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- 8041: The Catcher In The Rye- A Stud
- ... opening speech is merely a modernized and adapted version of Huck s. Holden Caulfield strikes many readers as an urbanized version of Huck Finn (Lomazoff 3). In William Shakespeare s Hamlet, things Price Hamlet cannot control dominate his thoughts and life. Like Holden, Hamlet suffers from a mild form of psychological disturbance. Both men cannot come to terms with morality and mortality. Holden is unsure of what happens after death, and ...
- 8042: The Crucible
- ... of "spectral evidence" as proof of guilt. Spectral evidence, so aptly named, meant that if I swore that you had sent out your "familiar spirit" to choke, tickle, poison me or my cattle, or to control thoughts and actions, I could get you hanged unless you confessed to having had contact with the Devil. After all, only the Devil could lend such powers of visible transport to confederates, in his everlasting ...
- 8043: The Crazy Horse Electric Game
- ... watch the game, and Willie starts to get nervous. Finally the game ends, and Willie goes into the office with the Phys Ed teacher, Lisa. She asks him if he wants some help with getting control back. He says that he doesn't have any money, but he finds out she is doing it for a university paper. So they start with learning how to find his center. Willie stays in ...
- 8044: The Client
- ... All this, and even more, Mark was told, before he by luck managed to escape and bring himself and his brother in safety, as they witnessed the suicide, which was made with Romey's own gun. And the boys went home to phone the Police. Ricky was entering a shock, and was put into St.Peter's Charity Hospital, where Mark and his brother were to stay the following nights. The ...
- 8045: The Chocolate War
- ... the school chocolate sale. He now has to face Brother Leon and tell him no which soon gives him insight in to the teachers’ feelings. "His eyes gave him away. His face was always under control but his eyes showed his vulnerability."(Cormier 92) Jerry realizes that Brother Leon is struggling with the candy sale and that he is trying to hide his anger for Jerry’s’ refusal. Jerry knows Brother ...
- 8046: The Cask Of Amatillado
- ... led through the crazed corridors of Montresor’s sick mind. Using the carnival as a backdrop is also skillful because it is a time when everything is in chaos and people have lost their self-control. There is noise in the street, the servants are gone, and Fortunato might have sensed something evil about Montresor’s intentions and left the vaults before it was too late. Poe’s style is what ...
- 8047: The Book Of Sand
- ... Borges' writings (as you can see in the stories discussed earlier). Some say the traumatic return to Buenos Aires and his shy personality may be reasons for his interest in eternity and his desire for control of time. He admits in his poems that time moves on, the world changes, that he will grow old, and that the past is gone forever. He says that one can only rely on their ...
- 8048: The Bistro Styx
- ... t realize is that she can never really return home. The end of the poem symbolizes the mother realizing her daughter’s sexual awakening, and with that the realization that things are out of her control. Dove delves deep into these kinds of relationships in many of her poems, not just the examples given. The works we looked at were In the Old Neighborhood, My Mother Enters the Work Force, and ...
- 8049: The Birdcage
- ... never spoken aloud, it is obvious that the characteristics he displays are those considered to be traditionally male. He is the rock of the relationship. He thinks before he speaks, he is intelligent, and has control over his emotions. He constantly calms Albert down, while rolling his eyes at the foolishness of his antics. In addition Armand is the only homosexual lead to have been married before, and to have a ...
- 8050: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... species survive between three and five million years. In that case, we ought to be seeing small but significant numbers of originations and extinctions every decade. Keith Stewart Thompson, "Natural Selection and Evolution's Smoking Gun," American Scientist, Nov./Dec. 1997: 516. 3 A summary of the Dublin article is found in Brackman, 1980, 74 , 75. Quotation is from page 75. Interestingly, Darwin mentions this article in his Autobiography. He does ...
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