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- 2041: The Crucible
- ... asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that ... asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that ...
- 2042: A Rose For Emily
- ... This story takes place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of the South. Like her father, Miss Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards life and refuses to change. This short story explains Emily, her mystified ways and the townsfolk's sympathetic curiosity. The plot of the story is mainly about Miss Emily's attitude about change. "On the first of the year they mailed her ... definitely came from her father's strict teachings. The characters of this story are very briefly mentioned, Miss Emily and Mr. Homer Barron are the two main characters described. Miss Emily was described as a short, fat, aged and mysterious women during her later years. Miss Emily had been through much and had seen many generations grow before and around her. This brings to reason her strong Confederate beliefs. Homer Barron ...
- 2043: The Vietnam Wall
- ... will carry a story, a legacy, and a history with him. There are fifty-eight thousand of them. Every single name has a story, a legacy, and a history with it. There are fifty-eight stories, legacies and histories on that wall. The wall is black granite that digs into the ground so that a passerby will not be able to see it from the street. It is designed to symbolize ... A scar in America's history. Yet we will never be able to overcome that scar, and the wall gives us over fifty-eight thousand reasons why we should never forget, we should remember the stories, the small momentous. We should remember the fifty-eight thousand soldiers who decided that they trusted the government, and gave their life for world peace. Let us hope that the Vietnam War Memorial will be ...
- 2044: The Many Faces Of Love In Arth
- ... claim that love can refine and add depth to a person’s character, especially a knight’s. This “courtly love” idea is important because it comes up again more prominently in Hartmann von Aue’s stories. One must keep in mind, though, that when Geoffrey discusses love, he gives no evidence that his concept of love involves more than sex. When he writes about how the women “deigned to love no ... offer contentment unmatched by any woman. For proof of human love’s frailty in this literature, consider the number times knights fight gallantly to prove and justify their worthiness to the female figures in the stories. Part of the reason Parzival fights so gallantly is to restore his image in the eyes of Cunneware and Condwiramurs, his wife. If women’s love were as firm and unwavering as God’s, knights ...
- 2045: The Many Faces Of Love In Arth
- ... claim that love can refine and add depth to a person’s character, especially a knight’s. This “courtly love” idea is important because it comes up again more prominently in Hartmann von Aue’s stories. One must keep in mind, though, that when Geoffrey discusses love, he gives no evidence that his concept of love involves more than sex. When he writes about how the women “deigned to love no ... offer contentment unmatched by any woman. For proof of human love’s frailty in this literature, consider the number times knights fight gallantly to prove and justify their worthiness to the female figures in the stories. Part of the reason Parzival fights so gallantly is to restore his image in the eyes of Cunneware and Condwiramurs, his wife. If women’s love were as firm and unwavering as God’s, knights ...
- 2046: Wuthering Heights
- ... Thrushcross Grange, consisted of the Lintons with two children name Edgar and Isabel. The plot in this story starts off simple as the reader would think that this story is just another one of those stories which the disadvantage guy falls in love with the girl he loves and ends up getting married. True, but the plot that built up this ending is what made this story truly special. The characters ... those two places even though I was intrigued on finding out where was Heathcliff all those years. This book was published in 1847 meeting bad reviews but later honored as one of the most fascinating stories that came out of England. Why was the book met with bad reviews. Maybe because they weren’t ready for the darkness of revenge that was portrayed in this story. This story is a classic ...
- 2047: The Hobbit
- ... visions of elves feasting in the forest. To their surprize every time they announce their presence to the elves...they elves vanish! Once again Bilbo finds himself seperated from the group. He stops for a short nap and awakes to find himself tied down by a giant spider. He uses his sword to cut himself free. He then attacks the spider and kills it. Feeling proud of his deed, he decides ... his m agic ring and implements a plan to rescue his companions. It is a success and t he party (once again) gets out of an awful predicament. The celebration of escaping the spiders is short lived since the dwarf s are yet again captured...this time by the Wood Elves. Bilbo however dons his ring and escapes capture. He followed the elves to there home in the forest. There he ...
- 2048: The Hobbit
- ... visions of elves feasting in the forest. To their surprise every time they announce their presence to the elves...they elves vanish! Once again Biblo finds himself separated from the group. He stops for a short nap and awakes to find himself tied down by a giant spider. He uses his sword to cut himself free. He then attacks the spider and kills it. Feeling proud of his deed, he decides ... but have not escaped. Biblo puts on his m magic ring and forms a plan to rescue his friends. It works and the party gets out of danger. The celebration of escaping the spiders is short lived since the dwarfs are again captured by Wood Elves. Biblo again uses his ring and escapes capture. He followed the elves to there home in the forest. There he forms a plan to free ...
- 2049: The Natural
- ... gives him a call and provocatively invites him to her room. Succumbing to her invitation, and making his way to her room, he enters and sees her wearing nothing but a silk nightgown. After a short conversation, she pulls out a pistol and shoots him in the stomach. His desperate attitude leads him to be seduced by her, ending his bid to make the Chicago Cubs. The character of Harriet Bird ... 98 Encyclopedia. „¦ 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation Helterman, Jeffrey. Understanding Bernard Malamud. Columbia:University of South Carolina Press,1985. Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. New York:Avon Books,1952. Solotaroff, Robert. Bernard Malamud: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston:Twayne Publishers,1989. Wasserman, Earl R. ¡§The Natural: Malamud¡¦s World Ceres¡¨ in Modern Critical Views: Bernard Malamud. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York:Chelsea House Publishers. 47-64
- 2050: Chivalry In Chaucers Canterbur
- ... not mocking someone's attempts at it, but rather in his juxtaposition he exposes an element of curteisye not usually recognized. The reader gets the impression that this scenario occurred with greater frequency than courtly stories ever implied. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the seductions of Gawain by Bertilak's wife possessed an air of innocence; the flirtatious dialogue between knights and their lords' wives was not only accepted ... his intentions were definitely not as delicate as French. Chaucer utilized satire throughout the Canterbury Tales, and he illustrated as much about his culture, and especially curteisye, with his satire as he did with the stories and characters themselves.
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