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Janies Quest In There Eyes Wer
606 Words - 3 Pages.... called Nanny, and Logan Killicks. Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks was partially arranged by Nanny. She felt the need to find some one for Janie to depend on before she died and could no longer depend on her. At first Janie was very opposed to the marriage. Nanny responded with, “’Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it’s protection. ...He (God) done spared me...a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life.”(p.14) Nanny instilled a sense of needing a man to be safe on Janie that she keeps with her all through her life. After
Nanny’s death, Janie continued to stay with Logan although she disliked him. She would ....
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Lord Jim
1109 Words - 5 Pages.... committed when he left the Patna to sink. As so, Jim was destined to live the rest of his life in misery when he left the eight hundred passengers to die. The Patna incident caused a chain of self hatred and self loathing that would go on until Jim’s death. Jim’s ever churning soul made him very unhappy. Fighting constantly within himself made Jim experience extreme guilt and anguish. The way Jim struggled on the inside caused Jim to seem lack luster and lazy on the outside. If Jim would have been more at peace with his soul he would not have been in such pain. Being that Jim was somewhat innocent when he first became a water clerk aboard the Patna; he lacked the mental ....
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An Analysis Of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
813 Words - 3 Pages.... she conceives a six year silence that, not knowing then,
could limit her opportunities and convert her fate. After returning from St.
Louis and entering Stamps, Maya entered her six year "cocoon." This haven
extricated her metamorphic spurt into reality and womanhood. As with every
cocoon, there is always a time when one must leave and bravely enter the unknown
world behind the shell. Mrs. Flowers encouraged Maya to emerge and assisted her
in finding her strongest defense and force, her love of literature, to open this
barrier and allow Maya to end the silence. By doing this, it enhanced Maya's
courage and willingness to conquer other barriers and fortresses. Maya's love of ....
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Running Wild: Essay About The Novel Hiroshima
700 Words - 3 Pages.... Kliensorge, a
German priest, was lying on a couch in his house reading a magazine. We
continue with Dr. Teru Fumi Sasaki, a surgeon, was walking down the
hospital hallway carrying blood specimens. Finally, Rev. Mr. Kayo She
Tanimoto, the pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, was about to put
away some clothes. While these innocents civilians were carrying out there
lives, yet unknown to them, a plane called the Enola Gay silently passed
unnoticed overhead and quietly dropped the worlds deadliest bomb that
changed history forever. All they saw was split second, tremendous flash of
light which gave them just enough time to turn there heads and then chaos
rang out like ....
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A Farewell To Arms: Style
607 Words - 3 Pages.... sat inside warmed by the stove and drank hot red wine
with spices and lemon in it. They called it gluhwein and it was a good thing to
warm you and to celebrate with. The inn was dark and smoky inside and afterward
when you went out the cold air came sharply into your lungs and numbed the edge
of your nose as you inhaled.
The simplicity and the sensory richness flow directly from Hemingway's and his
characters'--beliefs. The punchy, vivid language has the immediacy of a news
bulletin: these are facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored.
And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so
does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seek ....
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Heart Of Darkness: The Symbol Of Ivory
534 Words - 2 Pages.... to a holy place, so why the choice of words? Conrad
further explains in the following lines when he says, “The word ‘ivory'
rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were
praying to it.” In their rapacity the “pilgrims” have placed ivory as their
God, a realization that has greater meaning towards the end of the book.
The significance of ivory begins to move away from avarice and
takes on a purely evil connotation as Marlow approaches those hearts of
darkness: the Inner Station and Kurtz. Kurtz's relationship with ivory
seems to have been reiterated by every company member through the course of
the story. Of course Kurtz “harvested” more ....
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The Painted Bird
748 Words - 3 Pages.... war. Kosinski’s writings organize the chaos of the boy’s life experiences through form. The use of both organic and conventional form throughout the book draws the reader closer to the horrific encounters the young boy faced on a daily basis.
Using writing as a method of art organizes the chaos of experience through form. Kosinski’s novel applies organic form to portray the appalling predicaments the boy encountered during the separation from his family. The use of organic form in the formal pattern offers the reader the “what-will-be-next” scenario before they proceed through the pages. Kosinski gives the reader a taste of the animalistic c ....
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1063 Words - 4 Pages.... Godwin remarried and Shelley entered a battle as the victim of a fight for love. In her novel the emphasis of isolation and rejection are demonstrated in her "deformed child." Victor Frankenstein's mother dies of a fever but this is a mere representation of her life. What is most significant is the abandonment the monster feels throughout the story. He expresses it by telling Walton "...I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." He claims he is the victim of his wrongdoing and affirms: "You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in detail which he gave yo ....
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