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- 971: To His Coy Mistress
- ... should put all their feeling and love together, to strengthen what they have between them and take her virginity, because times does not stand still and they can eat up time making love. “ Let us roll all our strength, and all our sweetness, up into one ball; and tear our pleasures with rough strife thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will ...
- 972: The Color Purple: Celie
- ... it or clothe it.” (9) As soon as she is married, she is being abused by Mr. _____. She has to work the fields, raise his children (one of which splits her head open with a rock on the day she gets married), and endure beatings whenever he gets mad about something and wants to take it out on her. One time when Mr. _____ is asked by his son Harpo why he ...
- 973: Huck Finn and The River
- ... it was in danger of being crushed by waves and damaged by debris; if it was too close to shore, it could be thrown into the shore, completely destroying it, or penned against a large rock like the ship with the murderers on it. There was also the threat of Huck and Jim losing sight of one another because "you couldn't see twenty yards" (68) in the fog and being ...
- 974: Lord of the Flies
- ... assault the hut on the beach where the remaining boys are housed. After all the confusion, the boys discover that Piggy’s glasses are gone. Ralph, Piggy, and Sam and Eric decide to visit Castle Rock (Jack’s Hide Out.) They are greeted with resistance. Piggy hears a roar coming toward him. It is a boulder, dislodged by Roger, that crushes Piggy under it. Sam and Eric are captured and Ralph ...
- 975: Silko's Ceremony: Gender Roles
- ... worry about what other people will say about Tayo or about their family. The significance of Montano to Ceremony is very powerful and vital to the recovery of Tayo. She lives up in the rim rock and is in touch with the earth and her surroundings in every way. Being torn between the white world and the Indian world is what leaves Tayo feeling invisible and hollow inside. Montano helps him ...
- 976: Allegorical “Young Goodman Brown”
- ... faith and all he knows as good. The “hanging twig and the coldest dew” is one of my favorite symbols used in this story. This whole scene is full of imagery with the cold damp rock and the feeling of hopelessness in the air. The twig with the cold dew on it is what awakens Brown from his dream or vision. This is what makes him face the reality of sin ...
- 977: Lord of the Flies: Primal Instincts
- ... one to believe in the power of the conch at the moment. Jack and his hunters did not listen to Piggy as usual, and ignored his comments. Then Roger pulled the lever that set the rock to flying down the cliff, which killed Piggy. Piggy was intelligent, but also very naive at the same time, his belief in civilization did not change at all throughout the book. Unfortunately they led him ...
- 978: Fire and Water Imagery In Jane Eyre
- ... Brontë again describes the proposal of marriage with water imagery. She compares him with imagery of cold, running water - "he … has no more a husband's heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which the stream is foaming in yonder gorge". Thematically, St John is the antithesis of Rochester, just as water is the opposite of fire. Their associated imagery is used to bring across this point ...
- 979: The Scarlet Letter: Guilt
- ... stand on the platform, but why doesn’t he confess. He is a reverend, and should be able to tell everything. That is why it is so hard for him. He is trapped between a rock and a hard space. If he tells the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits ...
- 980: The Scarlet Letter
- ... stand on the platform, but why doesn’t he confess. He is a reverend, and should be able to tell everything. That is why it is so hard for him. He is trapped between a rock and a hard space. If he tells the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits ...
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