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Biting The Apple

... Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The bible tells the story of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman on earth. God makes Adam and Eve in his likeness and gives them only one commandment: "You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." However, "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it." After both Adam and Eve eat the fruit, God curses them and banishes them from the Garden of Eden. After their expulsion, ...

Number of words: 532 | Number of pages: 2

Digging By Seamus Heaney

... farming in Ireland. He uses his words as a 'weapon' to speak out what he personally feels to be wrong. The poem is written in free verse. Although the first two stanzas of the poem show the start of regularity and rhyme, this changes to the use of free verse continuing to the end of the poem. This form of free verse allows the poet a freedom for subtle rhythmic variety, for example using assonance. Or making words look like they rhyme. Which is shown quite regularly through this poem. Free verse also complements the style of the poet 'conn ...

Number of words: 1529 | Number of pages: 6

Supernatural Forces In Macbeth

... the audience a clue to what the future holds for Macbeth. "When the battles lost and won" (Act I, Scene I, 4) was said by the second witch. It says that every battle is lost by one side and won by another. Macbeth's fate is that he will win the battle, but will lose his time of victory for the battle of his soul. After the prophecies of the witches' revealed the fate of Macbeth, the plan in which to gain power of the throne is brought up. The only way to gain power of the throne was for Macbeth to work his way to the throne, or to mu ...

Number of words: 926 | Number of pages: 4

Aspects In Marianella

... pretty either... Florentina: She definitely isn't! Teodoro: hahahaha, and yet here she sleeps on her deathbed. Pablo doesn't know how good a person she is. Marianella looks to see Teodoro and Florentina talking. Florentina: Marianella, are you scared? Marianella: no Florentina. You are very good, and so is Don Teodoro Teodoro: Nela, you are very sick Marianella: yes. I think i've made Florentina angry. Florentina: no Marianela - you are a good person. Pablo arrives at the house of Florentina. Pablo: florentina, i heard my dad was here. Floren ...

Number of words: 987 | Number of pages: 4

Aeneus Emotional Rollercoaster

... is a more sophisticated character that extracts many emotions from the reader. His adventures are generic but his actions and reactions are original. Aeneus takes us from his burning home to the underworld to the shores of Italy demonstrating unanticipated passions and feelings. During this journey of endurance, Aeneus actions and surrounding actions in rage the reader, while also withdrawing pity and the satisfaction of justice. A reader can start to sense feelings of hatred towards a character, but lack of such emotion would be robbing ...

Number of words: 1611 | Number of pages: 6

Of Mice And Men 2

... expect while reading this book that it will be a very sad book, not adventurous, not action packed, just a small book on how people lived during this time, and how important it is to have a friend that really loves you. This of course relates to George and Lennie. The scene I am going to describe is at the end of chapter 3 of the book. It mostly involves Lennie, Curly and George, but Slim, Candy and Carlson were there too. The setting of this scene was in the bunkhouse in the ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck descr ...

Number of words: 1933 | Number of pages: 8

A Certain Hunger

... their bodies. Although these behaviours seems irrational, to people who have never had to deal with anorexia or bulimia, people with these diseases do not realise the severe mental conditions that they are developing. When an anorexic person looks in the mirror she does not see a skeleton staring back at her, but the imaginary "fat"she has convinced herself that she has. It is hard to see when a person has gone to "far", because who is to say what too far is, because who knows what the perfect weight is. For that matter,pe ...

Number of words: 686 | Number of pages: 3

Analysis Of Three Of Hawthorne's Works: Solitude And Isolation

... Brown, and Beatrice Rappaccini are all persons "whom some crime or misunderstood virtue, or misfortune, has set them by themselves or in a worse companionship of solitude (Discovering Authors). Hawthorne devoted many stories to isolated characters - one's who stand alone with no one to look to for love or support. "For Hawthorne, this condition of moral and social isolation is the worst evil that can befall aman" (Adams 73). Each of the characters above are separated from the world because of some sin or evil. Their separation is a painful ...

Number of words: 1995 | Number of pages: 8

Macbeth - Charting His Downfall

... soliloquy is in Act I, Scene III. Two of the things that the witches predicted have come true and Macbeth is contemplating how the third will come true. He thinks about killing Duncan, but he knows that these are only thoughts and he dismisses it and decides to leave it to chance and time. "Present Fears // Are less than horrible imagining." "Whose (Duncan) murder is yet but fantastical." We can see that his mind is confused and distorted, because of what has happened and what may happen, and here we see the first ...

Number of words: 1349 | Number of pages: 5

April Morning

... in the war he probably would have anyway. Quote "If I had forbade him to sign that muster book then and there, I would have lost a son. Is that what you want? But I saw him there so tall and strong I could have wept. You can't shelter him. There comes a time, and this is that time" (page 75.) I think that Moses had to die in order for the story to continue because if he had lived I don't think that the Battle would have been such a alarming experience for Adam, and because of the traumaticness of watching his father's death Adam was able ...

Number of words: 228 | Number of pages: 1

Mama Day

... and Cocoa. Even though Abigail is Cocoa’s grandmother and is her great-aunt, they both take on the role of mother through their mutual love for her. There is also the love story between Bernice, Ambush and Little Caesar. Despite their squabbles, they love each other. Love is one of the major themes in this book. Gloria Naylor steps aside and lets the characters do her work for her. Love has the unfortunate nature of being objective and the best way to tell love stories is from every point of view. How else can one understand ...

Number of words: 1024 | Number of pages: 4

Lord Of The Flies 6

... and white. For example he states, “photographers stare and snap at the dead men, at the keyboard of rifles above their heads.” These two lines describe the white photographers starring at the dead black men and taking pictures of them for the newspaper. The newspaper that the white photographers are taking pictures for is symbolic because it is made up of the colors black and white. He also uses a metaphor in describing the rifles taken from the dead men. He says, “Keyboard of rifles,” which describes the rifles all lin ...

Number of words: 529 | Number of pages: 2

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