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- 861: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his ... and was given a medal for his heroism. Ernest returned home after the war, rejected by the nurse with whom he fell in love. He would party late into the night and invite, to his house, people his parents disapproved of. Ernest's mother rejected him and he felt that he had to move from home. He moved in with a friend living in Chicago and he wrote articles for ...
- 862: Janette Turner Hospital: 4 Vivid Female Characters In Her Two Novels
- ... for Dave, she would crush. Juliet and Elizabeth both stay with their husbands after all, yet they do not own what they really want. Dave has noticed Juliet's " staring from the window of their house like a woman behind bars" , so has Emily mentions about her about her mother's " standing at the French window like a caged bird." Emily is aware of her uncertainty. Therefore, she decides to leave ... experience, Juliet makes the decision of going to India. In the commotion that occurs in Kerala, Juliet circles herself just to protect her daughter, Miranda. " Miranda was packed tight into her arms like a leaden doll." Yashoda does not have any children, yet her compassion toward the orphan, Prabhakaran, has shown that maternal love is a feminine attitude. " They wept together, his head on her mothering shoulder, his hand caressing the ... for paternal love. It is not easy 6. " The Ivory Swing " p.177 7. Idid... p.232 raising an illegimate child especially when her father busts out " I will not have a bastard in my house. I never wish to see him. Never." Juliet and Dave's marriage is base on a very abrupting way. " `Would you marry me? ' `Oh' she said, dancing on the toes of other passengers, flinging ...
- 863: Fahrenheit51
- ... and imaginative seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She tells him of a time when firemen used to put out fires instead of making them. After that, Montag and the other firemen burn a house filled with books and burn its owner. "They crashed the front door and grabbed at a women, though she was not running , she was not trying to escape." (38). This incident makes Montag start to ... is in a book."(80). In doing this he gets wiser and learns more about famous poets and writers. This changes his out look on life. His secret gets discovered and the firemen burn his house which is where the books are thought to be. The climax is when Montag turns to Captain Beatty with the flame thrower and says " We never burned right" and then sets him on fire, killing him. "Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent."(119). Montag then barely escapes the fire station's deadly mechanical hound, by jumping in the river and floating down stream, disguising his scent. "Then he dressed in Faber's old ...
- 864: The Crucible: Summary
- ... Paris is obviosly a hypocrite. He is supposed to serve God and his fellow man, but he is materialistic and petty.Instead Paris is also a selfcentered and greedy " don't a minister deserve a house to live in"(30) Lastly, Abigail wants revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. In Act one, for example Betty tells Abigsil " you drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife" (19). Also Abby displanp her revenge on Elizabeth by making a puppet. Marry makes a puppet while in court and she sticks a niddle in the doll. Marry gives the doll to Elizabeth as a gift, and then one evening at dinner Abby sits down to eat ang drops to the floor, and cries of pain in her belly. She say's " it fell's ...
- 865: Stephen King: Telekinesis And It’s Effects On The Innocent
- ... helped to aid in Carrie’s mental unstableness, was the type of home life she provided. In the White household there were many artifacts and other things that symbolized violence. Many things found in the house were portraying scenes of horrific natures that could encourage one to think dirty thoughts and begin to relish the idea of pain. One artifact in the White home that particularly disturbed Carrie was a large ... and beg for her mother to release from the tomb-like hell closet. She would also sit there on the floor contemplating revenge or sticking pins in the statue as if it were a voodoo doll she could take out her aggression on. This was Carrie’s early ways of releasing her anger about those who hurt. It has been proven in these examples, Mrs. White’s negligence and her depiction of evil and blood in their house, that Mrs. White very much aided in Carrie White’s eventual mental breakdown and telekinetic rage. It has also been proven that the fact that Carrie White was ridiculed and rejected constantly by her ...
- 866: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Love Life
- Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Love Life In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s love life involved playing the stereotypical house wife. Everything she did was either some type of chore or an answer to a command. Her first marriage was against her will and forced upon by her grandmother. Then Jody Starks came along and ... proved that love can not be arranged. “She knew now that marriage did not make love.” (Hurston 24). In the early part of Janie’s first marriage, she was treated properly and only did basic house chores. After a while, Logan started to make her do more demanding chores. He even stated that she would help plow the field. Janie began to lose interest in the marriage to Logan and when ... Joe Starks began treating Janie like a lady from the first time they met. Janie remarked, “Mah husband is gone tuh buy a mule fuh me tuh plow.” (Hurston 28). Instantly Joe stated, “A pretty Doll-Baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch and rock and fan yo’self.” (Hurston 28). Jody’s comments of how a women should be treated were completely different from his ...
- 867: Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
- ... Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hater dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was all right until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at the time, to pull away from ... he felt that he had to talk about it. Ernest returned home after the war, rejected by the nurse whom he fell in love. He would party late into the night and invite, to his house, people his parents disapproved of. Ernest's mother rejected him and he felt that he had to move from home He moved in with a friend living in Chicago and he wrote articles for ...
- 868: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his ... and was given a medal for his heroism. Ernest returned home after the war, rejected by the nurse with whom he fell in love. He would party late into the night and invite, to his house, people his parents disapproved of. Ernest's mother rejected him and he felt that he had to move from home. He moved in with a friend living in Chicago and he wrote articles for ...
- 869: Fahrenheit51
- ... and imaginative seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She tells him of a time when firemen used to put out fires instead of making them. After that, Montag and the other firemen burn a house filled with books and burn its owner. "They crashed the front door and grabbed at a women, though she was not running , she was not trying to escape." (38). This incident makes Montag start to ... is in a book."(80). In doing this he gets wiser and learns more about famous poets and writers. This changes his out look on life. His secret gets discovered and the firemen burn his house which is where the books are thought to be. The climax is when Montag turns to Captain Beatty with the flame thrower and says " We never burned right" and then sets him on fire, killing him. "Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent."(119). Montag then barely escapes the fire station's deadly mechanical hound, by jumping in the river and floating down stream, disguising his scent. "Then he dressed in Faber's old ...
- 870: Television and Commercialism
- ... Sailor Moon, little girls are kept on a level of clothes and being cute for boys. This is a very unrealistic outlook and short circuits any thoughts of importance in their lives. Barbie, the Mattel doll, also portrays a false image. With her petite, fragile figure, large bust, tiny waist, long legs, big eyes, and vast career ranging from a lifeguard to a doctor, Barbie wins the hearts of many innocent ... and when you look at it deeper it takes you back to itself, this is referred to as homogeneity. "But even as television becomes television—plus, it remains the national dream factory, bulletin board, fun house mirror for distorted images of our national desires and fears...And yet non of the metaphors seems quite right, because finally television is not quite anything else. It is just—television." (5). Ads are becoming ... huge lines of products to which their images are attached. The process of TV merchandising began with a successful show. Then along came a toy company who had paid for the right to make a doll of the show's main character. Then a clothes company paid to make clothing featuring the character and on the story goes. (12). More importantly, this created a new framework for not only marketing ...
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