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Antigone, War Of Beliefs
Words: 910 / Pages: 4 .... and shall be, operative for ever, beyond man utterly." (Page 349). Antigone's staunch opinion is one that supports the Gods and the laws of heaven. Her reasoning is set by her belief that if someone is not given a proper burial, that person would not be accepted into heaven. Antigone was a very religious person, and acceptance of her brother by the Gods was very important to her. She felt that "…I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down with him in death, and I shall be as dear to him as he to me." (Page 341). Creon's order was personal to Antigone. His edict invaded her family life as well as the Gods. .....
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A Farewell To Arms
Words: 508 / Pages: 2 .... Milan April of 1918. On his first day, he and his fellow drivers were rudely awaken to the total devastation of the war when they had to remove the parts of dead or severely injured victims of a munition factory explosion. This, as well as later experiences in Fossalta, Italy, makes for a very believable novel.
Frederick Henry was, like Hemingway, an American lieutenant who drove ambulances in Italy during World War I. He was badly injured by a mortar shell explosion and was taken to a hospital in Milan where he fell madly in love with an English nurse. The young nurse, Catherine Barkley, and he go on to have an almost fairy-tale type of relation .....
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Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Wool
Words: 783 / Pages: 3 .... or graniose, but rather quite simple. She can be happy throwing a party, she can escape reality:
Every time she gave a party she had this feeling of being something not herself, and that everyone was unreal in one way; much more real in another.
…it was possible to say things you couldn’t say anyhow else, things that needed an effort; possible to go much deeper. But not for her; not yet anyhow.
(Woolf 171)
Kramer 2
With Septimus, seeing his best friend Evans die at war has been a major trauma in his life. His wife Rezia must constantly take him away from his reality and have him focus on things not involving war or him thinking of it. Sept .....
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A Story Of An Hour: Feelings
Words: 472 / Pages: 2 .... was trying to beat it back with sheer will power.
Only to find that will power is no match for the total encompassing of feelings.
Once she had abandoned herself the word “free” had escaped from her lips. She
did not deliberately want it but it had come anyway. Unmistakably, a joy over
took her. Not that she would not be sad again, but for now she was like a bird
let out of the cage.
Mrs. Mallard was a good example of Shakespeare's line “To Thine own self
be true." She did not allow guilt to rear it's ugly head but instead just felt
her feelings. She allowed no one to witness her self assertion. But, it was
the strongest impulse of her .....
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Melville's "Bartleby The Scrivener": Introduction Of Character
Words: 223 / Pages: 1 .... fact that the lawyer
introduces himself greatly increases its effectiveness. The lawyer begins with
the words, “I am a rather elderly man.” This first “I” begins a long,
autobiographical narrative in which the lawyer reveals much of himself to the
reader. Because the story is centered on the lawyer's life, it is imperative
that the reader have this close view of him.
The repetitive “I” in these paragraphs is important because it comes
from the lawyer's thoughts of himself. For this text to flow in it's intended
path, the reader must know a great deal about the lawyer and his employees. In
fact, it is these characters which consumm .....
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So This Was Adolescence, By Annie Dillard: Author Writing Style
Words: 290 / Pages: 2 .... two major traditional writing
styles exhibited. The first style Illustrated in So This Was Adolescence is
comparison/contrast. In this style, the author compares or contrast the
character with specific mannerisms of others. The next style is imagery.
Imagery helps the reader to visualize what is happening to the character. Annie
Dillard uses both of these styles to tell her story.
The first style is comparison/contrast. Dillard utilizes
comparison/contrast to compare herself to characters in books. She longs to
become a woman such as those in romance novels. “I envied people in books who
swooned.” She shows that by comparing herself to .....
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Grapes Of Wrath - Allusions
Words: 851 / Pages: 4 .... Christ. They have the same initials and live their lives as examples of their beliefs; Jesus to the world and Casy to Tom. Casy even compares himself to Christ when he says, "I got tired like Him, an’ I got mixed up like Him, an’ I went into the wilderness like Him, without no campin’ stuff" (105). In the first half of the book Casy is thinking and forming his ideas. He changes from a thinker to a man of action when he sacrifices himself for Tom. When in prison Casy sees the advantage of organizing people to achieve a common goal. When Casy tried to put his ideas into action he, like Christ, aroused the antagonism of the people in .....
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The Crucible
Words: 1734 / Pages: 7 .... of the play.
In act one, the corrupt, self-serving Reverend Samuel Parris is first introduced. In this scene, Parris' daughter Betty is ill and even the doctor cannot determine what is ailing the girl. Strangely enough, instead of worrying about the fate of his daughter, Reverend Parris seems more concerned about the rumors flying accusing Betty of dealing with the devil, leaving her unconscious. Parris denies all witchcraft accusations, and refuses to believe his household was involved in dealing with the devil. Showing that he is solely consumed with thoughts regarding his reputation, Parris says to his neice, Abigail Williams, .....
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Huck Finn Notes
Words: 4331 / Pages: 16 .... is so disgusted with home life that he accidentally kills a spider, and he knows that this act is bound to bring bad luck to him. However, as he sits and smokes, he hears Tom Sawyer's secret call. Huck puts out the light, slides to the ground, and finds Tom waiting for him among the trees.CHAPTERS 2 and 3As Huck joins Tom Sawyer in the garden, he accidentally trips over a root and alerts Miss Watson's slave, Jim, to the fact that something unusual is happening. Jim sits down on the ground between Tom and Huck, and he would have discovered them if he had not gone to sleep. Tom then plays a trick on Jim -a trick which multiplies in size as Jim tell .....
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My Friend April
Words: 1003 / Pages: 4 .... in a daze. From that second on I believe that both of would be friends for a lifetime.
April moved into the vacant house that was two houses to the east of my house. It was a tall, two-story house in which I could see the entire house from my bedroom window. We spent our days together exploring the woods, riding bikes, and catching bugs. Our families were very close and often said that the two of us were like brother and sister.
One calm summer night April and I climbed to the top of the garage and lay on our backs staring at the thousands of stars in the black summer sky. The garage wasn't tall; in fact, it was perfect because we could sit up .....
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