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THE BOGART

... the Gang 5. The parents of Emily and Jessup were Robert and Maggie Volink. Robert works in the theater and Maggie owns and runs an antique store. The Volink family were excited and amazed that they inherited a castle. But what the Volink’s did not know was that a spirit called a Boggart lived there. The Boggart is a sprit that is neither good or bad. He mainly plays practical jokes on people. It is like a little child that can be friendly towards mortals. Boggarts cannot be seen or heard.. The Volink family sold the castle right away b ...

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Solomon's "The Return Of The Screw"

... The reader's only impression of the death is through Mrs. Grose's story, though, and so, Solomon hypothesizes, she filters the information to make it seem less extraordinary a demise. Perhaps Mrs. Grose killed him out of jealously. The reader can infer from this point of view that Mrs. Grose somehow also had a hand in Ms. Jessel's death. Mrs. Grose then proceeds, after the murders, to twist the new governess' visions of ghosts into visions of Quint and Jessel. Solomon does not address the issue of whether or not what the governess see ...

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Change In Heart Of Darkness

... basic instincts as they assimilate themselves into an alien world with its primeval dangers. In Heart of Darkness, going up the river is described to be like: “travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, and impenetrable forest … ” (Conrad ?). The river, one which “resemble[s] an immense snake uncoiled … with its tail lost in the depths of the land” (Conrad ?), is “dangerous, dark, myst ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Guilt, Strength And Revenge

... are respected today and will be for some time to come. Troubled with guilt and remorse, Arthur Dimmesdale is a hypocritical character who dies because of the anguish he feels and the pressure applied by the Puritan society. The Scarlet Letter is a book that contains and utilizes symbols within its characters and its setting. One very important symbol and character was Pearl Prynne, the daughter of the adulteress. Throughout the story Pearl is shown looking at or playing with the scarlet letter on her mother's bosom so as to mock her. "... ...

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Death Of A Salesman - Characte

... flaws than to the flaws in his own character. Willy Loman was host to many flaws and deficiencies ranging form suicidal tendencies to phychotic disorders. However, these shortcomings did not account for his tragic end, not by themselves anyway. Soviety is to blame. It was society who stripped him of his dignity, piece by piece. It was society who stripped him of his lifestyle, and his own sons who stripped him of hope. The most obvious flaw in society is greed, the desire to get ahead of the next guy. This malady is present on a nat ...

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A Farewell To Arms

... Catherine named Barkley and does not truly fall in love with her until he gets badly wounded and is put in a hospital. They begin to have alove affair and Catherine becomes impregnated. With a baby on the way Fredrick feels a real sense of responsibility towards Catherine. When he finaly recovers from from his lengthy stay in the hospital he returns to front. When the two part it is very rainy, cloudy, and gloomy. Hemingway makes good use of weather in pursuit of verisimilitude. There is so much violence and death in the war Fredrick no lon ...

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Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea": An Analysis

... of the younger, richer fishermen. They referred to the sea as a man. "...spoke of her as el mar which is masculine." (p.30) This was considered improper to the older fishermen, as it was spoken of like a place or a contestant. The old man always referred to the sea as a female, like a mother. "He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her." (p.29) He saw the sea as a woman, a woman that gave or withheld favors. She was unpredictable beacuse "The moon affects her as it does a woman." ...

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The Awakening

... and social conventions and the fact that it creates a bad reputation for his business and therefore such a thing could not happen again. Mr. Pontellier also expected Edna to be a perfect housewife and mother; responsibilities he expressed as pertinent to their marriage and often observed were disregarded and made her aware of it. Edna’s strong sense of individuality, a characteristic forbidden in women during the time in which was set and therefore a limitation for most, allowed her to overcome other limitations of being female. Edna refuse ...

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The Moral Life And Leviathan: Ideas Of Hobbes And Pojman

... moral behavior becomes valid because of his use of examples to support his theories, which in turn, apply to Pojman's five purposes for morality. Hobbes purpose to his state of nature philosophy was to describe human nature. He argues that, in the absence of social condition, every action we perform, no matter how charitable or benevolent, is done for reasons which are ultimately self-serving (p.43-47). For example, if I were to donate to charity, I am actually taking delight in demonstrating my power. Hobbes believes that any account of hum ...

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Who Has Seen The Wind: One's Understanding God Matures

... friend. Brian has a very creative imagination, in which R.W. rides a vacuum cleaner.1 He also thinks that there are many Gods, each having many arms.2 When he talks to Forbsie about God he is misled because Forsbie's tells Brian that God is all grapes and bloody.3 Brian also goes and visits Mr. Hislop, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, who tells him God is a spirit. One day Brian imagines that God comes and visits him. God tells Brian that he will get revenge on Art and his grandmother because they were not nice to him.4 Brian ...

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Oedipus The King 4

... to someday befall him? It is true that his life would have been a far better and easier path if he had never known about his true origins. His life in Corinth would have been long and prosperous, and Thebes would have lived on under the rule of King Laius. In fact, everyone would have been better off in the end if Oedipus had not ventured out beyond the walls of Corinth. So is it worth living an examined life? (Friedlander) Socrates had made this statement long after the creation of the Theban Trilogy. In the context of his own time, thi ...

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An Essay On Ben Mikaelsens Cou

... youth all around the country will get a chance to become the first teen in space. Meanwhile, in Kenya, Africa, a young fourteen year old Masai, Vincent Ole Tome returns from tending to his family farm also. Vincent was no ordinary boy either, his father had sent him to the “wood school” which is similar to regular school in America. With the education he had received, many boys disliked him and named him a coward for not working as hard in the family farms. Getting back to Elliott, many things occurred since the announcement of ...

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