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- 5281: Player Piano
- ... does not feel happy at all. Since Paul insists on staying a farmer, she wants to divorce him. He quiets her down and they live separately he in the farm and she in the city house. And then the plot events begin to move. In those days the revolutionary group called the Ghost Shirt Brotherhood start acting. Firstly, they just gather new members and make plans. The leadership of the industry ...
- 5282: Patterns - Symbolism
- ... throughout the poem. Of course, back in that time, the woman was not only in a rigid, uncomfortable dress in the heat of summer, but she was also most likely wearing a corset. The Random House Webster’s College Dictionary gives the definition of brocaded as, "a fabric woven with an elaborate raised design, often using gold or silver thread." This stiff, imprisoning piece of clothing symbolizes the boundaries that society ...
- 5283: Ordinary People
- ... a normal life as possible without a dysfunctional status. In the beginning of the story, the family deals with minor problems that had little impact to them. Since they had just moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, they try to establish relationships with other neighbors. Their son, Conrad, faces depression in which he must recover from through frequent visits to the hospital, and to his psychiatrist. The father ...
- 5284: Oliver Twist - Summary
- ... and kidnap him. More stealing takes place and Oliver is trained to be a better thief. One time, during a robbery, Oliver is shot and left for dead by the thieves. The people at the house Oliver was to rob took him in and gave him a home. Oliver’s identity is found. It turns out that Oliver was supposed to receive an inheritance from his father and one of the ...
- 5285: Old Neighborhood
- ... strangers there. Analyzing the poem farther we can see that Dove uses her views on home to further alienate from our familiar picture of that typical suburban home. She seems to be talking about the house in a manner that would indicate it is a photographic negative; this emphasizes race as an alienating factor. Dove’s writing usually charts a sense of displacement and this seems to be the case in ...
- 5286: Old Man And The Sea - Santiago Is Hemingway
- ... Morden's English handout on Hemingway's life. Nelson, Raymond S. Ernest Hemingway: Life, Work, and Criticism. Fredericton: York Press, 1984. Samuelson, Arnold. With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba. New York: Random House, 1984. Sojka, Gregory S. Ernest Hemingway: The Angler as Artist. New York: Peter Lang, 1985.
- 5287: Of Mice And Men - Loneliness
- ... physical appearance." (www.ub-counseling.buffalo.edu) Many people do not want to talk to her because of her reputation for being a flirt and bothering others. "Maybe you better go along to you own house now. We don’t want no trouble." (Steinbeck, 85) Curley’s wife notices how simple-minded Lennie is and takes advantage of that situation. She knows that he would be the only one where she ...
- 5288: Of Mice And Men
- ... had a lot of money saved up, the story suggests that Candy has been waiting for an opportunity like this for a long time. Everyone has his or her perfect dream, whether it is a house on the countryside, or a mansion in Beverly Hills. Many of the characters epitomize friendship in each of their different pairs or groups of friends. The friendship between Lennie and George is the strongest in ...
- 5289: Of Mice And Men
- ... place of their own. In the novel George and Lennie mention what their dream place is going to be like: "Someday we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house, and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs and ---" (Steinbeck 16). Throughout the book the reference to having a place of their own is stressed. It is a deeper dream for Lennie ...
- 5290: Of Mice And Men
- ... know anybody else in the entire world. They share their hard times and the good, their victories and their defeats, but most importantly they share a common dream. That dream is of having "a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs an’ live off the fatta the lan’"(14), where Lennie can take care of the rabbits just as George has been taking care of ...
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