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- 10331: My Antonia
- ... When he arrives in Nebraska he is very numb to life, but he is soon caught up in daily life on his grandparents farm. He is blissfully happy when he first meets Antonia. They become great friends and share numerous adventures. Cather uses brief, beautifully descriptive and nostalgic recollections of situations and feelings to increase the pain and sadness of the separations that she places throughout the book. An excellent example ...
- 10332: My Antonia
- ... sorrowful and dejected. Her fiance had told her that they had been married but then ran off without her. 'Antonia later gives birth to a girl, the illegitimate child of this supposed marrige. She takes great pride in her daughter but with her birth, she loses whatever respect she had left. Years later, 'Antonia is found in Hastings, Nebraska, married with eleven children. Her dream has come true, to have land ...
- 10333: Christianity and Change
- ... issues of our day. They cannot understand the traditional claims made for the God of the Bible, who could do so many miraculous things, but who today seems impotent by comparison (Spong). There are a great many options available to youth that could seems preferable. The youth of today don't see the importance or the relevance of the Church in their lives. The youth has definitely turned away and the ...
- 10334: Macbeth- Tragic Hero
- ... become king even more in the following quote. Glamis and Thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind (Act I, iii. 133) As the play progresses, he relies more and more on their prophecies. He shows great faith in the witches words, not once considering that they may be apparitions of evil. In the following passage, he writes to Lady Macbeth his thoughts. They met me in the day of success; and ...
- 10335: The Koran, the Bible, and Joseph
- ... s wife seeks to lie with Joseph. Joseph, however, refuses her because his master, her husband, has entrusted him to everything and because she is his wife, he asks, "How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" (Genesis 39:9). The woman however, took Joseph by the shirt when no one was around and said, "Lie with me." He left his garment in her hand and fled ...
- 10336: As I Lie Dying
- ... appears before his family with the duck-shaped woman who happens to own a phonograph and introduces her by saying, "Meet Mrs. Bundren." The novel AILD was more about William Faulkner the author and not great American literature. While discussing this book the whole class decided the man was a nut. He once wrote I'm old fashioned and probably a little mad too; I don't like having my private ...
- 10337: Color Symbolism In The Scarlet
- ... worst and most evil part of an object or person. Hawthorne employs white and light to oppose darkness as a state of self- containment. White most clearly symbolizes purity. Pearl, who has not committed any great sins nor does she hold herself back from anything, is always portrayed with the light shining on her. When Hestor removes her scarlet letter and faces her sin and pride, the sunlight shines on her ...
- 10338: Voodoo
- ... about cannibals, zombies, curses and pin dolls, are the portrait of Voodoo that is typically displayed in movies and literature. It is because of the explorations that many people outside of that culture have a great fear of a religion seemingly filled with evil 'witch doctors'. Bibliography "An Intoduction to Vodoun" Infoseek, Online. 1996. "Voodoo Comes Out of the Dark in its African Birthplace" Infoseek. Online. 1996.
- 10339: Crucible
- ... talk was stirred up in town. The townsfolk become highly agitated over this situation, and the scenario is blown completely out of proportion. Soon after this happens, trials dates are set. The church has a great deal of influence over the government in The Crucible. Sins and crimes are very closely connected; whereas, if one is committed, the other is likewise. Since the authority of the church, such as reverends are ...
- 10340: Contrasting The Characters Ral
- ... nature. "...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart...(Golding pg. 223)." Though the boys are quite unlike and symbolise opposite things, they are both distinct individuals who are of great importance to the novel. The two characters demonstrate the different types of men; ones who can keep the beast away and keep their head together and others who can not do so and become evil ...
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