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- 1221: A Medieval Contest Between The
- ... spear and his sword strikes King Arthur s skull eventually killing him. He shows the dark side of human nature with disrespect for God, King Arthur, the Queen and his fellow knights. Sauron, The Dark Lord of Mordor, represents evil in his attempt to get back the One Ring he lost. The Ring holds enough power to make him emperor of the world. He often appears to Frodo as the Eye ...
- 1222: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... days. They are unable to locate him despite their best efforts. The new recruits figure heavily in the dead and wounded. The reinforcements sent to replace them have had little training, and they drop like flies on the front. They are younger than ever before. During an attack, Paul finds Himmelstoss in a dugout, pretending to be wounded. Paul forces him out with blows and threats. They rush forward with the ...
- 1223: Animal Farm
- ... become corrupt and therefore it isn t a utopia anymore. Throughout the book Orwell manages to achieve these two goals and to teach his readers a very important lesson, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely"(Lord Acton). Despite the fact that Orwell wrote his book to parallel Soviet communism, his intention was not only to produce a satire on Russia, but to also teach humanity a lesson about human nature. Power ...
- 1224: Alice Munros Boys And Girls
- ... s creation of an unnamed and therefore undignified, female protagonist proposes that the narrator is without identity or the prospect of power. Unlike the narrator, the young brother Laird is named a name that means "lord" and implies that he, by virtue of his gender alone, is invested with identity and is to become a master. This stereotyping in names alone seems to suggest that gender does play an important role ...
- 1225: A River Runs Through It By Nor
- ... casting. This new technique in which he dubbed “shadow casting” was able to draw the fish to the surface using only the shadow of the fly. “...That the fish are alerted by the shadows of flies passing over the water by the first casts, so hit the fly the moment it touches the water (Mclean 21).” Among other things, Paul was also grew up with a bit of gambling and drinking ...
- 1226: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... no true feeling or outlet for these feelings. While Stephen eventually turns away from religion, it is an important facet in his development as an artist. Religion, originally one of the "nets" by which he flies, leads to the loss of his naiveté and later to his disillusionment with a conformist society as a whole. Stephen's thoughts are too independent and liberal for his contemporaries, and thus it is inevitable ...
- 1227: There Are No Children Here
- ... learn about their everyday lives, from how they pick out their clothes, to how they wash them. We go to school with them and we play with them. Throughout the book, we are much like flies on the wall. We see and feel everything the boys' go through at Henry Horner Homes, the project where they live. LaJoe moved into the Henry Horner Homes in 1956 with her mother and father ...
- 1228: Ellen Foster
- ... in your car is what I thought to say to her. I figured she would warm up to me. But all she asked on the way to her house was when does school start again? Lord it just ended and I sure am looking forward to the summer at your house I said for the icebreaker. I asked you when school starts. I do not need the commentary is what she ...
- 1229: BEOWULF ANALYSIS
- ... love Grendel could not know.”(Beowulf, lines 82-85). The reference to God was throughout the poem. “God must decide who will be given to death’s cold grip.”(Beowulf, lines 174-175). “Surely the Lord Almighty could stop this madness, smother his lust!”(Beowulf, lines 212-213). The theme of Cain and Abel is brought up one more time during the confrontation between Beowulf and Unferth. “You murdered your brothers ...
- 1230: The Riddle Of St. Leonards
- ... of St. Leonard’s. The main character of The Riddle of St. Leonard’s is Owen Archer. Owen is an ex-soldier, who is now a spy for the Archbishop of York and for sometime Lord Chancellor of England, John Thoresbry. Owen is assisted in his sleuthing by a group of York residents who include his wife, the apothecary Lucie, and Bess Merchet, owner of the York Tavern. There is also ...
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