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- 13921: 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 ...
- 13922: Faith
- ... years old, apparently in the same rank as Goodman Brown, and bearing considerable resemblance to him" (128). The second traveler is the devil. He carries with him a staff, "which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist like a living serpent. The connection here is that according to the Bible, Satan in order to tempt Eve to devour the ...
- 13923: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- ... s values. His marriage is not the happy kind that couples today experience but more like a coexistence. He and his wife live together and he supports her, though he apparently neither loves her a great deal or expects her to love him. This relationship and living arrangement, with its lack of love, is Bradbury's way of showing what life could be like if people not only stop communicating but ...
- 13924: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- ... in the story. Thirdly, the Mechanical Hound is a meaningful symbol. The narrator describes the hound as follows, "the Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live
it was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that overrich nectar, and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself ...
- 13925: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- ... we can see it, some day we'll stop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation." (163) Fire is another great example of symbolism. Each of us has our own image of fire burning within us, and depending on experiences, it could be positive or negative. Fire has a dual image in the book, a symbol ...
- 13926: Spelling And Differently - Ana
- ... with Maya. She was pleased with the controlled manner in which she did it. The deaf ear. She was surprised to find herself capable of such control, such thoroughgoing punishment"(Ford 210 212). Georgia feels great pleasure over acting like this to Maya, because she finally feels in control of the relationship. She never talks to Maya again and doesn't find out about her death until months after the funeral ...
- 13927: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
- ... that reading is the key to success in school. In the long run, these programs are shown to have a benefit for the student's who participate. Traub feels that over the years that a great deal of money has been poured into the inner- city schools, yet nothing has been accomplished in terms of increasing the standards of inner-city children. While some strategies for investing resources and underpriviledged children ...
- 13928: Exiles By Carolyn Kay Steedman
- ... a complainer!" Good grief, usually poverty and hard times draws people together and helps them appreciate the better things in life. This is particularly true with those who endured the depravations of WWII and the depression, such as her parents. But seeing how Steedman appears to have been one of the first baby-boomers on the scene in the late 40's, one can see how wealth and prosperity probably surrounded ...
- 13929: Exiles
- ... reader can get a background and see perceptions or feelings. "She was a good weaver; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen"(647). This paragraph of a story was told about her great-grandmother and as an eleven-year-old and how she was exploited. The author uses this as a voice because it tells how her mother also used her hands at her jobs. The author also ...
- 13930: Exiles
- ... a complainer!" Good grief, usually poverty and hard times draws people together and helps them appreciate the better things in life. This is particularly true with those who endured the depravations of WWII and the depression, such as her parents. But seeing how Steedman appears to have been one of the first baby-boomers on the scene in the late 40's, one can see how wealth and prosperity probably surrounded ...
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