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491: Song Of Solomon: ... widow. Her husband will not touch her, holds her only in contempt, and rarely acknowledges she exists. Magdalene called Lena has her own demons and makes flowers to keep the demons quiet. First Corinthians receives letters that offer her an existence of her own. Milkman receives his nickname because he was suckled long after an appropriate age and subsequently, never seems to grow up and flies from responsibility. Macon Dead may ...

492: Sherlock Holmes: ... upset in the summer of 1892 when Sir Auther Conan Doyle decided to kill off what he called "a lower stratum of literary achievement". City gentlemen wore black arm bands and Doyle received threats and letters of abuse. This was an indication that the people no longer regarded Holmes as just a character but much more. He was a reflection of the hopes of a generation. It was not until 1901 ...

493: She Walks With Beauty: Explication of Lord Byron’s "She Walks In Beauty" Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, or Lord Byron as he preferred to be called, was a known philanderer with an insatiable appetite. In letters to Percy Shelley, he told of short-lived romances with women he claimed did not understand the wants and needs of men. One of these women was Lady Caroline Lamb, who he found only physically ...

494: Sense And Sensibility Book Report: ... the whole day, Marianne was so eager to receive Willoughby's mail. Her heart sank when no shadow of Willoughby was seen and no voice of his was heard. Marianne continued to write him two letters. Finally, after Marianne's third letter he wrote back. It included first an apology, then his honest feeling towards Marianne. Marianne was shocked to hear that he did not feel the same way as she ...

495: Robert Frost - Use Of Everyday Items In His Poetry: ... publication. "A Boy's Will was published by the London firm of David Nutt and Company in 1913, and was reviewed favorably by American poet and critic Ezra Pound, a highly influential figure in modernist letters. Nutt published North of Boston a year later." (Bloom p. 13) As Frost was continuing to write poetry, he began to pursue what would be a life long career as a part-time college teacher ...

496: Our Hearts Fell To The Ground: Colin Calloway has done a masterful job of selecting and presenting an array of speeches, letters, documents, and drawings that tell compelling stories about the Plain Indians in the 1800's. His introduction alone has just the right level of information and links basic themes and events to the documents presented ...

497: Old Man And The Sea - Santiago Is Hemingway: ... saw him again." Santiago's longing for the boy simply represents Hemingway's longing for his son. Hemingway greatly regretted losing Gregory and biographer, Jeffrey Meyers remarked that "the persistent vilification of Gregory in his letters merely emphasized how much Hemingway had loved his son." Thus clearly demonstrating the desires shared by Hemingway and Santiago. The similarities in lifestyle, mentality and even desires between Santiago and Hemingway are too many and ...

498: Of Mice And Men: ... New York Herald Tribune. In 1944, his first son, Tom, was born. His second son, John IV, followed two years later. In December of 1948, Steinbeck was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. On December 28, 1950, Steinbeck married his third wife, Elaine Anderson Scott. On October 25, 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On September 14, 1964, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

499: Of Mice And Men: ... dislikes, and tell Curley. Curley can tell the boss, and subsequently they will get the ‘can’. She was promised fine things in show business by an old lover, who promised to write. She never got letters, and blamed it on her family, and left home. On the rebound she met Curley and married him because he was there. She doesn’t like him, and says that ‘he ain’t nice’. She ...

500: Obasan: ... under beds - a box of marbles, half filled colouring books, a red, white and blue rubber ball. The items are endless. Every short stub pencil, every corn-flakes box stuffed with paper bags and old letters is of her ordering. They rest in the corners like parts of her body, hairs cells, skin tissues, tiny specks of memory. This house is now her blood and bones." (15) Obasan lives her life ...

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