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- 8411: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... for the "delight" in the horror of a "rushing annihilation" from such a height. What "would be our sensations?" (273) The narrator points out that it is the very loathsomeness and ghastliness of such a death which causes one to most vividly desire it. "If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and ...
- 8412: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... for the "delight" in the horror of a "rushing annihilation" from such a height. What "would be our sensations?" (273) The narrator points out that it is the very loathsomeness and ghastliness of such a death which causes one to most vividly desire it. "If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and ...
- 8413: Eating Gilbert Grape
- ... a day early. The average person would have no worries shopping somewhere else, yet Gilbert is especially regrettable as he already told Lamson that he would "rather die" than shop at FoodLand. Mama Grape's death is like the final piece of the jigsaw, the final scene that convinces the audience he wants to be, and is a good person. She tells him "You're my knight in shimmering armor.
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- 8414: East Of Eden
- ... she gets more evil and displays her monster and animal like characteristics. She knows she is powerful and indestructible. She has manipulated and tricked many people her life causing them to go to the extreme... death. Catherine "Cathy" shows her evilness and her monster like behavior in many scenes throughout the book. Steinbeck illustrates Cathy as being a monster on pages 95 and 96. "I believe there are monsters born in ...
- 8415: East Of Eden
- ... the beginning of the novel, his father, Cyrus Trask loved him but Adam did not love him back and when Adam went into the army he did not come back home until his fathers death. Later on in the story Adam really loved his wife, Cathy, but she didnt love him back and so when she tried to leave him and he would not let her, she shot him ...
- 8416: Earth Abides
- ... this was not a reason. She wanted to keep on living life as though the disaster never happened. "She was life...She was the light of the future. Her stronger spirit had struck back against death, and already life built up anew within her." Em's motivation and courage was so strong that it affected everybody around her. Even Ish, who was the leader of The Tribe, was dependent of her ...
- 8417: Dust Over The City
- ... these to people obtained in their life. Love is an innense word meaning different things to everyone but to these two it menat saving their marriage and loving each other to the point of actually death for one another.
- 8418: Dr Jekyl And Mr Hyde - Chapter Summary
- ... his office where he will read the two important documents. Chapter 9 - Lanyon's Narrative On January 9th, Lanyon receives a letter from Jekyll. It tells Lanyon that this is a matter of life and death. Lanyon is to go to Jekyll's house, and "The door of my cabinet is then to be forced; and you are to go in alone; to open the glazed press (letter E) on the ...
- 8419: Down Goes Hurston
- ... thought to be only "slaves" even though slavery was abolished. Towards the end of the novel Janie is on trial for the murder of Tea Cake, who is Janies third husband. "We find the death of Vergible Woods to be entirely accidental and justifiable, and that no blame should rest upon the defendant Janie Woods"(179). Janie is found not guilty for the murder of her husband. The reader thinks ...
- 8420: Doe Season
- ... for her in the woods. Kaplan used the shooting of the deer and the dream to symbolize the trial portion of a rite of passage. Andy wished for the deer not to suffer, she wished death upon it. The dream symbolized the entrance into womanhood--menstruation. At the end of the story, Andy changes her name to Andrea. This symbolizes that she is a woman and has completed her rite of ...
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