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- 9381: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... saw deeply furrowing the brown moorside; I waded knee-deep in its dark growth; I turned with its turnings, and finding a moss-blackened granite crag in a hidden angle, I sat down under it. High banks of moor were about me; the crag protected my head: the sky was over that." In fact, the entire countryside around Whitecross is a sort of encompassing womb: "a north-midland shire . . . ridged with ...
- 9382: Jamestown
- ... most likely planted gardens as well as corn, beans, and tobacco which was obtained by the Indians. Increasingly they would lack European amenities such as cooking utensils, iron, and metal objects. But their hopes were high that White would appear with a fresh set of supplies. In making these guesses, the location of the two villages (Apasus and Chesepiuc) on Whites map that Lasie and Wright had can be tentatively eliminated ...
- 9383: Jack Kerouac
- ... of Heaven, or Nirvana. Another Buddhist concept is introduced here by Kerouac, that of the bodhisatva. Kerouac spent much of his time with Buddhism studying a particular type, this was Mahayana Buddhism. Within this particular school a great deal of emphasis is placed upon the bodhisatva. The bodhistava is an enlightened individual who chooses to remain in this world, being reborn repeatedly as a human in order to help others achieve ...
- 9384: J.D. Salinger
- ... society feels the characters are misfits. The characters can only become happy if they isolate themselves from this society. Salinger uses loneliness also as a means to change in life. In "Raise the Roof Beam High," Salinger is able to use isolation to change the life of Seymour Glass (Salzman 130). Seymour feels that society has become corrupt and must change his lifestyle in order for him to become happy (Salzman ...
- 9385: Into The Wild
- ... man. I now walk into the wild." Chris almost knew that he would not make it out of the wild alive. Chris was seeking adventure. His trip to Alaska was the "drug" that made him high. "I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no ...
- 9386: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- ... after getting her job she becomes pregnant. Through her months of pregnancy she tells no one and no one helps her. She teaches herself how to deal with being an expectant mother and stay in school, and on top of all of this, continue work on the railway. She is completely self- sufficient. " I had had help in the childs conception, but no one could deny that I had had ...
- 9387: I Heard An Owl Call My Name
- ... man's world. Then he had to help preserve the old culture of totems and salmons from being replaced by a new culture of alcoholism and residential schools. A few Indian youths went to a school in Vancouver, to which the elders disapproved because they knew the young people would never return to the village. In the end, he did succeed in earning respect and trust, maybe even love from the ...
- 9388: Godlike Odysseus
- ... one of the saddest things he's seen: "As he, if then he takes a fish,/ Flings it aloft out of the sea/ All quivering, even so she swung them/ All quivering up to her high crag./ There she devoured them, one and all,/ Before her doorway, while they shrieked/ And still stretched out their hands to me/ In dying agony. that sight/ Was the saddest sight my eyes/ have ever ...
- 9389: Huckleberry Finn
- ... robbery or killing, their activities being all pretend. Once, Tom pretended a caravan of Arabs and Spaniards were going to encamp nearby with hundreds of camels and elephants. It turned out to be a Sunday school picnic. Tom explained it really was a caravan of Arabs and Spaniards - only they were enchanted, like in Don Quixote. Huckleberry judged Tom's stories of genies to be lies, after rubbing old lamps and ...
- 9390: Huckelberry Finn- Censorship
- ... book which are represented as racist or hatred, because "Twain Attributed a stereotyped ^Negro^ dialect"(Cox pg.129). There has been acts of depriving children to read this great novel by removing it from most school libraries. "The book is a rich, deep text on many important issues: not only race and slavery, but violence, child abuse, alcoholism, and many other problems still relevant to American society. At the same time ...
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