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- 1021: Existentialism
- ... situation by someone involved in that situation Is superior to that of observers. Even though one person may view a situation as immoral, existentialism maintains that only those involved can determine morality. Existential novels and short stories include themes of moral individualism, freedom of choice, and responsibility, as well as alienation from the world, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, incorporated subjects of existentialism. In this novel, the protagonist Mersault finds himself alienated from the world. Franz Kafka, another existential writer, expressed his views in the short story' The Metamorphosis." In this tale, the hero, a hardworking insurance agent, awakens to discover that he has turned into an enormo us insect, four feet in length. He recognizes his familial rejection as ...
- 1022: A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
- ... fancy and memory."(pg. 61, Arvin) After Melville's escape he sighed up on a ship called Lucy Ann. Melville still had a bad leg from his experiences with the natives. This journey was a short one but none the lass eventful. The journey was full of different changes in command and mutiny. These events on the , Lucy Ann, Melville put in to a book he named Omoo. This journey ended ... Melville wrote many works, just to name a few famous ones; are first Redburn, then Typee, Omoo, Moby-Dick, Mardi, and White-Jacket. Also from these experiences Melville began to write travel narrative. "Into the short space of four or five years Melville had crammed more "experience," more sheer activity, more roughing of it, than all but a few modern authors."(pg. 121, Arving) Melville had written seven books in the ... when Melville settled down to write his "whaling voyage," the conception of Moby-Dick been present to his mind it is impossible to say."(Pg. 143, Arving). In the way that Melville wrote his first stories, one after another for seven years, just after he had arrived home should make one wonder. It would probably make one wonder whether when he arrived home all of what he had gone through ...
- 1023: Book Report A Voyager Out
- ... it odd that she put so much into her correspondences. In one case, she wrote a ten-page letter to a friend. His response to her was that she was wasting many of her good stories that could be published on a letter. Her response was to write him a six-page letter. She loved writing. She also loved her voyages to Africa. Part of Mary Kingsley s reason for loving ... of the fights. There was one instance when Mary decided to leave home for a small vacation. Mary had never been away from her home so this was a new experience for her. Only a short time into her trip, her mother became ill and Mary had to return to take care of her mother. After staying at her mother s bedside for quite some time, Mary Bailey s health improved ... provided for her. Mary s mode of transportation for this first voyage was the ship The Lagos. While aboard The Lagos the issue of death came up many times. Many of the people aboard had stories of many white people who died making similar trips. The diseases that caused many of the deaths affected the white people so greatly because of the fact that the white s immune systems just ...
- 1024: The Chrysanthemums
- ... one man took interest in her private pleasure…chrysanthemums. Because she lived such a secluded life as a housewife, Elisa apparently never made the effort before to look pretty, as seen when her husband "stops short," looks at her and says, "Why-why, Elisa. You look so nice!" He goes on to say she looks "different, strong, and happy." Indeed, Elisa has seemed to have undergone a complete metamorphosis from being ... sudden interest in the prize fights which she had been quick to reject in the past. This illustrates her emergence from the norm her husband knew so well. Unfortunately, at the conclusion of Steinbeck's short story, Steinbeck has her fall right back into the rut she so despised. She comes back to reality and "turned up her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly-like ... detail being that she is a strong woman on the inside although she seems to struggle in showing it throughout the story. Because of the "Pot Fixer," she is able to act, albeit for a short time, like that strong woman. One must ask themselves after reading this short story, if Elisa will continue this discontented lifestyle or will she finally blossom once and for all like one of her ...
- 1025: Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway Many of Ernest Hemingway's books have had different meaning and all could be interpreted in different way, but there has never been so much written about his other stories. Well the Old Man and the Sea had more written about it than any of his other novels and there have never been so many different types of interpretations about his other novels. The Old ... which states he has a idea on a new novel called The Old Man and the Sea ( Nelson and Jones 139). Hemingway first got his idea for The Old Man and the Sea from the stories that he had heard in the small fish cities in Cuba by a man named Carlos Gutierrez. He had known of this man for about twenty years and the stories of the fighting marlins. It was then that he imagined that man under the two circumstances and came up with the idea. After about twenty years of pondering on the story , he decided that ...
- 1026: Othello: Iago As Satan
- Othello: Iago As Satan The Devil has been a significant part of many people's culture for many years, and in being so significant, has come up in numerous stories. Using Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, I will compare one set of depictions of the devil, to the way William Shakespeare in Othello has depicted his devil character Iago. Iago acts exactly as the devil has in other stories, both with lies and deceit, both granting wishes and changing shape. Iago is a devil, proof lies in the text. The Devil is well known for his "ignorant ways,"1 his deception and his trickery ... a door open "as if by the blast of a tempest."7 This quote came from "The Demon Cat" which as the title would suggest, depicts the devil as a black cat. Throughout other various stories the devil appears as a common merchant, a beggar, and a guinea as well. Apparently the Devil grants wishes as well, because both Iago and the Irish version of him do exactly that. The ...
- 1027: The Book Of Judges
- The book of Judges is the sequel to Joshua. It is the seventh book of the Old Testament. It recounts stories and events from the death of the hebrew leader and prophet Joshua to the birth of the hebrew Samuel. That is roughly, from the end of the Israelite conquest of Canan in the 13th Century ... Death to the time of Samuel. It was written in about 550 BC, on tablets named the Ras Shamra tablets. The Ras Shamra tablets where later discovered in the early 20th Century, even though the stories and acountings of the judges where already known and written. The book of Judges belongs to a specific historical tradition which is called the Deuteronomic history. The author of the book of Judges, was in exile in Babylonia. While in exile he was deeply concerned with foreign domination. So he wrote many of his stories on the migration of the tribe of Dan to the North and the sins of the Benjamites. The author emphasized that Israel was being influenced by foreign powers and the loss of freedom and ...
- 1028: Hero Worship
- ... that age are evident on television today. Both "Hercules" and "Xena: The Warrior Princess" are ever present to save the peasants from the evil and cunning warlords. Mythological heroes had their deeds exaggerated as the stories were passed by word of mouth from person to person. Storytellers have always felt a need to liven up their stories and as they passed them from generation to generation, the stories continued to grow. Everyone knows what heroism is, but describing it can be difficult. Gallantry, valor, bravery, and courage are all traits normally associated with heroism. For the people who risk or sacrifice their ...
- 1029: Gilgamesh 3
- Stories do not need to inform us of anything. They do inform us of things. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, we know something of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris ... know they believed in many gods; we know they were self-conscious of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate. These things we can fix -- or establish definitely. But stories also remind us of things we cannot fix --of what it means to be human. They reflect our will to understand what we cannot understand, and reconcile us to mortality. We read The Epic of ... of life is impaired by fixed notions or perspectives on what it means to be human. There is an infinite continuity of meaning that can be comprehended only by seeing again, for ourselves. We read stories -- and reading is a kind of re-telling -- not to learn what is known but to know what cannot be known, for it is ongoing and we are in the middle of it. To ...
- 1030: Confessions in Rhyme: Poetry Analysis
- ... in with the right life experiences. I think this poem is fantastic. It is creative and well written and is also realistic. I like the way that the poet expressed so much in such a short poem, she had a problem and a solution. I think it takes a great writer to do something like that. I also liked the way that she entitled her poem because the title “Blank Paper ... of old songs. There was music inside her; she would sit down, shy as ever, humming alone among broken promises and among sweet broken bodies of birds. This is the type of poem known as “short and sweet.” This poem is one of the shortest written in The Book of Light. Although this poem is short it is quite sweet. It is as if Lucille Clifton’s words just make you imagine what is happening. Even though this poem is beautiful and short, I bet if she added more details ...
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