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- 281: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... personal freedoms, turn to the personal narrative as a means of preserving meaningful experience, and to recitation of eyewitness accounts of historical events in an effort to clarify gaps, myths, errors, and misconceptions. Similar to Jane, the participant in the Louisiana civil rights movement and title character in Ernest Gaines' fictional Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and to Jack Crabb, the bi-national spokesman and picaresque participant at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Offred offers an inside view of the effects of ...
- 282: How Contrasting Places Contrib
- ... will feel awkward or insecure in a strange environment. At home, one may feel comfortable and relaxed. This brings about the phrase home sweet home. This same idea helps contribute to the central meaning of Jane Austen s work Pride and Prejudice. The two establishments of Netherfield and Pemberley are as different as night and day in the way they bring out the attitudes and actions of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth ... sport. This is a side of Darcy that Elizabeth has not seen before and it causes her to grow more fond of him. The contrasting places, Netherfield and Pemberley, show two completely different sides of Jane, as well. In the beginning, at Netherfield, she sees Darcy as an arrogant, prideful man whom she would never have intentions of marrying. Her despise toward the man only grows as the novel progresses. Ironically ...
- 283: Report On Opera
- Opera is a glorious spectacle, a splendid but uneven fabric of music, drama, dance, poetry, and stage architecture, imperfect by nature yet endowed with magic. -Mary Jane Matz, Opera: Grand and Not So Grand Opera was originally a pure art, surviving on subsidies from royalty, nobility, and aristocracy. But with the opening of the first public opera house in Venice in 1637 ... Quaintance. The Miracle of the Met Meredith Press, New York; 1968. Dizikes, John. Opera in America Yale University Press, New Haven; 1993. Harries, Susie & Meirion. Opera Today St. Martins Press, New York; 1986. Matz, Mary Jane. Opera: Grand and not so Grand William Morrow & Company, Inc. New York; 1966. Simon, Henry W. Festival of Opera Hanover House, New York; 1957.
- 284: The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Opression of Women in Society
- ... end of the story the narrator has surprised John, who has come home from work to find her creeping around the room. She proclaims "I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" Although the reader might pity the narrator's inability to challenge John's authority, one must view the events ... and loosing her identity to the wallpaper. In contrast, the reader concludes the narrator is now confined by her insanity, and cannot be free. Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." English 2307. Comp. Jane Bell. n.p., c.1996. 3-7. Kennard, Jean. "Convention Coverage or How to Read Your Own Life." Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work. Ed. Sheryl Meyering. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989 ...
- 285: The Subtle Humor of Pride and Prejudice
- The Subtle Humor of Pride and Prejudice Of all the novels that Jane Austen has written, critics consider Pride and Prejudice to be the most comical. Humor can be found everywhere in the book; in it's character descriptions, imagery, but mostly in it's conversations between characters ... enjoys satirizing were real for her in her time as well. However, the ultimate irony falls on us, Austen's readers, who laugh at Austen's characters. We are the characters in the novel to Jane Austen. We recognize ourselves in the characters that Austen enjoys criticizing. It's that recognization of ourselves that we laugh at and what we find amusing is the fact that Austen makes us view ourselves ...
- 286: Catcher In the Rye: The Quest For Love
- ... has fallen from the cliff, Ward Stradlater, is his own roommate. Stradlater is an older individual than Holden and is more mature in certain aspects. Holden constantly describes him as sexy. I kept thinking of Jane, and about Stradlater having a date with her and all. It made me so nervous I nearly went crazy. I already told you what a sexy bastard Stradlater was (Salinger 34). This illustrates the sexual ... that he is not ready for it. He is not ready to fall off of that specific cliff just yet. Stradlater is also a very conceited individual. In a conversation, Holden addresses a thought of Jane, '....If she'd known (about Stradlater's sexiness), she probably would've signed out for nine thirty in the morning.' 'Goddam right,' Stradlater said. You couldn't rile him too easily. He was too conceited ...
- 287: The Catcher in the Rye: A Bridge from Innocence to Adulthood
- ... in mind, Holden emphasizes how he is not ready for the grown up world of sex, despite what his body is telling him. The girls that Holden refers to quite a bit are Sally and Jane, who together represent what he desires in a relationship . Jane, although she was a girlfriend from when he was younger, represents the caring and understanding part in a relationship, the mature part, in the sense that Holden in genuinely concerned for her nature. Sally, a ...
- 288: Catcher in the Rye: Holden and Reznor
- ... for each reason these friends would increase their differences, the more the possibility that they would become more of strangers to each other. Holden experiences this several times throughout the novel. When he talks about Jane, the way she used to be perfect, placing her kings in the back because it would look nice, and now he has come to believe that she gave time to Stradlater in Ed Banky's ... has fled their souls. The most important part of their lives was in their past. Holden's brother, Allie, was the smartest kid he knew, Phoebe is probably the nicest sister he remembers knowing, and Jane used to be the perfect girl. He remembers many past events in the novel and tries to relate them to the present. Holden also uses symbols in remembrance to certain events in the past. Allie ...
- 289: Catcher in the Rye: Summary
- ... never brushes his teeth. They were both talking about Holdens roommate Stadlater. Robert Did not like Stadlater at all. When Stadlater came up to the room, he told Holden that he had a date with Jane Gallagher. She is Holdens friend. Holden was mad because he thought Stadlater was a jerk. Holden later had a fight with Stradlater. Holden was so depressed that he couldn't concentrate in school. This led ... his home. Holden left to New York. He stayed in a hotel full of perverts. He watched threw his window how a couple were squirting water to each other. He couldn't stop thinking about Jane Gallagher; so he got depressed, because that was the first girl that he really liked. Holden spent all his time in the lobby, bars, and clubs. He would dance, drink and even smoke. One night ...
- 290: White Lilacs
- ... Lee's thoughts to understand the title White Lilacs. I also think that the movie would be more interesting if it was narrated. If you reversed . . . the point of view from Rose Lee to Catherine Jane the story wouldn't be as interesting. This would happen because the story would be about a black community from a white perspective. The protagonist in WHITE LILACS is Rose Lee Jefferson. The antagonist in WHITE LILACS it the whole white community except Catherine Jane and Emily Frith. In WHITE LILACS the main conflict is weither the black community in Dentin, Texas will have to move to another place against their will. the secondary conflicts are: - Rose Lee had to ...
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