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- 1071: The Price Of Objectivity (crit
- ... grand scheme of life. And what does Jake watch exactly? He watches as everything goes around in circles, always ending up in the same place as it started. The group as a whole heads out drinking, only to wake up the next morning to repeat the process with nothing changed. Brett, although engaged to a man who loves her, is hopelessly in love with Jake. Jake is forced to watch as ...
- 1072: Street Car Named Desire
- ... Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' family life was full of tension and despair. His parents often engaged in violent arguments. His father, Cornelius, was a stern businessman who managed a shoe warehouse. Cornelius' bouts with drinking and gambling (habits that later ailed Williams) sent rumors about the family throughout the towns in which they lived (Williams moved 16 times in 15 years) . In the fall of 1929, Williams enrolled at the ...
- 1073: Stones From The River
- ... rape has been a horrible crime, there is a new drug on the market called the date-rape pill or TCB. Men or women slip this into a drink as it quickly dissolves. The person drinking this drink blacks out and can not remember anything that happens to them. This drug has caused many women to be raped without their knowledge, and has even caused death. Trudi is Catholic; she goes ...
- 1074: Raymond Carvers Cathedral
- ... arches. I drew flying buttresses. I hung great doors. I couldn't stop." (189/190) This sketch has initiated another awakening. That is, the narrator placed in perspective what a steady diet of television and drinking had been holding him back from; here he is reacquainted with his estranged imagination, not able to stop drawing because with the sketch comes a flood of new spiritual enlightenment. The narrator doesn't rest ...
- 1075: Plight Of The Wingfields (the
- ... provide him an illusionary world he yearns for in his daily life. Sometimes his mother and his family s financial hardships shatter his world. The movies serve as an anesthetic, along with bouts of heavy drinking. Hence, it is possible for him to temporarily forget the oppressive apartment. Nevertheless, his poetic aspirations end up in frustration and doom, which partly contributes to his nocturnal film-going behavior. Finally, when he does ...
- 1076: Original Gullivers Travel Stor
- ... a good laugh. The mime signaled Bobby over and he then proceeded to punch me with this metal thing he had on his fist. The mime was having a good time, he was silently laughing, drinking imaginary drinks, and he even pretended to be drunk. I realized that these people that I have encountered were unlike any other people I have come across in my lifetime. They have been influenced by ...
- 1077: Laidlaw
- ... an issue even the reader can't fully explore and explain , he is such a complicated character to study and demands a lot of respect from the reader and the language we use ; "He was drinking far too much - not for pleasure, just sipping it systematically , like low proof hemlock. His marriage was a maze nobody had ever mapped , an infinity of habit and hurt and betrayal down which Ena and ...
- 1078: Life On The Farm
- ... the leader before Stalin (Napoleon). Jones represents the old government, the last of the Czars. Orwell suggests that Jones was losing his edge. In fact, he and his men had taken up the habit of drinking. Old Major reveals his feelings about Jones and his administration when he says, Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too ...
- 1079: Love And Lovability (wuthering
- ... part of himself died too. His common sense and rationality slowly disintegrated into ashes. The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long. (68) He soon turned to alcohol for salvation, but his drinking habits only made him worse. Soon enough, Hindley was degrading himself past redemption, and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity. (68) Losing both his father s and his wife s love changed ...
- 1080: How Napoleon Obtains And Maint
- ... tools used by man to keep the animals in line. The pigs start to sleep in the farmhouse, on the beds, which was also forbidden by Old Major, in his inspiring speech. The pigs start drinking beer, which was also banned by Old Major, and eating prohibited foods. Before the revolution on Animal Farm, man was superior and all of the animals respected and feared him. Napoleon knows that by living ...
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