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- 8841: Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
- ... to do anything about it. They are thought to be insane Martians, who have the ability to project their thoughts, thus explaining their appearance. The only cure, as they are told, for such insanity, is death. Shortly after, each crew member is executed. Their executer's demise is also brought about by an inability to forget the past. He is the administrator of an insane isylum in which the men are ...
- 8842: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... stirred the emotions of religious New Englanders. He was sent to school, for he was a promising candidate to return to Hawaii and preach Christianity. Unfortunately, in 1818, he died of typus or pneumonia. His death caused much grief, and among those who felt the impact were Reverend Hiram Bingham, and Reverend Asa Thurston. It is possible that Abner Hale and John Whipple represent Bingham and Thurston in Hawaii. In the ...
- 8843: Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults in the Creation
- ... pious and rather too perfect Elizabeth..." (78). Frankenstein wishes for his own happiness through companionship in marriage, but denies the same right to his creation. Frankenstein can also be viewed as being responsible for the death of Elizabeth by assuming that when the creature states "I shall be with you on your wedding night" (161) he is going to be killed rather than Elizabeth, even when all of the creature's ...
- 8844: Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms
- ... very much apparent. Ernest Hemingway has always been one who is big on the symbolism of night as being bad. To the main character in Hemingway's novels, nights have always been a sign of death, or something negative to happen. Another one of the symbolisms in A Farewell to Arms is when Henry tries to escape from the Italian army by jumping off one of the ships the army was ...
- 8845: Comparison of Herbert's "Dune" and Asimov's "Foundation Series": Effects of Technology and Belief Systems on the Individual
- ... try to achieve a certain goal. The people in Foundation try to answer one man's dream. This man is Hari Seldon. In the known galaxy, wealth is the one thing that separates life from death. In the beginning, at the center of the galaxy, there was a planet named Trantor which was densely populated and industrially advanced. All the land surface of Trantor, 75,000,000 square miles in extent ...
- 8846: Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
- ... normal way of living allowed farther development of plot which was completely acceptable to the reader making the story believable. In TCTK the character Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov is also a believable fictional person. The death of his family and drinking, as many other people in Soviet Union do, made the person realistic enough to be believed in (pp. 58-9, Life in Russia). "The elder [son] had died in Hungary ...
- 8847: A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
- ... principals who enforce tank top rules. In addition to this, Gene faces pressure from his peers. Some students decided to be Gene's enemy because they believed that Gene was sully responsible for Finny's death. In the same but not so dramatic way, some students decided to be my enemy because they believed that I was sully responsible for their bad grade in my math class. Gene is a unique ...
- 8848: Gillian by Laurel Oke Logan
- ... would be able and willing to work at this camp in Canada in the kitchen. At first Gillian was very excited but when she began to think about it the whole idea scared her to death. Going off to a place outside of the United States where she had never been and leaving her family behind, she just didn't know if she could go through with it. A few days ...
- 8849: Diary of Anne Frank: Notes
- ... was the manager of the building occupying the group of Jews. As I already mentioned, he went to the camps with the Jews. He was sick a lot and was always on the edge of death. Miep and Eli also helped the families by getting them food and supplies. They were very helpful and sometimes helped them stay alive. 5.The characters in the book are in hiding because they are ...
- 8850: Flowers For Algernon: Supplementary Book Review
- ... is how the book concludes. The conclusion of the book in my eyes leaves the reader hanging like... this. If I would make a change I would write about what happened after Charlie Gordon's death. An example of this would be possible progress and success in the field, or maybe because of the events which had occurred in the past in this field, it was given up for dead, or ...
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