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- 6051: The Bell Jar
- ... s history of speaking German and desired to learn it as well: "My mother spoke German during her childhood in America and was stoned for it during the First World War by the children at school" (30). At one point Esther even briefly decides to learn shorthand. This need to be like her mother while at the same time hating her is enough to disturb Esther and stir up fears of ...
- 6052: The Bell Jar
- ... from her friend and colleague. Throughout life one also needs the motivation and provisions from those that influence one's lives. This is demonstrated by Esther's Class Dean who upheld Esther through her high school years. "I had a way of persuading...interesting experiment." (Sylvia Plath page 29.) Her Class Dean supported Esther in her way of thinking and her thrive for learning which in turn, she was awarded for ...
- 6053: The Artificial Family
- ... the neutral character in the story who not only ties the two main characters together but is used to separate them as well. Toby is presented as a young college student who is in graduate school on scholarships. He is studying science and seems easy going. He is simple but not a flat character. He starts out not knowing love and ends the story knowing broken love. He learns what it ...
- 6054: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
- ... He wanted so much to prove them wrong and he has. We may say he has gained self assurance, restating the fact he was a somebody important. Since his days at Fletcher's Field High School, he ran a gang based on respect, not friendship. Things do not change when he becomes an adult. Virgil is just one of the people Duddy uses to get money for his land. He feels ...
- 6055: Tender Mercies
- ... to love and no one to be loved by. Furthermore, Sunny had gotten a father figure for himself. The reader also sees Sunny’s approval of Mac, when Sunny fights with the other kids at school when they taunted him about Mac. When Sunny fought for Mac the reader comes to comprehend that Mac is a good person. Having a father figure, Sunny was now able to do many things, such ...
- 6056: Christopher Marlowe
- ... agreement was reached as to the composition date of this poem, but it is ranked as a major work along with Tamburlaine and Faustus. Marlowe began writing poetry and performing plays, when he entered Kings School. His education shaped him to become the genius who first created the Shakespearean blank verse drama. This is why many hailed him as The Morning Star , of the turning point from comedy to drama in ...
- 6057: Swimming Alone
- ... of Porpoise Spit, Australia. The movie is about Muriel, an ugly-duckling character, and her one motivation in life, to get married. Her motivation arises from the fact that all of her friends from high school, the ones she tries so hard to fit in with, are walking down the aisle. Marriage becomes a symbol of peer, social and self-acceptance. Muriel's Wedding constructs and explores an opposition between the ...
- 6058: Spring Time
- ... dawn, the birds begin singing their songs and sending noises into the air. the images that deliver signals for children getting ready for the spring brake which could hide them from those rough days in school. and family could gather around int he back yard to dig the soil and spraying seeds fro gardening. likewise, in the garden where as everyone could take their first breaths of fragrance that comes from ...
- 6059: Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free Verse
- ... of nine children. His father was a carpenter. The poet had a particularly close relationship with his mother. When Whitman was four years old, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he attended public school for six years before being apprenticed to a printer. Two years later he went to New York City to work in printing shops. He returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools ...
- 6060: Song For Simeon
- Prayer for Tradition In the poem "A Song for Simeon," T.S. Eliot uses ambiguity and religious allusion to convey decay and death of the old order to make room for modernity. Examining the imagery in ...
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