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- 5891: A Rose For Emily Characterization
- ... No visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier" (394). Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily's attempt to remove herself from society through her actions. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all" (395). The death of her father and the shattered relationship with her sweetheart contributed to her seclusion. Though her father was responsible for her becoming a recluse, her pride also contributed to her seclusion. "None of the young ...
- 5892: A Rose For Emily
- ... was. Miss Emily was a deeply troubled woman who had to have everything her way. She was too dependent to live on her own without the presence of a male authority figure. Her father’s death brought denial, as did Colonel Sartoris’ death. When Homer came around Emily couldn’t afford another man to leave her and she did what she thought she had to do. With Emily’s dependency on her father she was caused to depend ...
- 5893: A Prayer For Owen Meany
- ... In the end, when he is made to realize that his own friend had almost killed him, he does not believe it and becomes extremely upset and causes an accident that ultimately leads to his death. To sum it up, " Phineas never was afraid… Phineas ever hated anyone"(Pg. 196). This is also the case with Owen Meany, the guiding figure in A Prayer for Owen Meany. He also personifies purity ... his life for the good of other around him. He takes an armed grenade and john tosses him up to the window, an activity they remembered doing as children. John realizes after his friend's death that he was right when he said that there is a purpose for everything. He remembers tossing Owen as a child and realizes that this is where he needed that skill. Owen had served as ...
- 5894: A Modest Proposal
- ... Irish Manufactures," Swift wrote, "The three seasons wherein our corn hath miscarried, did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death." (Rawson 198) The drowned rat which is Ireland evokes a mixture of feelings. While the passage evokes exasperation at the Irish, it also angrily mimics the contemptuous way in which the condition of Ireland is ... the proposer chooses to, in terms of economic waste and quantitative scarcity, without the least attention to the pain accompanying these circumstances, then and entirely economic, logistical solution is indeed triumphant, and matters of pain, death, and suffering are not germane. In this vein, the holocaust becomes a close analogue to the "proposal," since the problem, whose formulation and very existence might elsewhere seem preposterous, underwent a Final Solution with hideous ...
- 5895: A Man For All Seasons- Every Man Has His Price
- ... principles, More may find it somewhat more difficult to do it himself. It would seem that in the end, Wolsey did stand up for his principles in a small way as he was sentenced to death. Cromwell is another political figure who like everyone is expedient. He puts his moral views aside and is motivated by what is politically expedient. Cromwell is intimidating to many characters that are just 'acquainted' with ... that he can't marry Anne but instead he tries to change the whole church so that he can marry Anne. Only one man, More, stands in his way and eventually More gets sentenced to death. More is the exception of all characters, the only one in the play that stands by his principles and the only character that does not have a 'price'. It is made clear that he doesn ...
- 5896: Adolf HItler
- ... would sit there enraptured and often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology. Failure plagued him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts rejected him as untalented. Lacking business training, Hitler made a living as a laborer in the building trades and by painting cheap ...
- 5897: Adult Cartoons Whos To Blame
- ... of cartoons say that better parenting in the first place would allow children to make wiser decisions, regardless of what is shown on TV. Cartoons such as South Park and Beavis & Butthead glorify violence and death, but so did classic cartoons such as Tom & Jerry or the Looney Tunes. Years ago, you never heard of a kid hitting another kid on the head with a large mallet because he saw it ... These arguments cause parents to ban together, taking the blame from them and putting it back on the networks and producers. After the case with the 5 year old boy burning his little sister to death, lawmakers have been trying to clean up cartoons and other children s programming, in order to prevent and control problems like this. While most parents feel that cartoons are to blame for violence and destruction ...
- 5898: A Dream Deferred
- ... gray dirty ball" with a little substance , but "no weight". The ball corresponds to her dream, which still survives, but her dream is nearly dead, with "no weight". Twenty-five years later after Sula's death, Nel realizes that she allowed herself to defer her dream until it is too late. Once again, Morrison, utilizes a gray ball with images of leaves and mud to establish the death of Nel's "me-ness". "Leaves stirred; mud shifted; there was the smell of overripe green things. A soft ball of fur broke and scattered like dandelion spores in the breeze"(174). Finally, the dream ...
- 5899: A Crime In The Neighborhood
- ... Though murder is the most visible crime in Marsha’s neighborhood, it is by no means the only one, Marsha’s father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death of Boyd Ellison. Marsha’s father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The divorce had a tremendous impact on the whole family. Marsha’s twin brother and sister spent the summer away ... because he was a bachelor living in a neighborhood full of nuclear families. Mr. Green didn’t fit in with everyone else because he was generally withdrawn and socially awkward. Shortly after Boyd Ellison’s death he threw a barbecue for the whole neighborhood but no one showed except Marsha’s mother, Lois. Lois felt sorry for Mr. Green because no one had shown up for his barbecue, so she decided ...
- 5900: A Crime In The Neigborhood
- ... Though murder is the most visible crime in Marsha's neighborhood, it is by no means the only one, Marsha's father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death of Boyd Ellison. Marsha's father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The divorce had a tremendous impact on the whole family. Marsha's twin brother and sister spent the summer away ... because he was a bachelor living in a neighborhood full of nuclear families. Mr. Green didn't fit in with everyone else because he was generally withdrawn and socially awkward. Shortly after Boyd Ellison's death he threw a barbecue for the whole neighborhood but no one showed except Marsha's mother, Lois. Lois felt sorry for Mr. Green because no one had shown up for his barbecue, so she decided ...
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