousness, death/eternal life, flesh/spirit, Law/Christ (p. 9), Law/grace, Moses the lawgiver/Christ the savior (p. 10). These follow the dualism which Paul describes: "What the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and ... for them, it follows that we cannot remove them by works of our own." (p. 33) Luther further states that "The main knowledge and true wisdom of Christians is...that Christ was given over to death, not for our righteousness or holiness but for our sins." (p. 35) For Luther, conscience seems to be a tool of the devil, tempting one to rely on works rather that faith as the means ...
- 5400: A Rose For Emily: Symbolism
- ... Throughout the life of Emily Grierson, she remains locked up, never experiencing love from anyone but her father. The domineering attitude of Emily’s father keeps her to himself, inside the house, alone until his death. This is Emily’s chance for freedom and to find love. She takes a lover, Homer Barron. However, Homer is not the marrying kind and may have threatened to leave Miss Emily. In desperation, she ... who meet Mr.Grierson standards. Unfortunately, those standards are unattainable (Powell). Miss Emily is obedient allowing him to have control. Her father runs all of her suitors off that come to call. Even in his death the power that he had over her did not go away. She refused to let his body be removed from the house insisting that he was not dead. In reading, William Faulkner’s short story ...
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