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- 871: Ernest Hemingway
- ... 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 ...
- 872: 1920s And 1930s With Reference
- ... very strict Doctor, who forbid him, as a child, to read books of any questionable material. His mother, who was seemingly naοve to the darkening world around her, also treated Ernest, like a female baby-doll. (Hemingway xii) When the time for WW1 came, he inlisted in the army, but was turned away because of a bad left eye. He became an ambulance driver in Italy, and there he was shot ... could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to gather wealth to reach her standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (Fitzgerald 83), and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches ... 1925 Heath, D. Heath Anthology of American Literature. Heath D.C.: Lexington MA, 1990 Hemingway, Ernest M. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Shcribners Sons: New York, 1926 Stein, Richard Conrad. The Roaring Twenties. West House: New York, 1994 Word Count: 3368
- 873: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... 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 ...
- 874: 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 ...
- 875: Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre An
- ... s wealth and solicited her trust, captured and indulged himself in her passionate love, yet when, by his own failings, he was unable to manipulate her into something within his control, like a marionette or doll, he discarded her love, whilst withholding her freedom. The exploited once again becomes the exploiter. But if Antoinette sees her own displaced , deracinated condition in terms of historically specific shifts in class and economic power ... and limp in his arms and he laughed .21 But once at Thornfield, this sense of resignation turns to defiance: Reminiscent of the emancipated slaves who torched Coulibri, so Antoinette dreams of putting Rochester s house to the torch. Enslaved destroying the sleeping enslaver. She once again sees her reflection in the mirror, a recurrent motif throughout the book connotative of a divided-self and madness. Hearing footsteps her left hand ... in Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch and Elizabeth Langland, eds The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development London, University Press of New England, 1983, pp.131-149. BOUMELHA, Penny: Jane Eyre, Jamaica and the Gentleman s House , Southern Review, 21 July 1988. BRONTE, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Middlesex, Penguin, 1994. ERWIN, Lee: Like a Looking Glass : History and Narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea in Novel, Winter 1989 HAVELY, Cicely Palser: Wide Sargasso ...
- 876: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- ... 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 ...
- 877: Fahrenheit51 4
- ... 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 ...
- 878: Ernest Hemingway
- ... 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 ...
- 879: Dollshouse
- ... through other means; either the lottery or other indiscreet means. It wasn t expected that women with a little business know-how could derive ways to earn or borrow money. Torvald treats Nora like a doll. He calls her by all manner of names: squirrel, silly child, lark, songbird. The names he uses directly relates to how Torvald feels about her at the time. He tends to treat her views and ... any threat against me, only for what might damage you when all the danger was past, for you it was as if nothing had happened. I was exactly the same, your little lark, your little doll that you d have to handle with double care now that I d turned out so brittle and frail. Torvald in that instant it dawned on me that I ve been living with a stranger ... Even her husband views it that way. In the nineteenth century if a wife deserts her husband, the law frees him from all responsibility. Nora states on page 1610 When a wife deserts her husbands house, just as I m doing, then the law frees him from all responsibility. In any case I m freeing you from being responsible. Torvald and society s expectations of women in the nineteenth century ...
- 880: Darkness Be My Friend
- ... come back to me, no doubt about that, but for the moment I couldn't think of it at all. And I thought it was probably a lot to do with the dead man whose house we had sneaked into - not that it was his house anyway - but the fact that we were living in a dead man's house. And, of course the fact that I'd killed him. I didn't know his name either. Weird: two guys who figured prominently in my life, and they were both nameless to me." "A ...
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