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- 1851: The Farming Of The Bones
- ... valley he often reminded everyone of common ties: language, foods, history, carnival, songs, tales, and prayers. His creed was one of memory, how remembering--though sometimes painful--can make you strong." Not strong enough, though. Violence erupts very quickly, about halfway through the book, and Amabelle has to flee. Along with four or five others, she abruptly leaves everything behind and treks through the mountains to try to make her way ...
- 1852: The Concept And Antilogy Of Ne
- ... load of all, that the men feel necessary to carry, is the weightless, internal load called dignity. There is an unspoken need to stay tough buried among the men and not letting the numbingly horrific violence of the war break through to the surface. At the most dangerous times, this would show, but it would not last long for the men would quickly cover it up. They would do this by ...
- 1853: The Client
- ... for the dead body theirselves, while being chased by the mafia. The book really could not have ended any other way. Mark had to leave to go into the witness protection program, to escape the violence from the mafia. It was the only way he would be protected. The only other way was if the mafia did get a hold of Mark, and killed him and than hunted his family down ...
- 1854: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- ... of that for which Pecola yearns. The same racism that underpins the standards of beauty under which Pecola and her mother, Pauline, suffer, is also at the root of Pecola's father's alcoholism and violence. After he impregnates Pecola and she is beaten by her mother for it, Pecola (with the treachery of Soaphead Church, a "faith healer") goes mad, believing she has obtained her blue eyes. By novel's ...
- 1855: The Dark Room 2
- ... the novel entertained me, it still made me mad. Why are women always thought of as weak and passive? Men always make the mistake of thinking that just because women cannot see the sense in violence, they are already considered as passive creatures. I say it s not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. If you give them a choice, they will always opt for ...
- 1856: The Dark Room
- ... the novel entertained me, it still made me mad. Why are women always thought of as weak and passive? Men always make the mistake of thinking that just because women cannot see the sense in violence, they are already considered as passive creatures. I say it s not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. If you give them a choice, they will always opt for ...
- 1857: Street Car Named Desire Essay
- ... Men: Take it easy, Stanley, easy fellow,--Let s all--. Stella: You lay your hands on me and I ll (57) This just proves what I was saying about one of Stanley s moods. His violence and the fact that he looses control of his actions is one characteristic which I didn t particularly like at all about Stanley. Here s another passage in Scene 10 that really show s how ...
- 1858: Society And The River The Adve
- ... the refuge of the raft and the river. The problems of society become apparent to Huck when he goes ashore, while watching the gun fight between the Grangerfords and Shepardsons he becomes ill with the violence between these two families, "I wished I hadn t ever come ashore that night, to see such things" (Twain 94). The river never deals with the insignificant matters of society, and allows Huck the freedom ...
- 1859: Sir Gawain And The Green Night
- ... first seem impossible but after exploring their purposes it is easily noted as factual. Today society looks to the wealthy, famous, and influencing minds of the present to fix its never-ending dilemmas of poverty, violence, and hate. They both understood glory and at the same time, defeat. Sir Gawain says this best with the following; In destines sad or merry, True men can but try.
- 1860: Sin And Virtue Used In Stephen
- ... 1634). Personification of a wrathful God is portrayed when the guests are escorted through the portals of a room that "seemed to be merely a proper temple for an enormous stove...humming with god-like violence" (Crane 1627). Additionally, alluding to baptism, the guests then formed part of a "series of small ceremonies" by washing themselves in the basins of water (Crane 1627). To further prove the innocence of his building ...
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