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- 1921: In Our Time
- ... didn't really know what to gather from the stories. I've never honestly read any Hemmingway previously. I've started to read The Sun Also Rises about ten times and gotten waylaid by Batman, Robert B. Parker, and the like each time. I think I read The Old Man and the Sea ages ago in high school, but it was so long ago that it has slipped completely from my ...
- 1922: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... she could build anew. It is necessary to examine these scenes of nature in the context of the early to mid nineteenth-century. This was of course the time of the Industrial Revolution, when as Robert Ferneaux Jordan put it, there was "a shift from the oolite, the lias and the sand to the coal measures. What had been the wooded hills of Yorkshire or Wales became, almost overnight, a land ...
- 1923: Patterns In Hemingway And Camu
- ... taken the very idea of "aboutness" away from us. It has taught us that language is tautological, if it is not nonsense, and to the extent that it is about anything it is about itself. Robert Scholes One of the fascinations of reading literature comes when we discover in a work patterns that have heretofore been overlooked. We are the pattern finders who get deep enjoyment from the discovery of patterns ...
- 1924: Philosophy - Absolute Understa
- ... the many viewpoints that currently exist and may exist in the future. Although the elephant may stay the same, opinions about it may change and adapt. Works Cited Bowie, Lee G., Michaels, Meredith W., Solomon, Robert C. Twenty Questions "An Introduction to Philosophy. Harcourt Brace & Company, 3rd ed. Kierkegaard 72- 75 Handout. Traditional Parable
- 1925: The American Dream In Self Rel
- ... to the top of society. Undoubtedly, as time changes, the American Dreams are bound to change; however, one aspect will always remain the same, and that is obtaining the satisfaction of success. The American Dream Robert Brown 5/24/96 Bell 2
- 1926: The Color Purple By Alice Walk
- ... idea of what message is trying to be conveyed. Walker illustrates the importance of close human relationships and how they help heal pain through this masterpiece. A Review of The Color Purple By Alice Walker Robert Brown 3/4/98 Bell1
- 1927: The Scarlet Letter - Plant Ima
- ... novel. For the most part, Pearl became portrayed by varieties of positive and negative plant images. Ultimately, the simple ideas of guilt and secrecy lead to a ruined lifestyle. Plant Imagery in The Scarlet Letter Robert Brown 4/22/96 Bell 2 Outline I. Intro II. Negative plant imagery A. Living plant life 1. Dug up roots and plucked off twigs from the forest trees (111) 2. When poor Mr. Dimmesdale ...
- 1928: The Swimmer By John Cheever
- ... that they can avoid the problems of life by consuming alcohol, obtaining wealth, and partying. Ultimately, the personal tragedy of mankind results from his own ignorance and misperception of reality. John Cheevers The Swimmer Robert Brown 10/1/97 Bell 5
- 1929: Wuthering Heights - Setting
- ... neighboring tenant, Mr. Heathcliff and after walking four miles in the snow, he reaches the Heights to find the gate closed. He stands "on that bleak hilltop [where] the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made [him] shiver through every limb." (WH-p.29) In fact, the word "Wuthering, being a significant provincial adjective, [is] descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed to ...
- 1930: Wutherinng Heights
- ... Edgar's affections are a poor substitute for the pure energetic passion she has felt for Heathcliff. As she has said before their wedding, Edgar Linton is " as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire." (p.80). The pragmatic reality at Trushcross Grange cannot fill the void that she has made for herself in leaving the furious calm of her childhood environment. Secondly, and more importantly, her development ...
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