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Old Man And The Sea

... a happy and productive adult life when one is oblivious to the truths of this world. This does not mean, however, that the perfect life is one free from illusions, hopes and dreams. Ideally through the process of disillusionment one will learn the importance of their dreams and hold on to the ones that make them most productive. In Hemingway’s novel, The , the main character Santiago needs this rite of passage to define and seal his destiny, and to truly understand and believe in himself. It is through this journey that he establishes ...

Number of words: 1860 | Number of pages: 7

Their Eyes Were Watching God 4

... their home after the storm only to discover that Tea Cake has been bitten by a rabid dog while trying to save Janie's life and now has the rabies disease. He suffers and tries to kill Janie, who must in turn kill Tea Cake to survive. Janie kills the body of Tea Cake, but not the soul of Tea Cake, which lives on in her. She continues to love him and finds herself in the end. She lives on as a wise, self-actualized, strong woman who has found peace. Thanks to Tea Cake, the man who knew himself and was happy, hence making Janie peaceful and satis ...

Number of words: 556 | Number of pages: 3

The Pencil Box

... liked Jane. That’s not an entirely true statement. Teachers liked Jane. Teachers loved Jane, even though Jane thought they had a funny way of showing it, giving her another worksheet to do when she finished the assigned worksheet fifteen minutes before the rest of the class, telling her parents that Jane was a special child, maybe they should move her to a higher grade and her parents always saying no, we want our daughter to have a normal childhood. It became quite normal for them to have these conversations while Jane sat outside ...

Number of words: 2192 | Number of pages: 8

Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev

... women of her climbing team. Rich writes in the sixth stanza, "After the long training the early sieges we are moving effortlessly in our love." To characterize the terrorizing, freezing, and finally fatal trek up Lenin peak as effortless due to a "love" depicts a bond of a immeasurable magnitude. When the speaker talks of love or strength within the team, the word "I" is seldom used. The repeated use of "our" and "we" show an intense strength of love in there group. They are one, working together toward a common goal with their hardship on ...

Number of words: 1442 | Number of pages: 6

The Cask Of Amontillado

... the reader of many bits of information which develops Montresor's plan, but in reality, the reader does not know the outcome until nearly the end of the story. His writing paints a very vivid picture for the reader. He organized the story so that we know right in the beginning what the story will be about, and what the reader is in for. In this case, Poe lets the reader know right away and throughout the story, that the probable outcome, will be Montresor getting revenge on Fortunato. 2)How readable and interesting is the style? ...

Number of words: 2304 | Number of pages: 9

Plato

... of society and human soul. In book IV Socrates refutes the notion that justice is visible, while using the Socratic method of dialogue. He questions that justice is the virtue that has no physical representative. Through the state, Socrates inferred that justice can be understood as opposed to being seen. In order to grasp the concept of the ideal city or the happy state one must first analyze its components. does this with dialectic. Then he questions that each individual is a member of one of three groups: Rulers, Guardian ...

Number of words: 1273 | Number of pages: 5

The Maltese Falcon

... transformation to the “big screen.” The first character that we read or see is Sam Spade. In the book he is written as being tall and lanky with blond hair, and a recurring v-motif that makes him out to be what Hammett describes as a “blond Satan.” With these descriptions, we can easily make out a powerful image of what Sam Spade must look like in our heads. When we have an image of what something is going to be like and it turns out to not at all be what we expected, we are often let down, disappointed.This is due to th ...

Number of words: 1125 | Number of pages: 5

Beowulfs Grendel

... lurked in the marshes with anger. Lines 2-4 explain his anger, “…In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient/ As day after day the music rang/ Loud in that hall…” The epic poem suggests that the population of Herot lived in happiness, and Grendel waited until his time came. Furthermore, as Grendel lived in his hell on earth, Herot was developing their society. One would believe that the music Herot was playing is not what he wanted to listen to during to his life in the marshes. This example shows how Grendel, ...

Number of words: 1061 | Number of pages: 4

Peer Pressure In The Osage Ora

... dull blue of the last fall" (370). The narrartor described her house as "gray and lopsided" (374). Her house had no running water. "There was a grayish white place on the ground where the dishwater had been thrown out" (374). Probably none of the students were wealthy in the story, but Evangeline was poorer than most of the Students. Peer pressue dictated that Evangeline should be avoided. She was avoided by the others because she was different. "She was standing near the corner looking everywhere but at the crowd" (369). The narrator ...

Number of words: 442 | Number of pages: 2

Romeo And Juliet - Fate

... this play, and plays a large part in modern everyday life, even if we don't recognize it. Maybe we don't recognize it because we choose not to, or don't have faith like we used to, but the fact remains that fate controls what we do throughout all of our lives. A large part of the beliefs for both Romeo and Juliet involve fate. They believed in the stars, and that their actions weren't always their own. Romeo, for example, 1.4.115-120, he says, "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars...by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he th ...

Number of words: 1820 | Number of pages: 7

Edgar Allan Poe 2

... his room to see if the eye is open. “… but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”(139) The eye when open represents the ugliness of the old man. When that ugliness is present, beauty is gone and evil is present. The ugliness of the old man’s open eye is the cause for his killer to kill him because evil is present and beauty is no where to be found. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Madeline is beautiful once she ...

Number of words: 597 | Number of pages: 3

Tale Of Two Cities

... Misuser and Mademoiselle Defarge, who go about their business while death carts roll-- as do heads-- through the streets of Paris. He does though, depict a ray of light amongst all this evil; the heroic Carton, who gave his life for his friend and a woman he knew he would never have. The biggest contrast of all, is in the person of Misuser Darnay, the gentle English family man, who is also related to the evil Marquis Evremonde. I personally like stories that use historical events as backdrops because it brings these seemingly distant eve ...

Number of words: 631 | Number of pages: 3

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