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- 2331: Compare And Contrast Once Upon
- ... money and in his mind become lucky. The mother's assumptions push the boy to the brink and beyond in an effort to determine which horse will win the race. The two mothers in the stories view their roles in child rearing quite differently, unfortunately yielding the same results. The authors reveal that even the best of intentions can have disastrous results. In "Once Upon a Time" the doting mother attempts ... 521). Finally, the mother demands so much from the child that she pushes him to madness and eventually an exhaustive death. The two story's share similarities in plots. If the reader diagrammed the two stories using Fraytag's pyramid as a model, the results would mirror each other. From the exposition to the climax, the characters evolve slowly. As the tale progresses, the tension grows, eventually leading to the climax ...
- 2332: Creative Writing - Fiction - T
- ... music. We had their mathematical system cracked. The time had come to communicate back. Radio frequencies were separated, and the humans decided to pirate the most pleasing music station. To make quite a long story short, the humans found their way in all-road vehicles to a nearby alien town, and managed to open a line of mathematical communication with several alien citizens. The language artists spent five years with the ... resources, and alien species for possible problems such as disease to which the humans were not immune. There appeared to be no problems, so the scientists informed the aliens, now known as TetraHeliateCesites (Tetras for short), that they would leave and return with the entire human species in about four hundred years. The humans were true to their word, and returned on a huge spacecraft with all of the human race ...
- 2333: Cat In The Rain
- Cat in the Rain The short story, Cat in the Rain , by Ernest Hemingway describes the stereotypical relationship between two married American tourists, one of whom is striving to recover a poor kitty . This seemingly mundane plot becomes symbolic and purposeful as the reader gazes beneath the surface to find the true intent of the short story. There are three characters in Hemingway s story which help convey these meaningful analogies; in addition, the cat, the American woman, and the American man all represent something different in our present American society ...
- 2334: Candide
- ... filled with gaiety, and the amusing parts make it entertaining. "Nothing could be more lively, more witty, or more instructive than this story...Too often Voltaire, delighted with his own artistic flair...gives us amusing stories...Let us take them for what they are, not giving too much historical credit...but tasting freely of the delights of well told stories" (Saintsbury 100). Saintsbury takes Candide to be a witty and lively story despite the misfortune in the characters' lives. He, too, thinks the story was written for entertainment, at which Voltaire did a good job ...
- 2335: Crime And Punishment .
- ... story "Akulka's Husband ," in which there is everything but regret on the side of the killer, faith in God is the only path to sanity. Dostoevsky was a young man when he heard these stories. How could he live otherwise, if he really actively loved people, but take the belief in God as a necessity? The belief that the idea of God should be there because otherwise everything would be ... go further than that. Works Cited: Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal 1850-1859. Princeton University Press. NJ, 1983. Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years 1865-1871. Princeton University Press. NJ, 1983. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Stories. Tr. Andrei Goncharov. Progress Publisher Moscow. USSR, 1971. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. A Writer's Diary. Tr. Kenneth Lantz. Northwestern University Press. IL, 1993. Kabat, Geoffrey. Ideology and Imagination. Columbia University Press. NY, 1978. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The ...
- 2336: Creative Writing
- ... out sometimes. I took this to be an omen that I would never get caught if I broke house arrest tonight. I need to tell you that Anna has never really showed any interest in short, chubby Martin, but I can’t break that news to him. I lie and tell him that we’re in, when what I mean is, I’m in. Really, Anna with her tall beanpole-like ... I suppose," he says unenthusiastically. We ride with the farmer back to the scene of the breakdown. I take note that as we ride up, the windows on the Cadillac are very steamed for the short amount of time we were gone. I think that this will work out to my benefit. Anna will tell Lisa she had sex with Eric and be more inclined to let me make it. The ...
- 2337: Billy Budd
- ... Moreover, Melville compares the old Dansker to the oracle at Delphi, a kind of religious fortune-teller whom the ancient Greeks would consult for advise about the future. Like this oracle, the Dansker likes making short, cryptic pronouncements, and once he speaks, he refuses to explain what he’s said. Billy, for one, can’t understand half of his utterances, and what he understands he refuses to believe. You might get frustrated with him because, while he cares for Billy, he refuses to take a stand and speak up for him. In addition, after this short account of who the Dansker is, one can see vividly why he was named “Baby Budd.” On a physical level Billy contrasted the Dansker quite vividly. On a deeper level, thought still easy to grasp ...
- 2338: British Literature Women Of Lo
- ... the The Wife of Bath’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Shepherd’s Play, by Wakefield Master, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Sir Gawain, one needs to look closely at the stories. The Wife of Bath’s , tale is a brief Arthurian romance incorporating the widespread theme of the “loathly lady.” It is the story of a woman magically transformed into an ugly shape who can be ... devotion. His wishful thinking is not misplaced. Despite all he has endured thus far, Gawain remains a humble servant of the Lard. Instantaneously, his prayers are answered. In comparing and contrasting the women in these stories we can see the attitudes and philosophies which were emerging and shaping the roles specific to people’s lives. Among there were ideas and customs, which had dictated extremely subservient lives for women. One of ...
- 2339: Beowulf And Norse Mythology
- ... treasure: it was used to protect the people and gods against their enemies. The hammer was made of gold, and the only flaw was in the handle; it was slightly unfinished, and a bit too short. In the myth, the hammer was given to Thor by his enemy Loki. In a mischievous act, Loki had cut off the hair of Sif, Thor’s wife (Davidson 67). So to spare his own ... s hand. Still despising Thor, Loki tried to ruin the dwarf's work by stinging him in the eye. The dwarf was not able to finish the handle of the hammer, and it was left short. “In spite of this, (the shortened handle) it was declared by the gods to be the finest of all the treasures.” (Davidson 67). Gods were always battling other gods and enemies; even from the creation ...
- 2340: Biting The Apple
- ... own. Finally, each discovers new things after their expulsion. Adam and Eve discover the difference between good and evil. Prometheus and Gaea discover the importance of the word "I." Despite some obvious differences, these two stories share many similarities. In Ayn Rand's Anthem, Prometheus and Gaea's expulsion from society mirrors the banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The story of Adam and Eve teached the drawbacks of disobeying God. Anthem teaches the value of going against authority and becoming an individual. By studying both of these stories, Ayn Rand wants us to see individualism as greater than obeying God.
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