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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner: Nature

... In current times, this power continues to teach us of forgiveness. With physical suffering, the power of nature shows us forgiveness many ways. In the story, the mariner betrays nature: "I shot the Albatross!" This action against nature is rather extreme, for he takes lightly to this thought of death. The Albatross, as a representative of nature, means nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as Nature begins to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drin ...

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Old Man And The Sea

... as the great DiMaggio (during this time) is struggling with a bone spurn his ankle, yet still continues to play baseball, and plays well. The old man looks at DiMaggio as a role model in the sense that if DiMaggio can play with a bone spur in his ankle and tough things out, then he will work around his cramp and continue to fight the fish, as would the great DiMaggio. This is what the old man thought, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? I am sure he would and more since he you ...

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Fahrenheit 451: The Books And Symbol Of The Phoenix

... one of the greatest creations of man in our society. Firemen are suppose to set books on fire rather than prevent them because people believe they pose a great threat to society, causing disputes about different opinions, ideas, and thoughts. They believe that order and peace is the best way to keep happiness. Books are burned immediately whenever they are found anywhere. In fact, it is a “crime” to own a book in Montag’s world. Books are often compared to as birds throughout Fahrenheit 451. “A book lit like a white pigeon in his ha ...

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All The Kings Men- The Spider

... the black, numbing poison under your hide.(188-89) This quote is a major theme that is encountered throughout the book. Jack and the Judge, here is where we mainly see the web at work. Jack, at the request of Willie, went to dig up dirt on the Judge. Jack finds so many things out and as he exposes it everything goes wrong, the spider got him. When Jack reveals his findings to Judge Irwin, his father, he ends up killing himself before Jack has a chance to talk to him father to son. Although, for the most part, Jack's goal as stated at ...

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The Force Of Evil

... In The Most Dangerous Game Mr. Rainsford, at first, tries to shrug off a fellow sailor's belief of a nearby 'dark' island by saying "Pure imagination . . . One superstitious sailor can taint the whole ship's company with his fear." The sailor replies with haunting faith, "Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wavelengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil." When Rainsford comes to believe the crucial meaning of his friends' words, it is too late; he is already in the midst of ...

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The Painted Bird

... travels over throughout the text. This enables the reader to assume that this child could have possibly been any unfortunate youngster during the war. Kosinski’s writings organize the chaos of the boy’s life experiences through form. The use of both organic and conventional form throughout the book draws the reader closer to the horrific encounters the young boy faced on a daily basis. Using writing as a method of art organizes the chaos of experience through form. Kosinski’s novel applies organic form to portray the a ...

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The Effect Of Major Symbolic Elements In The Yellow Wallpaper

... her potential but also her trapped feeling is the window. In literature, traditionally this would symbolize a prospect of possibilities, but now it becomes a view to a world she may not want to take part in. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. But she says near the end, "I don’t like to look out of the windows even - there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast." She knows that she has to hide and lie low; that she would have to creep in order to be accepted in society and ...

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Humanity's Fall In "The Garden Of Eden"

... the origin of sin and evil, as a result, Milton presents evil in a more coercive manner than good. Satan and his followers in Paradise Lost are presented as being more evil than God and his disciples are good. God addresses the Son to be in the likeness of himself in Book three by saying, "The radiant image of his glory sat, his only Son."(Bk. 3, 63-64). Although this implies that the Son is a model of perfection as is God, it does not clarify it by stating it outright. Milton definitely portrays Satan's evil in Book four by asserti ...

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Lord Of The Flies: The 13th Chapter

... was to see his parents again. The only noises on the boat besides the officers were the littleuns who were also excited to see their parents after being seperated for such a long time. All the sudden the conversation thickened when a bomb went off right beside the boat. Later the officers had realized that there was a hole on the bottom of the boat and were unable to stop to stop the huge amounts of water that were getting in the boat. They decided to abanden the boat. Everybody got in the life rafts and watched the boat slowly sink till t ...

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Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Love FOr Children

... must have come in and written. He quickly rubs the word off. Holden also portrays this feeling that he must save children in this dream to become a catcher in the rye. When Phoebe asks Holden what he wants to be when he grows up, he makes up a job where he stays in a field of rye and catches the children that fall off the cliff. Holden has a very special relationship with his younger sister Phoebe. He admires her very much and says that she is one of the few people that he can really take to. He does not want to see her grow up. It i ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Advice To Dimmesdale

... chapters of Hawthorne's book, the author characterizes Dimmesdale as a "young clergyman . . . A person of very striking aspect.". After years of covering his sin, the deception clearly takes its toll upon him. The once young minister visibly deteriorates into a "weak . . . pale . . . corpse-like" man suffering from the sin that he feels he can not confess. This deterioration in health affects not only his body but his mind and morality. On his return trip from the forest, Dimmesdale finds himself feelings evil and sinful impul ...

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Pride And Prejudice: Summary

... Bennet, is quite interested when news of a wealthy man moving to Netherfield, a place in the near vicinity. Mrs. Bennet, in the best interest of her daughters, soon after begins urging her husband to meet with the newly arrived neighbor, a Mr. Bingley, but he is quite reluctant to do so. Soon after, Mr.Bennet surprises his daughters and his wife by announcing that he had visited Netherfield and found Bingley to be "quite agreeable." The interest of the Bennet daughters arises when they learn that certain members of the Bingley party wil ...

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