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- 13711: Our Town
- ... is the way we were in our growing-up and in our marrying and in our doctoring and in our living and in our dying." It offers a compassionate glimpse of that time before the Great Wars, before our innocence was lost forever. Our Town is not just about the relationship between Emily and George and, indeed, is not just about a small town in northern New England a hundred years ...
- 13712: James Hurst's Use of Symbols to Create a Mood
- ... Summer of Two Figs," James Hurst created the statement: a summer born of fulsome promise faded into falling leaves unfulfilled. A feeling of desolation was presented here when Hurst implied that summer was born with great promise that eventually evanesced without being fulfilled. Another emotion stirred up by the two phrases was a slow passage of time that seemed to go on forever. This was revealed by seasons that had ended ...
- 13713: Early American Writers
- ... Raise up thy thoughts above the sky . . . " and remember these things do not matter, what matters is her "house on high." Jonathan Edwards also found comfort in god, "leading me to sweet contemplations of my great and glorious God." Jonathan was also a puritan from the early America, however, he was a preacher. Like Anne Bradstreet, he did not believe in material things. In his sermon entitle Sinners in the Hands ...
- 13714: Frankenstein - The Question Of
- ... instead of all of man kind. "Begone! I do break my promise," (pg. 162) states the doctor angrily. Not thinking about himself but the world unselfishly breaks his promise to the monster. Possessing such a great mind the doctor is able to realize that a greater evil will be realesed upon the earth then upon himself. "Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness,"(pg. 162) says the ...
- 13715: Frankenstein
- ... her narrator, Robert Walton, is typified by his belief in his God given right to have ultimate success in Arctic explorations. He writes to his sister Margaret asking, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose? (Shelley 17) This attitude continues as he tells Victor that he would sacrifice anything, including mens (presumably other mens) lives for the success of his polar expedition and for the dominion I ...
- 13716: Flowers For Algernon
- ... of the intellectual growth that one can gain is to be able to experience what the concrete definition was like in ones own personal experience. Yet the negative effects of the operation, which were great, was the intellectual and emotional growth colliding. As a human that was born with the intellectual potential and without a disability, would have experienced this over a normal human life span, and the emotional growth ...
- 13717: Cause and Effect of Speeding
- ... If the judge is kind, and offers a traffic school option, the unpleasantness continues. Usually the traffic school is no where near to the courthouse, which causes you to search to find the it. The great experience of paying is close at hand after locating the school. You must endure the nine hour course after paying for the privilege of attending. This is a class most people would have never taken ...
- 13718: On The Waterfront
- ... In the beginning of the movie, Terry mentions how birds "have it easy- eating, sleeping, and flying around." In the End of the movie, the birds were killed and Terry was alive. This is a great example of irony. The birds were in a cage locked up when killed by the boy, symbolizing the fact that if Terry were to stay caged in the life of the mob, he would have ...
- 13719: Far From The Madding Crowd
- ... face, You are nothing to me - nothing, showing that he was not serious enough about their marriage. The second character in the novel which I shall look at is Farmer William Boldwood who is a great contrast to Troy, a first he seemed not to care for Bathsheba at all. From the time when Boldwood had ignored her in the market-place, until he sent the Valentine card he had no ...
- 13720: On The Road
- ... starting west, and can't hitchhike and travel as easily as he thought, and ends up having to take the bus all the way to Chicago. While, the others, he imagines, are already there, having great fun. The descriptions of the places he passes through are full of exuberance. The long sentences and paragraphs convey the feeling of constant motion. The only respite occurs, briefly, when Sal is in the Des ...
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