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- 2261: The Red Badge Of Courage 4
- ... up. He was then complimented by the Colonel, but he was still guilty that he ran off in his very first battle and deserted his regiment. Stephen Crane's style in the book was very short and simple. His sentences were very short, instead of being long and tedious and it was easier to follow. He doesnΉt use as much figurative language as some other authors do, but he does use some figurative language. For example, he ...
- 2262: The Partner By John Grisham
- ... I also felt the boob was lacking Grisham s famous courtroom dramas and a character of an ambitious lawyer. Grisham is very good at developing a story and making it rich with other little sub-stories. This book deals with lawyers, bad marriages, and the value of good friendship in a cruel and lonely world. We also sense a great deal of crookedness but the book does not really discuss it ... any effort. He brings a lot of characters into the picture but you never lose your concentration. He stays shallow and does not go into deep maintaining a wide array of personalities and little related stories attached to his hero. The characters are rather forgettable but the plot is a survival tale so rich that it stays with you for a while. I was impressed with this book even though it ...
- 2263: The Caucasian Chalk Circle By
- ... contrasts with dramatic plays where the audience sympathises and relates to the characters of the play. The theme throughout the play is natural justice versus class justice. The title has links to other parables and stories before it. The Chalk Circle, a Chinese play involved a legal action where the false claimant was granted custody due a bribe to claim her dead husbands estate. This however was overturned by the emperor ... the child, contrasting to Natasha Abashvilla's intent to get the child only to keep her late husband's estate. The singer sums up the meaning of the entire play, linking the prologue with the stories of Azdak and Grusha. "That what there is shall belong to those who are good for it,thus the children to the maternal, that they thrive; the carriages to good drivers, that they are driven ...
- 2264: To Kill A Mockingbird 5
- ... simply being near such a type of person. Another similarity of their lives exists because most people assume their guilt. Without any evidence or reliable knowledge of the situation, Jem, Scout, and Dill assume the stories of Boo attacking his father are true. They do not ask their father if the story ever happened or ask the sheriff, who was supposedly involved. They simply assume his guilt. Tom Robinson s trial ... outskirts of society, and their lives have certain resemblance s because of that quality. They are generally not trusted, deemed a threat, and people fail to understand them. Both men become the subject of horror stories to the people that do not understand or attempt to understand them. Even though they never met, Tom and Boo s similar situations cause them to share many aspects of their lives.
- 2265: The Storm
- Kate Chopin s short story The Storm describes an encounter of infidelity between two lovers during a brief thunderstorm. The story alludes to the controversial topic of women s sexuality and passion, which during Chopin s time no one ... The Storm, that it was not published until after her death in eighteen ninety-nine. The story is broken up into five sections, each filled with small clues and hints that reflect her message. In short, Kate Chopin s The Storm is about a confirmation of feminine sexuality and passion and a rejection of the suppression of it by society. The title of The Storm gives the reader a peek into ...
- 2266: The Onslaught Of Love - The Br
- ... 5-8) These things are impossible just as being in love for an hour are impossible. In the second stanza of the poem, Donne begins to why it is impossible for love to last for short period of time. He says love envelopes one's whole being. "Ah, what a trifle is a heart/ If once into love's hands it come!" (l. 9-10) The heart is like a toy ... still, " (l. 25-28) Donne says that there is nothing that can repair a broken heart. He feels the fragments represent the hundreds of loves that he will come in contact with but will fall short of his first love. (Those pieces still, though they not be unite;/ And now as broken glasses show/ A hundred lesser faces, so/My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one ...
- 2267: The Lottery As An Allegory
- Jackson s "The Lottery" as an Allegory Shirley Jackson s "The Lottery" is an excellent example of an allegorical short story. In this story, the reader learns of a town s "lottery" that takes place once a year, every year. It has been a tradition in this small rural town for many years and the ... 238) The tradition is so old that all they care about is stoning the victim without thinking about how evil the tradition really is. "The Lottery" is very allegorical in every sense. After reading this short story the reader is forced to think about traditions and the inhuman quality of the village. Death is represented over and over again throughout the story. Jackson s effective use of symbolism helps depict death ...
- 2268: The Great Gatsby
- ... it is further examined in chapters four and five it becomes more evident that this green light is not Daisy, but a symbol representing Gatsby's dream of having Daisy. The fact that Daisy falls short of Gatsby's expectations is obvious. Knowing this, one can see that no matter how hard Gatsby tries to live his fantasy, he will never be able to achieve it. Through close examination of the ... drawn to him by the sad apprehension that dreams themselves are often more beautiful than dreams fulfilled. Nick realizes this, too, when he says: "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -nor through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything." (Fitzgerald, 101) What Gatsby and Daisy have is so much more ...
- 2269: 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 ...
- 2270: Story Of An Hour 2
- ... a "divine transformation" yet it kills her. This puzzles me, so I will search for the true meaning of this strange story (marriage, as I believe). To accomplish this task and to truly understand this short story, I will first learn about Kate Chopin's life and experiences. Later, I will investigate her use of symbolism in "Story of an Hour" and their' dual purposes (to the story and to Kate ... focus, "Story of an Hour." After several re-reads it becomes more apparent that Chopin uses symbolism to substitute long description and explanations. This allows Chopin to effectively complete the story in just twenty-two short paragraphs. This symbolism often reflects similarity to Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." Similar to Gilman, it is obvious that Chopin is adamantly opposed to the institution of marriage. Therefore, the main purpose of, "Story ...
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