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- 2341: Cats Cradle 2
- ... never met. He feels this way so strongly that he can not bear the fact of her being with another man. Eventually John comes to marry this girl who he has known for only a short time, and as she perishes he can not help but be paralyzed with grief. The struggle of a hard third-world life is very evident in all aspects of the San Lorenzo culture. Throughout the ... the horrible reality that is their day to day lives. It is only in the outlawed teachings of Bokonon that they can truly find some happiness. Bokononism teaches that life is nasty, that life is short, and that human beings are basically stupid primitive being destined for failure. Through these teachings they learn to except the faults of man and actually come to better their lives and themselves. In Vonnegut s ...
- 2342: Crime And Punishment 4
- ... 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 ...
- 2343: 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 ...
- 2344: Clarissa Dalloways Double
- ... The man, intended by the author to be Clarissa's "double", is the "shell-shocked" war veteran Septimus Warren Smith who suffers delayed flashbacks over the wartime death of a comrade. The novel follows parallel stories of Clarissa and her "double," whom she has never met. Their lives are connected through interaction of external events in time and space, such as Clarissa's evening party, a motor car passing both, an ... confront the requirement of the society, commits suicide the night of Clarissa's party. Virginia Woolf manages to make use of time and space to join the apparently disconnected journeys of Clarissa and Septimus. Their stories take place in a single June day in 1923, within the city of London. The day culminates with the party to be held in the evening. The party is not only looked forward to as ...
- 2345: Candide 2
- ... 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 ...
- 2346: Battle Between Sexes Critical
- ... half-true and then there are the days when it is a lie. But people are dimensional and complex which often makes it fun to watch them. The truth is, in humanity, there are many stories to be caught but the ones that got away - they make the best stories of all. The story of "GI Jane" begins in the male dominated world of the Navy Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil played by Demi Moore. The opportunity comes to be the first woman to train to ...
- 2347: Billy Budd 2
- ... 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 ...
- 2348: Fried Green Tomatoes
- ... Cleo Threadgoode, the wife of Mr. Cleo Threadgoode has lived her life in Whistle Stop, Alabama until she was put in a nursing home in the 1980’s. She is growing senile but tells her stories to Mrs. Evelyn Couch, a younger woman who is physically overweight and mentally diminishing. Mrs. Threadgoode is also a woman who is quite happy with her life and how she lived it. But she was ... t bring more happiness than other qualities, or being wealthy in memories like Mrs. Threadgoode is. Sure, she doesn’t have the cash or the clothes to show but she has her memories and her stories. And while a woman like Vesta may have spent her whole life behind some crummy desk breaking her fingers as a secretary just to achieve happiness, Mrs. Threadgoode experienced happiness throughout her entire life by ...
- 2349: Flowers For Algernon(Book)
- Flowers for Algernon. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, the main character Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and desires to become intelligent. He is chosen to undergo an operation to increase his intelligence level to ... of 204 realizing too late the risks involved in the experimental operation. Along the way he realizes that people who are mentally challenged are treated differently. He then quickly realizes the operation only lasts a short period. Finally Charlie is abandoned by his friends and he fired from his job. Therefore because of Charlie’s rapid increase and decrease in intelligence it is evident he loses more then he gains.
- 2350: A Rose For Emily
- People who read about William Faulkner (1897-1962) know that he did not lead an easy life. He had the bad habit to drink too much, but above all he was very lonely. In his short story "A Rose For Emily", the protagonist portrayal, Emily, becomes very important because it represents in some way Faulkner himself. Even though she was perceived as an idol from the town, she felt also very ... alone. In fact, she killed Homer for having her company the rest of her life, and this is probably why she stayed with him all the time before she died. Through the beginning of the short story A Rose for Emily, Emily has leaded her to her own decay. At the beginning, she was a person respected by the town, but after her father's death, she started acting with nonsense ...
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