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- 5131: Johnny Got His Gunn
- ... precious than anyone else’s but that Americans have their freedom. This enables them to make decisions to protect themselves without the fear of being reprimanded. Not everyone can make individual decisions without a cause-effect. However he believed that no one should die for their country or any lame reason their country gives them. Such as many mendacious reasons the American government gave to its people. “If they weren’t ...
- 5132: Jon Donne - Alediction Forbidd
- ... his views on love and the passing of life. Each stanza of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is tied together by an " a - b - a - b" rhyme scheme. This is not surprising because of the calming effect expected of this poem. The steady back and forth motion of the rhyme calms down the reader, much as a hug that rocks you back and forth calms you. This poem's purpose is to ...
- 5133: Jane Eyre
- ... problems. She noticed the "array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty and broad as oaks...quiet and lonely hills and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion" that was not expected. (Bronte 91) The effect of nature in this passage foreshadows dilemmas Jane would encounter while residing there. After residing at Thornfield for several months, Jane finally took a day off and accomplished many errands in town. On her way ...
- 5134: Antony Has Been Described As "
- ... three times. Anyone who was ambitious would never have done any such things. Antony says, "I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke.", but that is exactly what he does. Antony is using a dramatic effect on the people, first by entering on the stage with the body of Caesar, and at the end stating that his heart is still with the body of Caesar, ending his speech weeping. In justifying ...
- 5135: Jane Eyre Vs. Great Expectatio
- ... was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye. He saw nature—he saw books through be; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into words the effect of field, tree, town, river, cloud, sunbeam – of the landscape before us; of the weather round us – and impressing by sound on his ear what light could no longer stamp on his eye (Brontë, 475 ...
- 5136: Longfellows Optimism In Writin
- ... The first one, “A Psalm of Life” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an uplifting poem that compels us to feel hope for the future. After reading it the first time it had a powerful effect on me. Surprisingly, he wrote this poem few months after his first wife died. Longfellow took his wife’s death and interpreted it as a sign to look at life as fleeting and it passes ...
- 5137: Lives Of The Saints
- ... Vittorio comes across on numerous occasions throughout the story. (There are far more characters in this story then I could mention on these pages, so I will write about the people who had the greatest effect on Vittorio). His encounter with Luciano of Rocca Secca is one of the key elements in the book. For his seventh birthday, Vittorio and his mother travel to Rocca Secca to buy him some birthday ...
- 5138: Loneliness
- ... Henry around this time. We had always been together before" (Erdrich 150). He also explains, " . . . he was such a loner and I didn't know how to take it" (Erdrich 150). The Vietnam War's effect on Henry was the cause of Lyman's loneliness. Henry was not the same person that he was before he left. Lyman began to miss the times when they would sit and talk with anybody ...
- 5139: Lysistrata
- ... that look as if the men are being driven away by the water. When Kinesias comes to see Myrrhine, and they head off to Pan’s cave, the stage lighting is dimmed to give the effect of the darkness of being in a cave. The most strikingly visual use of stage props is the appearance of larger than life erect phalluses under the tunics of all the male main characters during ...
- 5140: Life After Death
- ... This dramatically differs from the two poems by Dickinson. Emily Dickinson’s poems, though just as serious, come across quite a bit lighter then “Home Burial.” The structure of her poems gives a riddle-like effect. The difference in length between the poems changes the mood as well. In Frost’s poem the thought of death is drawn out simply by the length of the poem, where as the abruptness of ...
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