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- 1971: Their Eyes Were Watching God -
- ... as a woman. She hopes that her forced marriage with Logan would end her loneliness and desire for love. Right from the beginning, the loneliness in the marriage shows up when Janie sees that his house feels like a "lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been" (Hurston 20). This description of Logan's house seems symbolic of the relationship they have. Janie eventually admits to Nanny that she still does not love Logan and cannot find anything to love about him. "She knew now that marriage did not make ...
- 1972: The Awakening By Kate Chopin
- ... from her family in order to find happiness. To facilitate this, she allows her children to be sent to their grandmothers home, where they stay for the remainder of the book. Edna then purchases a house that is noticeably small which displays another indication of her avoidance of responsibility. The house provides little room for the children to reside, if she had allowed them to return. This act presents a clear example to the reader of Edna's avoidance of her responsibilities. Her selfish lust for ...
- 1973: The Bluest Eye - A Reality Of
- ... Pecola Breedlove suffered the most because she was the result of having others’ anger dumped on her, and she herself was unable to get angry. When Geraldine yells at her to get out of her house, Pecola’s eyes were fixed on the “pretty” lady and her “pretty” house. Pecola does not stand up to Maureen Peal when she made fun of her for seeing her dad naked but instead lets Freida and Claudia fight for her. Instead of getting mad at Mr. Yacobowski ...
- 1974: In Cold Blood: A Review
- ... the high wheat plains of western Kansas, Perry and Dick, two men recently paroled for petty crimes, left almost no evidence behind except for a bloody footprint and a radio they stole from the Clutter house. In the investigative nonfiction murder story "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, the story of Perry and Dick and the night of November 15, 1959 is relived. This fast-paced and straightforward documentary talks about ... I had this great natural musical ability. Which Dad didn't recognize. Or care about...I never got any encouragement from him or anybody else" (133). When Perry's father threw him out of the house one evening because his father could no longer afford to have Perry live with him, Perry seems to lose his sense of direction in life. He even says to the truck driver who picks him ...
- 1975: Foreshadowing and Flashback; Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
- ... Gatsby with Daisy for the first time and how they were in love. "One October day in nineteen- seventeen.....The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay's house. She was just eighteen....His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years." (Fitzgerald, pg. 80) As the reader can clearly see, Jordan begins to narrate ... pool and then Wilson killing himself. In chapter nine, another flashback is told by Nick. Nick recalls the night of Gatsby's death, and the next day, when all the policemen were at Gatsby's house. "After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby's ...
- 1976: Showing The Connection Between
- ... that Gatsby chose to devote his life to the attainment of Daisy Buchanan, he decided to live life purely for her, which in turn, killed him. When Gatsby and Daisy were reunited at Nick's house after all the years that had passed, one would think that the two would be in tears, embracing each other and reminiscing. However, the two merely chatted, talking about trivial subjects. One would expect the ... Gatsby's death as it led Myrtle's husband Wilson to Gatsby's door. After the accident, Gatsby had taken watch on his beloved, hoping to protect her from Tom, standing pathetically outside Disy's house, while Toma nd his wife casually at chicken while sitting at the kitchen table. Gatsby was blind to Daisy's disregard for him and continued to yearn for her until his murder. Had Gatsby been ...
- 1977: Transfer of Power
- ... two times when the state of Mocondo is in a horrible condition. Ursula prevails through the seemingly never ending rainstorm and the Banana Company massacre. Also during these events she continues to work in the house as best she can when many other Mocondo villagers just become idle. Ursula ses her personal power when her 17 grandsons are executed and yet she remains calm and collected. Ursula not only uses her ... her own family. She accomplishes this by using her memory of smells and sounds "which saved her finally from the shame of defeat." Ursula is even able to find things people have lost in the house by remembering where that person strayed from their everyday routine and looking there. Ursula is unable to keep up this charade forever and eventually loses her power as head of the family. During the rainstorm ...
- 1978: The Pearl: Selfishness and Greed
- ... family, and couldn't afford an education. The next problem the pearl causes Kino is that he is attacked. The night after the dealers tried to cheat him, Kino heard a noise outside his straw house. When he tried to go outside his wife, Juana, tried to stop him, but it didn't work. When he got outside, Juana heard a struggle, so she put down Coyotito, picked up a stone ... sleeping though, and as Juana went toward the water, Kino went after her. He caught up with her just before she threw the pearl and he took it from her and started back to their house. Before he got there he was attacked again. This time by two people. Kino stabbed one with his knife, but the other one struck him to the ground and searched him for the pearl. The ...
- 1979: The Good Earth: Success in Wang Lung's Life
- ... the lack of rain and the famine that ensued from that. He was forced to move to the north until the drought was over and he could accumulate enough wealth to return back to his house in the south. This however, could also be looked at in a good way. It gave him a bond with his land that could perhaps not have been accomplished in any other way. Also, when ... Lung was able to hook his uncle on opium, thus making him a passive nuisance which could then be relatively easily ignored. A third thing to go wrong was when he had moved into the house of Hwang. This was when his uncle's son returned to the city with his fellow troops who were fighting in the war. This caused a major disruption in Wang Lung's courts and many ...
- 1980: The Journey Of Odysseus And Te
- ... father. Telemachos agrees with her orders, and before his departure he makes it clear to the suitors (robbing his home and proposing marriage to his mother Penelope) that he wants them all out of his house. He then requested a ship and twenty men, and sailed off to the Island of Pylos. There he was immediately greeted by Nestor, in the middle of offering 81 bulls to Poseidon. Peisistratos, son of ... more knowledgeable that he, and kindly provided him with a chariot, so that he could travel to Sparta to speak with him, accompanied by Peisistratos. He arrived at Sparta two days later, sleeping in the house of Diocles the first night, and arriving by nightfall the second day. He reached the island just in the middle of a double marriage ceremony of Menaleus’s daughter and son. At this point, Homer ...
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