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Two Works By Anton Chekhov

... estate. The characters, who are happy to leave, feel that way because they have a completely different life ahead of them. Another commonality is that the setting in both stories is constant. In The Cherry Orchard, the setting is always Madame Ranevskaya’s estate. Likewise, in “A Visit to Friends” the setting is always the Losev estate. In both “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard, the plot revolves around a single family. The relationships between all of the members of the families are very complex, especially ...

Number of words: 440 | Number of pages: 2

Patterns In Hemingway And Camu

... we discover in a work patterns that have heretofore been overlooked. We are the pattern finders who get deep enjoyment from the discovery of patterns in a text. And true to the calling we have noticed a pattern in and around A Farewell to Arms which, to our knowledge, no one has seen before. Although there are many editions of the novel, and as a result the pagination is slightly different in various editions, it is the case that all editions have forty-one chapters to be found in five books. Here is what we have discovered: if you multiply 41 ...

Number of words: 4831 | Number of pages: 18

The Night Journey In Heart Of

... Conrad effectively illustrates one man's acquaintance with evil through the literary concepts of characterisation, symbol, writer in context, ideology and, reader positioning and the point of view. There are essentially only two characters that are significant to the notions and plot of Heart of Darkness, namely Marlow and Kurtz. The two characters are distinctly different from each other, although both are equally characterised with physical and mental traits by Conrad. The reader is involved with the interaction between the two ch ...

Number of words: 866 | Number of pages: 4

The Garden Party

... to Laura’s new enchanting hat. She is greatly flattered. Laura tries to repress the accident, by saying to herself that she would think of it after the party. She tries to enjoy herself, but you can sense that she “enjoyed herself” with a rather bad conscious, probably thinking, “What have I done? Why didn’t I stop the party? What will the family of the killed man think?” After the party there are some leftovers. Mrs Sheridan suggests that they can give the exposed family some food to show some sympathy ...

Number of words: 391 | Number of pages: 2

Contact

... journey indeed resembles that of the “hero’s quest.” Of course Ellie being the hero, is faced with something the world has yet to encounter: from aliens. She then voluntarily sacrifices herself for what seems to be ‘a greater good’.....to be the first human to converse with an extra-terrestrial existence, only to be disregarded because of her beliefs. That was one hurdle she had to overcome. The religious extremist was a ‘demonic adversary’ that, for a moment in the movie, appeared to have termi ...

Number of words: 374 | Number of pages: 2

Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H

... that could be tucked under the arm yet would contain the power to store books, letters, and drawings until he arrived at Palo Alto and met the people who would build it. Finally Steve Jobs, who staged a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh. In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credit ...

Number of words: 1094 | Number of pages: 4

Lord Of The Flies-symbolism

... of personalities that exist. An examination of Simon as a symbol of good, Ralph as a symbol of the common man, and Jack as a symbol of evil, clearly illustrates that William Golding uses characters as a symbol of what is really happening in the outside world throughout the novel. First off, the common man is someone who has a balance between good and evil, a good perception of reality and strong morals. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph is the character who is perceived as this type of individual. The first example of this is Ralph’s appe ...

Number of words: 637 | Number of pages: 3

Loneliness

... seeped into her writing. Erdrich's "The Red Convertible" is contained in the book Love Medicine. Marie, a character in another story, is losing Nector, her husband. Her grandson Lipsha attempts to cure her by preparing a love potion. He botches the recipe and kills Nector. This shows that is not a foreign idea to Erdrich's writing either. Both "Pomegranate Seed" and "The Red Convertible" begin with lonely characters. Charlotte begins the story remembering her friends sometimes stopped by, but "Sometimes--oftener--she was alone"(Whar ...

Number of words: 917 | Number of pages: 4

Water Symbolize (the Stone Ang

... and private place. When Hagar is in the hospital, the nurse gives her a few pills and says, “Here have some water.” (256, The Stone Angel) Water is used as an aid all the time, to help digest certain things. In this case Hagar is taking a two-ninety-two and a sleeping pill. Water just makes it taste better and it is easier to swallow. At the end of the novel, Hagar drinks a glass of water right before she dies. “I wrest from her the glass, full of water to be had for the taking. I hold it in my own hands. There.̶ ...

Number of words: 239 | Number of pages: 1

Death Be Not Proud

... hope, positive attitude, and courage kept his death at bay, even in the face of terrible pain and incurable illness. " But later that day he developed an excruciating headache, the only fierce and intense pain he suffered during the whole course of his illness-a small mercy, perhaps, but one to be devoutly grateful for"(p24) Johnny was faced with unimaginable pain throughout his illness; yet he maintained a level of hope and determination to live. At the young age that Johnny was at, and to face death, it must have took a lot of courage to ...

Number of words: 844 | Number of pages: 4

Montana 1948 Essay

... by Larry Watson, also encounters an equally traumatic event. He discovers that his uncle has been sexually assaulting Native American women in his town. This is a heavy burden for a twelve year old boy, especially since it reveals that his beloved Uncle Frank is the "bad-guy". However, one discovers, as the novel develops, that David matures and grows in order to deal with this situation. He must come to understand what has happened and how the immoral actions of Frank will affect his family and its name. But most importantly, he must know ...

Number of words: 1120 | Number of pages: 5

Candide - A Contrast To Optimism

... the idea that the world they were living in at that time was "the best of all possible worlds." This systematic optimism shown by Leibniz is the philosophical system that believed everything already was for the best, no matter how terrible it seemed. In this satire, Voltaire showed the world full of natural disasters and brutality. Voltaire also used contrast in the personalities of the characters to convey the message that Leibniz's philosophy should not be dealt with any seriousness. Leibniz, sometimes re ...

Number of words: 1213 | Number of pages: 5

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