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- 531: The Pardoner: "The Root of All Evil Is Money"
- ... he lives a decidedly liberated, or even sinful, life, which he freely admits. While chastising church-goers for leading sinful lives in order to persuade them to believe in his false relics, he brags about drinking the liquor of the grape, and keeping a jolly wench in every town. Indeed he introduces his tale with the rather open statement For though I am a wholly viscous man Don't think I ...
- 532: The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities of Life
- ... case with Dimmesdale, looks were deceiving. Mantle's career and life were prematurely ended because of a dark secret: alcohol abuse. Just as Dimmesdale cowardly ignored the problems facing him, so to did Mantle. Using drinking to escape reality, Mantle developed cirrhosis, which later claimed his life. This was just one of the many people who possessed "Dimmesdalistic" qualities. As Hawthorne showed us, people can not live at peace with themselves ...
- 533: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
- ... base the book Dracula for several reasons. First of all, they both were called by the same name Dracula which means devil. Also, they both have had some of the same life expirences, such as, drinking blood, their deaths, and especially their attitudes are almost identical.
- 534: Black Like Me: Racism Is A Foolism Misunderstanding of Man
- ... and Neo Nazis are around but don't expose themselves publicly as they had in the past for obvious reasons. Today racism isn't about little things that white people take for granted, such as drinking water or a nice place to stay for the night, its more about fair trial and equal job or education opportunities. The hard fact of our diverse country hinders most racial discrepancies. Most people anymore ...
- 535: Bennet's: The Executioner
- ... liscenses. In the plot, the reason for Ray dying was because of drunk driving. Bennett may have been emphasizing the thought that driving drunk kills. When some adolescents read this, they may think twice about drinking and driving. Another strength that Bennett used was that he created a certain mood in the story. At the beginning, all was calm, with humor added by Raymond. When Raymond dies, there is no humor ...
- 536: Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
- ... farther development of plot which was completely acceptable to the reader making the story believable. In TCTK the character Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov is also a believable fictional person. The death of his family and drinking, as many other people in Soviet Union do, made the person realistic enough to be believed in (pp. 58-9, Life in Russia). "The elder [son] had died in Hungary, Vatutin saw. Because of his ...
- 537: Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation"
- ... the Hemingway Code as well. Jake is an American who travels to Europe to satiate his appetite for exotic landscapes and to escape his pain. Jake tries to live his life to the fullest with drinking, partying, and sporting with friends. With these pastimes, Jake hopes to hide from his fault and get on with the life he has been made to suffer. Watching and participating in sports help accentuate the ...
- 538: Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
- ... character will not let substance control and influence his actions for only the weak are dependent and rely upon such means to live out each day. Frederick's self-discipline not only shines in his drinking habits, but shows in all instances especially when the challenge to maintain it is at its greatest. After he plunged into the lake escaping the battle police, Henry boarded a train and entered a wine ...
- 539: Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man"
- ... by his father. He receives no direction from his father, who he is ashamed of and does not wish to be seen with. "he had tried to cover that shameful sign of his father's drinking bout of the night before . . . just one humiliation had succeeded another." This uneasiness at home caused a restlessness in Stephen as he was given little direction in life and begins to wonder about the question ...
- 540: Tribulation and Comedy in Lucky Jim
- ... toward the absurd competently counter the depressing effect of his Margaret-Welch dilemma. In one instance, Jim is attending an extremely boring "arty get-together" (Amis, p.23) at Welch's home. Following the excessive drinking of the evening, Jim smokes a cigarette and coaxes himself to sleep on one of Mrs. Welch's guest beds. Upon awakening the following morning, his head throbbing, Dixon discovers that his cigarette has burned ...
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