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- 5381: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... her. Blanche was very careful to hide her looks too. She felt that she was old looking and tried to avoid bright lights from glaring down on her. She covered a light in Stella's house with a Chinese paper lamp to keep it from being so bright she hid her looks from Mitch, he never saw her in the day. Finally, one day, Stanley tried to find out many of ...
- 5382: A Rose For Emily
- ... owed her money. This act of kindness by the Colonel caused Emily’s dependence upon him and what he did for her. Later in the story, the Board of Alderman approached Miss Emily at her house in the attempt to get her to pay her taxes. When the Board started questioning Miss Emily about why she would not pay she told them to talk to Colonel Sartoris. Even though the Colonel ...
- 5383: A Rose For Emily
- ... Everything that she loved left her. Her father probably impressed upon her that every man she met was no good for her. The townspeople even state "when her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for ...
- 5384: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... to overcome a lot of frustration and anger, he will become a superior person because he has realized the true value of money. Now he can live life not worrying about the size of his house or what his social status is he can be content with who he is and how far he has come. In the end, Walter developed himself into a dynamic character. He went from a spiteful ...
- 5385: A Lesson Before Dying
- ... confederate troops and also being recruited to chop trees to build walls of defense for the confederate forces. During the excursion to chop down trees, confederate deserters raided Emma and Zech and burned down their house. Tobias and Emma made the decision that the war was getting to close to the scrub, and that moving South would be a good idea. The MacIvey clan packed up their wagon and headed south ...
- 5386: A Land Rembered
- ... others. The next major character is Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife. The fact that she breaks that loyalty to save an acquaintance’s distant friend that she only knows what she sees in her house about allows you to see the depths of the bonds of the sisterhood of women in need. This makes her the round character in the story. The author evokes vivid pictures in our imagination as ...
- 5387: A Jury Of Her Peers
- ... for two different goals. Their speech is also a symbol of the division. When the black men narrate they speak with bad English, for example, Chimley says "Now, I ain't even stepped in the house 'fore that old woman start fussing at me" (32). When narration is from Miss Merle or Lou Dimes the slang is not portrayed. This proves the extent of the division, it is even visible in ...
- 5388: A Friendly Enemy
- ... poem is separated into three sections containing three stanza’s each. There is no apparent rhyme scheme making it a free verse and prose piece. The setting is outside, most likely close to the speakers house, and surrounded by forest and wildlife. It takes place in the mid 1900’s and probably in the spring-time. This piece is compiled of nine triplets separated into three sections. The first section of ...
- 5389: A Farewell To Arms
- ... chaotic and immoral for him to rationalize its cause. He fights anyway, because the army puts some form of discipline in his life. At the start of the novel, Frederick drinks and travels from one house of prostitution to another and yet he is discontent because his life is very unsettled. He befriends a priest because he admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values ...
- 5390: A Christmas Memory
- ... he belonged. Overall, the story is bittersweet because there is joy to be found in the simplicity of the three friends’ happiness. However, after this specific Christmas, Capote is forced to move out of his house and to leave his innocence behind. The story is not purely self-serving because Capote uses this piece not only to revisit his memories of happier times, but to also evoke the memories of the ...
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