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- 6631: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... in her understanding. Colonel Aureliano Buendia is puzzling from the moment he's born, but after the wars he becomes almost cryptic. He keeps to himself, and shows no emotion. After Jose Arcadio's violent death, Rebeca holes herself up in her home in which she and Jose Arcadio had lived happily. She refuses to come out, and as a result, the house rots, just as she, and is forgotten. Amaranta ...
- 6632: Old Man And The Sea 2
- This novel weaves together the story of an old man, reflective and humble, and a giant Marlin, the largest ever seen, who engage in a struggle to the death. The novel is a wonderful mixture of all the distress and praise of life revisited and, in a way, it weighs out the experiences at face value as the old man recognizes his age and ...
- 6633: Of Mice And Men 2
- ... can see that under the circumstances he had no other choice. He only had two choices let the other people get to him first and watch them torture Lennie while he died a long horrible death or do it himself and get it over quick were Lennie did not know what hit him. This is also true in life, many times we are faced with tuff choices and even though they ...
- 6634: Oedipus The King
- ... avoided if Oedipus was not the type of person he was. Oedipus was a tragic hero. Sophocles, instead of killing Oedipus in the end of the novel, chose to give Oedipus a fate worse then death. Oedipus found out who he was and that he killed his father and slept with his mother. His tragic end was a result of his hamartia, hubris. His pride was what caused him to attack ...
- 6635: Oedipus Rex 3
- ... his fate and change his life for the better, an act that has the reverse effect. According to the prophecies, Oedipus would be born to Laius and Jocasta, only to grow up to be the death of his father, Laius, and the bride to his mother, Jocasta. Believing this to be true, the king and queen give the child to a shepherd, who was to kill Oedipus. Not wanting to do ...
- 6636: Odysseus Personal Qualities (f
- ... wife. Finally, the quality of intelligence helps Odysseus to return home safely. One example of his intelligence is when he sails his ship past the Sirens, singing sea nymphs whose songs lure sailors to their death. Odysseus plugs his crew s ears with wax so they cannot hear the Sirens song. So that he may be able to hear the song without danger, Odysseus ties himself to the ship. His intelligence ...
- 6637: Odysseus A Hero
- ... the suitors when there are only three of them. After he defeats the suitors, he has to play mind games with his wife Penelope because of the warning Agamemnon gave him at the river of death. Another heroic quality is his looks and charm. If Odysseus had not have been as handsome then Circe would not have seduced him and he would not have been giving the advice about the river ...
- 6638: Night 3
- ... for information on the Overlap s accomplices. The Pipel was hung because his he would not reveal the Overlap s accomplices. For more than a half an hour, he stayed there struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. (page 62). As Elie stood and watched he heard the other prisoners repeatedly ask, Where is God? A third cruel act the Nazi s did was make the ...
- 6639: Night 2
- ... If Idek let Elie's father slack off, then he would get in trouble because all the work has not been done and when you get in trouble it usually means a beating and or death. This can be seen on page 52 of Night. The issue of primary importance for the prisoners was survival by any means necessary. Either young or old, everyone wants to get out the concentration camps ...
- 6640: Niccolς Machiavelli - The Qual
- ... Ceasar and Brutus as an example. Brutus s loyalty to his most trusted friend, Caesar, went astray when a problem arose among his Roman peers, and the betrayal was committed against Caesar which resulted in death. A lesson worth learning from this example is that a person s loyalty can never be trusted unless it is proves to stand strong through any situations. As Machiavelli wrote, a prince must be cautious ...
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