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The Lottery: Setting, Atmosphere, And Mood
Words: 579 / Pages: 3 .... day, the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.” This gives the reader a feeling of calmness and serenity. The atmosphere created becomes quite ironic in the end, when the specific nature of ‘the Lottery’ is revealed. Jackson also creates this irony with the setting and character assignment. The story takes place in the town square, where family and friends are joined in tradition for the annual ‘lottery’. When given this setting, the ending of the story turns out to be a big surprise for the reader.
The author’s diction in The Lottery also plays a large role in the atmosphere and mood of the story. E .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Ramifications Of War
Words: 514 / Pages: 2 .... into World War I did not know - could not know - what kind of effects the war would have on them. They were not prepared for the gruesome situation they would see and encounter. They did not realize that they would see "…coffins and corpses lie strewn about…" [Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (Ballantine Books, 1982), p. 71.] The war would change them permanently, and unfortunately, they did not realize this until they were actually faced with its brutality. They began to realize that "…a broken arm is better than a hole in the guts, and many a man would be thankful enough for such a chance of finding his home way again." .....
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Death Be Not Proud
Words: 675 / Pages: 3 .... some doctor would come up
with a revolutionary idea that would heal him. Because of his hope,
Johnny never complained or protested during the entire course of his
illness. He always obeyed the doctors' wishes and followed their
instructions to a "T" because he wanted so desparatly to get well.
Although he realized that eventually his life would end, he still
never gave up the hope that perhaps he could outsmart his fate to die,
if just to steal a few extra hours.
Each day, until his last, the determination Johnny had to get
well, live a normal life, and even maintain his schoolwork was
phenominal. After being away from school for sixteen mo .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Themes
Words: 1015 / Pages: 4 .... can
use nature as the judge to condemn war, along with shocking imagery, so that his
literature remains without a trace of nationalism, political ill will, or even
personal feelings.
It should be noted that the nature motif is carried consistently
throughout the novel, and that it supports many of the author's lesser themes.
For the purpose of portraying war as something terrible, though, the nature
motif is expressed most dramatically in the following passages. These passages
mark the three distinct stages of nature's condemnation of war: rebellion,
perseverance, and erasure.
The first passage occurs in Chapter Four when the troops are trucked .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: First Person Narration Is Critical
Words: 720 / Pages: 3 .... motel until Wednesday, when he is to return
home. His plan shows the reader how very impetuous he is and how he acts on a
whim. He is unrealistic, thinking that he has a foolproof plan, even though
the extent of his plans are to "take a room in a hotel.., and just take it easy
till Wednesday."
Holden's excessive thoughts on death are not typical of most
adolescents. His near obsession with death might come from having experienced
two deaths in his early life. He constantly dwells on Allie, his brother's,
death. From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves and misses Allie.
In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the pain of h .....
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Examination Of Puritan Philosophy In Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
Words: 1756 / Pages: 7 .... affect his interpretation of what happens. In Chapter IX (nine) of
"Of Plymouth Plantation", entitled "Of Their Voyage…" , he tells of a
sailor "..of a lusty, able body.." who "would always be condemning the poor
people in their sickness and cursing them daily….he didn't let to tell them
that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their
journey's end". But, "it pleased God before they came half-seas over, to
smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a
desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard".
Bradford believes that the sailor died because God was punishing hi .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Love Life
Words: 924 / Pages: 4 .... that there was no time to waste with immature love affairs. She arranged Janie’s first marriage with Logan Killicks, “Finally out of Nanny’s talk and her own conjectures she made a sort of comfort for herself. Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so.” (Hurston 20). Janie’s marriage to Logan proved that love can not be arranged. “She knew now that marriage did not make love.” (Hurston 24). In the early part of Janie’s first marriage, she was treated properly and only did basic house chores. After a while, Logan started .....
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Understanding Masculine Psychology
Words: 633 / Pages: 3 .... a little bit of it, and develops a taste that he will never forget.” Johnson believes “many psychic wounds in a man come because he touches his Christ nature, that is individuation process (process of integration and becoming whole), prematurely, can’t handle it doesn’t see it through, and is wounded by it (Johnson 9).”
Johnson’s idea is somewhat universal; the majority of men can find a moment where the innocent veil of boyhood was pierced, or an event in that the ease of being gives way to struggle and conflict. In this sense, “all men are Fisher Kings. Every boy has naively blundered into something that was too big for him, gott .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Our Society Suppresses The Evil That Is Presented In All Of Us
Words: 736 / Pages: 3 .... environment. After being unable to
bear killing a pig due to the horrific blood, he became eager to gain
respect, almost redeem himself, by becoming a hunter. He was remarkably
enthusiastic about hunting. He painted his face and got spears. He
eventually cared no more for being rescued, because all he wanted to do was
kill pigs. The number of hunters kept on growing and he began to get other
kids to hunt with him. They soon had a routine (the dance) and whenever
they did thad they had to kill, because they got so pumped up when they did
it. Jack then began killing as if it were a luxury. They became savage
hunters as evil took over; they kil .....
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Night Flight
Words: 573 / Pages: 3 .... is an attempt to analyze and explain duty and responsibility one can feel towards his work and his friends and the reasons why people like Riviere and Fabien would persist and continue in their work, despite the very real dangers.
When it was first publish the book was very well received and this was the book that made Saint-Exupery famous. Years later, in late thirties, after the rise of Facism, Saint-Ex was criticized for the ideas presented in "". After all, many fascist atrocities were justified as "we were only doing our duty", "just following orders". I don't believe that such criticisms are justified. Saint-Ex always tried to look for the .....
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