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Strange News From Another Star

... information from the author. One of the first symbols that we may find, is actually the star. A star is known as a gaseous sphere, which with nuclear fusion and fission may actually give out huge amounts of energy. Obviously a star is a inhospitable place, so I believe that the star actually represents a planet or a country. The flowers, which have a very important part in the plot of the book are a symbol as well. They, have always, as least as far as I know, had a special message. A message of love, tranquillity, joy and they represent th ...

Number of words: 633 | Number of pages: 3

Compare And Contrast Of Araby

... guardians. He has a group of friends nearby he hangs out with. Though, he has no siblings. His revelation lets him realize the finer things in life, like women. He finds his friends are boring and no longer wants to play. Also, he obsesses over the young girl across the street in an unhealthy way. It almost seems as if he could grow to be a psychopath. He follows behind her on the way to school, waits for her before school, and watches her from his door. The young girl on the other hand, lives in the outskirts of town, if not pure country. ...

Number of words: 962 | Number of pages: 4

Dust Over The City

... and adjust and a perservering attitude. Through Jim and Masdeline Dubois the central characters in , the author presents such a case as shown through their many ordeals and their reactions to them. This is evident in their encounter with other and Alains patients, their battle with loneliness and the decision to move to the mining town, adjusting to the new city and accepting the fact with little provisions this is where they must live now. In Andre Langevins novel the characters Alain and Madeline are the embodiment of two people tha ...

Number of words: 1563 | Number of pages: 6

Seeing Is Believing

... sensory images in the mind and what we call reality" (18). Visualization techniques have been used to heal the body, improve health, and prepare for life events. Visualization techniques have been used to heal the body. Terry Tillman was a physically active entreprenuer that turned to visualization to restore a slipped disk that had left him immobilized from the waist down. After several weeks, Terry had amazed his doctors, who had confirmed the damaged vertebrae with x-rays, when he walked again. A few months later, Terry was running ...

Number of words: 568 | Number of pages: 3

The Gift Of The Magi And The N

... if any differences in settings, except for that they most likely occur in different towns. In "the Necklace " and "the gift of the magi", the plots are in many ways different. In "the Necklace", a lady wants to wear nice clothes and jewelry to a party. She borrows a diamond necklace from a good friend and loses it. She and her husband take out loans and buy a new one with real diamonds. After years of poverty from paying for the necklace, the couple discovers the diamonds are fake in the original necklace. In "the gift of the Magi", a ...

Number of words: 434 | Number of pages: 2

Candide

... that they possessed that others would cherish. The children proved this when they were playing at quoits covered with tattered garments of the richest brocade. It is obvious to see that they were so rich that the quoits did not have any significant meaning to them. We were able to see this when upon having to return back to school they left the quoits on the ground along with their other playthings. was surprised to find out that an adult schoolmaster would do the exact same when given these quoits which consisted of gold and precious st ...

Number of words: 1189 | Number of pages: 5

A Clean, Well-lighted Place

... of the darkness outside of the café. The well-lit café represents order and cleanliness. Outside in the dark, a young soldier and a girl hurry along the streets. Apparently, the couple intend to go off alone. They symbolize the excitement that can go on in the night between two people. The old man is around eighty years old, and does not have a wife. He doesn’t experience this type of relationship in the dark. Rather, he finds company in the clean, well-lighted café. Although the only other two people in the caf&eacut ...

Number of words: 1188 | Number of pages: 5

A Separate Peace - Symbols

... his friends to have a snowball fight. When Gene looks back on that day of the Winter Carnival, he says, "---it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace" (Knowles, 832). As he watches the snowball fight, Gene thinks to himself, "There they all were now, the cream of the school, the lights and leaders of the senior class, with their high IQs and expensive shoes, as Brinker had said, pasting each other with snowball ...

Number of words: 1606 | Number of pages: 6

The Sly Side Of Portia

... without a suitor at the death of her father. However, he has designed a means of judgement by leaving three caskets from which a suitor must choose: gold, silver, and lead. The correct casket contains a picture of Portia. If the wrong casket is chosen, then that suitor must never pursue another woman concerning the subject of marriage. Portia views her suitors as; "Oh, these deliberate fools! When they do choose, they have the wisdom by their wit to lose" (Shakespeare 39). She says that the Prince of Morocco is "A gentle riddance! I curtain ...

Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3

Shakespeare - Friar Laurence

... in time. This is due to Friar Lawrence not planning how he was going to fake Juliet's death. Due to his dauntless attempts to keep the two lovers together, he still failed. This was shown in Act 4 Scene 1 " I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate execution As that is desperate which we would prevent". One of his faults in the plan is shown in Act 5 Scene 3 when Friar John does not know the importance of the letter and does not give it to Romeo. "I could not send it. Nor get a messenger to bring thee, so fearful were they of inf ...

Number of words: 741 | Number of pages: 3

Chesterton's "On Lying In Bed": Understanding Human Nature

... topics explained by G.K. Chesterton in this essay. Chesterton begins his essay by discussing his idea that items longed for by humans can be found in normal places. He does this in the essay by describing his pursuit of a perfect space to paint. He states that he looks on walls, paper, and several other places. His search, however, comes to end in the most normal of places, the ceiling above his bed. In the essay he realizes that he has found his object of desire in a rather ordinary place. In a similar way, people in today's society ca ...

Number of words: 619 | Number of pages: 3

Fried Green Tomatoes

... the late 1920’s Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode knew a little girl by the name of Imogene but everyone called her Idgie. Idgie was one of the Threadgoodes and back in Whistle Stop the name Threadgoode was a good name to have. They were the basic life of this little town in Alabama. The Threadgoodes were people known and well liked by the rest of the sparsely populated area. The name she carried did not stop Idgie from doing whatever she wanted to do whenever she wanted to do it. “Idgie used to do all kinds of harebrained things just to get yo ...

Number of words: 1557 | Number of pages: 6

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