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- 2491: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Love and Attraction
- ... and remote ways. The townspeople gather in her store one evening to meet Cousin Lymon. Unlike Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon is very sociable and enjoys entertaining the townsfolk with his patently tall tales. In a short period of time, Miss Amelia's store is converted into a cafe where people gather for food, drink, and gossip. They would discuss Miss Amelia's love for Cousin Lymon, indicating that they thought love ... drive with him into the city and go to see "movie-flicks" with him. Before the story ends, Marvin Macy is released from prison and returns to Cheehaw. Cousin Lymon, unaware of Miss Amelia's short-lived marriage to the criminal is fascinated by Marvin's adventurous life. He leaves Miss Amelia, never having returned her love, to travel with Marvin. Broken-hearted, Miss Amelia returns to her original reclusive style ...
- 2492: Moby Dick
- ... Herman's childhood he lived in the good neighborhoods of New York City. In 1832 Herman suffered tragedy when his father died after trying to cope with the stress of debts and misfortunes. After a short time in a business house in New York City, Herman determined he needed to go to sea. He spent years traveling on a variety of ships, including whaling ships. C1. Melville's perspective on life ... honest heart, great honor, and a lot of courage. This friendship had a positive influence on Ishmael's behavior because it taught him not to judge on outward appearances. E2. Another relationship that was very short was the relationship between Ishmael and Captain Ahab. For the first few days aboard the Pequod Ishmael always saw Ahab in the shadows. When Ishmael finally saw Ahab he had shivers run through his body ...
- 2493: Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were Before
- Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were Before Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the όbermensch in their world. In Faust, the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and mental wholeness in knowledge and disaster in lust. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein struggles for ...
- 2494: Beloved and Don Quixote: Similarities in Themes and Characters
- ... Arabs, who in incarnating an "other" of Western culture are comparable to women: Unlike American and Western culture (generally), the Arabs (in their culture) have no (concept of) originality. That is, culture. They write new stories paint new pictures et cetera only by embellishing old stories pictures
They write by cutting chunks out of all-ready written texts and in other ways defacing traditions: changing important names into silly ones, making dirty jokes out of matters that should be of the ...
- 2495: Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
- ... all these pictures of the world, which flowed by on after another, in the silence of the dormitory, to the distant sound of a late cab somewhere still rolling along the boulevards." (page 30) In short, Emma fell in love with a world that never existed anywhere. She embraced the elegance of the life in the pictures which she had hung in her dormitory, and never did anyone tell her that ... he expect her to love him as a husband? As her father, he should have not let her marry a man she could never be happy with. He thought him "weedy", however, since he was short of money, and he owed a lot to the mason, he decided that "If he asks me for her, he can have her." (page 18) Just like he might sell a horse, so he got ...
- 2496: Zane Grey
- ... in that they lack realism. But the people who didn't like his writings were not his targeted audience. Grey wanted people like himself to read his work, people who loved and appreciated nature. His stories were stimulating to boys who wanted imaginative excitement and men without developed literary taste who wanted only to escape (Nesbitt 277). Grey used a common theme in most of his novels. The theme of the ... also preserves decency in the work. People at this time period would have frowned upon explicit details because it wasn't socially acceptable. Many critics attacked the realism in Grey's novels. They said his stories were melodramatic and nostalgic, that he fumbled love scenes to an embarrassing degree, that his plots were unbelievable, and that his characters were never complete. Gary Topping once said that; " All such difficulties aside, however ...
- 2497: Lord of the Flies: The Breakdown of a Society
- ... room for the development of a society. William Golding managed to not only form a society among these boys, but also to develop it and eventually break it down as well, all within a few short pages of The Lord of the Flies. There are two main symbols in the story that show the gradual loss of rules that lead to the breakdown. The first is the conch. The conch's ... beginning, the conch is held with the highest respect. It is obeyed and treated with utmost care. The boys take turns holding it to speak and cradle it gently in their arms. However, within a short time, the meetings become unorganized and none of the boys pay attention. Eventually, none of the boys respond to the call of the conch and just continue on with what they are doing. The conch ...
- 2498: Comparing "Witness for the Prosecution" and "Wine": The Keys to a Great Story
- ... for the Prosecution" contains the qualities necessary of a great literary work. "Wine" is lacking too many of the key elements essential in making a good literary work. The differences between the two the two stories makes "Wine difficult to stay focused on because it is lacking in many of these key areas. While having many of these key elements well developed throughout the story makes "Witness for the Prosecution", one of those stories that are truly a pleasure to read.
- 2499: Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... one was younger. When Clemens was four, his family moved to the town of Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a town located on the Mississippi river and would later become the setting for most of his stories (Twain). In 1847, when Clemens was twelve his father died. Clemens grew up in an educated family (Works of Twain: Biographical Sketch). At age twelve he was apprenticed to a printer and at age sixteen ... levels of textural reality (Getlin, 1). When most people think about Mark Twain, they think of a kind grandfather figure who wore a white suit, had white hair and sat on a porch and told stories. Mark Twain was a regular person and had difficulties just as regular people do. Twain had considerably greater successes in his life than the average person, but he also had problems and failures as other ...
- 2500: On the Island: A Review
- ... motions of affection, but it has become an obligatory performance. Often this developement is prompted by the integration of a stranger into the family through marriage, as would seem to be the case in this short story. Doris' son John has in a subconscious way transferred his love to his wife Annette. As children grow up, the need to free themselves from their parents grow stronger. This is a perfectly normal ... In fact, both John and Annette talk to her as if she was a child: He reminds her that she is a frail old lady, she corrects her at every turn and so on. In short, their relationship is not in the best of health. The fact that her son and her daughter-in-law are contemplating to sell her house without her knowledge embodies the feelings they have towards her ...
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