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John Donne 2

... go through small separations like these that they will be ready for a big separation such as death. He says, “To use myself in jest, Thus by feigned deaths to die.” This means that their parting will not last forever. He also compares their separation to the sun. This comparison is looked at in a sense that the sun goes down every day but comes back the next. So he saying, don’t worry I will be back soon. He later says their souls are as one, so physically their relationship could make it through the toughest of times ...

Number of words: 269 | Number of pages: 1

Traditions In "A Moment Before The Gun Went Off" And "The Lottery"

... in these communities, they are rapidly losing there grip in other communities. This detail is not only mentioned in both stories, but looked down upon by communities that still follow the traditions. In the story "The Lottery," the tradition is to hold a lottery on a specific summer day, but instead of winning a cash prize or some other good thing, the winner gets to be stoned to death by the members of the community. The character that is mentioned most in this story is one by the name of Mrs. Hutchinson. Mrs. Hutchinson is a d ...

Number of words: 785 | Number of pages: 3

The Merchant Of Venice

... in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wildcat. Drones hive not with me.. ..His borrowed purse." 1 Shylock also acts villainous towards Launcelot by acting belligerent towards him. "Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call." 2 Shylock mistreats this man because of his poverty, and because Launcelot is socially beneath him. You also start to wonder about how fair Shylock is, when Launcelot is deciding whether or not to leave him. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, Jessica. He mistreats her by keeping her as a captive in ...

Number of words: 626 | Number of pages: 3

Fahrenheit 451

... world. By studying the protagonist, Guy Montag, and his personal challenges we can, in a sense, evaluate our own lives to see that we don’t make similar mistakes. While the book is definitely a critique of society and of the government, readers are given many dominant themes to follow, and to find all of them requires several readings. The main plot, following Montag, illustrates the importance of making mistakes in order to grow. For example, at the very end of the book Granger (an outspoken rebel to the book-banning laws) compares ma ...

Number of words: 771 | Number of pages: 3

Olenka In The Darling

... hard at taking on his beliefs and opinions, and mastering his way of thinking. She acted as a mirror of her husband and it was her only way of life. Then when he died, her mirror was broken. This left her not knowing what to do cause she had no personality anymore because it died. After Kukin’s death, Olenka did nothing else but cry and dwell on the fact that she had no one to love. As she mourned, she said, “ my precious, my darling! Why did I ever know you and love you! You poor heart-broken Olenka is all alone without you,& ...

Number of words: 671 | Number of pages: 3

Going From Child To Woman The

... utilizes this time for dramatic purposes of the Christian holidays and to show the struggle between a middle class marriage. Nora plans on having a big holiday bash, while Torvald would rather refrain since there is a rather limited cash flow. “Nora: Oh yes, Torvald, we can squander a little now…piles of money” (1506). Torvald follows up with, “But then it is three full months till the raise comes through” (, 1506). Nora at this point in the play is nothing more than a child, careless in her action and not thinking ahead of p ...

Number of words: 1494 | Number of pages: 6

Fire And Ice

... the term fire not to hold the direct meaning of a burning flame, but to represent the punishment something can inflict upon an object. It presents the image of the intense pain in which a burn can inflict, along with the extraordinary speed in which it happens. Fire causes a tremendous amount of destruction to virtually anything within seconds. It could also represent just a violent ending. Either way, it would be nice to have things over with fast, but the intense pain might not make it worth it. For the world to end in ice, seems to pre ...

Number of words: 839 | Number of pages: 4

"The Attitude Of Fiction," "The Necklace," And "The Story Of An Hour": The Super Ego

... she felt she had nothing in her life while her husband was around. She even believed that her heart trouble was based on her husband. When she found out the news that her husband was dead, she was so happy and relieved. That is when her super ego started to take place,and took over her ego. She locked herself in her bedroom and viewed her new life outside the window. "When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly part lips. She said it over and over under her breath: free, free, free."(Chopin341) She was s ...

Number of words: 690 | Number of pages: 3

Of Mice And Men Theme

... on the farm would not socialize with Crooks besides the horseshoes game the men would play in the evening. Otherwise Crooks would occupy his time alone, reading books. This does not make Crooks happy his books did not fulfill his needs socially. He needed another person to talk to, or just be with. It didn’t even matter whom, just a person. Lennie just happened to have been there for Crooks at that moment. Everyday people do not give enough consideration to those who live their lives without someone. Humans are social beings t ...

Number of words: 988 | Number of pages: 4

Racism In The Play School Ties

... David has a girlfriend named Sally and she does not know at first he was Jewish. When David is revealed to be Jewish then the respect people are giving him goes down. He suffers for this. Sally hears this news about him being a Jew and she does not even bother talking to him. David goes to confront her. David is talking to her and he finds out that she does not want to talk to him because he is Jewish and she is embarrassed to talk to him. The result of the talk that David has with Sally results in emotional pain for David. David does no ...

Number of words: 580 | Number of pages: 3

The Pigman

... has low self-esteem and mild paranoia. John becomes attracted to her because he sees in her the same spontaneous, crazy quality that he has and no one else seems to share. John and Lorraine meet Mr. Pignati via a phone game to see who can keep a stranger on the line the longest. They get a $10.00 donation for a bogus charity and feel guilty about it, since they perceive how lonely is. To make up for taking the money, they take Pigman to feed his only friend in the world, Bobo, an incredibly bad-tempered baboon. Mr. Pignati, as he shows t ...

Number of words: 458 | Number of pages: 2

Robinson Crusoe 2

... novel was presented out of a real story of a seaman and it gained great popularity as soon as it was published. It goes beyond any literary codes or restrictions. Deniel Defoe with great independence of creativity made his novels a model of a completely new literary style and just because of this he was awarded as the father of the English and European novels. In the novel, Robinson Crusoe was a young Englishman with great interests in traveling in sea. He abandoned the peaceful life of his hometown village and went out to the sea. Unfortunate ...

Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3

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