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- 591: Kerouac's On the Road: Living in Clip
- ... mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' "(Blue Neon Alley 1). Kerouac's quote captures the essence of his life and his extraordinary experiences which he includes in ...
- 592: The Canterbury Tales Handout
- ... monastic orders of the Roman Catholic Church. He was jolly and merry and wore a long hanging hood that was attached to his cape. His voice was gay and sturdy and his eyes twinkled like stars. His neck was whiter than a lily flower but strong enough to butt a bruiser down. The Friar is described as a "limitour" a person who begs on the behalf of the poor. He is ...
- 593: Dante’s Tools Of Character: Love And Choice
- ... walked while standing aloe with others who have made the same choice to recover. In Heaven our choice is celebrated through recognizing that we have cooperated with the love that moves the sun and the stars. Our chances of restoring our character depend on choices made in the context of love’s empowerment.
- 594: Homeric Simile In Paradise Lost
- ... classical literature.” The second and third types are those drawn from history, including the Bible and those from nature. Analogies in the third group invoke particularly “elemental” nature: clouds, winds, volcanoes, lightning, sun spots, shooting stars, rainbows, mists (MacCaffrey, 121). In Paradise Lost, Milton shows his supreme inventiveness by employing devices of emphasis that will serve to make his reader aware of recurrences. To understate the effect of time, he must ...
- 595: Ambushed Tradition
- ... is going to the gym, and playing sports. (Abrahamson) The second character from the trinity is Victor Joseph, the former basketball player, who when sober sits on his front porch watching life and future basketball stars of the Reservation go by. "I was a former basketball star fallen out of shape..."(Alexie, Lone 44). Basketball players on the Reservation are seen as the traditional warriors of the tribe. This concept is ...
- 596: Huck Finn and The River
- ... When they first set out on the raft and leave Jackson's Island behind, Huck says, "It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle." (55) However, the more they venture onto shore, the more ...
- 597: An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... stands in darkness and the reader is captured in the image or darkness, in this man and of the night passing. “the dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars. (line 362) William Faulkner is truly one of the most infuencial writers of his time and still greatly respected to this day. By using the scene of “Dry September” he is able to demonstrate the ...
- 598: The Hobbit: A Review
- The Hobbit: A Review By: J.R.R. Tolkien ****4 Stars**** I was fascinated by the story of The Hobbit. I thought this book was very good, and I liked it very much. The Hobbit is full of exciting events and action, making it difficult to ...
- 599: The Theme of Catch 22
- ... s friends tells him: “How can mere man stand before God and claim to be righteous? Who in all earth can boast that he is clean? God is so glorious that even the moon and stars are less than nothing as compared to him. How much less is man, who is but a worm in his sight?” (Job 25:4-6). What the passage is saying is that because humans are ...
- 600: Zaabalawi: The Wise and Loving Image of Zaabalawi
- ... a deep sleep that takes him to a place of, "deep contentedness, of ecstatic serenity"(805), a place removed of worries and troubles. A garden of lush surroundings, and a sky that was, "nothing but stars"(805), but had, "an atmosphere like that of sunset"(805). When the narrator awakes, he finds himself wet from the sprinkling of water by Zaabalawi, and finds out from Haag Wanas that Zaabalawi was to ...
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